THE OTHER 9/11-Blame Obama for 4 deaths in Libya-But don’t blame Bush for nearly 3,000 deaths in NY.

[kpete]

The president was warned of an impending threat of terrorism. He failed to act. The attack came, Americans died, and now the administration is covering up the truth.
THE OTHER 9/11
That’s what Republicans are arguing in 2012. Which is pretty funny, if you don’t count the dead Americans, because it’s the opposite of what the GOP said 10 years ago. Back then, the conspiracy theories and the 20/20 hindsight were about the original 9/11 attacks. And the Republican Party line was that anyone who accused the president of neglect or deceit was unpatriotic.



The difference between the failures of Sept. 11, 2001, and the failures of Sept. 11, 2012 isn’t just 2,900 deaths. It’s the ferocity with which Republicans, when they held the White House, denounced their critics as unpatriotic. “Democrat insinuations that the President and Administration had prior knowledge of the September 11th tragedy is an outrageous political attack on the Commander-in-Chief during wartime,” the National Republican Congressional Committee charged in 2002. In a rebuke to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Cheney added:

What I want to say to my Democratic friends in the Congress is that they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions, as were made by some today, that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9/11. Such commentary is thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war.

I’m sure we can count on this kind of pulling together now that the president is a Democrat, the attack was overseas, and the casualty count is four.


the rest:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/10/blame_obama_for_the_libya_consulate_attack_but_don_t_blame_bush_for_9_11.2.html

[still_one]

1. how about blaming bush for over a million deaths in Iraq based on a lie /nt

[kpete]

2. i do.

[still_one]

6. I know romney is a pathological liar, the problem is do the rest of the people /nt

[TwilightGardener]

3. I don't think anyone really cares that much about the Libya attack, beyond

feeling sad that our diplomats died. Repubs have been trying to make hay of it for weeks, but I doubt that terrorist strikes in the Middle East come as a big surprise to most Americans.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Funny--I had exactly this email exchange with MFW earlier this AM--

Him:

Clinton: I'm responsible for diplomats' security - CNN.com

This lie is going to back fire.

Me:

"Responsible for security?" That reminds me of something…

[liberal N proud]

5. Republicans are great at placing blame while never taking any themselves

[KansDem]

7. Amazing, isn't it?

What lows the GOPers will stoop to in order to demonize their opponent.

After being told we were under attack, Bush sits on his butt and does nothing while over 3,000 Americans are murdered. Yet, the GOPers are blasting Obama for the four deaths at an American embassy after cuts in funds for embassy security by the GOP House...