Obama Fiddled While Benghazi Burned–
Earlier today Barack Obama told Denver’s WUSA TV this in regard to the Benghazi 9-11 terror attack,
“I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to.
Number two, we’re going to investigate exactly what happened to make
sure it doesn’t happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we
can bring them to justice.”
Tonight however, Bing West, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, told Greta Van Susteren,
“If that actually happened the way President
Obama said it happened, there’s a paper trail and I think people
reasonably enough can say, “Can we see the order?” because hundreds of others supposedly saw this order.
Obama just got caught. He lied about his securing our personnel in Benghazi. And now the world will know about it. There was no order to protect our men on the ground.
"We do not need another generation of liars who lack the moral strength that my son, who was an American hero, had... I really wish the best to those people that allowed my son to be
murdered. And I mean that very sincerely. I want the best for them. But
they need to stand up, and they need to change the direction of their
lives."--Charles Woods
Charles Woods, father of Ty Woods, the former Navy SEAL who died
while trying to save the U.S. Ambassador to Libya on 9/11, speaking to
Megyn Kelly on the Fox News Channel today:
(See Hannity's interview below)
"I appreciate your introduction, and I do want to reiterate this, and
really emphasize again, this is not about politics. This is about--if
it were about politics, it would dishonor my son's death. This has to do
with honesty and integrity and justice...
This news that he disobeyed his orders does not surprise me. My son
was an American hero. And he was going--he had the moral strength to do
what was right. Even if that would professionally cost him his job. Even
if it would potentially cost him his life. He was a hero who was
willing to do whatever was necessary to respond to their cries for
help.
If, in fact, those people in the White House were as courageous, and
had the moral strength that my son Ty had, immediately, within minutes
of when they found there was the first attack, they would have
stepped--they would have given permission, not denied permission, for
those C-130s to have gone up there. And this is exact--I don't know much
about weapons, but it's coming out right now that they actually had
laser targets focused on the mortars being sent to kill my son and they
refused to pull the trigger. They refused to send those C-130s.
To me--I'm an attorney, this may not legal test of murder. But to me,
that is not only cowardice. For those people who made the decision and
who knew about the decision and lied about it are murderers of my son.
That's a very strong statement for me to make. But for their benefit,
they need to bare their conscience, they need to stand up, and they
need to change the direction of their lives.
And I want to say right now: you know who you are. I totally forgive
you. But I hope years from now, you change the direction of your life.
For your benefit...
This is all a pack of lies. And that's one thing as a father whose
son who has been killed--I do not appreciate lies. I do not appreciate
cowardice. And I do not appreciate lies.
And I'm a loving person. I love my son, and I want to honor him. And I
hope I'm not speaking too strongly, but I am very glad the facts are
coming out right now. I do not--the reason I'm even speaking up--we, our
family had made the decision not to say anything. But after the facts
came out that in real time, the White House, within minutes after the
first bullet was fired, they watched my son--they denied his pleas for
help.
My son violated his orders in order to protect the lives of at least
30 people. He risked his life to be a hero. I wish that the leadership
in the White House had the same moral courage that my son displayed with
his life...
I sent you those pictures of him in high school, and I wanted you to
show those to the people out there for one reason, and that is so that
people can be inspired and know that Ty was just a normal kid, okay? We
were an imperfect family, but we were a normal family. And I would hope
that his legacy would live on. And that we would raise up a generation
of American heroes, and that they would be inspired by his pictures and
his life, and that we would raise up a generation of American heroes
that are strong morally and strong in every other aspect of their life.
We do not need another generation of liars who lack the moral strength that my son, who was an American hero, had...
I really wish the best to those people that allowed my son to be
murdered. And I mean that very sincerely. I want the best for them. But
they need to stand up, and they need to change the direction of their
lives."
Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus has emphatically
denied that he or anyone else at the CIA refused assistance to the
former Navy SEALs who requested it three times as terrorists attacked
the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on the night of Sep. 11. The Weekly
Standard and ABC News report that
Petraeus's denial effectively implicates President Barack Obama, since a
refusal to assist "would have been a presidential decision."
(AP) Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military
serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.
A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week
notified election officials across the nation that a transport plane
crashed at Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19.
The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to troops serving in the area.
Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did
not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail
was limited to one zip code.
But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to
anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been destroyed
in the crash and fire.
In 2008, Obama defeated John McCain in the electoral college by a vote of 365 to 173.
In 2012, it is widely believed that Mitt Romney will win Florida,
North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire, all of which
voted for Obama in 2008.
New polls have even suggested that Romney could take Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
All polling speculation aside, if Obama wins a second term, he will
be the first incumbent to do so with less electoral votes at the time of
his re-election in over 30 years. See below.
Reagan won in 1980 with 489 electoral college votes.
Reagan won re-election in 1984 with 525 electoral college votes.
After inventing the Internet, Al Gore hoped to re-invent TV when he
helped found the Current TV network. Now the struggling network is
admitting that it is looking to put itself up for sale.
Obama loves to say he stands for the middle class. You hear him
mention the middle class in almost every campaign appearance he makes. I’m fighting for the middle class, I’m standing up for the middle class. He uses some variation of those statements all the time.
The funny thing is, for someone who claims to be the champion of the
middle class, Obama sure seems to enjoy living a very extravagant
lifestyle.
Forget the endless rounds of golf and Michelle Obama’s exotic
vacation habits for now and check out this new report from the
Washington Examiner about the cost of White House dinners on Obama’s watch…
