Benghazi has dominated the news over
the last few weeks and is likely to continue to grab headlines until the
elections. It is clear that the administration has not been honest with the
American people and is hoping that the whole story will not get out before
voters go to the polls.
While Obama's campaign was quick to
accuse Romney of politicizing the issue, it has been shameless in spinning,
obfuscating, and flat-out lying to protect the President. But it is the
president himself who has been the worst offender.On the day after the 9/11 attack on our consulate in Benghazi, an attack that took the lives of four Americans, including our Ambassador, top members of the intelligence community came together at the White House to present a brief on the previous day's tragedy. President Obama did not even bother to attend. Instead, he boarded Air Force One to fly to Las Vegas for a fund-raiser.
This, to me, is the most egregious dereliction of duty by a president in my lifetime. It is the first duty of a president to protect the country and its citizens. Obama has piously asserted that United States ambassadors are his people: as he has said, he appoints them, he knows them, he knows their families. Yet, Ambassador Stevens's body wasn't even cold when Obama disdained to question his intelligence experts about what happened. His priority was to win the election, and nothing could get in the way of a fund-raiser.
President Obama has spent the last six months flying all over the country to make campaign speeches and collect money for his election coffers. He has made over 200 of these trips, more than any other president in history. All the while, he has missed almost all of his intelligence briefings and been mostly absent from the White House. How can he claim to have been working for the American people when his all-consuming priority has clearly been his re-election?
Some things can be forgiven. President Obama's shameful choice on 9/12 is not one of them.
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