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The AWOL Commander-in-Chief
National Review ^ | 5/3/2014 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 05/03/2014 6:50:00 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

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Andy McCarthy asks the question that FReepers have asked since 9/12/2012. I do hope Trey Gowdy will ask this too.
1 posted on 05/03/2014 6:50:00 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: Travis McGee
Can you say .... CROSS BORDER AUTHORITY?
2 posted on 05/03/2014 6:50:42 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He was sleeping!!


3 posted on 05/03/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Servant of the Cross

He was being put into his big boy jammies and given a nice cup of cocoa by Valerie Jarrett.


4 posted on 05/03/2014 7:00:24 AM PDT by Blackirish
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To: Servant of the Cross

“It was the solemn duty of the president to come forward with not requests but commands for action”

That’s false, and that’s also why this hasn’t gone anywhere yet.

Sending light forces into urban combat is completely discretionary. It’s never a “duty”. The Commander-in-Chief has complete authority to do it or not to do it.

There are problems with the Benghazi story, and they may be great big ones. But the decision not to send troops isn’t one of them.


5 posted on 05/03/2014 7:01:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
I feel so secure that when a US ambassador was being assassinated by a terrorist attack that the POTUS was AWOL from the crisis and nitwits like “Dude” Tommy Vietor were running things in the situation room.
6 posted on 05/03/2014 7:01:16 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Dr. Ursus

“SLEEPING” a term used in homes with alcoholics or drug users to denote the individual has passed out!


7 posted on 05/03/2014 7:02:56 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Mr. Obama owes Americans a detailed answer

Apparently, he and his fellow communists in Congress and the Press don't agree.

And there isn't much the right can do about it, unless they start playing for keeps.

8 posted on 05/03/2014 7:09:31 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Servant of the Cross
A General called Obama for what he is, a “coward”.
9 posted on 05/03/2014 7:11:35 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Servant of the Cross

Sleeping and Chooming.


10 posted on 05/03/2014 7:11:37 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Four dead in Benghazi

Where was our CIC??

It's plain for all to see.

He slept when the clock struck 3:00!

11 posted on 05/03/2014 7:13:36 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: milagro
Or, better yet,:

AWOL when the clock struck 3:00!

12 posted on 05/03/2014 7:16:01 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Rome2000

At least McCarthy really nails the real issue in all this: AWOL leadership!


13 posted on 05/03/2014 7:17:35 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Servant of the Cross
No one's asking...isn't the VP supposed to be available when the President isn't? And so on down the chain of command. Why didn't that happen if someone in the military couldn't get ahold of the president for a command?

Besides that, aren't there standing orders of what do do if there's something as serious as an attack on an embassy staff?

14 posted on 05/03/2014 7:23:07 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania; Travis McGee
No one's asking...isn't the VP supposed to be available when the President isn't? And so on down the chain of command.

Former SEAL: Obama Never Gave 'Cross-Border Authority' Orders

Matt Bracken, the former SEAL, writes "only the president can give the order for our military to cross a nation’s border without that nation’s permission."

15 posted on 05/03/2014 7:30:13 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: hoosiermama; VRWC For Truth


16 posted on 05/03/2014 7:37:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Obama didn’t need to be in the Situation Room. He would only need to be there if there was something else he needed to do. He had already agreed to the demands of the enemy and had surrendered in Benghazi. Sitting in the Situation Room would have been a waste of time and he needed his rest for that fundraiser in Las Vegas. Does anyone think that Al Qaeda would just let the Ambassador’s body go without something in trade? Does anyone think Al Qaeda would just let those 31 CIA employees go without something in trade? Obama agreed to our enemy’s terms and went to bed. He surrendered.


17 posted on 05/03/2014 7:41:44 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: All

Does anyone here actually think the POS president and any of his cohorts give a damn about the 4 Americans who gave their lives at Benghazi???


18 posted on 05/03/2014 7:44:46 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: Servant of the Cross
McCarthy asks the right questions. Let's hope the proposed Select Congressional Committee on Benghazi does as well.

For political reasons (Obama is part black, and therefore a politically protected species) they may not be able to impeach this criminally negligent and uncaring little turd, but at least they can expose the little Commie cockroach and his handlers to the light.

19 posted on 05/03/2014 7:49:59 AM PDT by Gritty (Gun controllers aren't afraid of guns but a country where the individual has power-Dan Greenfield)
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To: milagro

FOUR DEAD IN BENGHAZI

Obama and Jihadis coming,
We're really on our own.
All we get is government lying,
Four dead in Benghazi.

It's time to admit it,
Our government is cutting us down.
Should have been said long ago.
What if you knew them,
And found them dead on the ground?
Obama just let them all go.

Jihadis and Obama coming,
We're really on our own.
All we get is government lying,
Four dead in Benghazi.

Four dead in Benghazi.
Four dead in Benghazi.
Four dead in Benghazi.


20 posted on 05/03/2014 7:57:25 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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