And instead, I got to watch a candidate of stature, in complete control, likable and authoritative, smart and cool. PRESIDENTIAL.
In thinking back over the three presidential debates, I can think of only two areas where Romney let me down.
Every time Obama used the words ‘my budget’, I screamed for Romney to say ‘What budget is that, Mr. President? The one that went down 97-0 in the Senate? Or another one that didn’t even get a vote? Because you’ve not had a budget since you took office.’ I still hope Romney can sneak that in during the next two weeks.
The other thing I was sitting on the edge of my chair for during last night’s foreign policy debate was for Romney to cut Obama off at the knees over the fatal disaster that is/was Benghazi. Romney let it slide. I was screaming! Romney let it slide for two significant reasons. First, he had proven Obama to be a liar in the last debate over the term ‘act of terror’. Everyone with a brain who’d seen the news the first two weeks after the attack knew Obama lied. Period. There was no question Obama would lie again if Benghazi came up. Besides, Obama had had a full week to craft – and I do mean CRAFT – another response. Obama baited Romney during the debate, trying to get him to raise Benghazi. Romney ignored it. I was screaming! And Obama nearly burst a blood vessel! He wanted it! HE CRAVED THE ATTACK about Benghazi so he could turn it on Romney. I was screaming TAKE HIM OUT ON BENGHAZI! Romney pulled the proverbial rug out from under this poser, this foreign policy JOKE living in the White House. And Romney took him out with a smile.
I wanted blood in the water last night …. I’m glad I didn’t get it.
Ann Althouse had some similar thoughts:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/10/romney-made-strategic-decision-not-go.html
I wanted blood too. But, Romney was more clever.
Can you imagine watching via drone, etc, the 7 hour fighting of the ambassador and the others for their lives? I wonder if an aircraft carrier was in the Mediterranean at the time? A brother-in-law was in the fleet many years ago during the first Gulf of Sidra incident. The 6th Fleet is based in the Mediterranean (Naples, Italy). An adequately prepared consultant would have had more security. Plus, our military should have rescue plans for every embassy and consultant in the Middle East as it is. To pretend there is no threat is tomfoolery.
Apparently, Obama just watched and went to bed.
I posted a comment here on another post…. I heard on the radio that the CIA, STATE DEPARTMENT and the WHITE HOUSE were watching the attacks in REAL TIME …. there WAS a drone broadcasting live media. The CIA lady also said that there were military troops on the tarmac in Italy waiting for the order to ‘GO GO GO’…. an orcer only the CinC could issue – NOT HILLARY – and that order never came….Obama DID watch and then he DID go to bed…. he had to be in Vegas the next day for a fundraiser, and he needed his beauty rest!
The real truth will never come out if Obama is re-elected. I am insane with anger!
Amazing callousness.
krap – that would be ‘order’
What Reuters is telling us now
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-usa-benghazi-emails-idUSBRE89N02C20121024
is something we all have wondered since even before 9/11: why was al-Qaeda formed, why do they hate us, and why do they attack us repeatedly?
The answer now is clear. It was prophesied that sometime in the summer of 2012 an obscure bad video mocking the Prophet would be made, brought to the attention of the world only months later, and on a date chosen to signify “Emergency!” in the mind of the American infidel, a riot protesting this video would spontaneously erupt in Cairo, Egypt, motivating al-Qaeda to strike at the infidel West beginning in an infinite time loop circling 9/11/12 all the way back to 9/11/01 and earlier.
As a result of this prophesied Cairo protest which motivated and launched the unending al-Qaeda time loop, a fact the American CIA was quick to discover, the American ambassador to Libya was tragically killed while visiting the consulate in Benghazi.
It cannot be stressed enough that in this entire historical carousel it has now become clear from ever more refined CIA analysis that, contrary to the opinions of uniformed lay people, it was actually The Cairo Point as it is called within the CIA analysis community which was unequivocally the causal epicenter and historical al-Qaeda only the inevitable effect of the entire Islamist terrorist protest movement throughout the entire time loop beginning well before 9/11/01 and stretching through its prophesied ultimate revelation on 9/11/12, just before the American presidential election.
H. M. Stuart
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