Mitt Romney: Obama Is Yet to “Level With the American People” About the Libyan Terror Attack (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 8:54 PM
Mitt Romney told FOX News today the Obama Administration is yet to “level with the American people” on the Benghazi terror attack.
FOX News reported, via Free Republic:
Mitt Romney, in a joint Fox News interview with running mate Paul Ryan, accused the Obama administration of failing “to level with the American people” about how the U.S. Consulate in Libya was attacked, leaving the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead.
“Look, we expect candor from the president and transparency, and he continues to refuse what is said by the other members of his administration: This was a terrorist attack. We were attacked apparently by Al Qaeda and it is a very troubling development,” Romney said during a campaign stop in Ohio.
Romney’s comments underscored complaints made by Republican lawmakers, who question the administration’s shifting explanation, starting with claims that the Sept. 11 strike was “spontaneous” violence tied to protests over an anti-Islam film produced in the U.S. Obama officials gradually walked back that description, and Obama acknowledged Monday that it clearly “wasn’t just a mob action” — though he did not go as far as to call it a terrorist attack.
Barack is still pushing the line that the 9-11 terror attack by Al-Qaeda-linked groups was some sort of spontaneous protest. Only 23% of American voters agree with him.
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Patty commented:
Well, this is a surprise. Many on the left feel as Romney does, well, sort of:
Joe Scarborough unloads on Mika Brzezinski over Obama
A New York Times story detailing criticism of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy by senior diplomats became a major point of contention on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
In the story, which was co-written by Helene Cooper and Robert F. Worth, Obama was criticized by both American and Arab diplomats for having an inability to build “personal relationships.”
“He hasn’t tried just like he hasn’t tried like a lot of members on the Hill in both parties,” Scarborough said. “And you hear from both parties and we’ve been hearing, Jon Meacham, for several years that this president will go to a country, give a speech and then leave. And I’ve heard from one diplomat after another it’s as if he thinks the speech itself is the ends. And not a means to the ends, which, of course, is completely opposite of what George H.W. Bush did throughout his entire life.”
However, Scarborough’s co-host Mika Brzezinski objected, but drew a sharp rebuke from Scarborough.
“I’m not sure what your criticism is,” Brzezinski said.
“My criticism is that he hasn’t done the job that a commander-in-chief needs to do,” Scarborough replied.
“So he’s weak on foreign policy?” Brzezinski added. “You’re really going to say that?”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/25/joe-scarborough-unloads-on-mika-brzezinski-over-obama/#ixzz27XNDfopr
Patty commented:
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Obama to UN: It’s Not My Fault Stevens is Dead
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/25/Obama-to-UN-Not-My-Video-More-Guards-Would-Not-Have-Helped
Oh, I can only hope some day he will be eating these words.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Mitt Romney told FOX News today the Obama Administration is yet to “level with the American people” on the Benghazi terror attack.
A safe bet would be he’s not going to.
With the media as the propaganda arm of his party (and by default, him as well), where’s his motivation to be honest?
Patty commented:
Dear God what have we done: If this doesn’t change your mind nothing will. BY THAT WE MUST VOTE FOR ROMNEY. I FEEL HE MAY JUST BE THE ONLY WAY OUT AND OUR ONLY HOPE.
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Middle East
Why the Benghazi Consulate Attack Will Blind the U.S.
The instinct to protect U.S. spies and diplomats will mean limiting their access to human intelligence throughout the restive Middle East
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The incidents of the past two weeks suggest it may be time to admit that large parts of the Middle East have fallen off the cliff for the U.S., and large parts of it will be beyond the ken of intelligence for the foreseeable future. Something terrible is going on in Syria, but because it’s too risky to put American intelligence officers on the ground there, it’s unclear just how terrible it is and how it could be ended. There’s simply no way for Americans to tell whether the armed rebellion is dominated by militant Islamists or Jeffersonian democrats. Nor can Americans get a picture of how the men leading the fighting forces on which Bashar Assad is most reliant might be turned.
This problem isn’t unique to Syria. A number of countries in the Middle East, from Lebanon to Yemen and from Jordan to Egypt, appear poised to fall into the political abyss. Consider Egypt: since the Muslim Brotherhood came to power, my sources tell me the army there is being purged of officers considered pro-American. I’ve been told that up to 4,000 officers have been let go, although I have no way to confirm that claim. But it would be surprising if the Muslim Brotherhood were not trying to cut Americans off from their traditional influence over the Egyptian military, just as the tragedy in Benghazi will likely cut off Americans’ access to ordinary Libyans.
Ambassador Stevens died a hero. Whether or not he took an unnecessary risk, he knew he couldn’t do his job while isolating himself from Libyans. The same holds true for American spies.
If the contagion in the Middle East continues to spread, the one thing Americans can count on is going blind — and it won’t be the fault of U.S. intelligence or anyone in Washington but just another sign of Americans’ declining position in the region.
Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/09/25/why-the-benghazi-consulate-attack-will-blind-the-u-s/#ixzz27XSa5V00
Mad Hatter commented:
The obedient dogs in the media won’t ask their master, Obama, about the different stories coming out of this Administration about the terrorist attacks on our Embassies.
donh commented:
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TELL OBAMA DE NIAL IS NOT A RIVER IN DC…..HE IS IGNORING …..EVEN ENCOURAGING ……THE ON GOING WORLDWIDE ATTACK AGAINST AMERICA BY JIHADIST STRUCK ON 9/11/12…..OUR EMBASSY IN IRAQ JUST CAME UNDER A ROCKET ATTACK . OBAMA HAS ABANDONED SHIP DURING AN ONGOING ACT OF WAR.
Patty commented:
Obama Worries about Mob Violence . . .
In 2008, President Obama described small-town Pennsylvanians as a frustrated lot. Jobs had been disappearing, he explained. “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” (Now, when there are even fewer jobs, they presumably understand that “no president” could have helped them.)
He seemed to have those bitter, gun-toting Bible-thumpers in mind when, after a terrorist attempted to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009 (the date must have been a coincidence), the president was quick to dismiss the attack as the work of an “isolated extremist.” The American people, he added in monitory fashion, “will never give in to fear or division, we will be guided by our hopes, our unity, and our deeply held values.” In other words, cancel those plans to murder Arab-Americans in revenge. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, it was later learned, was a member of al-Qaeda — not so isolated.
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The president’s repeated attempts to stave off imagined American extremism stand in contrast with his views about the Muslim world. He regards their rage toward the United States as an understandable response to the “arrogance” of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the dark night of Republican rule. In 2007, he predicted: “I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only does the country look at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently. If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world, they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country, and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view. . . . My sister is half Indonesian. . . . And so I’m intimately concerned with what happens in these countries, and the cultures and the perspectives that these folks have. And those are powerful tools for us to be able to reach out to the world.”
It seems genuinely not to have occurred to Mr. Obama that, along with democracy-seeking, modern, and pluralistic Muslims, there are millions who despise the United States for what we are — a symbol of liberty. Liberals ridiculed George Bush for saying that the extremists hate us for our freedoms. But when our embassies come under fire supposedly due to a stray video, don’t they wonder whether Bush had a point?
Obama has badly misjudged the roots of Muslim rage. The crowds in Cairo shouted, “Obama, there are a million Osamas.” Worse, he badly misjudged his own country.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/327872/obama-worries-about-mob-violence-mona-charen
THIS IS MY TAKE ON OBAMA AND HOPEFULLY ROMNEY WILL PICK UP ON THIS:
I have noticed Obama words, bitter clingers, enraged with Cambridge Police, insults our true friend in Israel, insult Catholic faith, Yes, TO OBAMA WE ARE THE ANGER MOB, NOT THE MUSLIMS WHO WANT US DEAD.
HE ACTUALLY ATTACK THE MOVIE CREATOR TODAY AT THE U.N. “HE ATTACKS OUR VERY FREEDOM OF SPEECH. WE ARE THE ENEMY TO HIM AND WE ALWAYS WILL BE BECAUSE OBAMA HAVE DEEP ENRAGE ABOUT SOMETHING, IT MAY GO DEEPER THAN WE ALL KNOW.
Patty commented:
If he is re-elected and you may quote me here: AMERICA HASN’T SEEN NOTHING YET.
Patty commented:
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And then there is this:
Michelle Obama injects race into politics
VIDEO, http://video.foxnews.com/v/1861282171001/michelle-obama-injects-race-into-politics/
we are seeing a campaign that is suggesting old issues. Women have rights, women can pick up contraception for pennies on the dollar, slavery is dead, why for distraction.
We face enormous problems and Obama continues to campaign. The issue that America is facing are minor ones. Yet, women, Contraception, freedom of speech, guns, SLAVERY?
What is this the 1950′s? Why is it that Obama has been so successful in running the shadiest campaign in U.S. History and the Media bias, should this nation have anything like another 911, and it looks like it is possible with Obama has we have no friends other than Israel and that even looks bleak.
Our economic, energy, jobs and productivity is at an all time low. What does Obama do, Pimp with a limp, Jay Z, Letterman and the View. This is incomprehensible for a Leader of this nation.
Patty commented:
aren’t minor ones, correction
Patty commented:
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This is the U.S. and it is startling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0RZIrZT0Uc
Patty commented:
Obama continues administration’s
shift, says Libyan attack
not ‘just a mob action’
OMG, why is he president. I feel the sinking of our nation when a leader of America is so naive or so evil. It is one or the other. Obama has never had a Great Foreign Policy. He truly has an inapt administration or they are so brainwashed and do you believe the voted early today, those in his administration, so I hear.
Why is it someone other than Fox News is telling this nation the truth. Congress leaves until after elections. I feel we are on our own here, our vote counts and please tell your friends what is happening to our nation it is for the good of America.
Sarah commented:
WOW! THIS IS SO INTENSE AND SO RIGHT ON. PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS NAVY SEAL.
http://www.therightscoop.com/read-meat-opsec-navy-seal-ben-smith-talks-about-the-threats-america-faces/
bg commented:
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Muslim Brotherhood ‘infiltrated’ U.S. gov’t (audio)
more here, in connecting links and threads..
ie: Jasser, Lopez, Fatah
[Islamist-allied operatives appointed by Obama are undermining U.S.
security policy - explains counter-Intelligence expert, Prof. Clare Lopez.
Aimed at co-opting Americas foreign policy in the Middle East, a network
including well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives,
figures from academia and the think tank world - with ties to the clerical
regime in Tehran - is directing the Obama Administration's policy towards
the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East.]
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bg commented:
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Patty & Sarah
thank you for the links,
passing them on..
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Limousine Barry commented:
Mitt Romney: Obama Is Yet to “Level With the American People” About the Libyan Terror Attack?
Barky O: “I will never level with the American people. I am a con-artists! I have some waffles to eat, some fish to flip-flop and some lackeys to blame!
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