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President Obama skipped his National Security Meeting today which dealt with the current and critical emergency in the Crimea and the Ukraine ... caused by the movement of a large number of Russian troops into this region … see: Weekly Standard Item. Is Obama our Commander in Chief or not? I believe he is and, as such, I can't fathom any possible reason for such a clear dereliction of duty. 

Or perhaps Joe Biden was prophetic when he was overheard on an open mic early in 2012 … speaking to the then President of the Russian Federation, Demitry Medvedev, confiding that, once Obama was re-elected, he would have much more flexibility in dealing with Russia. Medvedev nodded and responded by saying he would pass the message on to Vladimir Putin, the next (and current) President of Russia.

President Obama could not be any more "flexible" or detached than the behavior he is currently exhibiting. (Perhaps he was doing his all-important March Madness brackets?) This shameful indifference in this time of international crisis (see: Washington Pos Story), were he an actual member of the armed services, would most likely cause a general court martial hearing to be convened.

But this won’t happen because, as we all know, we are now living in a Liberal vortex ...

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Last week both Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, and the Joint Chief of Staff General, Martin Dempsey, reluctantly testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that, once President Obama was told about the start of the attacks on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, he said that they should "do whatever they needed to do" ... then disappeared for the rest of the night (see: Huffington Post Story ... and read down to get some of the details and, also of course, some spin).  No phone calls to check on how things were going.  No additional instructions.  No follow-up visits to the White House Situation Room.  Nothing ... for the eight hours of the attacks.  (The same lack of concern and follow-up were displayed by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.)

Now Obama is the Commander in Chief and any military response to this situation would have required his direct approval.  But he was incognito for whatever reason(s) ... and his dereliction of duty under these dire circumstances is reprehensible ... particularly since four Americans were killed as a consequence.  Our President was, in fact, absent without leave.

Given a screw-up this monumental on Obama's and Hillary Clinton's part, it is not a surprise (to me anyway) that they then concocted the bogus story that some obscure anti-Muslim video was behind the Benghazi murders.  And they stuck by this silly story for over a week ... and are still blaming the fog of faulty intelligence for their conduct.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could also hear from the survivors of this Benghazi massacre?

"What difference does it make!?"  Quite a bit, Hillary ... quite a bit.  This story is not going to disappear.


Afterward: see: Obama Lied, Hillary Cried, People Died (borrowed) and The Diplomad's Comments