Hillary's Bus Has Come In

A few days back I had wondered whether the embassy requests for extra security had stayed inside the State Dept (more likely) or actually reached the President (less likely). Obviously, blaing Hillary for the Benghazi debacle puts a torpedo in the Hillary 2016 battleship and risks alienating her husband, the guy who bailed out the Democratic convention. On the other hand, for Obama to claim ownership of the lax security decision could make for an awkward October and a miserable November. Tricky!

Well, Smirkin' Joe Biden has answered that question - it's the bus for Hillary:

Biden has come under fire for saying at Thursday night's debate, "We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there."

The Cable asked Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes whether Biden was speaking for the entire Obama administration, including the State Department, which acknowledged receiving multiple requests for more Libya security in the months before the attacks. Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.

The State Department security officials who testified before House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's panel Wednesday never said they had made their requests to the president, Rhodes pointed out. That would be natural because the State Department is responsible for diplomatic security, not the White House, he said.

Ouch. Well, Obama can do a lot more to promote Hillary's candidacy if he remains as incumbent and she remains a loyal, self-sacrificing team player, so sufficient unto the year are the elections therof.

However, this reassurance from Jay Carney does leave us wondering what Obama does all day:

MR. CARNEY:  Well, as you know, we are very vigilant around anniversaries like 9/11.  The President is always briefed and brought up to speed on all the precautions being taken.

Possible Team Obama spin - the President is briefed on the precautions being taken, but naturally he is not briefed on the precautions being overlooked. Naturally.

Will this Obama/Biden message of "We killed Osama but they forgot to remind us about the blowback" really carry them past the election? The buck stops where?

Comments

[Laura]

the young, naive and apparently ideologically ignorant heads of the local RR campaign just asked if Sandy would mind reporters tagging along on the canvassing effort tomorrow.
Having been burned by the best of the MFM once or twice while in Iraq I may be downplaying the perfidy a little)
Sandy asked who and what organizations were requesting the access.

'Something called "The Nation" was the reply. The staffer had no clue. Sandy explained that there was absolutely no benefit to be gained and much to be lost. Apparently they did not bother to even google "the Nation"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"I watched Clown Biden for 30 seconds and turned off the TV. The man is berserk."

Posted by: PD | October 12, 2012 at 09:17 PM--

That's a great mum.

[Mad Jack]

JIB: I think it is amazing that he is not playing in this series. It is no sure thing that the Nats will ever be back in this position. Leaving your best player on the bench as a healthy scratch is hard to justify.

[PD]

re: The "Kox" starting the tea party.

How many of you knew who the Koch brothers were before you identified with the tea party? I'd never heard of them until well into the tea party momentum. I took the meme about them starting the tea party as a sign of the complete inability of leftists to understand anyone who isn't exactly like them: No one could possibly be so nuts as to believe in what the tea party stands for, so it must be brainwashing by evil corporate manipulators.

[narciso]

Really, they don't know what the Nation is,
'facepalm with a Ctluthu'

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/10/12/breakdown-raddatzs-debate-questions-favored-biden-40-to-ryan-25/

[DebinNC]

Re Carville recently joining Team Bozo, from the Daily Caller piece already posted:
...........................................
"Klein said relations between the Clintons and President Obama have reached a new low, most recently with Obama ignoring Bill Clinton’s offer to help him and Vice President Joe Biden prepare for the debates with the Republican ticket. “He had very clear ideas on how they should do that,” Klein told TheDC. “He never once got a response. And it absolutely sent him into orbit."
.........................................
Very odd behavior.

[Jim Eagle]

Coming up to DC on Sunday. Staying at oldest daughters in Darnestown. Have an interment in Arlington on Monday at 1000hrs. Most likely a reception afterwards. No time to meet up. Leave on Tuesday morning. But if an opening appears I will let you all know. Guy was my first engineering mentor out of the service and was Airborne in WW2 but never called up.

[narciso]

All's well in the Houses of Westeros, (the fantasy world in Martin's Game of Thrones)/

[PD]

Very odd behavior.

Unless you're convinced you know better than everyone else.

I'm pretty good at being president.
I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters.
etc.

[Rick Ballard]

PD,

The proglodyte commies required Soros, Bing and Lewis to continually fund and run their "grass roots" "community organizer" activities.

It's inconceivable to a committed statist, completely Pitzerized and wholly unable to do more than regurgitate points made by their last indoctrinator, that wholly voluntary and truly grass root organizations can exist.

[Jim Eagle]

Bryce Harper yard. Nats up 4-0. Wolf Blitzer and wife happy.

[Mad Jack]

Dick Stockton is forcing me to mute the game.

[narciso]

They do insist on the Scorcese habit, of narrating what we already know;

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/africa/cables-show-requests-to-state-dept-for-security-in-libya-were-focused-on-tripoli.html?_r=0

[Eric in Boise]

Dumb question:

A manager I worked with at HP had the last name of Koch. She pronounced it "Cook". Do they pronounce it the same way?

[PD]

Coke?

[Jim Eagle]

Morse goes yard for a 2 run homer. Nats 6 - 0. Too bad the O's lost since a B'ldmore v. DC series would have been awesome. Looks like a Detroit v. DC. Giants cannot do it twice can they?

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

Wainright has discovered throwing batting practice in a playoff game is a losing proposition.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

How many of you knew who the Koch brothers were before you identified with the tea party?

I just want to know where my check is.

Eric, I think they pronounce it "cock" but since they failed to send me my check, I don't know for sure.

[Jim Eagle]

Love JOM but I am busted tonight and have to get to bed for a big Cub Scout day tomorrow. Night all.

[Clarice]

Nite. I'm going to try to get some sleep, too. I pulled something or the other exercising Wednesday and have been crippled up and not sleeping for a couple of days. If it doesn't work, I'll be back.

[Captain Hate]

Dick Stockton is forcing me to mute the game.

Dick used to be a good basketball announcer with Bill Russell in the 80s. I've heard a lot of complaints about him for at least a couple years.

[narciso]

You know I don't have any patience for Goldsmith, after what Thiessen described what he did, by reversing the OLC's position

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/power-and-constraint-the-sustained-persecution-of-cia-agents-who-protected-america.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

[Janet]

PD, I had never heard of them. They are just the new Halliburton. You can bet the leftists know nothing about Koch businesses just like they knew nothing about Halliburton.

[CorkyAgain]

How many of you knew who the Koch brothers were before you identified with the tea party?

I used to read lewrockwell.com on regular basis. For years now, they've been engaged in a kind of intramural libertarian feud with the "Kochtopus".

[Jim Eagle]

Before I go.

Joe says what he means.

[Mad Jack]

Stockton did the Sox as well and was pretty good back then but has lost quite a bit off his fastball.

[matt]

following the breadcrumbs on the Benghazi coverup.

LUN.

[Janet]

the complete inability of leftists to understand anyone who isn't exactly like them:

Reminds me of this from a friend - Here is the original quote -
"Innocence is ever simple and credulous. Conscious of no designs itself, it suspects none in others."
-- Excerpt from William Wirt's Defense of Harman Blennerhassett in the Burr Trial

Then my friend changed it a bit -
"Malice is ever complex and paranoid. Conscious of its own designs, it suspects only malice in others."
-- C R

The left is full of malice.

[centralcal]

Hope you don't return tonight, Clarice, and instead have a great, restful sleep.

I am outta here too - gonna go retire to my fluffy pillows, my iPad, and games.

[narciso]

Honestly, it's like they are working to be more clueless

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/12/secstate-clinton-emerges-gives-oddly-optimistic-speech-on-the-middle-east/

[narciso]

Hope you're feeling better, Clarice.

[DrJ]

How many of you knew who the Koch brothers were before you identified with the tea party?

I knew them from the technical activities of their companies. I have worked in areas where they do too.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Hey! Come back! Why are you all going to bed? Oh dear. It's that time?

[narciso]

There was a little snark, from an earlier instance, but he raises a good point;

http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/12/a_civil_military_headache_from_the_vp_debate_that_could_linger

[Threadkiller]

"GOAL!!!!!!!"

[hit and run]

.

It's a start. We can do more.

[DrJ]

Caption for hit's poster:

It is balloon!

--F Troop

[narciso]

And it's called 'Spiny Norman' re the giant hedgehog in the Python takeoff on the crays

[Captain Hate]

Honestly, it's like they are working to be more clueless

Reading that was brutal in its sheer mindlessness.

[PD]

Janet - that reminds me of:

Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

[Janet]

Opa! ~ things Joe Bidenopoulos almost shouted

[PD]

Perhaps next Hillary will compare the emergence of "Democracy" in the Middle East to what's necessary when you make an omelet.

[Threadkiller]

"There's been a mistake! I'm supposed to be up there with the rest of the Eloi!"

[narciso]

Did we give visas to Stasi enforcers, I must have missed that chapter

http://babalublog.com/2012/10/those-castronoids-have-yuma-fever-and-the-only-prescription-is-a-visa/

[PD]

Cardinals chipping away at the Nats lead...

Hey, Descalso is wearing shoes. What's up with that?

[Janet]

Wonderful, PD.

[Threadkiller]

Hand Jive

[Stephanie]

Obama surrogate Rep. Donna Edwards told CNN today,
“Voters may not care about Benghazi, but they care about Bin Laden.”

Jim Hoft reported this at Gateway Pundit... did this idjit really say this? OMG.

[Have Blue]

Believe the Koch brothers pronounce it 'coke'.

[PD]

Edwards: Another attempt to imply that the furor over Benghazi is due only to RR politicizing it, and that it's not a "real" issue.

Edwards apparently thinks we don't care that Americans died. Apparently thinks we don't care that an American citizen was arrested to distract from this administration's inaction.

I conclude that she doesn't care about these things, and thinks we're just like her. Why would I reach any other conclusion?

[narciso]

Yes, she did, Steph, three years before 9/11
Bin Laden had pulled off a sizable strike against American interests in Eastern Africa, not long after that was the first PDB, 'that dare not speak it's name'

[Sara]

How many of you knew who the Koch brothers were before you identified with the tea party?

The first time I heard their name, or should say, saw their name, was during the demonstrations in Madison, WI. When I saw the signs, I looked the name up and found a ton of nasty stuff from lefty sites.

[Threadkiller]

"My pappy said 'Joey, if you hold the painting like this, cross your eyes, and stop concentrating you will see the actually economy.' I don't know what the Hell he's talking about."

[Stephanie]

Wow. What a wart on the ass of humanity.

[narciso]

Interesting how where that epistle is set has a certain resonance;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis

[narciso]

She might as well said ,we only care about Lazcano, but not the Zetas;

http://news.yahoo.com/ruthless-drug-lord-takes-control-deadly-cartel-210325891--abc-news-topstories.html

[Threadkiller]

"Calgon, take me away!"

[narciso]

Even Iowahawk was at a loss;

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCABRE89B1E020121012?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=603&sp=true

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"My pappy said 'Joey, if you hold the painting like this, cross your eyes, and stop concentrating you will see the actually economy.' I don't know what the Hell he's talking about."

Posted by: Threadkiller | October 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM--

My pappy said

"son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin,

if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln."

[narciso]

'must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque'

[Stephanie]

So they are going with the Million Muppet March on Nov 3rd. Seriously?

The Enhanced ACME Election Manual evidently mandates butt chugging before strategy sessions.

Who knew?!?

[Eric in Boise]

Looks like the "cokes" have it, thanks, all.

Goodnight.

[narciso]

I couldn't make that up, that's bgates or jim ryan's angle, Steph.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's "Sesame Street," from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the "Million Muppet March.

Doesn't really need any embellishment does it?

[Eric in Boise]

Oh, and one more thing, the song "Hot Rod Lincoln" has Idaho roots.

Just thought you'd like to know :)

[narciso]

I think I saw the Star Gate, right behind me, I mean this is some alternate universe.

[Captain Hate]

As long as they're concentrating on the important issues. Voters care about funding the leeches at PBS yet not about 4 dead Americans in Benghazi. Pure jeenyus.

Speaking of taxpayer funded parasites, the Restraining Order is pulling out all stops with new misleading ads. Strangely enough, none of them brag about supporting BammyCare or any of his votes other than a bizarre fantasy about having saved the auto industry.

[narciso]

Ah Durwood, as Endora might call him, what is his default 'look squirrel' exercise.

[Zilla]

That bus ain't gonna be big enough.
I have you linked, BTW:
http://marezilla.com/2012/10/obama-doesnt-have-big-enough-bus/
Hillary would have been better off politically if she'd just stayed in NY back in 2009.

[narciso]

You would think after Hancock, and now Battleship, he should wait, before 'removing
all doubt;

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201210/friday-night-lights-director-mitt-romney-dont-steal-our-phrase

[jimmyk]

DoT, Yahoo sports has Tuesday's game as Verlander vs. Sabathia, so CC will be going on short rest. I seem to recall that not working out so well last year, but my memory is a bit foggy.

[narciso]

And an interesting take by the Author of
;Neptune's Inferno, on Bowden's latest;

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443635404578038311675442802.html

[Gus]

Narciso......DINSDALE...DINSDALE....DINSDALE!!!!!!

[narciso]

Yes, Gus, that's who they referring to,

[daddy]

What an amazing comeback by the Cardinals. 7 - 7.

Hope they win so that we don't have to listen to Carney's Bulls#$% us about baseball, and DC can start focusing on getting some honest answers out of the crooks in Washington.

Yeehow! 9 - 7 Cardinals up. Astonishing!

[daddy]

Anybody else watching this game?

[Some Guy]

daddy, incredible comeback. How many times did them come down to the last strike?

[Gus]

The Cards did this same shyte last year.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

i'm watching, daddy. St. Louis is tough to beat. Old Yogi was right.

[daddy]

It is amazing Some Guy.

Sorry for any other Nat's fans out there but I want them to lose because it appears Jay Carney likes them.

Go to Hell Washington DC!

[Gus]

Jack is Back. Both of my Parents are buried at Arlington. It is beyond Special.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

Another wild card team in the championship series. I wouldn't be betting on the Jints.

[daddy]

Boy, Do I hope Obama and Biden look as sullen and shellshocked come 7 November as the Nat's Bench looks this instant on the Tube.

[narciso]

That twit Gregory was tweeting about them, during the Benghazi hearings,

[Elliott]

Ask not over whom the bus rolls...

[Some Guy]

Descalso was just named player of the game, which is cool because we know him. Good kid and came up clutch.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

It's silly to say, but I am now not nearly so disappointed in the Braves losing that one shot playoff to the Cards.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

The Yanks are the only team with home field advantage to have won this round. Weird.

[daddy]

For those not paying attention, the Cardinals clawed back from a 6 - 0 deficit.

What that tells me is that if you elect some good men from outside the Beltway, you can overcome the Deficit and beat Washington, no matter how daunting that task appears and no matter how many curve balls they throw at you.

[jimmyk]

Particularly men from the midwest, daddy.

[Gus]

The Cardinals franchise is beyond blessed.

[Gus]

I am a Brewers fan, and the Brewers have been to ONE World Series. They lost to St Louis in 7.
Last year, the Brewers (now in the NL) won the division, but lost to St Louis in the NL Championship.

Drat.

[daddy]

"Ask not over whom the bus rolls..."

Beautiful Elliott, just wonderful. Ha!

[daddy]

Flyover country, JimmyK, Flyover country! Ha!

BTW, I luv watching Prince Fielder at bat. And I can't wait to see CC Sabathia hustle down to first:)

[Dave (in MA)]

--
David Axelrod ‏@davidaxelrod 3h
At Nats game and, man, they came our of the gates like Joe Biden! 6-0 in the third!
--

HEH

[East Bay Jay]

Axe spikes the ball in the 3rd inning. But no follow up tweet? Isn't spin his job? Surely there's someone on the campaign that could figure out a funny way to wipe the doo doo off of his shoe. How about the best writer on the staff, the President?

[Danube of Thought]

The hot stove league will have a great deal to say about the Strasburg decision in the long winter months to come.

Good friend of mine pronounced his name like Coke. The NY mayor called it Kotch.

[Gus]

It's pronounced STALIN.
Man of Steel.
Joe Stalin.

The Koch situation is a pathetic LIBTARD joke.

SOROS. Pronounced Stalin OR SORE ASS.

[Danube of Thought]

Preference cascade? Let's hear it from none other than the Associated Press:

"SIDNEY, Ohio — The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing large and excited throngs. Look to dusty Iowa cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby County Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 — almost half of this western Ohio town — gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender. 'Where else would we want to be?' said one of the shivering faithful, Judy Cartwright, a 71-year-old nurse from Sidney. 'I want to see the next president of the United States.'"

Where are the trolls?

[BR]

Carney: "The President is always briefed and brought up to speed on all the precautions being taken."

I just about fall on the floor with laughter at that image. How do you bring a toddler on a bicycle up to speed.

Or maybe like the bicycle taxi drivers in Kenya.