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Axelrod Claims Obama 'Convened the Top Military Officials that Evening'
Weekly Standard, by William Kristol
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Posted By:StormCnter, 11/5/2012 4:58:02 AM
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| David Axelrod was asked this morning on Fox News Sunday about the decision not to deploy military forces to Benghazi the evening of September 11. His response: “The president convened the top military officials that evening and told them to do whatever was necessary and they took the steps that they thought, they took every step they could take.” Did the president in fact “convene the top military officials that evening?” I know of no evidence that he did. The president had a previously scheduled 5:00 p.m. meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/5/2012 5:18:30 AM (No. 8988595)
Axelrod is a liar and always has been.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
uno, 11/5/2012 5:45:19 AM (No. 8988617)
So we're supposed to believe that the top military officials met that very night, came to a mutual decision that it was all due to an obscure video trailer that hardly anyone had seen and that absolutely nothing could be done about it except to start planning an apology tour for the SOS and the pResident? Riiiight. Pass the bong Mr Driveshaft Axlerod...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/5/2012 6:00:16 AM (No. 8988626)
Axelrod knows he can say anything on Fox w/o consequences. He isn't under oath.
I think he is just laughing as he tells these tales to media.
And it is to Obama's advantage that people be confused by rumors and varying versions of the Benghazi attack.
If O wins all of Obama's WH people are safe. And if Obama loses not much will happen either. Certainly not to Axelrod who is a political adviser with no official responsibilities.
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fljack, 11/5/2012 6:18:16 AM (No. 8988646)
How can a mere political adviser have such deep access to the interior activities of that evening? He is not in the government any longer and had to give up his clearance. If someone told him, they broke the law. Since he released it to the public, HE broke the law. This is a lawless administration. Too bad the next AG won't prosecute.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
right-turn, 11/5/2012 6:19:33 AM (No. 8988647)
I'm old. Never in my lifetime have I seen so many liars in an administration. They stand before a camera and microphone and tell lies that can be proven to be lies.
There seems to be no extent to their lies.
They lie!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
suejeanne, 11/5/2012 6:55:42 AM (No. 8988687)
Wondering earlier how Obama could be an American and sit there, doing nothing while he watched Americans being murdered -
actually, how could Obama be any kind of human being and do that -
he is no mensch, that is for sure
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/5/2012 6:55:54 AM (No. 8988688)
Hey, it was cocktail hour. Then he passed out.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
valinva, 11/5/2012 7:24:27 AM (No. 8988722)
Axelrod should die a long and painful death. He is the worst of the worst. A red diaper baby trained in the art of misdirection and prevarication.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/5/2012 7:29:27 AM (No. 8988734)
When shows like this repeat, it is interesting to watch the interview with the sound off. You really get the full effect of the shifty eyes and tension a rat on a sinking ship exhibits.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
john56, 11/5/2012 7:45:57 AM (No. 8988762)
Axelrod: Let's try this story. It should work until Wednesday, then who gives a flip?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jinx, 11/5/2012 7:56:14 AM (No. 8988786)
Comrade Axelrod is a liar. He can make up stories faster than the idiotic MSM can report them. Why won't anyone ask where Valerie was during all this time. She never leaves Obama's side.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nevernaught, 11/5/2012 8:00:53 AM (No. 8988795)
Anyway the Democrats spin it, Obama has no measureable support from the Military, past or present. Look at these endorsements for Romney and Obama.
http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/story/19952721/obama-v-romney-by-the-endorsements
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
philemon1967, 11/5/2012 8:50:15 AM (No. 8988925)
There is no good way, even for a slimeball like Axelrod, to spin this into anything positive for Obama. Three "Stand down" orders mean that he and his "top military" advisors made the decision to abandon Americans to the barbaric jihadists instead of trying to save them - essentially stating the Commander-in-Chief counted the political costs of potential civilian deaths and deemed it too high compared to the loss of Americans at the Consulate.
I don't for a second believe, based on his voting "present" in his past, Obama had the guts to make that call. Just not in him to sign on for anything that he can get blamed later.
Instead, this is what I think happened: He left decision-making for Benghazi to "Senior Advisor" Valerie Jarrett; he had something else more important to deal with - his reelection campaign in Las Vegas the next day. He needed his beauty sleep because he didn't want lethargy to mess his drug-addled brain in Las Vegas. So, he slept.
Iran-born, anti-American Jarrett, decided to let Consular staff get captured for ransom, rather than fight to get them to safety but the local CIA crew disobeyed her. The firefight got out of hand. Now, Valerie, out of her league, lacking authority to order cross border action & incensed with CIA heroes, decided to leave them to their fate as dead men tell no tales. She issued the "stand down" orders thrice.
Next morning Obama awoke to the debacle. The Obama machine furiously brainstormed and came up with an elaborate "narrative", complete with fall guy, which could hold up long enough (with help from MSM collaborators) to lull most of the voters until after Nov. 6, but the darn thing just went viral.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/5/2012 8:55:28 AM (No. 8988940)
and ...then... he sold those in the embasy down the river...
Mr. Axel Grease is one of the most pathetic liars every to infest the political scene. The sooner he's gone the better!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
enuf8, 11/5/2012 8:57:21 AM (No. 8988948)
Zero's first comment was that he had "Called" these people. Just more of Joe Wilson moments.
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