Posted on 05/19/2013 8:24:36 AM PDT by smoothsailing
May 19, 2013
Only crazy conspiracy theorists think that the Commander-in-Chief’s presence and attention count when an American diplomatic facility is under siege.
According to Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s whereabouts during the attack don’t matter. Oddly enough Bush taking the time to finish reading a children’s book to a class of nervous children did.
WALLACE: with all due respect, you didn’t answer my question. what did the president do that night?
PFEIFFER: kept up to date with the events as they were happening.
WALLACE: he didn’t talk to the secretary of state except for the one time when the first attack was over. he didn’t talk to the secretary of defense, he didn’t talk to chiefs. the chairman of the joint who was he talking to?
PFEIFFER: his national security staff, his national security council.
WALLACE: was he in the situation room?
PFEIFFER: he was kept up to date throughout the day.
WALLACE: do you know know whether he was in the situation room?
PFEIFFER: i don’t know what room he was in that night. that’s a largely irrelevant fact.
WALLACE: well –
PFEIFFER: the premise of your question, somehow there was something that could have been done differently, okay, that would have changed the outcome here. the accountability roof board has looked at this, people have looked at this. it’s a horrible tragedy, and we have to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
WALLCE: here’s the point, though, the ambassador goes missing, the first ambassador in more than 30 years is killed. four americans, including the ambassador, are killed. dozens of americans are in jeopardy. the president at 4:00 in the afternoon says to the chairman of the joint chiefs to deploy forces. no forces are deployed. where is he while all this is going on?
PFEIFFER: this has been tested to by –
WALLACE: well, no. no one knows where he is, who was involved, the –
PFEIFFER: the suggestion of your question that somehow the president –
WALLACE: i just want to know the answer.
PFEIFFER: the assertions from republicans that the president didn’t take action is offensive. there’s no evidence to support it.
WALLACE: i’m simply asking a question. where was he? what did he do? how did he respond in who told him you can’t deploy forces and what was his president?
PFEIFFER: the president was in the white house that day, kept up to date by his national security team, spoke to the joint chiefs of staff earlier, secretary of state, and as events unfolded he was kept up to date.
Tellingly Pfeiffer does not provide a single name.
“... and we have to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
I’m getting sick and tired of hearing this particular phrase from those defending Benghazi Hussein Obama.
No, I'll be there soon. There is some fire or something
in Libya. Yeah, I'm bringing my clubs.
Yes he did. This is the most detailed info I’ve found about the Netanyahu/Obama phone call:
And The Critcal Point during Benghazi wasn’t Obama’s bedroom.
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Where better to discuss damage control in private with Jarrett and Axelrod?
“Obama refused to act”
Yes he certainly did.
Can you or anybody else explain to me how, with THIS Congress and THIS electorate, that Obama’s decison(s) could lead to his removal?
Where ever the clown-car-president was...he should be in prison.
Snarky, arrogant, above accountability Government Betters are in charge of our lives.
How much longer will the Socialist Freak Show go on?
Hopefully the Secret Service can say it does not matter when it is to protect the pResident. Where is Sgt Schultz? I know nuthing
He was on a ‘shaved ice’ high... washed down with beers and cigs.. playing basketball with his staff
He was ‘Pres__ent’.. standard fare for him his entire rigged&distorted political career.
I’m wondering if he was really in the White House at 5 for that meeting with Panetta & whathisface becase one of the early reports said that conversation a/k/a meeting was over the phone.
Finally, someone is pressing the issue. The answer to the question will bring focus to what the President did and did not do. No matter how he answers, it will not look good for him.
I hope the press keeps asking this question. Where was he while the attack was going on, and what was he doing? Was there something more important that this? If his whole attention was focused on this event, then is this the best he can do? Watch Americans die, and don’t send support?
Might be truer tha we think. I bet Obama wouldn’t make a decision unless that hhe could do it on a golf course with no recording devices around.
What an arrogant idiot.
And all of the 0bama bobble-heads will follow the Pied Pfeiffer.
Why is every representative of the Obama regime a belligerent, arrogant, snotty punk? This coked-up ass was especially offensive.
They are all just emulating their master, the belligerent, arrogant, snotty punk-in-chief.
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