The White House and State Dept. sat watching drone-video and listening on the phone in REAL-TIME while the Benghazi attack raged on for   S E V E N   hours, yet never called in the "fast" military teams:

"Fighter jets could have been at Benghazi in an hour; the commandos inside three hours." THEY WERE NEVER CALLED. AND "When President Reagan was briefed on students in Grenada being threatened by the local government there, it took six hours to plan the invasion of a country. Six hours. I talked to one of the guys who was a planner. So you're telling me we can plan and execute an invasion of a country in six hours but we can't send support to protect our embassy and the staff within six hours? Are you kidding me?"

"Take it from an old Navy flier...Romney gets an "OK 3 wire" on his debate performance. What the Navy needs more than ships is a leader at the top......that leader is Mitt Romney. Well Done."
Posted by: Max Kalafat | 10/23/2012 at 03:27 PM (UK time)

Obama DID seek to keep troops in Iraq, after all, despite his denial that he did.

"Obama cannot avoid the consequences of poor decisions and misplaced priorities.

"Foremost among them was his early focus on an overreaching health-care reform plan that wasted 12 very valuable months of his and Congress’ time and cost him precious political capital. The manner in which the legislation was drafted violated Obama’s pledge to govern openly, and its passage — leveraged through a supermajority — served to further galvanize the partisan divide in Congress. Fear of the impact of that reform and the costs associated with it continue to play a major role in preventing businesses from hiring new employees at a time when nearly everyone agrees that jobs must be the president’s foremost goal.

"A vote to re-elect Obama promises four more years of the same. In the two debates between the two candidates so far (a third, on foreign affairs, is scheduled for Monday), the president has shown little understanding of how his failures are affecting the nation, and he hasn’t offered any tangible proposals to change course."

Obama team immediately walks back his false claim on sequester issue

Obama said: "I've Learned You Can't Change Washington From The Inside", (September 20, 2012)

So what's he asking for another 4 years for?

"In short, he passed the commander-in-chief test."

(They're referring to Romney there).

"When he should have been going big, Obama went small. At one point, he said: 'The fact is, while we were coordinating an international coalition to make sure these sanctions were effective, you were still invested in a Chinese state oil company that was doing business with the Iranian oil sector.' This was the kind of "oppo" point that a lowly apparatchik in Obama's Chicago headquarters should have been firing out via Twitter. Instead, the leader of the free world was using it in answer to a question about the Iranian nuclear threat.
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"But for the undecided voter - yes, such people do still exist - or the wavererer, such utterances will have been a distinct turn-off. For a President whose likeabilty was such an asset, to be resorting to attacks that will inevitably drive up his negatives looks a lot like panic...the overall impression left has been of a President who was asleep in Denver, felt compelled to let everyone know he had woken up in Hempstead and in Boca Raton was frantically trying to tear down his opponent."

"As for hope — well, it went out the window a long time ago. Don’t take our word for it, just ask the more than 4 million people who have given up even looking for work.

"The simple fact is that this nation can’t afford four more years of Barack Obama, four more years of his divisive class warfare rhetoric, four more years of his Chicago-style eco-cronyism and four more years of an administration that will lie and obfuscate — even about the death of a U.S. ambassador — to save its sorry hide."

"After bin Laden was located, why would any President not give the go-ahead to get him? That took no courage at all.

"It would have been far more dangerous politically for Obama not to have given the go-ahead. Moreover, Obama hedged his bets by authorizing the admiral in charge of the operation to proceed only under various conditions. This meant that success would be credited to Obama and failure could be blamed on the admiral -- who would join George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and other scapegoats for Obama's failures."

"'This is about the birth of an entire new industry in America.' Thus spake President Obama two years ago...about A123 Systems' opening of a factory to make batteries for electric cars...[then] lavished a quarter-billion-dollar grant on the company. The other day, A123 Systems filed for bankruptcy.

"Add it to the growing list of other bad bets by the administration, such as Solyndra — which also went belly-up even though Obama had put his heavy thumb on the scale."