"Except for the endless parade of scandals and the whole destroying-the-country thing, President Obama is doing a fine job. Now, let's concentrate on `comprehensive immigration reform'!"
Posted on 06/03/2014 8:40:31 AM PDT by mandaladon
So much for “fringe” Republicans pursuing a “phony scandal.” Not only does the new House Select Committee on Benghazi get a majority of support in a new Washington Post/ABC poll (51/42), it gets support from almost a third of all Democratic respondents as well. An even larger majority of Americans believe that the White House conducted a cover-up in the aftermath of the attack that killed four Americans, including the first ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since the Carter administration:
Democrats in recent weeks weighed whether to abstain from involvement in House Republicans’ new Benghazi investigative committee, labeling it an unnecessary probe into questions that have already been answered.
The American people disagree.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows a majority of Americans — 51 percent — approve of the new panel, while 42 percent disapprove. …
In fact, the number of Americans who think the Obama administration has covered things up (58 percent) is even larger than the number who want the investigation (51 percent). Americans say 58 to 32 percent that Obama has covered things up rather than being honest about what happened. That’s a bigger gap than last year, when it was 55 to 33 percent (though the shift is not statistically significant).
They don’t think too highly of Hillary Clinton, either. Her approval rating on Benghazi is 37/50, which considering the circumstances is not as bad as she might fear. That’s helped in large part by Democrats, though, of whom only 22% disapprove of her handling of Benghazi —
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
The public is beginning to turn against their Dear Leader
Really? Did Hillary “handle” Benghazi? The only thing she did was lie about the video in front of the four returning caskets. And Democrats think that was fine.
Unbelievable.
I’ll believe that when either the poll numbers drop below 30 or the free stuff runs out.
The democrats are starting to as well. There are rumblings that they are none to happy that Obama has essentially handed the Republicans the senate in 2014 and sold coal state democrats up the river with his back door "cap and trade" scheme announced yesterday, not that democrats particularly mind "cap and trade", they just think that Obama should have waited until after the election and the only reason he did it now was to shore up his support with the environuts and take the news cycle off the VA problems.
If and when the democrats get rolled in the 2014 elections, you are quickly going to see the rumblings turn into a roar as more an more start treating Obama as a very lame duck, and worrying more about the party than his legacy.
Subtract the 13% of the population that's black (and will support Obama in whatever he says or does) and you're left with only 19% of Americans who think Obama's honest about what happened... That's an amazing number.
i do not get this at all... if someone thinks there is a cover up, why would that person not want an investigation? ugh! i know why, just being theoretical... but i still do not get it...
Obama only cares about Number One - and 'Number One' is Obama... Insightful comments apillar...
I wonder what percentage of the US population knows where Benghazi is located and what happened there?
"Except for the endless parade of scandals and the whole destroying-the-country thing, President Obama is doing a fine job. Now, let's concentrate on `comprehensive immigration reform'!"
Just yesterday they were going on about leaving no man behind.
Probably because something might come out.
Bout time for another golf vacation..
When do the hearings start? I haven’t been able to find that out.
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