{"id":16481,"date":"2012-11-14T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T22:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:49:31","slug":"obamas-false-machismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16481\/obamas-false-machismo\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s False Machismo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham preempted President Obama’s East Room press conference this morning by announcing that they would attempt to block<\/a> — through use of the filibuster, if necessary — the potential nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

Their rationale: Rice was directly responsible for propogating the Administration’s now completely-disproved<\/a> contention that the Benghazi terrorist attacks were the product of an angry mob that spontaneously turned to violence. Whether Rice is guilty of incompetence or deception (there’s really no other plausible alternative), McCain and Graham argued, no one who was party to the Benghazi debacle should be expecting a promotion.<\/p>\n

That stance led to the president attempting to go all alpha male<\/a> in his remarks at the White House:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they go after the U.N. ambassador, apparently because they think she’s an easy target, then they’ve got a problem with me,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd should I choose, if I think that she would be the best person to serve America in the capacity at the State Department, then I will nominate her.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Then they’ve got a problem with me?” Obama might as well have gone with “Nobody puts baby in a corner.”<\/a><\/p>\n

No one is actually afraid of this president. Which is why Graham’s response was so perfect:<\/p>\n

Mr. President, don\u2019t think for one minute I don\u2019t hold you ultimately responsible for\u00a0Benghazi. \u00a0I think you failed as Commander in Chief before, during, and after the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just so. The White House is going to need more than bluster to dodge accountability for what happened in Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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