Benghazi Revisited And The Serious Implications!

What is considered a smoking gun and proof that the White House and Obama knew the truth about what happened in Benghazi right after the attack has recently emerged. If this internal E-mail supports these allegations and leads to more links or stronger evidence it could make what happened in the second Presidential debate very important. As a reminder during the debate Obama deliberately lied to the American people about what he said in the Rose Garden and Candy Crowley inappropriately backed him up. A gloating Obama then chimed in, “Can you say that a little louder, Candy!” Obama later scolded Romney about how “offensive” it was for him to question the administration’s selfless intention.

I say the president deliberately lied because it looked like Romney was "set up" and Obama never recanted or clarified his statements. Even the hyper-partisan press could not sanction this lie for long. After the event, Ms. Crowley quickly backtracked, admitting that Romney was “right in the main.” This is like an umpire deliberately getting in a runner’s way and calling him out during a decisive World Series moment, then admitting the call was blown at a post-game press conference. This could be considered  a watershed moment and may have been the turning point in the election. At the time Mitt Romney was on a roll and Obama on his heels, this took away all the momentum Romney had and left him flat.

This may bring back into focus the issue of "what and when" the White House knew concerning the events that took place in Benghazi. Below is an article I wrote on October 23,2012 just before the election as Hurricane Sandy hit and this subject was being pretty much ignored. I pulled this article from the blog archives. Things swung hard Obama's way in the final days, I was wrong about Romney getting a majority of the vote.

                     The Second Debate Was Important

The CNN debate moderator Candy Crowley clearly was in the Obama campaign's corner giving him the close on 8 of 11 questions and only interrupting him 9 times while interrupting Romney 28 times. The lowest and most dishonest part of Crowley's disgraceful "moderation" was when she actually jumped into the debate to take Obama's side regarding the death of  four Americans in Benghazi. To cover for his administration and his lying for almost two weeks about the attack coming as the result of a spontaneous protest over a You Tube video. Obama attempted to use as cover the claim that he had called the attack a "terrorist attack" on that very first day during his Rose Garden statement. Romney correctly disputed that. Crowley, quite incorrectly, took Obama's side and the crowd exploded.

Yes, the most shocking thing in the debate was when Obama lied deliberately to us about what he said in the Rose Garden and Candy Crowley inappropriately backed him up. A gloating Obama chimed in, “Can you say that a little louder, Candy!” He later scolded Romney about how “offensive” it was for him to question the administration’s selfless intention. But even the hyper-partisan press could not sanction this lie for long. After the event, Ms. Crowley quickly backtracked, admitting that Romney was “right in the main.” This is like in an umpire deliberately getting in a runner’s way, calling him out during a decisive World Series moment, then admitting the call was blown at a post-game press conference. Benghazi, the White House cover-up and an enabling media offer a microcosm for the whole Obama presidency. His economic policies have been wasteful and counterproductive; doing more to buttress cronyism than bring recovery. His social policies radically depart from traditional American values. Obama’s foreign policy is in shambles.

Obama came out on the anniversary of 9-11 speaking about the fact that we would not run run from terrorists and  making no reference to Benghazi. the White House then sent Susan Rice out on 5 occasions to tell the news media the attack was due to a video, Hilary Clinton said the same, Obama said the same to the families and then he went before the UN and said 8 times, the problem was the video. At the debate Romney asked Obama if he had come out immediately and called the attack what it was seen to be by the White House Security, a terrorist attack in real time. Obama looked right at Romney and lied and said he did say it was a terrorist attack. 60 million people saw this man just sit there and not tell the truth. Romney looked stunned.

Why did Candy have a copy of the”transcript” of that one Obama Speech? And how did Obama know she had a copy of the transcript of that particular speech, he asked her to refer to it. Sounds like somebody (Obama) knew what the question was going to be, and sandbagged Romney by ensuring that Candy was going to have the “transcript” on her table and believed the answer Obama was going to give. Then the drama, Obama: “Please proceed Governor,” and Obama: “get the transcript.” How did Obama know what the question was going to be and how Candy would reply? Candy was the only one who picked the questions. What other documents did she have? Us with inquiring minds would like to know, and why is no one asking?

From the transcript on the Wall Street Journal site: "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done." To clarify, in this transcript of his speech Obama did not call the 9-11 attack in Benghazi a terrorist attack. When you watch a replay of the debate it is clear the American people are being set up and mislead. This was a cover up by the Obama administration because it was too close to the election and it has blown up in their face.

In all 3 debates so far, the democrat has had several minutes more to speak than the republican. Obviously  mainstream media is backing Obama, but the public is favoring Romney anyway, we could be looking at an election where Romney gets a majority of the vote yet Obama stays in office because of the electoral college. The media and the public seem to be viewing the debates as the MLB World Series. This is not a best of 7 game were playing here. Who wins the debate or blasts his opponent with a knuckle sandwich has no bearing on the outcome. The content of the candidates has become boring, predictive and a lathering of fixed message points hurling "you are bad" epitaphs at each other with little substantive content. It's not only America that is playing this distraught game. Governments all over the world are plunging into theatrics with hands waving, waiting for the audience applause. It's the wrong game at the wrong time and it's a very sad comment on our culture.

Footnote: As an update August 1,2013 A fair amount of time has pasted since this post and many new developments have taken place. For a bit of an update as to where we have moved see the posts below or please search the archive. 

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.html 

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/scandal-upon-scandal-upon-scandal.html 

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/watergate-40-years-later.html