The PRESIDENT went to bed is the only reasonable explanation for this fiasco. Dereliction of duty! There is simply no explanation that is acceptable and it goes right to the President. Presidential authority was necessary for our planes and interdiction forces to cross into Libya as I understand it. I don't know how THE president can look at himself in a mirror. But he does.... that should tell you something about THE MAN.
If this would have been George W. Bush, all of the press would be climbing all over his butt and he would have lost his re-election bid over this one event.
Something to keep in mind is the time scale and time zone differential.
When this attack started, it was about 4:00 PM in Washington DC. The attack went on for about seven hours. The president didn't go to bed until after 11:00 PM, DC time.
In other words, the president was awake for the entire action.
There would be
NO PLAUSIBLE WAY for him to have been ignorant of the action or its circumstances or the requests for support and their denial.
Just, you know, to set the record straight on the "slept through it" concept.
Not “optimal”? That term does not do any justice to what happened. Even if the Ambassador was still killed, the correct response is to take immediate action even if there are casualties.
The debate on foreign policy should have been a total blow out against Obama. The problem was that there was not enough factual information available yet to people outside the White House.
I think it's time for a very serious campaign ad by Romney that points out Obama foreign policy.... Obama sleeping....
This whole ordeal really pisses me off. Words simply do not capture my feeling of disgust.
Smartest thing Romney has done with this was to
NOT engage on it during the debate.
If he had taken this on, given the state of the known information at that time, then the continuing story would be "well, Romney said
this," and the spin on the phrasing, whether it was ill-informed, premature, etc. and the story would have gotten lost in that noise.
Instead, the fact Romney
didn't engage on that became the topic in the days that followed, providing a stage for the developing story, and Romney has no exposure in the developing story at all.
Dumb luck or genius execution, I don't really care which, I'll take it.
Every expert under the sun is now making it clear that the president
HAD to know within minutes, had to have a real-time feed, and had to have known everything he needed to know to issue a "go" order for a rescue.
Patraeus has now made it clear that the CIA leadership issued no order to "stand down." He didn't embellish, which is telling in itself.
Father of Tyrone Woods has made it clear that Obama and Hillary both lied.
Romney has no need to engage on this further. He can focus on the economy and jobs, and let the public wave of outrage do the rest.
