Absolutely Clueless

OK, I’m not a big Monday morning quarterbacking, but will someone please buy the White House a friggen clue already.

It’s been nearly a week and half since we tragically lost our Ambassador to Libya along with three other brave Americans, not to mention those who were injured in the……. OK, repeat after me “TERRORIST ATTACK”

Now, that wasn’t hard…………..right?

Apparently it is for the White House. It took them eight days to state for the record what the rest of the world seemed to know the day after. Hell it took the Libyan President less than half the time to publicly state that it was “planned far in advance.”

For the last week and half, the incompetency level over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been ratcheted up to the nth degree. For the life of me, I cannot fathom why.

Lately, much has been made about the President skipping out on his regular daily intelligence briefings. Now, some will say that he gets written briefings and doesn’t need to sit down for them………..really? Honestly, you’re going to hold on to that position?

Newsflash, I did my fair share of Intel time and I can tell you that if you believe that in your heart, I’m glad you’re not in politics. There are two types of Intel. What you willing to put on paper, and what you feel in your heart. It’s like being a cop, you just know when something isn’t right, even when nothing is going wrong………. YET.

But the President doesn’t believe that, he seems to feel that he can look at a briefing paper and know what is really going on in the world without talking to his Intel people.

It’s like a young naïve politician blasting the President on his bad foreign policy, making grand promises, and then getting elected into office and finding out just how bad a place the world really was.

But that would never happen, right?

The President, and all of his supporters, ran on how he was going to be the one to reconcile the United States with the rest of the world, there would be peace on earth, good will towards man, and cats and dogs would lie down with one another…… plus, we were part of a coalition that saved Libya right !!!..........right??!??.......uh huh.

No way there could be a coordinated terrorist attack against us……….that would mean that they really don’t like us, and then maybe it wasn’t really all George Bush’s fault after all…… perish the thought.

So, the President, through his proxies, starts playing the old “spontaneous demonstration”……… uh huh.

Just a bunch of good old boys wound up over some “film” that apparently NO ONE had seen prior to all these spontaneous demonstrations.” Oh and the film was produced by an Egyptian who apparently has more aliases than Sybil.

I worked a lot of demonstrations, and I don’t recall too many of them being spontaneous. What, you think Tariq and Salaam just happened to be walking down the street, minding their own business, armed with RPG’s, grenades and mortars and just happened to run into a dozen or so of their friends, in front of the American Consulate, on the anniversary of September 11th…… Yep, sounds innocent enough to me.

So after basically telling all of the U.S. and the rest of the world that this was so not a terrorist attack what does the spin machine over at the White House conclude today?

Well according to Press Secretary Jay Carney, after eight days of saying that it was most certainly NOT a terrorist attack, he had this little gem “It is, I think, self evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials. That is self evident.” 

Really Jay………. Seriously. So when did it all become so self evident?

Maybe it’s time for the President to begin to sit in on a few more of those daily intelligence briefings. I think instead of reading the reports, maybe he should be asking a few questions.

Then again, rescheduling fund raisers would be so time consuming.