Benghazi, American Honor, Little Caesar, and the False Dmitri
“A coward dies a thousand deaths,” to paraphrase Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, “but a hero dies just one.” As we hopefully approach the end of the Barack Hussein Obama II administration, cowardice is just one of the many possible explanations of its catastrophic failure at Benghazi last month, a failure that cost the lives of four Americans, the loss of valuable intelligence assets, the burning of countless Libyan collaborators, whose lives are now forfeit in that wretched land and elsewhere, and the needless handing to the ascendant jihadists of a propaganda victory that might have been avoided and has yet to be avenged.
But wait — it gets worse. According to this story, they knew an attack likely was coming — and still did nothing:
The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a “coordinated attack,” according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News.
Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked “SECRET” said that the State Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.
“RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support, and the overall size of the compound,” the cable said.
It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of what Obama’s handling of what is sure to go down as one of the most disgraceful episodes in American political and military history tells us about him, his administration, the ethos of the modern Democratic Party, and the state of our nation. The short answer: nothing good.
Understanding the implications of the Benghazi story — which my colleague Roger Simon has outlined here and here and here — the MSM (except for Fox News) has done its best to ignore it. They know that, properly presented to the American people, the fiasco — in which our ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three others who died fighting like men instead of like politicians – rightly should spell the end of the Obama administration. And regarding Roger’s suggestion of impeachment, it’s worth remembering that the Watergate burglary — the thing that ultimately ended Nixon’s presidency via resignation (under the threat of impeachment by the House) in 1974 — took place five months before his landslide victory in 1972. In other words, one doesn’t have to look very far for a precedent, should it come to that.
Because, let’s face it, the president of the United States — for no apparent legitimate reason of state or military doctrine — let those four men die on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, a clear and present dereliction of duty that, were he an officer in the services, would have gotten him court-martialed, stripped in rank, and sent to the brig. Instead, Obama’s decision (or, more likely, indecision) was a result of purely political calculations: the Slayer of Osama, having tamed the savage Islamic breast and declared the War on Terror over, chose to ignore any evidence to the contrary. And the media, ever eager to please, ignored the story because it didn’t fit the narrative.
We have now arrived at the purest distillation of the philosophy of the criminal organization masquerading as a political party that we call the Democrats: not only the personal is political, but everything — even the lives and deaths of our troops — is political. But no surprise here.
Recently, one of the nastiest men of the 20th century — yes, I’m talking about you, Eric Hobsbawm — died at the age of 95. (If you can stomach the face of pure moral-equivalence evil, click here.) Hobsbawm, an Egyptian-born Marxist, died honored in Britain, to which he emigrated from Germany after Hitler came to power. Before his death, as noted by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal, Hobsbawm famously opined that:
None of this should have been surprising coming from a man who, over the years, gave his political assent to everything from the Nazi-Soviet Pact to the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Asked by the BBC whether the achievement of a communist utopia would have justified “the loss of fifteen, twenty million people,” he answered “Yes.”
Holodomor: the Ukraine, 1933
That “yes” is the authentic voice of the modern sociopathic Left of which Barack Obama is so unmistakably a part. Theory is everything to them; indeed, the villains of the Frankfurt School (to whom we provided safe haven from Hitler’s Germany) invented something called “critical theory,” a juvenile discipline predicated on the adolescent fixation with questioning strictures in the name of “human freedom,” but whose practical effect has been the demolition of moral and aesthetic standards and their replacement with nihilism. The deaths of millions of people in the name of their false god, communism, were — in words attributed to Stalin and endorsed by Hobsbawm — just a statistic.
From his boyhood in Honolulu to his young manhood at Occidental and Columbia, to the streets of Chicago and the halls of Harvard, Barack Obama has been passed along from one mentor to another, swimming in the seas of left-liberalism and internalizing its anti-American world view to such an extent that — as a candidate for president — he could stand in front of adoring throngs and proclaim that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Think about that extraordinary statement (alas, too few of our fellow citizens did): what did he mean? Why did the nation need to be “fundamentally transformed” in the first place? Into what was he proposing to transform it? The answers today are all too apparent.
In just four years under President Obama, the United States has seen its stature in the world sink, its economy crater, and its soldiers left to die, unaided, on a foreign battlefield. As a member of a military family, I concur with Roger that Obama’s inaction at Benghazi fully warrants the opening of an impeachment inquiry, so manifestly derelict in his duty does he appear to have been. But then, throughout his woebegone presidency, Obama has never been particularly interested in that aspect of the job, other than to play Drones of Death with his political advisors and crow about how “he” got bin Laden — behavior more suitable to a Chicago gangland chief dispensing with his enemies than a commander in chief defending his country.
In other words, Obama is crazy brave as long as there is no personal or political cost, a fearless killer of even American citizens: judge, jury, and executioner by remote control. But when it came time to act, in real time, to support a few brave men fighting not just for their lives but to save other Americans, he choked (which is why those stories that he had little or nothing to do with bin Laden raid are now being given wide currency in Washington). Given his pampered upbringing at Punahou and the Ivy League, his cowardice is unsurprising, and his sociopathy obviously comes naturally:
Clinton, being Clinton, had plenty of advice in mind and was desperate to impart it. But for the first two years of Obama’s term, the phone calls Clinton kept expecting rarely came. “People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes [former aide Neera] Tanden. “The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people. My analogy is that it’s like becoming Bill Gates without liking computers.”
Tanden was, of course, forced to apologize for her candor once the Obama drones got to her, but her Kinsley Gaffe (inadvertently telling the truth) simply reinforced what everybody had long since come to understand about Obama, that he is a cold and unfeeling man, who views the military as his personal Praetorian Guard, Congress as his courtiers, and the American people as his subjects. He openly boasts about going around Congress with his executive orders and via his control of the regulatory agencies. And a second term, in which he would be unaccountable to the electorate, would be far worse. Because that’s where the real “fundamental transformation” will occur; these past four years will be seen as mere prologue to the nightmare to come.’
Let us remember that Terry Lakin tried to prevent the fraudulent and incompetent “obama” from ruining so much for so many.
The cover-up starts in Chicago.
Issa’s committee investigates Chicago USAO
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/
“CIA officials on the ground in Libya dispatched security forces to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi within 25 minutes and made other key decisions about how to respond to the waves of attacks on U.S. installations on September 11, a senior American intelligence official said on Thursday.
Officials in Washington monitored events through message traffic and a hovering U.S. military drone but did not interfere with or reject requests for help from officials in the line of fire, the official said.
The information emerged as officials made available on Thursday a timeline chronicling the U.S. response to the Benghazi attacks in which Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other American officials died. The material appears to refute claims by critics that officials in Washington delayed sending help to the besieged personnel.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/02/us-usa-libya-cia-idUSBRE8A102T20121102
All that could be true, but Obama is, technically, not an “official” in the sense used.
You cannot talk your way around the four deaths and the utter lack of military or other support.
Strong words concerning the b-tchy president. Much as I want the guy out, I hate to see it come at this expense, that he sold out our own men.
He sold out Poland and the freedom demonstrators of Iran. I guess he will sell out anybody.
There were plenty of sellouts in America during the early years of the twentieth century, who leaned on German Romanticism to promote the notion of “national character”, subjectivity, and “race.” They were joined in the 1930s and 1940s by German refugees who followed German Idealism, so here I disagree with Michael Walsh’s otherwise excellent article. See http://clarespark.com/2012/10/11/the-other/. Such sociologists and social psychologists as Talcott Parsons, Gordon Allport, and Henry A. Murray, allies to FDR set the table at which the Frankfurters sat, and then took the rap as Jewish troublemakers.
The science of genetics explained the processes behind the plainly obvious fact of ‘race’. I love Leftists, who constantly urge people to believe Leftist propaganda rather than their own eyes. Humans formed sub-species (races, demes, breeding populations, whatever) while geographically separated. All dogs are the same race (Canis lupus familiaris) but if you believe that the differences between a pit bull and a cocker spaniel are only ‘social constructs’ well, be my guest.
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It is impossible to quantify the outrage, against the most depraved criminally-bent regime in U.S. history.
And there is more than enough evidence to indictment this regime, BEFORE Bengazigate came to the fore. And the fact that it happened should not surprise anyone. Immoral degenerates behave this way.It is who they are.
But if Americans feel powerless, they must do something about it. And the only address to go to is Congress, thus pressuring for indictments against one and all. Of course, the first stop is at the Islamist-in-Chief’s door, but the indictments must continue against Jarrett,Clinton, Huma Abedin, Brennan, Panetta, Holder etc.Think of it as a prosecutor’s roundup, not unlike charges against Mafia Inc. under the RICO statutes.
America has been in the grip of revolutionaries for decades, but the Obama regime pushed their plans into high gear, as he is the first one with clear roots to both forces – the red/green alliance – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
They are counting on the people to sit still like good children. Will they be right?
Forget all the fanciful and emotional stuff about impeachment, RICO charges, and the like. Simply do what the system is designed to do. Vote the bastards out of power and go about putting pressure on their replacements to do what is practical and doable, although no doubt with great effort required, and start with an overhaul of our educational system and the bringing of truth into the MSM. An informed an educated electorate does not elect the Obamas of this world. There is an old but very practical rule…..”never kick a skunk”. After we have sent the skunks on their merry way via the ballot box let’s move on to such things as getting John Boehner replaced by someone with a spine and sense of the urgency required to overhaul our out of control central government. Skunk kickin’ in the form of indictments is a terrible prescription and will only lead to very unpleasant results at the expense of doing what must be done which is simply taking care of business. That’s a tall enough order.
We are now dealing with an large population that is ignorant and entitled and a Democratic party that is indeed, “a criminal organization masquerading as a political party” as well as a media that is so thoroughly partisan that it will never permit ‘taking care of business.’ We are in a civil war and until it is resolved, nothing on the order of business can take place. No, sir, it is time not only to kick the skunk but kick a lot of skunks and kick them all the way the hell out of town and if you can’t handle the stench, then you don’t really give a damn.
Well Judge, it’s this way. Personally, I would like to see all of the “skunks” sent to the gallows. But not at the expense of the urgent need to repair the structural damage that has been done to our great nation both educationally and institutionally. Making lawyers rich and tying the nation’s attention up in a slanted and biased media circus is a lousy place to start. That’s exactly what skunk kickin’ will yield. Don’t tell me I don’t give a damn. We have the responsibility to save America and right now that leaves little time for simply spinning our wheels while trying to get even….especially so when you have weenies like John Boehner at the helm and an easily corrupted and left-wing judiciary.
Impeachment would permit the Left to argue that, as Commander-In-Chief, Obama had EVERY RIGHT to kill those men because that is what great soldiers like him are paid and trained to do — to order a charge on a position which will take two-thirds of his troops to capture, for example. Generals kill their soldiers. Don’t you know that’s what SEALs are for?
Impeach Obama, and wwe would be festooned with citations from American history of great Presidents who killed like Chicago meat-packers. Doris Kern Goodwin will produce irrefutable evidence Ronald Reagan put out wounded soldiers’ eyes with white-hot needles. Oh, yeah, let’s by all means impeach O, and let the scummiest propagandists in the world deafen us. Oh, and don’t forget O’s Black, too. You’re a racist.
your skunk kickin analogy is a good one…. as far as it goes. You are right in that we need to WAKE UP, get a spine, and throw these sick dogs out the door. BUT.. and this is where we disagree, if we do NOT follow on the having them out with prosecution for their high crimes and misdemeanours, they will conitnue knocking about, waiting as hungry dogs do for the least opportunity to return to their food bowls… and too soon we’ll have them back attempting to work their evil upon us all. Throw them out, yes, but take stepe (impeachment, criminal prosecution) to assure they are never again in a position to make mischief at our expense once more, Let the kinyun become the cigarratte czar in Sing Sing, or better yet, Guantanamo. Let their tickets out of office be one way, non transferable, non refundable. (and make sure the TSA re on hand to “inspect” them as they go their way… together.
While I most certainly agree on getting them voted out, I think that as many of them as possible should be indicted for the very real and obvious crimes that they committed while abusing their positions of power.
If we give them a free pass, it means that there is one set of rules for the politically powerful and well-connected, and another set for the rest of us.
In other words, we’re saying that, for all intents and purposes, the rule of law is a thing of the past.
As far as Joe Biden – he is a bad man and always was, but at this point in his life, he’s too demented to stand trial. I’m not joking. I don’t know whether he’s had a stroke, Alzheimer’s, or some other form of dementia, but his mental incapacity is painfully obvious.
“If we give them a free pass, it means that there is one set of rules for the politically powerful and well-connected, and another set for the rest of us.”
That’s exactly why I’ve always resented Gerry Ford for pardoning Nixon after he resigned. Nixon should have stood trial. I wouldn’t expect a harsh sentence – two years in a minimum security facility would have seemed perfectly reasonable – but he should have done SOME time just to show that he was not above the law. Obama and his minions have been MUCH worse so I’d like to see the lot of them do some serious time.
At least the Dmitris were Russians!
Yes, vote out Obama and his chums. But there is something more important (post election): the State Department. Note that the State Dept has been front and center in supporting the Religion of Peace meme that has weakened America’s war on Islamism from September 12, 2001. It was this Department that led to Saddam Hussein thinking that the US would be “OK” with handing Kuwait to Iraq. And, the present head of the State Dept has, as her personal assistant, a woman with multiple ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. And this has been “OK” too, with the Administration.
The US State Dept is crushed by ‘groupthink’: feelings of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking; and discounting of warning that might challenge assumptions; unquestioned belief in the group’s morality; shutting down of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus…
You are so right it scares me to death! Are we so blind or plain stupid? If the American people are stupid then we deserve what we elect,but if we’re naive and we learned our lesson -we have to kick those bums out and restore some sanity, dignity and the American know-how,or will pay unimaginable price while the world would have lost a great platform for freedom and human dignity .
Excellent post.From overseas,the us is seen as country morally,intellectually and finacially bankrupt.The loons and criminals arein the White House.The president ia a pathological liar and his cronies and enablers are participitating in those crimes and perpetuating and peddling their leaders lies.No one can trust the US government.These are the people who brought with fast and furious and Benghazi shame to the US.History wont forget it Obama will join Carter in dust bin of history.
Think of the mindset it takes to go through all of this decision making process, that you are certain you are going through an obvious military engagement, then go out and blame it all on an obscure video, and arrest the creator. What a classic Joe Stalin move.
Yes the theory does come first which is why his Administration is pushing into place all sorts of toxic policies and practices. Intended to survive his ouster and fundamentally transform America anyway. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/comparing-the-real-common-core-to-notorious-authoritarian-social-engineering-disasters/ lays out just one of his poorly understood edicts and its actual ramifications.
It doesn’t take much reading of the American people being referred to as “socio-technical systems” in official reports seeking the Transformation of our economy to get that we are all just pawns and sources of funds for a new Nomenklatura. And all the official disdain for individualism is probably par for the course when you promote mediocre people to power merely because they have the Magic Credentials.
Individuals do not matter to this Administration and it showed acutely when it mattered on September 11. Hopefully the families of those slain will be invited to the White House again next year by new occupants to receive the honor and respect they should have gotten from Obama, Clinton, and Cue Balls Biden.
Dramatically reducing security, and in light of the forewarning you cite, along with numerous pleas by personnel at the mission via emails, letters and phone calls, plus the total denial/withholding/standing down of rescue efforts multiple times from multiple locations, including overhead air support, can ONLY MEAN the attack was intended to succeed. Occam’s Razor.
The Jokers in this plan were Woods and Doherty who were not merely TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, but directly ordered twice to not interfere. They were not supposed to be there. I mean they were ordered not to go. They were operating outside the loop for this scenario, and their ferocious resistance was a huge surprise to the attacking force. Required a second attack.
They were “lasing” enemy positions FULLY EXPECTING HELP WAS ABOUT TO RAIN DOWN. But it was intentionally withheld. Were they told that?
Given the magnitude of this “coverup,” I have a question. What type of executive decree can Obama and Co. have issued that causes all discussion about this episode to cease, from the W/H, State, Pentagon, CIA, FBI, major commands and all their spokespeople and the MSM, just prior to the election?
This incident involves thousands of Americans. Yet, nobody’s blowin any whistles. Just scary.
So Sad the Ambassador in Benghazi wasn’t a black man,
Obama would have saved him.
Kanye West:
George Bush Hates Black People
Obama Hates White People.
Coward,sociopath,narcissist,racist,socialist and unqualified – he most definitively is.
His blatant disregard for American lives,the economy and our laws is shameful .
He has the guilty party for Benghazi in custody ,as far as he is concerned, the video producer .
Obama has no interest in dead Americans,reality or justice. Every action he pursues and every word he speaks is about him.
The frightening part is the amount of cult worshiping followers he has.It looks like Hitler’s fanatics ,foaming at the mouth with rabid hatred at every political gathering .Obama could rape children on the WH lawn and the media and his lemmings would cheer.
If you do anything, Please hit the link “Those Stories” near the bottom of page 1. It is a complete recap of the Bin Laden Story and it is frightening.
Frightening, indeed, and invaluable context for deciphering what’s “known” and “unknown” about the Benghazi debacle.
Foreign policy being dictated by ignoramus and overly protective mother figure Valerie Jarrett…is almost unimaginable.
(reportedly, Val encouraged our involvement in Libya to depose Q-Daffy, too)
Obama describes that time in the situation room as the bin Laden raid was going down as “the longest 40 minutes of my life”.
Let’s give him and his self-serving coterie of Chicago thugs a long 40 years, far, far away from national centers of power.
Slightly off-topic – It occurred to me that Obama’s lie about the trailer’s being the cause of the Benghazi debacle is consistent with his childhood upbringing as a Muslim: He was engaging in takkiye – lying to the infidel, in this case, the citizens of America.
You have it exactly right, Jack. It ain’t slightly off target. It’s dead on.
Has his luck finally run out ?
I repeat my earlier post on another thread: the silence of all those involved in the Benghazigate tells me that the regime has already been consolidated.
“Talking” is considered dangerous.
The large majority of the media respects the code of omerta’.
These are the black clouds of the agony of Freedom.
VOTE ! VOTE ! VOTE !
So this is how the first Obama administration ends: in retreat and defeat. The president stands revealed as just another False Dmitri, a pocket messiah with delusions of grandeur, a political Caesar — Little, not Julius — whose luck has finally run out.”
A false Dmitri, a Little Caesar. Interesting analogy. Amazing how history repeats itself.
I have an idea for how Obama can change his luck, although it may be too late. He should face the nation and say the following:
“My fellow Americans (a phrase I’ve never heard him utter), as we approach the end of my first term as President, I want to take a moment to let you know how, if I’m elected to a 2nd term, my administration will govern. Initially, I acknowledge I have made mistakes. I have spent too much of your money on pie-in-the-sky green energy projects, many of which have gone bankrupt or are in financial trouble. I am now learning from the mistakes of Spain and my own mistakes, and I will henceforth no longer encourage or authorize DOE loans to companies that do not have a strong long-range business plan, sufficient assets with which to execute it and a commitment to ensure long-term viability. I also now realize that working, rather than handouts, is a better way to capture the spirit of American freedom, because it allows people to realize their full potential, have pride in their work, and self-esteem, rather than keeping them mired in a cycle of poverty and dependency.
Next, I assure you that I will keep our military strong, take care of those who have been put in harm’s way by their government, and be the world’s leader in doing what we can to assist those in need around the globe. But when we do assist those in need, we should at the same time ask them to help themselves, with stability and freedom as the goals. Our military has been and should continue to be second to no other in the world.
I also acknowledge mistakes were
So you are counting on people’s gullability to believe him? I doubt if Barry could muster a convincing tone to even sell that. Four years has revealed, though many knew this well in advnace, he is an epic failure. I’m glad his new domocile is in Hawaii– I don’t want him or Mooch on the CONUS.
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. . . I also acknowledge mistakes were made in regard to the recent events in Benghazi, Libya. I stand here today and take full responsibility for the deaths of the four Americans and I will not let anything like that ever happen again. We, as Americans, will never leave our fellow Americans in mortal danger.
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Yeah, I know Obama uttering those words is a pipe dream
Yeah, it’s a pipe dream.
But if it did happen – improbable as that seems – I’d have to ask one question: “If Obama DID have that kind of change of heart, even if it was sincere, tell me why I’d vote for a guy who’d only figured it out at the very last minute of his term when I could elect Mitt Romney, who has known it all along?”
Unless you can answer that to my satisfaction, I see no reason for anyone to vote for Obama over Romney.
“If Obama DID have that kind of change of heart, even if it was sincere, tell me why I’d vote for a guy who’d only figured it out at the very last minute of his term when I could elect Mitt Romney, who has known it all along?”
1. Obama won’t have that kind of change of heart;, 2. If a miracle happened and he did, it wouldn’t be sincere, thus it really wouldn’t be a change of heart – it would be only to save his political hide; 3. He won’t figure it out at the 11th hour – he’ll never figure it out; 4. If you’re sane & resasonable, you would vote for the guy who’s not only known it all along, but has proven it in the marketplace with his own money, and not that of the taxpayers.
I hope you can and do elect Romney, sir.
You have ably sketched the portrait of a petty tyrant.
Unlike most commenting here, I have no great sympathy for our murdered Lybian Ambassador. He was an Arabist and inevitably a Zion-hater like his bosses at State and the White House. He and the he Muslims who butchered him were allied in the same cause. Only the method was different. The only heroes here are our soldiers who were betrayed.
Our ambassador was lured to a remote and exposed site for a meeting with Muslim terrorists in Libya in order to to negotiate arms transfers to Muslim terrorists in Syria. His mission was gunwalking and some of those guns being put into the hands of terrorists were SAMs capable of knocking civilian passenger aircraft out of the air.
No rational American citizen considering the long range consequences of gunwalking heavy arms to terrorists would have supported the ambassador’s mission. Hence the secrecy–not from the terrorists who were receiving the arms but from the American people. Small wonder that State and the administration have dummied up.
In a tired reprise of the old gangster plot, our ambassador was lured to a exposed place and betrayed by the people he was trying to help behind the backs of the people he ostensibly represented. We ordinary Americans were doubly and triply betrayed.
Regardless of who wins the election, the details of this grotesquely incompetent and criminal cockup on the part of our government will be known.
My deepest curiosity regards the Turkish ambassador who left the compound half an hour before the attack began. Was he merely a bystander or was he, like the butler in an English mystery, the unnoticed villain in the piece. It was the Turks holding a shipload of Libyan arms who probably arranged the meeting that got our ambassador killed.
Did the Turkish ambassador give the thumbs up to the terrorists confirming that their target was in the compound after saying goodnight to our ambassador? Stay tuned.
And just think, the entire TSA will no longer be necessary.
Which touches on a question I’ve been wondering about since this attack occured.
Being that Ambassador Stevens was an “Obama man”, one would think that the President would be genuinely remorseful. Yet he obviously isn’t. So this begs the question; Is there a reason why Obama might have WANTED Stevens dead?
Why is no one asking this?
i brought this issue up recently. an article stated that the terrorists had set up guards around the building by 8PM and were not allowing anyone in or out. yet the turk left stevens about 830PM.
the only way he could have gotten past the guards is if he was on their side. obviously he didnt phone stevens after he got home and say “hey chris, look out your window…”
The parallels between obama and Lenin are too great to ignore. Lenin is the closest precedent to obama, other than the fact that Lenin was a much more serious and accomplished man.
I’ll grant you that Lenin was serious but I’m at a loss to see how he was accomplished. Lenin spent almost the entire 20 years before 1917 in European exile. He spent his time conspiring to seize power and pontificating on points of Marxist doctrine.
What “accomplishments” did he have in that time? Writing books full of nonsense? Avoiding arrest by the host countries and deportation to his own country for his activities?
The essay left something out, the American voter knew enough about Obama in 2008 to ignore him. That he won and is more than likely to be re-elected says that America deserves Obama.
Tragic, I know, but unavoidably realistic. Democracies more than other countries deserve what they get.
So this is how the first Obama administration ends: in retreat and defeat. The president stands revealed as just another False Dmitri, a pocket messiah with delusions of grandeur, a political Caesar — Little, not Julius — whose luck has finally run out.”
It is a scary idea that food poisoning – which we think of as lasting just a few days – could instead have lifelong after-effects.
The incidence of such “sequelae”, in medical parlance, is linked to diabetes, arthritis, studies have linked E coli to kidney failure and diabetes and campylobacter to bowel problems and Guillain-Barre syndrome, a potentially fatal condition in which the immune system attacks the nerves, causing muscle weakness and paralysis.
So it is with radical leftism, especially the virulent strain of Marxism/jihadism that wafts from the pores of Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, the Nation of Islam, the New Party, the Midwest Academy, the New Blank Panters, OWS, Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, the flotillans, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Robert Malley, George Soros, and the propagandists on their behalf in the mass media, academia and Hollywood.
In the event our Little Caesar wins a second term, the “flexibility” factor will bend us over until it cracks our vertebrae.
In the event that we defeat his second act of destruction, lest we be completely fooled,…it’s not nearly over.
Radical Marxism/jihadism is a disease that once you get it, you’ve got it. It is now infested in every nook and cranny of our free market, self-governing, Constitutional democracy.
It is a rabid, virulent and deadly disease. It may lie dormant, but it will not have been eradicated.
As for Benghazi, this is Ft. Hood to the Obamatons. A workplace violence incident. A police matter. A bump in the road. Marxist/jihadists do not think of loss of life in “the struggle” as much more than a statistical eventuality that is nothing compared to the glory of the “transformation”.
Their disdain for our military should not be overlooked when they offer the soft pastel and otherwise empty words of compassion. They were MUCH more offended by the movie trailer, than by the murderous invasion of our consulate…or our embassies. They aren’t rooting for the America that you and I see, feel in our hearts and love. They do not love that America, they hate her.
Betrayal coarses through their veins. It is their mother’s milk. If they can be utterly disloyal to an entire nation, being disloyal to four men under siege is nothing. They brush this off their shoulders as so much political dandruff. And no, this will decidedly NOT go away…no matter what the outcome on Tuesday.
We have the disease in our body politic. Our media spreads it with impunity. The Democratic Party is a carrier.
And, we are fighting for our very lives. Today. Tomorrow. And likely…forever. Unless he wins…and we die under his thumb.
“The Democratic Party is a carrier.”
Sadly, so is much of the Republican Party.
It is so obvious that obama cares only for himself. He will lie, cheat, steal and even kill (Fast and Furious, Benghazi) to keep power. Regardless of where he was born, he is a traitor of the worst kind. Pelosi, Reid and Obama have destroyed the democrat party and trying to destroy this country; they all should be tried as traitors.
San Diego Union Tribune nails it in a statement by the entire Editorial Board- wish Drudge would run this headline- http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/31/tp-you-have-the-blood-of-an-american-hero-on-your/
Great article Mr. Walsh!!1 Shared it!! Brilliant!
“the Watergate burglary … took place five months before (Nixon’s) landslide victory in 1972.”
You all realize what Walsh is saying here, don’t you? He’s saying that, if Obama wins re-election, we could be looking at a Biden administration. (Sadly, due to Biden incompetence, that might actually be an improvement over the current administration.)
I have never understood why people seem aghast at a Biden administration. He would be infinitely better than the Fraud, and it doesn’t matter if he is senile or not.
Sure, he’s an idiot and a clown, but he isn’t a card-carrying radical bent on destroying the country.
Biden would run an inept and corrupt administration, but he doesn’t have the ability or hatred of the country to do anything as dangerous as the Fraud does on a slow day, and Biden wouldn’t be under the thumb of international Marxist/Muslim handlers either.
Biden would be far less dangerous than Hillary, as well.
It’s not that Biden particularly worries me, it’s who he would delegate things to if he suddenly became president. He obviously can’t do everything himself and would have to delegate a great deal. If he delegates to the same people – or the same sort of people – that Obama delegates to – then the country will be little better off. Unless you can persuade me that he would “clean house” and bring in honest, decent people in place of the crew that are there now, I see no advantage in having Biden in office rather than Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Coming from the man who never got involved in a vote or put anything in writing, his dedcision to refrain from acting should surprise no one.
Item the First: Didn’t the Liberal Left try to haul Bush, et al, before some International Court and try him for … something? The thought occurs to wonder if we could get that same International Court to try B. Hussein, if American courts are Constitutionally prevented from doing anything. Although probably the only thing the French and Italians would be willing to move against would be murder charges on maybe-civilians Obama’s drones may have killed. And I personally think if a civilian is within drone-shooting distance of a terrorist, then ipso facto that civilian is also a terrorist and deserves to be droned.
Item the Second: For the past eight-plus years, the Liberal Left have been professing their love and adoration of American troops, it having finally become really REALLY clear that spitting and screeching “baby killer!” is no longer viewed as being a Good Thing. So we’ve heard many people in many instances declare, “I support our troops but …” I think Obama’s inaction re: Benghazi is the perfect example of exactly how much a progressive liberal lefty really and truly supports American troops. In other words, not at all. Ditto the MSM — no troop support at all, nada, never, nyet.
The problem is that after the election when Obama is de-elected you know these spitting lying screechers will not go quietly into the night and accept their ignominy, learning something as a consequence. No, we’ll have to keep bopping them over the heads with rolled-up newspapers, trying to train them into some semblance of humanity. I think, though, that if we stop the various entitlements, that segment of the population will surely have to start going away through sheer Darwinian unsurvivial of the stupidest.
It is sad; to say these types of things about our president. What is even more sad…is that, it is true.
Go back and listen to his speeches from the last campaign-his victory speech-and his inagural, what trash we fell for (or at least a lot of us on the right who thought he would be more moderate than he turned out),he was never that good of an orator, or particularly articulate pushing his message.
What a trip! What a mistake! We now need to listen to Pamela geller, and Robert Spencer, the Neo-Churchills of our day.
The narcissistic, unconcerned, remorseless, chutzpa of this borderline psychopath was on display in a campaign speech he gave within the past two days, broadcast on FOX News. This man has zero respect for the intelligence of his dedicated supporters when he attempts to portray his facade as an “earnest, loyal, concerned American Commander in Chief” and say, with a straight face, that “Bin Laden is dead……Al Qaeda has been decimated.”
He is obviously convinced and not without ample justification, that his media mavens silence on the Benghazi incident gives him a window of golden opportunity to claim for himself what is a blatant, obscene falsehood; a fact which bothers him not a bit. If he is, by some tragic twist of fate, reelected, he’ll not have to worry because his loyal cohorts that form a protective wall around him, Eric Holder, et al., will suppress any attempt to render him accountable for even the lesser charge of dereliction of duty and the Obama media machine will expertly portray any Republican effort to investigate as the work of the lunatic fringe obsessed with an irrational hatred for “The One.”
If good fortune shines upon us and “The One” becomes “The Done” perhaps then he can be brought to justice. Of even greater importance, perhaps this aging socialist/progressive/communist genie that he represents can be put back in its bottle, at least long enough for us to recover from this latest reincarnation.
Excellent article! You do understate the fact that, aside from Dereliction of Duty, This was Treason! In Arming Al-Qaeda rebels in Syria, Benedict Obama is arming an avowed Enemy of America! Also, the betrayal of the Ambassador and secondly, giving an order to “Stand Down” to military, trying to come to the aid of Americans under terrorist attack was a despicable dishonor and a Betrayal worthy of Judas! The fact that the Obama Enemy media is doing their utmost to cover up these Treasonous acts, by the Traitor-in-chief, simply means they also have American Hero Blood on their hands! The question is, what will be done about all of this by the next administration? If they sweep this under the rug or pardon the Traitor occupying the White House… Are they not also bathing in the same Blood spilled by the same treason? We know the media thinks, as all liberals, that they are not subject to repercussions for their actions, but at what point do we as a country, hold someone accountable for a Betrayal of Epic proportions? When did the first Amendment become a defense for Treason, by the Obama enemy media? This is only one of many reasons, I fight the Obama enemy media and encourage Politicians on the right, to find some testicular fortitude, to do the same! It’s not hard! Here’s a simple concept for how to fight the Obama Enemy media & Win: http://paratisiusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-those-who-should-know.html?spref=tw
God Bless America!
Indeed this is FAR more disgraceful than invading a sovereign nation that had done nothing to the US but resulted in over 4000 American deaths and 120k-1000k deaths of that countries citizens and has cost us north of a trillion dollars. It is FAR more disgraceful than a President who by ignoring ample intel allowed over 3000 Americans to be murdered on American soil. But I guess its all relative.
et tu, Idiotus? One man’s war criminal is another man’s chief executive. I hope you’re able to still whistle as you walk by Obama’s political grave next Thursday. *bop* consider yourself smote between the eyes with a rolled up newspaper (the only thing the NY Times is good for any more)
How it is possible for Obama to still be in this race is not a mystery. You need look no further then the obtuse reporting from the NY/LA Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC on a myriad of topics from the Benghazi bungle, Fast & Furious file or even the friends of Obama (Frank Marshall Davis – American communist; Bill Ayers – American terrorist; Reverend Jermiah Wright – American bigot). Any other sitting president or prospective candidate with as dubious a record or collection of reprobates as friends would be hounded by a free & responsible press into a richly deserved state of public & personal humilation and resign. Of course to humilate somebody you have to first get past their hubristic lack of shame. This will never be possible with a MSM press that exacerbates an egregious presidency by refusing to practice the right that the people we honour on November 11th died for. The torch is not being held high by today’s press. What a disgrace.
Rampant INjustice:This is NDAA in action! Remember the one Obama said he would never use! WELL, OBAMA IS USING IT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFALonjLay0feature=player_embedded
Please call me by my true Roman name – Oligula! It means small non-military spine. http://oligula.com/face-of-a-one-termer/
“it’s worth remembering that the Watergate burglary — the thing that ultimately ended Nixon’s presidency via resignation (under the threat of impeachment by the House) in 1974 — took place five months before his landslide victory in 1972.”
Nixon resigned.
Clinton didn’t.
Bam-Bam wouldn’t.
He would scream “Racism” and wait for the apparatchiks to make it go away, hunkering down til the Left Stream Media found a Republican who made a mistake on his taxes or some similar evil.
Did it ever occur to Obama that we neither want or need to be ‘fundamentally transformed’?
I would like to know the reason General Carter Ham’s retirement was announced. I served with him 40 years ago when he was an Infantry captain, and the very idea that he wouldn’t do everything he could to rescue fellow Americans because it was “too dangerous” is ludicrous. My thinking is that he wasn’t asked and Panetta lied about it, or he was asked and the administration was horrified by his “Leave no man behind” ideals.
This country is too far removed from the Greatest Generation and the sacrifices they made. It is also too far removed from the potential devastation we faced for years across the inter-German border (IGB) at a place called the Fulda Gap. I fear that the sissification of America is almost complete, and then I see the heroism of small groups of American fighting men that almost reassures me.
ECS
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