Oh Mitt... You Missed the Kill Shot!

The president made many vague, muddled, outright false, and generally laughable statements last night.  Among them are:

• Apparently not realizing that US marines STILL use bayonets.  Something you would think the commander-in-chief might be aware.
• Talking about Tunisian protests our narcissist-in-chief said, "This nation. Me."
• Emphatically and categorically stating that Romney was against ANY form of government assistance for GM and Chrysler.  Oops, sorry Mr. President... wrong or lying again:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=2&
• Espousing a level of love and adoration for Israel that he usually reserves for tax increases, new entitlement programs, and golf.
• (And one of my favorite moments) Not correcting Bob Schieffer when Bob referred to him as Obama Bin Laden.
• Trying to explode Romney's brain with the Obama Death Stare, a la Scanners/Big Bang Theory.

All fascinating and enjoyable moments, but Romney could have won the debate and probably the election in one fell swoop.  The president gave him the perfect opening and Romney could have poleaxed (for you race baiters out there, that was pole axed and not poll taxed) him right there on national TV.  If he had taken the opportunity, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Obama curl up in the fetal position right there on stage and start sobbing for Reggie to come save him.  Here is how the exchange SHOULD have happened:

• President Obama:  Bob, let me — let me respond. You know, if we're going to talk about trips that we've taken, you know, when I was a candidate for office, first trip I took was to visit our troops.  And when I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn't take donors, I didn't attend fundraisers, I went to Yad Vashem, the — the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the — the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.
• Governor Romney:  Really Mr. President?  You have must have immense testicular fortitude to introduce fundraising into this discussion. Well, you went there so here goes. Yes, as a CANDIDATE I did attend fundraisers in Israel.  You know why?  Because people there LIKE me and understand I will be a TRUE friend to Israel as president.  Would you like to know what I will NEVER do as PRESIDENT?  I will never attend a fundraiser when the bodies of our ambassador and three other citizens are not even cold and that they are dead as a direct result of my administration's failures.  That, Mr. President, I will never do.  Bob, please feel free to clean up that puddle of goo that used to be the president.  I wouldn't want anyone to get it on their shoes.

That, to quote Barney Stinson, would have been, wait for it.... LEGENDARY!

Clinton had "Is", Obama has "Spontaneous"

Dude!  You can make words mean anything you want!

The master and the pupil.  Clinton and Obama.  Slick Willy had "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."  Following in the Teflon Don's footsteps, Obama is learning to change the definitions of words to suit his purposes and get his presidential derriere out of the proverbial fire.  Obama's word du jour is "spontaneous".

After the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya last week, the Obama administration claimed that it was a "spontaneous" attack growing from a demonstration that spiraled out of control and  fueled by anger about a movie that showed Islam in negative light.  Au contraire says the Libyan government and US intelligence sources in Libya.

According to Fox News:

"The assault on the consulate came without warning, and, to strengthen the view that it was pre-meditated, the assault included RPGs and mortars -- including at least one round that hit the consulate roof. 

There were two waves to the assault, Fox News was told. According to the intelligence source, in the first wave, the attackers were heard to say "we got him" -- a reference to Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. Word spread, the attackers regrouped and the second wave went after the motorcade and support personnel.  

The account relayed by the intelligence source on the ground in Libya is consistent with statements by the Libyan president that the attack was pre-mediated and the work of foreign fighters, which is code for Islamist extremists, including the Al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa. It is also consistent with an interview by McClatchy Newspapers with a purported Libyan security guard who was injured in the assault. The guard said the consulate area was quiet and "there wasn't a single ant outside" until dozens of armed men descended on the compound."

Well, that definitely sounds spontaneous to me. I'm sure it went something like this:

• "Death to America!  Hey Charlie, do you have a spare mortar on you?  I left mine at home."   

• "Down with Obama!  No Fred, I didn't bring mine either but I have this nifty RPG.  Maybe Earl has one.  Hey Earl, did you bring your mortar to the demonstation?"

•  "Death to Israel!  Why yes Charlie, I did happen to bring my mortar.  Would you like to borrow it?"

UN Ambassador Susan Rice had this to say:

"The best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack, that what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent and those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya and that then spun out of control. But we don't see at this point signs this was a coordinated plan, premeditated attack."

Hang on, didn't the Libyan security guard say "there wasn't a single ant outside" until dozens of armed men attacked the compound?  But wait!  There was a demonstration outside the consulate compound that day.

"However, the official emphasized there had been a small demonstration, of about two dozen people, at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi earlier in the day."

 Wow!  About two dozen people hours earlier in the day.  I can see how that seething mob could mutate into a maelstrom of violence backed by heavy weaponry.

Hey!  It was spontaneous...