Hidden Tapes & Secret Emails: Right Wing Now Throwing Kitchen Sink At Obama On Libya

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/31/1115091/kitchen-sink-obama-libya/

Hidden Tapes & Secret Emails: Right Wing Now Throwing Kitchen Sink At Obama On Libya

By Hayes Brown on Oct 31, 2012 at 3:49 pm


In the closing days of the election, Republicans are throwing everything they can think of at President Obama to rattle his position on national security. Though a CBS poll taken immediately after the final Presidential debate had 64 percent of undecided voters believing Obama would be better on national security than Mitt Romney, the right remains convinced that Libya will be Obama’s undoing.

Despite former Bush administration Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice imploring that attacks be held off until an investigation is complete, more partisan Republicans refuse to heed her advice. To facilitate this, the right wing is floating almost any theory, no matter how implausible, in hopes of bringing Obama down, for example:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Fox News this morning claimed, without offering any evidence, that veterans no longer trust Obama post-Benghazi:

MCCAIN: I’ve been traveling all over the country on behalf of Mitt Romney and I can tell you, our veterans are angry. They’re angry, and they no longer trust their Commander-in-Chief. Because this debacle has been — not only what has happened infuriated them, but also the cover-up.

ME: McCain needs to go yell at people to get off his lawn; his expiration date is overdue. And the video of all these 'outrages' is at link)

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As varying and disparate as they are, these right-wing claims all focus more on attacking the Obama administration than any desire to seek the truth on Benghazi. For the last month and a half, after Ambassador Susan Rice’s Sept. 16 appearance on several news shows, the right has taken every opportunity to try to politicize the attacks. So far all of their attempts and claims have gone down in flames.

In comparison, the State Department’s investigation is set to be completed in the coming weeks, which will lay out in full any security failures. Likewise, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will be convening hearings after the election to determine what intelligence failures actually happened on Sept. 11.

[julian09]

1. McCain talking to veterans, my ass.

He is so full of himself, his father and grandfather were admirals he wasn't in their class and now we know why. He did talk to the viet
cong though. Desperate sore loser, to Obama. The only reason he became nominee is because when the prime minister of Pakistan was assassinated just before New Hampshire primary, the repugs turned to him because of his foreign policy experience.
The week before his NH primary victory, he had no money, had to carry his own bags at the airports, no staff.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. And yet again, the

[malaise]

2. No one is fugging listening

and I mean no one

[tinymontgomery]

4. He didn't talk to this veteran

and I'm not angry about Benghazi. I trust this CIC more then any other. I'm pissed about the repubs blocking everything and trying to steal the election.

[mick063]

5. How many hundreds more

would have died in Iraq if Mitt's "pulled out too soon" message was deemed credible and implemented?

Where is the outrage?