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This is the group that knows what resources are at the President's disposal, and understands how they can coordinate together to field a response to a terror attack.
And, Obama did not call on them for help. AT ALL.
In other words, Obama did not call on the very group of people who would know the local CIA resources, NSC resources, Navy Seal resources, Naval Resources, Army ground forces, or any other Special Forces who might have been in the area.
And that would be because, OBAMA NEVER WANTED TO RESPOND IN THE FIRST PLACE.
He fully intended to allow these people to die like pigs.
Why that is, we do not know. But, it is now without a doubt that he did not intend for them to live. If he did, he would have at least attempted to understand how to help them, but he did not.
From CBS News:
CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).
"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."
Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
The circumstances of the attack, including the intelligence and security situation there, will be the subject of a Senate Intelligence Committee closed hearing on Nov. 15, with additional hearings to follow.
Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack.
Where was the October Surprise?Almost everyone anticipated this year’s “October Surprise” — some last-minute, unexpected, shocking scandal to rock the presidential election and derail one of the candidates. But it never appeared. In an era of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink gutterball politics, this mysterious absence of any major scandal was itself noteworthy. How could nothing have happened?
Sure, there was Hurricane Sandy. But that doesn’t count. Sandy was a natural disaster that dominated the headlines for a few days, but it wasn’t a scandal. And yes, there was Benghazi. But that happened in early September, and it wasn’t so much a political scandal uncovered by partisan operatives as it was the umpteenth example of Obama’s incompetence. Whatever Benghazi blowback he’s gotten damaging his election chances are entirely his own responsibility for bungling an international crisis. So, no, neither one of those counted as an October Surprise.
Which left many people scratching their heads. Why wasn’tthere one? For either candidate?
In Mitt Romney’s case, the answer is pretty obvious: He’s squeaky clean. His entire adult life has been like a boring treatise on Mormon moral rectitude. His political career has long been an open book — moderate, bipartisan, essentially uneventful. The Democrats have tried to squeeze some droplets of outrage over Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, but those attacks came earlier in the summer and turned out to be extremely slim pickin’s. There are no skeletons in Romney’s closet, otherwise we would have heard about them.
But in Barack Obama’s case, the situation is reversed: Everything he’s ever done is scandalous. The reason there was no October Surprise for Obama is that we’re all scandaled out. Anyone’s who been paying attention since 2008 has literally been in paralytic shock every single day. We spent October 2012 exactly as we’ve spent every month of the last four years: Our jaws on the floor, aghast, stupefied, unable to breathe. Almost every single thing Obama has done since he’s been in the national spotlight could have been and should have been a career-ending October Surprise. But the mainstream media, as we all know, has devoted itself to protecting him.
Not a day has gone by since Obama took office when I didn’t learn of some fresh outrage and say Oh. My. God. But we’ve been traumatized so often that over time the scandals have all blurred together and fused into a single red-hot thought: Please let this nightmare end.
A complete recounting of Obama’s shoulda-been October Surprises would fill a book, an encyclopedia, an entire library. But I think this is a good time to initiate a crowd-sourced list of everything Obama has done since 2008 (and every fact about his earlier life that emerged since 2008) which you thought was scandalous, shocking or outrageous. Just for the record, let’s remind the world that every freakin’ day for the last four years has been an October Surprise.
I’ll get the ball rolling with a few scandalous deeds and facts which occur to me at the moment, but this list will primarily come from you, the readers. In the comments section below, mention anything and everything that you believe should have ruined Obama politically (if the media had been doing its job). From the big to the small, from the recent to the distant, dig deep in your memory and just let it all out, like political primal scream therapy.
I’ll continuously update the list as best as I can to include whatever gets mentioned by the commenters.
Ready? Let the collective scream begin!
The Complete List of Barack Obama’s Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders
• $6 trillion in new national debt under Obama…after he promised to decrease the deficit.
• Obamacare — A massive and incredibly convoluted bill which exponentially increases the federal government’s control over our personal lives…which neither Obama nor a single Democrat even read before passing, and which will likely bankrupt the nation.
• In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama’s campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.
• Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on “green” companies like Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others — all of which went bankrupt.
• An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.
• Unemployment at or above 8% for almost his entire term in office (which was actually closer to 15% actual unemployment).
• Operation Fast & Furious — a government-sponsored illegal gun-running scheme designed to purposely go awry so as to induce public outcry for gun control.
• Spent 20 years listening to a racist anti-American pastor (Rev. Jeremiah Wright), whom Obama desribed as a mentor. On March 18, 2008, Obama gave a speech in which he said “I could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I could disown my own grandmother” and “[Wright's church, Trinity United] embodies the black community in its entirety.” Now Obama tries to pretend that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t exist, and that his extremist anti-white philosophy didn’t influence Obama’s worldview.
• Increased the percentage of Americans dependent on food stamps to unprecedented levels (now over 15% of the nation’s population).
• Before he entered politics, Obama worked as a lawyer suing banks in landmark cases, forcing them to give home loans to unqualified minority borrowers — a practice now understood as one of the primary initial causes of the eventual housing bubble and market collapse.
GO READ THE WHOLE THING.
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From the Investigative Project on Terrorism:
An Islamist activist honored by the White House last December as a “Champion of Change” called Zionism “racism” this week and said “nothing is creepier” than the belief in a Jewish homeland.
Linda Sarsour also posted two links on her Twitter feed to a rabidly anti-Israel video by a New York poet that accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and mocks interfaith dialogue as selling out.
Sarsour has been invited to at least seven White House meetings since April 2010, records show. All but one were with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. The most recent meeting took place seven months ago. Last week, the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported on hundreds of White House meetings involving radical Islamists like Sarsour.
Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York, is on record defending terror suspects, casting skepticism over law enforcement investigations and advancing conspiracy theories. Despite her access to the administration, Sarsourdescribes support for President Obama as a “lesser of two evils” proposition for Muslim voters.
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Apologies for my enforced absence folks.
Sandy roared through Reading/Berks Monday, Monday night and into Tuesday. And while we made out far better than places like Atlantic City and Staten Island it was not without incident.
We still have a ton of folks without power, trees down, lines down across streets and back roads etc.
More locally very late Monday night when the wind was building to a great crescendo there was a loud crack and thud followed by loss of the TeeVee and internet. Moments later the power was out all over the neighborhood.
And remained out for about 15 hours.
Now, that is nothing more than a trifle, a nuisance and annoying in the grand scheme of things. Get out the flashlights and candles. UNTIL one has to be at work 5:30 the next morning and the coffeepot just will not work no matter how much you cuss at and threaten it.
Fortunately the nearest Wawa is on a different grid section than us and they had hot coffee, lots of it. So any further violence was averted.
But back to the crack and thud.
Twas our neighbors tree falling into our yard taking down the cable (and therefore internet) lines, leaving the phone line lying on the ground but still working, and did a dandy number or our power lines. Ripped out the neutral/ground and left it hanging there. The rest of it barely hanging there.
When the power came back on to the neighborhood we found we still had enough connection that we could shower, keep the food from spoiling, cook meals
and make COFFEE
This did not ease the communication woes, however. Internet and TeeVee was still down. Cell phone service was spotty at best. And local radio isn't worth shit for getting and real unbiased news. Plus their playlist is stuck somewhere in the 90's (they play it at work, it's the only station they get. I told my boss you know a station needs updating when you realize it isn't deja vu after all you really WERE listening to this very same song when you were unloading boxes at Spencer gifts in 1985).
So from Monday until late yesterday I was completely out of the news loop. And because of my crazy schedule at the Big Box Retailer I didn't have a chance to get anywhere else to watch the news or read the internet.
Meanwhile the tree remain perched on our electric wires.
Halloween night the neighborhood decided despite the problems we were going to proceed with the annual Halloween fire. Got the candy and s'mores makin's for the trick or treaters. Beer for their parents.
Plenty for us as well.
Held it at the neighbors this year since I had an early work start the next morning. So I left a note on our door
HALLOWEENERS! The goods are across the street at the Halloween Fire! C'mon over!
Our first customer was the lady from the electric company who was looking for us and followed the sign.
She and her partner had been sent by HQ in Ohio to sort stuff out, working their way east through Pennsylvania and on into Jersey.
We're from the electric company, we're here to help.
They took a look at our situation and declared both ours and our neighbors yard danger zones, off limits to people, children and small animals (look, if the squirrels can't read the friggin' signs and get zapped it's their own damned fault. Just means the neighborhood redtail will get a hot meal for a change) until the tree is removed because it could snap the wires at any minute and send them discharging into the standing water. Said hopefully will be there sometime next week.
We thanked her and offered her and her partner a beer even though they were "on duty".
They were sorely tempted I'm here to say.
So back to the fire. Had a good number of Halloweeners including one group from a number of blocks away whose kids were insisting they had to find the house that had the fire and s'mores last year.
Back to work Thursday Big Box Retailer continued to be busy with people buying stuff for the NEXT storm (just in case) and replacing the perishables they bought Sunday and lost when their power went out.
Why would you buy frozen foods and perishables when you know a storm is coming that will likely knock out your power destroy the food and keep you from being able to cook it anyway? And batteries, we were selling out of D batteries faster than we could restock them.
Friday morning the chain saws started at 6:00. No kidding they so startled our neighbor up 2 doors up he thought something ne'er-do-well in the Texas chainsaw vein was going on and was about to call the cops.
By 8:00 the tree was off the lines.
By 4:00 we had TeeVee and internet back.
I turned on the TeeVee and was startled to see how bad things were in Staten Island. Eerily similar to Katrina (with less loss of life) but back then they wanted to lynch the President for the federal response. Obama, of course, is getting a pass on it.
And the Benghazi morass continues to deepen.
And Obama gets a pass on it.
Unemployment ticks up (yeah, we'll leave all the numbers shenanigans out of it), higher now than when Obama took office.
And he gets a pass on it.
ANY OTHER PRESIDENT, REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, wouldn't show his face nn public with these kind of events, let alone be able to keep an election as close as this one seems to be.
So don't forget to vote on Tuesday.
And I'm voting as revenge. Revenge on the man who has so badly damaged this Country We Love. Throw his lazy ignorant incompetent ass out, and all his sycophantic cronies in the administration and Congress.
Let that fucker's name be added to the unemployment rolls, like so many of ours have been for so long.
And let's set things right.
Runnin' through this business of life
Rarely time if I'm needed to
Ain't so funny when things ain't feelin' right
Then daddy's hand helps to see me through
Sweet as sugar, love won't wash away
Rain or shine, it's always here to stay
All these years you and I've spent together
All this, we just couldn't stand the weather
Like a train that stops at every station
We all deal with trials and tribulations
Fear hangs the fellow that ties up his years
Entangled in yellow and cries all his tears
Changes come before we can grow
Learn to see them before we're too old
Don't just take me for tryin' to be heavy
Understand, it's time to get ready for the storm
(oh yeah, the yard made out just fine. No long term psychological trauma from being declared a danger zone for three days)
In Brooklyn, Queen's and Staten Island, beleaguered residents prepared for a seventh day without power. And many have been forced to "scavenge for food like animals":
...residents of the Rockaways in Queens continued struggling without power, heat or food for a sixth day as their neighborhood slowly descended into chaos.
With little police presence on the storm-ravaged streets, many residents of the peninsula have been forced to take their protection into their own hands, arming themselves with guns, baseball bats and even bows and arrows to ward off thugs seeking to loot their homes.
(CNN) – A CNN poll of debate watchers released following Thursday’s matchup between Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden showed 48% of respondents named Ryan the winner and 44% said Biden won.
The margin between the two candidates was within the poll’s five point sampling error.
A poll taken immediately after last week’s first presidential debate showed a much more decisive victory for Mitt Romney. Sixty seven percent of debate watchers questioned said that the Republican nominee won the faceoff, with one in four saying that President Barack Obama was victorious.
Ace has this:
Ryan Wins CNN's Poll of Undecided Likely Voters, 48-44% Also Wins on Likability, Ryan 53% Biden 43% AP Poll: Ryan 51%, Biden 43%
CNBC Poll: Paul Ryan Smokes Biden At Debate, 56% – 36%
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I’ve had bullshit session with less interruptions.
I’ve fought with my wife with less interruptions.
And if in some bar discussion your opponent did what Biden did, what, I wonder would have been the result?
I have no idea what this debate will do because certainly there are 2 components
Who won, and why?
Did this affect any voting?
But the mocking, and clearly put on smile, and contemptuous interruptions were disgusting and to put it mildly, off putting. Biden’s behavior and demeanor detracted from the information exchange, and had me waiting for Ryan to smack Biden, and praying it would happen.
On this basis, Biden lost himself the debate.
Never the less Ryan missed a few absolute knockout punches.
Benghazi was a no brainer, and Ryan did not press the VP’s lie back into his face. The people on the ground in Libya asked for help, we have the email, and the public testimony. Ryan should have simply looked into the camera and told the public they have just heard an untruth, then tell them why.
But when Biden interrupted to tell Ryan that the stimulus was not only a success, but also that contrary to Ryan’s claim, the govt had found no crimes in the use of stimulus moneys, Ryan could have asked him if that was true, then why ONLY TODAY, did the IRS find that the ENTIRE Solyndra fiasco was in fact an IRS dodge to establish a huge tax write off. Further that if the govt has a role in giving moneys to private industry it should be in fostering pure research, not paying for factories of political supporters.
Ryan also might have asked Biden where this kind of behavior was when the administration was negotiating with the Russians over missile defense? Instead, he could have remonstrated, we have the president over an unknown hot mike in a truly candid moment - namby-pambying the Russian PM, begging him for time until he has more room to give up more after the election.
On the defense, Biden’s biggest score, that Ryan wrote to him for stimulus funds, was easily deflected by asking why the funds were not pushed down to local levels, where businessmen, and local efforts are known. Why was the system designed to have all moneys be requested from the VP? Perhaps THIS is why Solyndra and so many other failures and clear waste occurred.
I believe this is evidence of being over prepared. The debate is an SAT, not a chem final.
Never the less, Biden lost the debate by showing how much a liar needs to bluster his way across the facts.
But IMHO, as I posted yesterday, Ryan should have come back as ‘I tried to be polite but I am a son of a bitch’. The nation is in trouble and we need sons of bitches, not blustering smirkers.
The New Republic, an old school liberal -turned more progressive to survive weekly, like the Weekly Std, declared Biden the clear winner, and never mentions his behavior, so I think we are going to see the president attempt this behavior.
Romney needs to be the firm unflappable businessman who indicates clearly he can be a son of of bitch, if his opponent is an interrupting, smirking actor whose faux efforts are an act designed to prevent truth from reaching the public.
