Where is the outrage about Benghazi?

[jeffersonian]

I really hoped the Benghazi mess would open people's eyes and show them Obama has to go. Where is the outrage over what happened? I haven't heard a single plausible reason given as to why troops were told to stand down, to not go to the rescue of their own embattled citizens. The only reason I can see is that Obama didn't want to acknowledge that terrorism is no less now than when he took office. Yet I am not hearing the people call for answers.

[@realAzhyaAryola]

It's those rose-colored glasses.

[@realAzhyaAryola]

They want to shove it under the rug for now until after the election. Go figure.

[ShawnaL]

I agree with Azhya...we are not done hearing about it, but you won't hear more until after the election. Apparently, several General's were removed from their posts for refusing to stand down and not help. That news has been almost completely supressed.

[Romero]

I agree with Azhya and ShawnaL. Obama does not want to discuss this until after he wins the election. I urge all Americans to vote for anyone other than Barack Obama.

Last week, Mitt Romney won my highly sought-after endorsement for president of the United States. I explained why I thought Mitt was a better candidate.

 

But it's about more than Mitt being a good candidate - it's also that President Barack Obama is an especially bad one. He has failed utterly and completely on the one issue that matters most to Americans: Getting America back to work.

 

I'm not a fan of President Obama's personal style, his self-conscious speechifying and, depending on the audience, his occasional lapse into a fake southern black accent. Those are annoying personal tics, but so what if he does what he said he would do?

 

If his policies had moved unemployment down to 5.7% as his team forecast at the beginning of his term, he could rap his speeches and I wouldn't care.

 

In that economic environment, Canada would be selling lots of things to our rich, employed American friends. We'd all be better off.

 

Unfortunately that's not the reality. Sadly, we still get the president's speeches and the occasional drawling "y'alls" for black audiences, but not the eight million extra jobs that would have been created if he had hit his target.



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Trade Harper for Obama? PM has the anointed one beat, hands down

 

I argued last week that Mitt Romney was the candidate best able to work with Congress and therefore should be elected president. Barack Obama has generally been unable to reach across the aisle to get co-operation from Congress with one big important exception.

 

When it came to getting the funds necessary to carry out his stimulus plan, he got what he was looking for - $831 billion. That was supposed to be such a powerful job creator that US unemployment would hit 5.7% by May of 2012.

 

Then, of course, there was the projection from Christina Romer, chair of the president's Economic Council, who was certain that all of that stimulus spending would ensure that U.S. unemployment would never exceed 8%. Given that unemployment was above 8% for three and a half years, I suspect the White House regrets those predictions.

 

But the real point is that on the one big issue where President Obama could do what he wanted to do, his policies didn't come close to working the way he said they would. He raised expectations through the crumbling American ceiling. He gave people hope. He said inspiring things.

 

This is what Senator Obama said in Toledo, Ohio in October 2008, weeks before winning the presidency: "We can restore a sense of fairness and balance that will give every American a fair shot at the American dream. And above all, we can restore confidence - confidence in America, confidence in our economy, and confidence in ourselves."

 

Unfortunately, that rhetoric, lovely though it is, is empty. It's as empty as the factories in Toledo.

 

It's as hollow as him pretending he just rolled off an Alabama cotton farm. Above all, he hasn't restored confidence in America or in the American economy.

 

No, Barack Obama has failed on the one big issue that he couldn't fail on. He failed to deliver the hope and jobs he promised and for that he should be fired by the American people.

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[jeffersonian]

That is an interesting article, Romero. I still have some questions, though. It is unlikely that those reports materialized out of thin air. I wonder if more information will continue to be revealed in the days ahead.

[@realAzhyaAryola]

It stinks of fish. Heheh!