This is an article from Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families. I find it very interesting considering he's writing about Obama's handling of Benghazi, or actually the significant lack of handling the situation.
I was also listening to talk radio yesterday (specifically Andy Dean). Andy had some great ideas of what Obama was thinking. He asked his audience the following:
Could it have been that Obama is so in love with the Muslim world that he didn't want to "upset" any of them by taking military action against the Muslim attackers?
Or was Obama playing politics because the election was only a couple of months away? Andy pointed out that in 1980 (an election year), Jimmy Carter sent in our military to rescue a group of hostages in Iran. The operation was code named Operation Eagle Claw. It was a complete and utter failure due to Carter's poor leadership where service men actually died and no hostages where recovered. Could it have been that Obama thought about Operation Eagle Claw and worried that if he had a repeat performance of Carter's failure, it would cost him the election? After all, such a failure would have been ammunition for Romney just has it had been for Reagan.
I actually believe both theories are correct.
We all know by now that Obama loves the Muslim world. We also know that he won't stand up to terrorist just like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (he supported their rise to power and gave them some of our F-16's after all). We should also know by now that Obama would do anything to be re-elected.
From: Gary L. Bauer
Obama MIA On
9-11?
Remember during the Democratic presidential campaign in 2008
when Hillary Clinton ran an ad asking the American people whom they trusted more
to look out for America’s interests when the inevitable emergency phone call
came in at 3 AM? It was an effective ad because it highlighted Obama’s lack of
qualifications, especially on foreign policy.
It turns out that on the
most important foreign policy challenge of his first term, Obama wasn’t even
around to take such a call.
The Weekly Standard reported today on
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony this morning before Congress. Panetta
said that Obama was absent on the evening of September 11, 2012, when four
Americans were killed in Benghazi.
Panetta said that, other than his
previously scheduled 5 PM meeting with the president, he did not hear at all
from the White House on September 11th, and that the commander-in-chief left
everything, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the
besieged Americans, “up to us.”
This news, revealed under oath, doesn’t
square with statements by the White House in the days after the Benghazi attack.
David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisors, told an interviewer at the time,
“As I said, immediately when word of the attack came, the president was meeting
with his top national security folks. He was talking to them well into the
night. He was in touch with them during the day…[and] during the next day as
well.”
According to Panetta’s testimony today, he told Obama about the
attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi at the 5 pm meeting on September 11.
But not only did Panetta not hear from Obama the rest of the night, he didn’t
hear from anyone else in the upper tier of Obama's national security team. Not
Secretary of State Clinton. Not Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin
Dempsey.
Where was Obama on the evening of September 11th as four
Americans were being slaughtered in Libya? Perhaps he was busy preparing remarks
for the fundraisers he headlined in Las Vegas the following day.
