The President’s Fundamentally Flawed Debate Statement (Libya Edition) - By David French - The Corner - National Review Online: "While the jury is still out on the last item (and I’d readily concede that President Obama’s drone program has been quite deadly), the first two points are almost laughable. Did we beef up our security and procedures? Maybe now, but in the days immediately following the attacks, our embassies in Yemen and Tunisia were actually overrun, with the black flag of jihad shamefully replacing the Stars and Stripes over our own diplomatic soil. Additionally (and even more shamefully), the remains of our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi were so unsecured that CNN was able to waltz on to the property and scoop up our own ambassador’s private diary. Sensitive documents likely fell into enemy hands.
As for the investigation, President Obama omitted a crucial implied responsibility: Don’t deceive the American people in the course of your investigation. Here, the record is simply indisputable and captured vividly by American Crossroads:"
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QUOTE OF THE HOLOCENE: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" - V.I. Lenin -- You're welcome to point out to me any decision that Hugo Chavez Barack Obama has yet made that Lenin would quarrel with. [ crickets ]
RUNNER-UP QUOTE OF THE HOLOCENE: "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
DUAL QUOTES OF THE 20TH CENTURY: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." and "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H. L. Mencken
LAST YEAR'S QUOTE: Washington, D.C. runs "just like the mob, except it's legal," said Schweizer. "If problems are being solved, if things are going smoothly and things are being fixed, a lot of people are not going to give. The party establishments and the political leaders from both sides are collaborating a lot more than they let on," explained Schweizer."
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