The FOX folks may be a bit over the top on this, yet they raise some excellent points. Why aren't the main stream outlets covering this more closely? If Obama had been a Republican would they be behaving the same way? (I don't think so)
Thoughts? And what do you think about this topic?
FOX News Toothless Watch Dogs
CNN Panetta
Yahoo Timeline
FOX News Obama Refuses to Answer
FOX News Stand Down
By the way, there is only one CNN link because they seem to be avoiding the story of late...
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It just isn't that big a story, although rumor has it, Anderson Cooper has been going to town with it lately. What I hear is a lot of second guessing, and second guessing just isn't news.
--Hiram
Oh come now, they would have been all over it if it had happened 2 months before the 2004 election.
A President that may have misled the public for some unknown reason, an administration that provided minimal security for their Ambassador that is assigned to a recent war zone, a chain of command that fails to send in the calvary when they get the call, CIA personnel that let this attack occur without any warning, etc.
It sounds like a great big story, if they choose to make it so.
Not sure if it would sway the voters either way, since bad things happen to good people, but it should be being investigated more thoroughly.
I don't think there is any reason at all to think the president intentionally misled the public. It was a murky situation and he has done the best he can. The President of the United States just isn't the guy in charge of things on the ground in Libya.
--Hiram
Though the buck for better or worse stops at his desk.
Sure. In the same way the buck for September 11th stopped at George Bush's desk.
--Hiram
Now you are reaching...
Comparing the first time ever use of a passenger plane as a missile to an attack in a recent war zone. To me the first would have been hard to imagine at the time, and the second was highly likely.
Also, I am pretty sure that Bush admitted it was a concerted and organized terrorist attack right away. He did not skirt the issue and avoid calling it what it really was..
Comparing the first time ever use of a passenger plane as a missile to an attack in a recent war zone.
How does the comparison work against the president? Everything happens for the first time. There was certainly enough warning that the World Trade Center was a target. It had been attacked before.
I certainly wouldn't say that the president isn't ultimately responsible for what happens during his administration. That's much more of a Republican attitude, than a Democratic attitude. But the fact is, bad things happen in this world, and they happen during both Republican and Democratic administrations. During the last Republican administration, an attack occurred on American soil that cost the lives of thousands of people. Quite a lot of mistakes were made to allow that to happen, but I don't think anyone thought that was a reason to turn the Buah administration out of office. That would have been a profoundly naive response, one I certainly didn't have then and don't have now, and believe me, that comes from a person not prone to cut the Bush administration much slack.
But now things are different. Republicans who stood silent when America suffered the worst attack on it's soil in history, the result indisputably of a major intelligence failure during a Republican administration's watch, are now pretending to be in high dudgeon about the sort of attack on an American diplomatic presence that literally can occur any time, anywhere with precious little to stop it. Well, folks, that's the world we live in, and what happened is part of the price we pay for being engaged in that world. And the outcome of the next presidential election won't change that.
--Hiram
Even the Conservatives I speak with aren't as concerned about the attack occurring, we have all become somewhat desensitized to these unfortunate occurences. (for better or worse)
They seem more concerned that Obama refused to call it a concerted and organized terrorist attack for 1+ weeks, when the info was there.
Instead he stuck with the random spontaneous "video furor" terror story for way longer than he should of. Why ?
I know. Conservatives have a belief in the power of specific formulations of words I find rather sweet. I wish I had their childlike faith in the power of language.
--Hiram
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