Speakeasy forum: Joe Scarborough Eviscerates Mitt Romney

http://live.wsj.com/?category=opinion#!B8B3D9D4-3880-4382-8FEB-917038CCC7EA

Looks to me like the Romney campaign may be going down in flames....

Watching Romney self-destruct does bring a smile to my face.

His real problem is that last night he impulsively made an accusation based on inaccurate information, and then today, instead of having the stones to admit he had made a mistake, doubled down and repeated the false statement even after having the inaccuracy of it brought to his attention.

He also defended his poorly-chosen comments by saying (paraphrasing), "Well, the White House issued a statement so I did too."

Yes, they did, because they are the government. That's their job.

He then went on to blame Obama for the "apology" issued by someone at the consulate (which Romney erroneously called an embassy), saying that diplomats "are the Administration" and that the president is responsible for anything anyone in his administration says. Interesting that he doesn't seem to apply that same level of responsibility to himself and the things that have been said by people connected to his campaign.

His other real problem is that he seems to have very little grasp of foreign policy, and even his own staffers have admitted that Obama has him beat there.

Another real problem is the increasing number of people in his own party who are distancing themselves from him.

.....Obama's competence while our diplomats were still in the middle of a terrorist attack, and doing so based on incorrect information. He then refused to back down from those criticisms.

That's what I saw.

All is see from this comment is the usual casting of doubt with implied innuendo.

If you can't give details, then you are just wasting everyone's time.

Thought so.

From now on, I'll just use an asterisk to let you know I saw your posts but have grown weary of trying to carry on a real conversation when you insist on being nonsensical and hyperbolic.

Have a good evening, James.

I reply "in kind" which means someone else always started it.

But not necessarily "started" in that thread...it could be something that happened more than 2 weeks ago. Once you're on the merry-go-round you're on it forever.

http://conservativebyte.com/2012/09/america-was-warned-of-embassy-attack-but-did-nothing/


http://visiontoamerica.com/12178/obama-skipped-all-intel-briefings-since-sept-5/


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

Mr Stevens had been on a visit to Germany, Austria and Sweden and had just returned to Libya when the Benghazi trip took place with the US embassy's security staff deciding that the trip could be undertaken safely.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/14/obama-leadership-in-aftermath-consulate-strike-questioned/

"We've seen numerous reports now of a growing intelligence trail that this was a planned attack," said Richard Grenell, who served briefly as a national security spokesman for Mitt Romney and used to work for the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under George W. Bush. Grenell questioned Obama's recent campaigns stops and media interviews in light of the tragedy.

State Department official reportedly told lawmakers Wednesday that he did think the assault was planned. And other lawmakers and analysts have reached the same conclusion. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Fox News shortly after the attack that it was clearly "coordinated." His account was backed up by a Libyan official Thursday who said it was a two-stage operation.

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-administration-warned-of-possible-attacks-but-failed-to-take-precautions

Sources close to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration revealed that White House officials apparently received warnings that there were threats made to attack as many as seven U.S. missions in the Middle East, on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as early as September 4. Sources also revealed that additional warnings were received a few days later, with similar information, but that all of the warnings were largely ignored by the administration. Normally when such warnings are received by the administration, the threat level is raised at U.S. installations around the world. At this point, there is no evidence that the Obama administration communicated the warnings with Consular officials in Libya or Egypt in advance of attacks that took place Monday in Benghazi, Libya and Cairo, Egypt, leaving the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead, with eight others wounded, including some U.S. military personnel.

On one hand, the administration has spent two days tying the attacks to outrage over a film that represents the prophet Muhammad in an unflattering manner, and on the other hand, having to acknowledge that administration officials had advance warnings of possible attacks, and that the administration largely ignored those same warnings. Senior diplomatic sources are now saying that the U.S. State Department had credible information 48 hours before the attacks in Benghazi and Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given to diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movements of embassy personnel are severely restricted.

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=11176

Let's see, a gossip site, Fox News, two conservative "news" sites and for toppers, a doomsday "the end is nigh!" site.

I guess it's our fault; we asked for links but didn't specify that they shouldn't elicit laughter.

You mean like this?

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6130_102-572196/1-million-to-either-access-or-destroy-mitt-romney-s/?messageId=5360791#message5360791

Barrabas instead of Christ. They love the evil when their own deeds are evil.

the Hatch Act enters into all this?

Setup to discourage immigration of blacks to the north. Illionois didn't even want them to sleep overnight in the state.

Also the war was based first on northern taxation of textiles sent South they'd made using tax free cotton from the south, for one.

They didn't start a war to have slavery, that already existed.