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Obama punted to Panetta for U.S response to Benghazi attack
Washington Times, by Guy Taylor
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Posted By:Toledo, 2/9/2013 7:06:06 AM
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| Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday revealed he personally broke the news to President Obama that the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, was under attack last year — but he and the president didn’t speak the rest of the night as the assault on the compound unfolded.Mr. Panetta said he and Mr. Obama, along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, discussed the attack for 15 minutes in the Oval Office the afternoon of Sept. 11,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
AngryAmerican, 2/9/2013 7:22:12 AM (No. 9166905)
The worthless piece of crap "commander in chief" couldn´t be bothered with trying to save American lives -- he had to get ready to go to a fundraiser in Las Vegas. I grieve for all our fine men and women in the military who have to serve under this ass clown.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fransand, 2/9/2013 7:48:40 AM (No. 9166933)
I didn´t think it was possible for me to be more disgusted and angry about the Øbamination we have for a president, but every day it´s another punch in the gut.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hamrman, 2/9/2013 7:57:22 AM (No. 9166946)
Like I said we need a real leader to LEAD our country!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
steveracer, 2/9/2013 8:03:49 AM (No. 9166957)
This is shameful, capital letters, no question. Barack should be shunned and ridiculed. But why didn´t Leon put on his big boy pants, take it to the president, and make a rescue happen?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
steveW, 2/9/2013 8:04:09 AM (No. 9166958)
None of this makes sense until you realize the essential truth: Obama-supporting Democrats do not want His Majesty to be, and definitely did not elect His Majesty to be, a good commander in chief. Obama-supporting Democrats loathe the American military even more than Clinton did - so why in the world would they want their anti-American Idol to act responsibly and patriotically in this part of his duties? They don´t. It´s obvious, when you see it.
Had they seriously wanted a responsible commander in chief, would they have ever considered voting for Obama? Of course not.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rayscain, 2/9/2013 8:04:10 AM (No. 9166959)
From Super Power to Welfare Country in four short years!
What will we look like in 2016??
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
krause, 2/9/2013 8:05:28 AM (No. 9166961)
And you know what...a lot of people don´t even know this discussion is going on. Obama will go out tomorrow and talk to a crowd (like a junior high) and the crowd will go nuts over their hero.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Really?, 2/9/2013 8:21:27 AM (No. 9166992)
Oh.....so then AFTER he woke up the next day and realized that it was a mess, they all decided to push the "unexpected reaction to a video" story.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 2/9/2013 8:38:12 AM (No. 9167018)
Like, dude...4 white guys getting killed by Muslim bruthas...what´s the problem? Gotta catch some zzzz´s.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 2/9/2013 8:40:17 AM (No. 9167022)
Unless the repub House and dim Senate are willing to do the right thing and remove Obie and the others responsible for the Benghazi crisis (the PIAPS can certainly try on a pair of handcuffs as she is led to prison), nothing will change. His troll Carney will continue to confuse and confound right out of the liberal play book.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rocket-j-squirrel, 2/9/2013 8:41:23 AM (No. 9167027)
Zippy didn´t even touch the ball. All he did was call for some ambiguous play in the huddle and walk off the field. In classic ´´lead-from-behind´´ form, the gutless wonder evinced a dereliction of duty heretofore unmatched by any past president.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ocjim, 2/9/2013 8:49:26 AM (No. 9167038)
Detached Barry sat out Benghazi??? Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!
IMO, President Jarret told him that he needed to be as far away from the Benghazi events as he could get. Making the domestic political assessment, I think she told him to, ´´Let Leon handle it.´´ Political considerations --- especially late in the reelection campaign --- trump everything in this WH, and certainly did on this one. Despicable.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Grambo, 2/9/2013 8:54:34 AM (No. 9167045)
In the case of Bin Laden, Obie insinuated himself into the middle of the action post hoc, because it was a successful mission. In this case he´s in "the buck never got here" mode because the outcome was horrific. So horrific, that he would rather look unpresidential by his lack of leadership, than to be responsible for what will eventually be revealed as an impeachable secret gun running operation to aid al Queda.
Now, what is Hillary´s excuse for being AWOL? These were her people who were operating on her orders. Why was she unavailable?
The all need to come before a select committee.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/9/2013 8:58:36 AM (No. 9167051)
The worst part is that our enemies are watching Obama´s every move, sizing up when they can strike and kill more Americans that won´t rouse him from his slumber.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
strike3, 2/9/2013 9:03:35 AM (No. 9167063)
There´s a perfectly plausible explanation. The phone cord would not reach under the desk where he was hiding.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Tusker, 2/9/2013 9:20:43 AM (No. 9167101)
The only person empowered to give the order to intervene is Bow-Boy. It´s Bow-Boy revenge against the crackers.
He could care less about crackers.
It´s a Bow-Boy thing that demands hard time.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 2/9/2013 9:42:07 AM (No. 9167154)
How any of these people look themselves in the mirror is beyond me.
I can only imagine the inside dirt the secret service has on this president. If any of them truly loved this country, his behind the scenes actions and habits would start to leak out.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/9/2013 9:44:11 AM (No. 9167162)
Punt would suggest something pro active.
O did no such thing. He simply ignored the situation, went to bed, prepared for his campaign rally in Vegas and never gave a damn what happened to those who were murdered while he slept.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
pineledger, 2/9/2013 9:52:39 AM (No. 9167180)
I´m telling you, too much happy hour. Celebrating his big trip to Vegas the next day.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TruthAndJustice, 2/9/2013 10:01:28 AM (No. 9167195)
http://pjmedia.com/blog/benghazis-smoking-gun-only-president-can-give-‘cross-border-authority’/
Perhaps Panetta and Dempsey did nothing because they didn´t have CBA (Cross Border Authority) from Obama... Where was the Commander in Chief that night as our people fought to their deaths? Where was Obama as our military couldn´t help our people under fire, fighting for their lives in the name of our president, sent there by him for the USA...but got no help.... as they had no permission?
Was he playing basketball? With Reggie Love? Was he drunk? MIA? Dereliction of duty? Just doesn´t care if Americans are slaughtered?
Obama no more belongs leading this nation than Frank Marshall Davis did...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 2/9/2013 10:13:35 AM (No. 9167214)
Don´t blame me, I voted for Romney.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Arby, 2/9/2013 10:44:30 AM (No. 9167258)
That Obama punts is shameful. On the other hand, if we knew that he was regularly punting to people who were competent, that might be grounds for hope. I suspect that most of the time he punts to ValJar.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
TruthAndJustice, 2/9/2013 10:47:03 AM (No. 9167268)
Panetta stated he, Hillary and Dempsey wanted to send help into Syria..to arm the rebels...but Obama would not give permission...This is a set-up. Another LIE
They were gun running and Missile running out of the Benghazi Annex. British papers are reporting weapons from Benghazi are showing up in Syria and in Algeria....being used by AlQaeda. Which is why Panetta is erecting a wall saying Obama would not agree to arm the rebels....BECAUSE he was ILLEGALLY SELLING ARMS TO OUR ENEMY ALQAEDA and Benghazi was the point of sale for arms running... the Lockheed COO resigned when Petraus did for the same BS reason which stinks because he had tripled arms sales, yes 3x the arms sales in 2011....
Guess we know where those 40,000 missing missile and Man-pads came from that Congressman Jason Chaffetz referred to that were missing out of Libya...
Obama armed the Middle East for the Arab Spring that turned it over to the IsalmoCommunists, The Muslim Brotherhood.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Aria, 2/9/2013 10:55:40 AM (No. 9167287)
Question: What is worse than the pathetic empty chair that somehow still bears the title CIC?
Answer: The people who are protecting him - like Panetta saying there is no doubt in his mind that Obama cared about those who died while hoping our CIC would send help.
One of the things that Panetta said is that they were getting ready to deploy. So what happened? Didn´t someone contact Obama to ask for the authority? Panetta said he only talked to zero once. Someone else must have asked, right? Seems to me there is a lot more to know.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/9/2013 11:00:46 AM (No. 9167299)
Barack thrive`s on chaos. It`s his drug of choice. He`s high all day every day.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
KarenJ1, 2/9/2013 11:06:10 AM (No. 9167308)
FTA: “We sit around all day long and talk about the resources that we should have and don’t have. … [But] the big problem here is the cover-up, and nobody talks about it, and that’s a tragedy.”
And they still won´t talk about it. 0bama can´t be bothered with things like this. He and his delightful wife are in it for the perks only. He´s a national disgrace and the most destructive man ever to reside in the White House. I pray with all my might that there comes a day where he will pay for what he has done to us and this country. That would include those in his regime also.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
walcb, 2/9/2013 11:15:47 AM (No. 9167321)
Of course they didn´t bother him anymore. The plan was going as scripted, the ambassador was being kidnapped. The meddling Seals missed things up and Stevens got killed. Obama retired to his privacy to get stoned on cocain to celebrate the anniversary of 9-11-01 and when the botched plot was discovered, the phony documentary story went ahead as planned.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Robert D, 2/9/2013 11:34:24 AM (No. 9167358)
As a Texan, transplanted from California, I was curious what the LA Times had to say about Panetta´s testimony. Not one word.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
K.I.S.S., 2/9/2013 11:42:50 AM (No. 9167384)
puppets...even puppets with a race card DO NOT make decisions...their handlers do...jarrett said soros said go to bed...mission accomplished.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bluefindad, 2/9/2013 11:50:52 AM (No. 9167398)
The problem was that there was no leadership. Obama didn´t step up, Panetta didn´t step up, Clinton didn´t step up.
Obama proved over and over again that he is no leader during his stint in Harvard and state and federal legislature. He chose Panetta, who is a career bureaucrat, to ´lead´ DoD. Panetta has stepped up with women in combat and benefits to ´gay partners´ as his signature accomplishments.
The administration is a hollow vacuum from the top down.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
catfur27, 2/9/2013 12:08:05 PM (No. 9167423)
..is there NOT ONE person in Congress brave enough to stand up and say "barack hussein obama- where were you?" ...???
..the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves at what dems have done to this country...and republicans have been too cowardly to stop.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 2/9/2013 12:14:20 PM (No. 9167439)
Huckabee played clips of Senator Lindsey Graham absolutely hammering Panetta in the hearings. Panetta was desperately trying to give Obama cover and avoid answering Graham´s relentless questioning. It was Graham who got Panetta to finally admit that Obama bugged out during the crisis. Graham has been terrific the last couple of weeks in the various Senate hearings from Hagel´s confirmation, gun control and Panetta. Limbaugh continues to besmirch Senator Graham when he should be getting kudos. So..was Panetta the acting POTUS or was it Valerie Jarrett or Michelle ? Where was Obama that night and what was he doing ? The 25th Amendment must be invoked when the president is unable to perform the duties of the office. Biden should have been the one legally acting as POTUS. Lawless doesn´t even begin to describe this administration. We do not have an ethical national media , the Democrats will always cover for Obama , the Republicans are the minority party in the Senate, down 10 seats , and the House Republicans have a shrunken majority . It´s almost impossible to hold Obama accountable and he knows it.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
osprey21, 2/9/2013 12:53:22 PM (No. 9167517)
To top a litany of other failures, the illustrious 0bama is also coward.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kanphil, 2/9/2013 1:03:06 PM (No. 9167534)
It would not have happened of course, but suppose GWB had "punted" such a decision to Donald Rumsfeld. You think Rumsfeld would have sat on his hands for nine hours while Americans died? Not hardly!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
harper, 2/9/2013 1:34:28 PM (No. 9167578)
BO looked at all the pale faces involved...and voted present.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Mike6, 2/9/2013 2:04:02 PM (No. 9167617)
Obama is a muslim with black power/Black Panther sympathies going back to 20 years with Rev. Wright. Eric Holder is the same kind of racist. I bet if Panneta told Obama on 9/11/2012 that the four trapped Americans in Benghazi were blacks then Obama would have send gunships to help them right away.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/9/2013 2:14:51 PM (No. 9167625)
obama and all the corrupt people around him spent more time in the cover up. If he had simple said ´rescue them" then there would be no problem.
I do suspect something else was going on as hinted by others posting here or simply that obama does not care about human life - which is also thru.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Mike6, 2/9/2013 2:17:58 PM (No. 9167629)
Pennetta talked to Obama about the trapped Americans at 5 0PM for 15 minutes on 9/11/2012. After that, Peneta could not reach Obama. Where was Obama all night were he could not be found? Was he drunk, or high on dope, or was he shooting basketball. Two weeks later, Obama in a speech to the UN still blamed the Benghazi violence on a silly video made by an old Coptic man living in Los Angeles. Obama, Susan Rice and Hillary all lied, lied and LIED and our pinko media bought it hook, line and sinker. I don´t know if MSM reporters are dumb, commies, or just love Obama because he is a black pinko?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 2/9/2013 2:19:51 PM (No. 9167635)
President? Are you shi**ing me? This ass-clown is too busy partying with Jay-Z and Beyonce, campaigning, smoking cigarettes and choom, touching his gay friend inappropriately, and sleeping until noon to worry about a job thats "above his pay grade."
57 states Marine CORPSE You arent from here You didnt build that My MUSLIM faith Workplace violence Dont boo, get REVENGE What difference does it make?
Impeach both bums in the White House and let Boehner run things until the next fraudulent election.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
reilly, 2/9/2013 3:25:44 PM (No. 9167701)
He was exercising his butt -- the one the lady on Election Day marveled "You could bounce a quarter off". Then prepping for his campaign starshow in Vegas. This guy´s personal time is, excuse the jive, "impo´tent".
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
lana720, 2/9/2013 4:01:00 PM (No. 9167743)
Dereliction of Duty - period! Impeachable but will never be done.
Lindsey Graham was been the only one getting real info from his committee hearings. I say that to apologize for bad mouthing him when he needed it.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
chicodon, 2/9/2013 7:21:29 PM (No. 9167927)
This guy must have had his head worked on. I won´t mention the scar. He has shown absolutely no remorse for any of his actions. He has to put on the pretense of having feelings like his lonely teardrop awhile back. I think the flies have this zombie´s number.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 2/9/2013 7:30:31 PM (No. 9167935)
Sounds like to me Panetta was playing the role of CinC through out. The real one voted absent again.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Moonspinner, 2/9/2013 7:31:06 PM (No. 9167936)
He went upstairs to smoke some dope and have jungle sex with Moochelle. Okay, I´ve said what everyone has been thinking. The guy has his priorities. Let America burn, let America be destroyed, let Americans be murdered and mutilated, Obama only has two things on his mind after his workday ends at 5 0 p.m., dope and sex.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Moonspinner, 2/9/2013 7:34:40 PM (No. 9167939)
That is 5 p.m. guys. I don´t know what happened to my double zeros for the time when it posted.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
noddy, 2/9/2013 9:31:08 PM (No. 9167986)
As much as I cannot stand Bill Clinton, I will not use his name in this example because I believe he does love this country and would in no way harm it in the way Obama is harming America. If this current president was white, I think that democrats and republicans alike would rise up against him.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
O.G.´s Mom, 2/9/2013 9:35:16 PM (No. 9167990)
Ya know. I don´t want to start rumors, but Zero and PIAPs were really, really cozy together on that 60 Minutes interview. I mean, didn´t she say they could finish each other´s sentences? So, could it be possible they were together on the night of the attack and that´s why neither one of them was available? I mean BOTH were unavailable at the same exact time? What are the odds of that? And that´s why they jumped on the video story. And that´s why the poor man that made the video is still in jail so that Moochelle and the Bent One and all the little Moochelles and Chelsea can be spared the embarrassment of this possible liaison? Huh? Possible? Truth is stranger than fiction as someone said.
Sarcasm now off....If I could be more disgusted with anyone than these Obama administration lowlifesy, it would be the hypocritical, bottom feeding, dishonest press. As someone said, God only knows where we will be in 2016. The poor families of the revered Benghazi dead. We need to pray for them everyday.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
TruthAndJustice, 2/10/2013 1:37:10 AM (No. 9168152)
Panetta and Dempsey set up the next chapter...it is about o leak out that guns and missiles were being sold out of Benghazi...as they´ve recently turned up in Algeria and Syria ....in the hands of AlQaeda
Obama was gun running out of Benghazi...missile running...and those two fellow travellers made a point of statingObama didn´t want to arm the rebels but Hillary, Panetta and Dempsey did...they tried to put a wall of protection up for Obama...as the other shoe is about to drop.
#48...Clinton is every bit the communist Obama is... Had Gingrich not stopped him and Hillarycare, and the press been as corrupt as they are the American people would have received their chains then...instead of under Obama
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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