Keeping it in perspective .... don't try to alter Obama's reality

(orignally posted 9.27.12)


News reports this morning indicate that US intelligence determined on the same day of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which 4 Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya were murdered that they had made it known to the Obama Administration that an arm of Al Qaeda was responsible.

Obama as yet in any public appearance or speech has refused to acknowledge that Al Qaeda was responsible and that it was a planned terrorist attack designed to coincide with the September 11th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on the twin trade towers in New York City in 2001.

Obstinately, Obama's minions (UN ambassador Susan Rice, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Press Secretary Jay Carney) in the early days unequivocally insisted  it was not a terrorist attack but merely the result of spontaneous mob violence incited by an inflammatory anti-Islamic video on U-tube, a notion which has been discredited by most informed observers including recently the President of Libya. Since then Rice, Clinton, and Carney have awkwardly "walked back" their earlier assertions - it had become increasing apparent even to the trio as to how ludicrous their positions appeared to everyone else.

On a side note, though the Administration was eager to have U-tube yank the video, U-tube has rebuffed Federal officials saying the video falls within its publishing and free-speech guidelines and will remain on the site.

Administration officials though sprang to every opportunity to apologize for free speech in America in an effort to pacify Muslims worldwide.

Questions linger as to how much Obama and his Administration actually knew about a planned attack, whether or not they could have prevented it, and how truthful they have been to date in their disclosures about it.

Obama's steadfast refusal to acknowledge the premeditation by America's Al Qaeda enemy is seen by some observers as his unwillingness to accept the failures in his foreign policy approach. Others believe that with his touting of Osama Bin Laden's death, assassination drone attacks, and assertion that Al Qaeda consequently is no longer a credible threat the recent attack stands as a naked, "in your face Obama", embarrassing contradiction he is unable and unwilling to accept.