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Obama’s Libya Lie will be the lasting impression from this debate.

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  October 16th, 2012 at 11:48 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Clearly President Obama did much better tonight than in Debate #1, but then the bar was rather low.

Mitt Romney also did well though he missed a few opportunities and inexplicably kept asking Obama questions instead of just destroying the President’s house of cards.

On balance I would say it was a draw with perhaps a short term advantage for Obama.

However, the huge mistake in this debate was Obama’s lie about Libya.  Somewhere Bill Clinton must be smiling because his famous “That depends on what the meaning of is is” may have been eclipsed tonight for hair splitting mendacity.

Because the word “terror” appeared near the end of his statement on the morning after the events in Benghazi, Obama now claims that he characterized the attacks as terrorism. This is an absurdity of the first order.

The line in question is as follows:

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.

As is obvious, the President is trying to fashion a fig leaf from thin air to cover his exposure, but almost everyone will recognize that the President has no clothes on. The Libya Lie will not work. This flimsy fib, this cheap dodge, will crash when the media has a few days to chew on it. Yes, even Big Media won’t be able to stomach this deceitful twisting of the facts and I suspect that Candy Crowley will be in for a few rough days from her colleagues as well.

They are happy on MSNBC tonight because they lap up the lies of their Leader like starving kittens stamping in a saucer of warm milk. But in a few days reality will set in and they will realize that Tuesday October 16, 2012 was the day that Barack Obama lost the presidential election when he went one lie over the line.

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  • littlehouse18

    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave …”

  • jamesm

    Can we say Libya…for the next few days. Not good for Obama

  • krish

    More than that partisan hack Crowley bailed him out…the next debate should just focus on Libya…pound him on when & what Obama knew about the request for additional security……

  • whobeen

    And what about that 2nd Amendment issue? Romney could have destroyed Obama’s answer if he brought up Obama’s attempt to ban ALL guns via a UN treaty…

  • http://lvjohnston.blogspot.com/ lvjohnston

    I agree with most of your commentary, but will disagree with Gov. Romney’s “missed opportunities” as you say. He *was* talking to the sitting President. Though I do *not* approve of the current ‘occupant’, I *do* feel that we should honor the position and the office of the POTUS.

    I think that Gov. Romney did just that by asking the President questions and staying on point about the now established record of the past four years. It was then up to President Obama to either answer the specific charges (which he did not) or change the subject (which he did several times) and thus was caught up by his own hubris and made the audacious claim of having called the Libya attack a ‘terrorist attack’ in his Rose Garden speech on Sept 12th.

    That will definitely leave a stain on him in this debate (CNN shows that Ms. Crowley is already walking back her statement on the issue) and Gov. Romney was *still* the gentleman as a result of that approach.

    Most Americans would not like anyone being *opportunistic* to the sitting president. I don’t and regardless of how I feel about the man, I will still give the honor due the office. President Reagan did that in his debate with President Carter and we know how history has judged that encounter. Decorum still has its place.