President Obama said he takes “offense” at “some suggestion in any way we haven’t tried to make sure that the American public knew as information was coming in what we believed happened” on Sept. 11 in Benghazi.
“Well, look, the fact of the matter is that this is a tragedy. There’s all kinds of legitimate questions to ask, because anytime a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans who are serving our country get killed, we’ve got to figure out what happened and fix it,” Obama said in an interview aired on MSNBC this morning. “And most importantly we’ve got to bring those folks who carried that out to justice.”
He said the investigation is going to show whether the intelligence community was giving bad information as the attack unfolded and afterward.
“But the truth is, across the board, when this happened, my No. 1 priority was secure Americans, figure out what happened, bring those folks to justice,” Obama said. “We are in the process of doing that right now. Congress has been getting the flow of information continuously from day one. And what my attitude on this is if we find out if there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable.”
Members of Congress, though, have increasingly complained about the information they’ve received being contradicted by new reports.
“Ultimately, as commander in chief, I’m responsible and I don’t shy away from that responsibility. My number one responsibility is to go after folks who did this and we’re going to make sure that we get them. I’ve got a pretty good track record doing it,” Obama said.
Last week, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called on Obama to publicly address Americans with all information he knows on Benghazi. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) called on Obama over the weekend to “come clean.”
Related: The Benghazi Gambit That Could Save Obama
The clown takes offense ?
I take offense at this administration having rejected the repeated requests for increased security detail in Libya.
I take offense at this administration having lied about the facts and having prosecuted the maker of the movie about islam. And having gone to the UN apologizing and saying silly things about a supposed “prophet”.
I take offense at this administration for allowing the muslim brotherhood to conquer North Africa.
I take offense at this administration receiving at the White House tens and tens of islamists connected to terrorism (see the IPT paper).
And I am the American People.
Adding to the indictment against the Islamist-in-Chief – a real Commander-in-Chief wouldn’t give a rat’s behind about personal offense, but would be itching to avenge their blood!
And if he really did make an error in judgment, a real statesman would man up, thus stating the truth, and explain the ‘errors’ at hand.
However, an anti-American can do no such thing, and is Allah-bent on spinning his way out of the charges, which will eventually come his way.
Bengazigate is merely the culmination of ALL his anti-American mischief, but its basis lies in his fealty to the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia; Islamists he wants desperately to empower, all over the region, and beyond too.
This is why the People’s House has become – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/26/the-white-houses-revolving-door-for-muslim-radicals-courtesy-of-the-islamist-in-chief-addendum-to-the-muslim-mafia-their-overarching-plan-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Two more days and talking about Libya will be ‘racist’
IF wanting answers to Obama’s actions prior to, during and after the attack on the Benghazi consulate makes me an racist, THEN a racist I am.
Does Obama take offense, or is it more correct to say that he gives offense? I can think of few things that are more insulting than our nation’s president getting caught lying through his teeth to protect a few votes.
” my No. 1 priority was secure Americans,..”
Uhm, Mr. Obama, you are the Commander in Chief. What did you do to “secure Americans”? What assets did you deploy? What rules of engagement did you authorize? Why did the assets not engage the attackers?
It’s great that you prioritized Americans but what did YOU do to secure them? This would be one of those actual responsibilities that goes with command, you are obligated to act. Failure to act is a failure of command. Either you deployed assets or decided not to deploy assets.
And if you did issue such vague orders as “secure Americans” then that is a terrifying lapse of command. That could be interpreted to mean everything from recovering their bodies to carpet bombing Libya. Please tell us you provided some guidance to the subordinate commanders?
He seems to have purposely missed his opportunity to achieve all 3 priorities.
1. He punted on keeping the embassy staff safe repeatedly before and during the attack.
2. Read your e-mails, it isn’t hard to figure out what happened.
3. You know when it would have been easy to “find the people responsible, and bring them to justice”? When they were surrounding the Benghazi consulate and shooting at it. That would have been the perfect time to bring them to justice.
To Obama the term ” to secure Americans” means the black vote, the union vote, the gay vote, etc. that’s his #1 priority, the rest do not matter as he has shown by his lack of action. Soldiers were requesting help while fighting for their lives, Obama did nothing but watch and wait. They were trying to “secure” survivors and victory, He secured their deaths and defeat. BTW, Mr. President do not use the term “folks” to describe murdering fanatical jihadists who just slaughtered people you have sworn to protect as Commander-in-Chief. My God, I know you were off the Prompter but can you at least think about what you say before you say it? November 6 can’t get here fast enough.
Yes, I completely agree. His use of the word “folks” is driving me crazy, as is his use of the phrase, “my top priority”. These words mean nothing to him, they just sound good…to him. He makes me sick.
“…And what my attitude on this is if we find out if there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable.”
How would you like these words served, Mr Obama? With the Hollandaise sauce and the zinfandel wine or au gratin with the chardonnay? Bon Appetit, Monsieur. May your words taste just as wonderful on the way down and they did on the way up.
The other translation is that he is in the process of finding a bag-man to crucify publicly because he refuses to be held accountable. It’s a very revealing statement, to say the least.
He meant American (democrat) voters.
Four murders too late for his No. 1 priority, yes?
Obama is alive to take offense but four are dead because he can’t do defense.
Oh, you pathetic excuse for Commander-in-Chief.
Watching this administration is like reading an amalgam of the most scary parts of ’1984′, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and ‘Brave New World’. It is just unbelievable how the MSM just takes him at his word and will not follow up like they did with Bush.
This was supposed to be an interview and it seems to have been more like a platform for Obama spin. The fact that my son spent a year over in Afghanistan for this absolute bum just makes me angrier every day that this man is in office.
And it breaks my heart.
“This was supposed to be an interview and it seems to have been more like a platform for Obama spin.”
This “interview” was on MSNBC, the Pravda of the Democratic Party. Are you really surprised that it was just another instance of Obama justifying himself in front of media that see him as incapable of doing wrong?
“And what my attitude on this is if we find out if there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable.”
In other words: “We’re searching hard for a credible scapegoat, preferably a known Republican, and once we find him, he’ll be thrown under the bus. Then I can wash my hands of the whole affair and blame it on the scapegoat. After all, I am magnificent, the Smartest President Ever (TM), so we know I couldn’t have been at fault.”
So, we can call him Pontius Obama, or Ponty for short. Makes for a whole new set of jokes, like “Don’t get your ponties in a twist”, or some such. Or maybe we should send him a little tube of hand sanitizer.
Maybe even “Punty” because he likes to punt things away…but given his example of how he throws like a girl, I’m guessing he punts the same way so…
Never mind.
Remember the scene in “Gladiator” when Commodus asks his daddy, “Have I missed it father; Have I missed the battle?”
Marcus Aurelius: “You have missed the war.”
Although essentially an inaccurate portrayal of Commodus, the character as outlined in the movie is a perfect ringer for Obamius.
So… now Al-Qaeda is just “those folks”? Barry is awfully cozy with the killers.
That bothered me too — how can a murderous terrorist be a “folk”? Obviously, the word is either foreign to Obama and he doesn’t understand its nuances; or, he considers terrorists as some of his folks.
it’s blood curdling.
He’s a psychopath.
“The fact of the matter is” our president is a liar and a traitor. “When we find out what happened” – we already know what happened and its all on video tape.
Where are you Mitt?
YOU take offense, Mr. President? I assure you that millions of Americans take offense, to your ARROGANCE.
Well said. Short, powerful and to the POINT!!!!!
I wonder why Mitt isn’t running ads asking questions? If an order was issued, let’s see a copy of the order. If an order was not issued, why not? If there were were assets within a couple hours, why were they not used?
Mitt should be asking these questions on behalf of the American people. This isn’t about a bad decision, this was a conscious decision to let Americans die for whatever political end they were seeking.
The whole bunch of them should be perp walked out of the White House.
If he runs ads asking questions, he’ll be accused of politicizing it. If he allows others to question it and it ends up in the media, someone else is spending time and money to take down Obama, while his ads continue to hammer away at the issue most likely to influence voters – the economy.
Obama acting offended by criticism of his (miss)handling of Benghazi is really pointing up the fact that liars usually do effect a certain righteous indignation when called on their misdeeds.
Their logic seems to be an intent to play on the sense of honor and reasonableness that most Americans possess and assume of others, that they should be given the benefit of that doubt, and to in turn accuse their critics of wrongdoing as a wrong in itself – and a wrong of a magnitude above whatever action or misdeed of their own that is being criticized.
The problem Obama has is that the American people are in no mood to be suckered like that again – and any benefit of the doubt was used up long ago in his presidency.
It has been rumored that Benghazi was supposed to have been a kidnapping of the Ambassador and not a killing. Then Obama would have negotiated the release with the exchange of the Blind Sheik whose sitting in an American prison. It would have been promoted as a great foreign policy win just weeks before the election. It does sound conspiratorial but it would explain why forces were told to stand down and wait hoping that diplomacy could save the day. To paraphrase ” Caught in the web they weaved as they continue to deceive.” Americans die because of Obama’s Middle East lie. I nominate Bill Clinton as the next Libyan Ambassador, let us see what kind of protection Hillary gives Bubba.
Oh, Bubba might not even make it off the runway after he lands if Hillary has the choice. A tragedy it would be, sure’n it would.
Well, your theory is at least more palatable than mine of a deliberate assassination to clean up inconvenient loose ends. Either way, it’s treason.
You take offense when an incoming mortar kills you after you have lased the enemy’s weapons and requested that an overhead gun ship silence them. Then realize they are ordered not to keep you alive. You take offense when spokespersons fudge about the battle because the truth makes them look bad in an election. You take offense when the entire world now knows what happened outside the circled wagons around your Presidency.
The incompetency is astonishing, -perhaps psychotic. It may be that they are this disconnected from reality. This is about a million times worse than Abu Ghraib but large segments of our society can not see reality when it smacks them in the head. One had a lousy Sargent as a boss; the other has a lousy decision maker in the White House. Obama has never been a boss, and it shows.
A woman I talked to at work said that we still don’t know enough about the Benghazi situation to criticize it and, you know, Obama care about regular people more than Romney. Too bad he didn’t care about regular people in the service of the U.S. government.
“We didn’t know enough” … this friend of your bought into the narrative which Panetta, Obama have been using and are still using. Obviously, it works. The second set of narrative is the “ultimately I’m responsible” … and “bring them to justice”; as if giving himself a pass on the actual events leading up to; during and right after the attack. Nothing about the role of a CIC here; nothing regarding anything remotely “real time” … zilch; it’s just a bump in the road that’s unfortunate; in other words the POTUS just said, “shit happens”!!!!!!
“Well, look, the fact of the matter is that this is a tragedy”
A tragedy is when somebody dies of cancer and there wasn’t anything anybody could have done to prevent it. These were deaths of people that were undeterred by people who could could have taken steps to keep them from happening. The JEF’s as dishonest in his “explanation” of this as everything else he does as CinC.
It never pays to get all huffy with the boss, kid.
I cringe every time he says he will “bring them to justice”. He has no intention of bringing them to justice. He plans on executing someone whom he can claim was responsible via drone. That way, there’s no messiness about whether he got the right guys, just a bunch of dead bodies in rubble that they can claim were the masterminds.
I wonder if anyone on the Nobel Committee has reconsidered their stupidity from 2009?
I think he’s talking about the Egyptian Coptic Christian in CA that made the video.
Once again, words have the definition BHO wants them to have, regardless of what they are conventionally.
obama lies
Obama is a liar and now a murderer
Given all of the misleading information (an that’s being charitable, since I would really call them lies) coming out of the White House over all these many weeks, it’s no wonder Americans think Obama is not telling the truth. Well, he can easily put all of this to rest in one afternoon or evening. He could hold a press conference with the Washington Press Corps and only deal with the Benghazi issue and nothing else. If Obama doesn’t answer the questions, at least some people in the press will call him on it. But in the few interviews that Obama IS giving, he clearly doesn’t want to answer those questions, let alone say who was responsible for the lack of adequate security at Benghazi in the first place.
Oh, come on. His entire life is based on lies. And yes, he could set all of it straight in just a few hours, but he won’t, because he sees nothing wrong in anything he has ever said or done. A true psychopath, right up there with Nero and Caligula.
An Islamist terrorist is now simply a ‘folk’ and a group of Islamist terrorists is now referred to by the Obama White House as ‘folks’.
“I’m responsible. My responsibility is to find out who to blame.”
Responsibility: I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
Sen. Rand Paul Speaks Out Against Pres.Obama’s Actions in Libya – 10/20/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REj9Fap_n4k&feature=player_embedded
Just think what the next 4 years can bring!! We need to re-elect him to find out what’s in him.. The few people I warned about this jackass back in late 08′ won’t talk to me. Screw them I don’t need to associate with retards.
Time to get all up in their faces and say, “I tolja so.” Might unretard them a bit. Maybe it will discourage them from any future voting.
Frankly, I take offense to all of Obama’s lies for the last four years. It’s time to kick his donkeyass back to Chicago.
The Butcher of Benghazi tries to throw up more BS and see what sticks! His Accomplices in Treason, the Obama Jihadi media are trying their best to save President Judas from his Betrayal Worthy of the Biblical Judas, but, you can’t dance in pools of Blood Shed by American Heroes and expect the American Public, at least not a large percentage of them, to forgive Your TREASON! The Traitor-in-chief will forever carry the moniker of the Butcher of Benghazi for having watched in Real Time as as American Heroes called for help and this Monster Denied help that was Overhead, in the form of 2 drones and an AC-130 Spectre Gun Ship! 2 Former Navy Seals held off the terrorist attack for 7hrs of hell and killed approximately 60 terrorists! How quickly could an engagement from a Spectre have ended this? It would’ve been quick, in my opinion, but thanks to the TREASONOUS BETRAYAL of the Butcher of Benghazi, we’ll never know! Thank To the Butcher of Benghazi, we have for more dead Americans and a complicit Obama Jihadi media dancing in the pools of Blood Shed By American Heroes!
http://www.paratisiusa.blogspot.com
God Bless America!
Just yet another divisive moment. 50% will think he’s lying, the other half that he’s Joan of Arc and William the Conqueror wrapped up in one.
We can’t get rid of this guy soon enough!!! By all that is holy, that should happen a week from Tuesday. Pray!!
The 2008 Coolness facade is crumbling down.
Keep the pressure on Obama, we have yet to expose the biggest lie of our lifetime.
And what of Seal team #6? Alot of unusual coincidences in the last 4.
One of my best friend’s little brother went down on that chopper…they sure had a great big target painted on their backs by our courageous president.
My deepest condolences…it never should have happened either.
While Barry is saving his rear, here are some mundane, just good leadership things that need to be done:
The two former Navy guys that died need to have the next two destroyers named after them. They certainly died in the finest traditions of the Naval service, and if Giffords can have a ship named after her, someone who has actually earned the honor can. (Incidentally, I’ve been curious for some time if there was a more specific *reason* media folks thought someone from the Tea Party did it to Giffords. Something Giffords may have done that those in the media in the know might have reasoned was enough to tick off a Tea Party guy, and thus made it a logical conclusion? Or was it just stupidity, cupidity, and/or bias on the media’s part?)
The Navy men also are deserving of the Medal of Honor. The rules need to be bent if they are not eligible. If folks balk, then create a new award for valor, for civilians, call it the Medal of Liberty or something, give it to these men, as well as the crew and passengers of Flight 93. The Medal of Freedom is to watered-down to be meanigful for this.
The State Department should perform similar honors for their slain. but the military should take care of its own. Even former personnel.
Ol’ Harry Truman said “The Buck Stops Here!”
Ol’Bammer 1, ain’t a Buck, more like a speckled fawn caught in the headlights.
And 2, he ain’t no innocent Bambi.
3, He’s a Windy City Wannabe Hustler who writes checks against borrowed money and has no way to cover them or concern about it.
4, He will slither off, write a book with 98% by a ghost, and evade the ‘tax the rich’ clause because it don’t apply to ex-monarchs.
This is just an, exact copy and repeat of the Brian Williams interview with Obama that O’Reilly was so disgusted with. Same exact words coming from Obama’s mouth; he was NEVER asked a direct question as to his decision NOT to send help to those under siege. More stalling for time and more of the exact same BS from Obama … disgusting.
Obama’s number one priority was turn this nation into Venezuela, with him as dictator, by destroying the middle class, ignoring the constitution,and fostering welfare dependency.His allies in this are Wall Street, Hollywood,and assorted globalist- degenerate plutocrats and bureaucrats like Warren Buffet,Soros,and the UN filth.Getting as many American servicemen killed,especially if they happen to be white,here and overseas,is just icing on the cake, for this affirmative action wonderboy!
When Obama played this gambit of “offense” during the debate that any would criticize his actions about this Libya fiasco, Romney should have let him have it. Everything Obama does is a political calculation and I’m sure some one told him to respond to questioning that way. Its designed to immediately put the honest questioner on defense.
However, facts are facts. What exactly is left to “figure out”. They knew exactly due to an overhead drone and those on the ground feeding second by second information.
One final observation, Obama’s use of the word “folks” gets on my nerves. Its his attempt to be common and “folksy”. I live in the part of the country where others believe we use that word in every sentence when I don’t know of anyone who uses the word. His sorry ass can’t be gone too soon.
“Answer the question, slick. You can be offended on your own time.”
Obama sees his responsibility as going after the people who did this? He could have done that immediately while they were doing it, and possibly saved some people. Simple assessment – Obama and his hand picked brain trust blue it again – and in typical Obama fashion it cost lives – more americans this time than in Fast and Furious, but not near as many as chnging the rules of engagement inAfghanistan has cost our Armed forces. Obama is a joke who like Carter cannot make a good decision – the difference from Carter – Obama’s poor decisions have cost more far more lives.
“Ultimately, as commander in chief, I’m responsible and I don’t shy away from that responsibility. My number one responsibility is to go after folks who did this and we’re going to make sure that we get them. I’ve got a pretty good track record doing it,” Obama said.
The only way dear leader would ever see the image of a *man* while shaving would be if he pasted pictures of those dead SEALs to the mirror.
President B-B Balls isn’t going after anybody. Real men will do that job. In the mean time, it is our jobs as AMERICANS to get President Present Danger out of that office. And ultimately prosecuted under all applicable statutes.
Obama takes offense because that’s all he has left.
What a pathetic pitiful excuse for a man.
You are not a King, Mr. President, you are a public servant and a citizen subject to the same laws, as all of us, I am sure some inmates were offended having their heads shaved, just before they sat down in the electric chair.
Obama should be a case study for affirmative action college grads. Any company looking to hire should carefully question prospective employees – if they made their way through college via affirmative action slots – which are available to just about any student that is not white – their real abilities should be questioned very carefully.
Affirmative action hasn’t been much of a boon to us in this case – has it?
MANY have already jumped on the, “..my attitude on this is if we find out if there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable.”
Yeah.. cause Uhbama is going to, ‘hold himself accountable’ – after shucking and jiving (Whoa, sorry. apparently that slogan is ‘racist’ per the ‘news provider’ The Ticket and more importantly the ‘Urban Dictionary’.. that bastion for truth. Like wikipedia entries..!) err passing the buck for 2 + weeks.
It’s as idiotic as in 2010 when Boehner and other pols spoke of needed ‘government cuts & fiscal balances’ for government. IN other words they’ll have to give pink slips to their own office and learn to live more frugally. Riiiight.
That’s Obama’s story and he’s sticking to it. It’s what he does … his life, his records, Fast and Furious and so on. Hard to believe really … but the Muslim Brotherhood depends on him so that between them; the betrayal of the American people can be complete.
OBAMA NO. ONE PRIORITY IS ”OBAMA”