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Benghazi Reveals the Heart of Progressivism
americanthinker.com ^ | 5-15-2013 | Daren Jonescu

Posted on 05/15/2013 3:46:00 AM PDT by servo1969

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To: servo1969
Were they sleeping? Curled up by the fire with a good manifesto? Playing poker with Huma and the gang? Practicing jokes for a fundraising speech? Your guess is as good as mine.

My guess is that Hillary was passed out from drinking too much. My guess is that's how she goes to sleep every night.

21 posted on 05/15/2013 4:49:21 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: servo1969

What, exactly, was Obama doing that night? The President dies not just disappear!


22 posted on 05/15/2013 4:52:27 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: servo1969

Well stated. And just to add another more disturbing element to your analogy, Ambassador Stevens was supposedly a friend to both of them; if they are this disinterested and unconcerned about saving a “friend’s” life, just think how little these two evil, vile, soulless scumbags would do for the millions of our citizens they don’t know. Behold, the progressives, communists, and socialists that comprise the Demonic Party shows its true colors...


23 posted on 05/15/2013 4:52:54 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: livius

Our President is not much of a President, and not much of a man either.

People who read my posts know what I think of this effeminate, Jackass.


24 posted on 05/15/2013 4:53:38 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Hoodat

Excellent article ping!


25 posted on 05/15/2013 4:56:04 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: servo1969

Good article. It describes a bit of how I feel about those “running the show” in Washington these days.


26 posted on 05/15/2013 5:03:51 AM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Terrific article at AT. This gets to the heart of the matter, avoiding the Talking Points distraction.


27 posted on 05/15/2013 5:22:18 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: servo1969
Like Jonah Goldberg's article @ Townhall.com ... Benghazi's Smoking Guns ... this article doesn't get distracted by talking points or minutiae. It answers the question ... 'What Difference Does It Make?'

Hopefully, the Congressional investigation will similarly focus on what's important.

28 posted on 05/15/2013 5:30:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Venturer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 < 7:28 pm EST or earlier : (WHITE HOUSE : OBAMA SPEAKS ON THE PHONE WITH NETANYAHU FOR ABOUT AN HOUR... [ACCORDING TO FREEPER “lack-of-trust “THE CALL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EARLIER, AT 3 AM TEL AVIV TIME , BUT WAS LATE ])

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 7:28 pm EST [1:28 AM BENGHAZI TIME] : (WHITE HOUSE : TIMESTAMPED PHOTO IS TAKEN OF OBAMA LISTENING TO ADVISOR MCDONOUGH SPEAK [NOT IN SITUATION ROOM] ...)


29 posted on 05/15/2013 5:48:39 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Servant of the Cross

There’s more good stuff on the net today than almost any day I can remember. There’s an astounding piece at Slate that I’m about to post.


30 posted on 05/15/2013 5:53:16 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: servo1969

By far, one of the best articles I’ve read on AT in a long time. Really makes you think (doesn’t it) on many levels. Great line - “Progressivism, socialism, Marxism — call it what you will — is an authoritarian strategy masked as a political theory.”


31 posted on 05/15/2013 5:53:31 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: Venturer

Corrected :

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 < 7:28 pm EST or earlier EST [before 1:28 AM BENGHAZI TIME SEPTEMBER 12] : (WHITE HOUSE : OBAMA SPEAKS ON THE PHONE WITH NETANYAHU FOR ABOUT AN HOUR... [ACCORDING TO FREEPER “lack-of-trust “THE CALL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EARLIER, AT 3 AM TEL AVIV TIME , BUT WAS LATE ])

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 7:28 pm EST [1:28 AM BENGHAZI TIME SEPTEMBER 12] : (WHITE HOUSE : TIMESTAMPED PHOTO IS TAKEN OF OBAMA LISTENING TO MCDONOUGH SPEAK [NOT IN SITUATION ROOM] ...)


32 posted on 05/15/2013 5:56:15 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 ?after 5:15-20? PM EST ? [after 11:15 PM Benghazi time ] : (OBAMA PHONES NETANYAHU AFTER HAVING PREVIOUSLY BLOWN THE ISRAELI PM’S MEETING REQUESTS OFF?) To: riri He DID make time to phone up Netanyahu AFTER panetta’s visit though. Didn’t he? Lies and damn lies. Ain’t it odd? Biden was there. There are pics of it. Right in the THICK of Benghazi. WTF???
151 posted on Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:01:18 PM by MestaMachine | To 117
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And they said Netanyahu never requested a meeting at the White House either.
22 posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:02:50 PM by Rebelbase | To 1
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To: TBBT “There’s no intelligence indicating that the attack in Benghazi was premeditated.”
Of course there wasn’t. Obama REFUSED to take Netanyahu’s REPEATED requests for an hour long conference with Obama in the week leading up to the attacks. He likely had pertinent leads/credible reports from their very capable intelligence gatherers. In addition, Obama and his appointees have no intelligence. So, between these two facts, how could there be ‘any intelligence indicating’ that there was an impending attack???—————33 posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:06:44 PM by nicmarlo


33 posted on 05/15/2013 6:01:17 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Well, he had a meeting with Panetta around 5 PM EST...

It lasted 15 to 20 minutes.

This would have been shortly after the end of the first attack. They may have assumed incorrectly that the attack was truly over, and maybe Obama decided to go to the powder room to prepare for the Vegas fundraiser.

A new attack was about to begin at the CIA annex at 5:30 PM EST or so that would last for 90 minutes:

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 5:30pm EST to 7pm EST / 11:30 PM [Benghazi time] to 1 am Benghazi time SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : (LIBYA : BENGHAZI : CIA ANNEX : FIGHTING )

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 7pm EST / SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 1:00 AM [LIBYA TIME] : (LIBYA : BENGHAZI : A SECOND CIA TEAM ARRIVES AT THE AIRPORT IN BENGHAZI BUT HAS TROUBLE FINDING TRANSPORTATION TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT IN AN EFFORT TO FIND AMBASSADOR STEVENS)

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 11:00 PM EST / after 5:00 AM Benghazi time SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 : (LIBYA : BENGHAZI : AFTER BEING HELD UP AT THE AIRPORT, THE SECOND CIA TEAM ARRIVES AT THE CIA ANNEX IN A LULL IN THE FIGHTING ; ALL THE SURVIVING AMERICANS ARE HOLED UP THERE)

34 posted on 05/15/2013 6:22:31 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: servo1969
This entire sordid affair started around 4 PM Eastern Time. In other words, "everybody" in the USA was at work and ready to proceed with a workable plan and rescue.

It was not the middle of the night, or bedtime. It is simply not believable the Commander in Chief went to bed. This was a major crisis and all hands were on deck. Washington was awake and people from all agencies were at work and involved.

It is also not believable there was "no time" to deploy help from several places in Europe or the Med. Forces were available. In the midst of a crisis, one has no idea how long it might last or how it will end. This one could have gone on for a couple of days, with the Annex under siege. So, if that was the possible case, then when and under what conditions Washington plan to make a rescue attempt?

It appears the Benghazi outpost was deliberately left to die - all of them, not just the four who died.

Why?

This is either criminal incometence or something far worse. It is little wonder they want to sweep it under the rug and "move on".!

35 posted on 05/15/2013 6:42:42 AM PDT by Gritty (The Constitution's purpose is to insulate personal freedom from a lust for power-Judge A. Napolitano)
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To: servo1969
In the first months after the Benghazi attack, the most urgent question, and one only rarely asked, was "What were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton doing during the seven and a half hours between the initial emergency communications from Benghazi and the final American deaths?"

Yet that is not the most important question, which is 'What was the purpose of the attack?'

This was about weapons to supply Brennan's illegal war in Syria. That issue elevates Zero's actions from feckless incompetence to malice.

36 posted on 05/15/2013 6:54:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Gritty; servo1969
It appears the Benghazi outpost was deliberately left to die - all of them, not just the four who died.

Why?

This is either criminal incometence or something far worse. It is little wonder they want to sweep it under the rug and "move on".!

If you have read what Admiral James Lyon is saying you have a clear and logically answer to your WHY!!!

37 posted on 05/15/2013 6:55:37 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

Do you have a link for Admiral James Lyon?


38 posted on 05/15/2013 7:51:36 AM PDT by geologist ("If you love me, keep my commands" .... John 14 :15)
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To: livius

What was little barry bastard boy doing? ... Well, this time he didn’t even vote present! And he is what the democrips have become, treacherous to America and Americans. He uses the IRS to empower his political campaign, he uses the Justice Department to go after his opposition voices, he uses Islam to attack Israel, he directs lies to be broadcast to the people and the press dutifully comply, he and his gaggle of professional democrip liars ... well, by now why in God’s name have We The People not gotten it? This sonofabitch and his hench devils are the enemy wihtin the gates and the fifth column (read media fools) is mounting an assault to end our we the people sovereignty.


39 posted on 05/15/2013 8:00:02 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

bkmk


40 posted on 05/15/2013 8:13:10 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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