OK, so no one can find a picture of the President “doing skeet shooting” so The New Republic tried to help him out by tweeting this photoshop that David Frum, the conscience of the Republican Party, fell for;
More info at Twitchy and Jammie Wearing Fools.
Apparently we’re not the only folks who doubt the president on his “do skeet shooting” comment the other day. CNN reports that Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN) has challenged the President to a skeet shooting match;
The Washington Times reports that press secretary Jay carney doesn’t want to be attached to this latest bullshit either;
After replying that he never saw a photo, Mr. Carney was quick to explain that when President Obama goes to Camp David, “he goes to spend time with his family and friends, not produce photographs.”
Yeah, that’s why we’re never inundated with scores of photos of every breath the President and his family takes while they’re on their countless vacations and golf outings.
If he doesn’t really shoot skeet, the president should just say so and stop trying to patronize gun owners. He’s not like us – he wasn’t raised the way we were, he hasn’t lived life the way we have, he should stop trying to pretend he’s one of us. He’s just another snobby elitist who can’t bring himself to our level and appear as if he’s clinging bitterly to his gun.
Breitbart says that President Obama is pushing the story that he’s a gun fan because he shoots skeet at Camp David. So, you know, he’s just like the rest of us. The interview was in The New Republic;
FF: Have you ever fired a gun?
Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.
FF: The whole family?
Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there. And I have a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations. And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake.
Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas. And if you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were ten, and you went out and spent the day with him and your uncles, and that became part of your family’s traditions, you can see why you’d be pretty protective of that.
So it’s trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months. And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes.
Yeah, gun control advocates are so good at listening aren’t they? Look at Adam Kokesh’s video below for the listening example.
I do a little skeet shooting myself. Old Trooper and TSO saw me dominate the Hillbilly Hunt Club shoot out last year. But it’s the first time I’ve done that in more than 30 years. Shooting skeet isn’t much of a gun sport actually – it’s standing there while someone throws a target for you (I’m sure that Camp David has a machine for that, though). Once you figure out the mechanics of it, shooting skeet is easy – easier than shooting at a bird.
But, then, I doubt that Obama has shot any skeet, anyway. We would have seen photos by now if he had. He’s just trying to assuage our fears by chumming up to us with his shared experience.
“What difference does it make?” Someone on that Senate panel should have responded, Madam Secretary, what a foolish question for a lawyer to ask.” And never forget that Hillary Clinton is a lawyer because you can bet the farm she never has. And as such she knows full well that lawyers make their careers and fortunes on the legal minutiae of cause and effect. Were Hillary acting as legal counsel for a family of one of those deceased navy SEAL’s who died in Benghazi, in a wrongful death suit, she certainly wouldn’t accept a defense argument of, “What difference does it make?” It is difficult to believe that as a lawyer she would have asked that question had she not been coached and prepped to do so for dramatic political effect.
Her question is also an indefensible and inadequate political response. As a caller to the Rush Limbaugh show gave as examples: what if Nixon had responded to the Watergate charges, “What difference does it make? So a bunch of guys out walking around at night decided to break into Democrat headquarters? So what?” Or, even better, “What if George Bush had responded to the issue of no found WMD’s in Iraq with the same dismissive response?” Do you think the media would have swallowed whole such an indifferent comeback as they’ve done with Hillary?
The difference it makes Hillary is that there most likely exists tort culpability for wrongful death within the government, whether it’s in your state department or the White House, for those four deaths in Benghazi. And you’d best believe there are going to be far more inquisitive and determined lawyers than you appear to be coming after you and your political cronies. Those fellow barristers aren’t likely to be so easily dismissed as that bunch of fawning senators with:
“What difference does it make?”
You can hide behind your sovereign immunity, Hillary, but there are personal injury lawyers out there who know how to pull legal flanking movements on that defense. Whether or not they prevail in court, they will keep your name and your political aspirations in the news between now and 2016.
And not in a good way…
Crossposted at American Thinker
So, concussion-addled Hillary Clinton finally recovered enough to testify to the committee investigating the assault on the Benghazi consulate on September 11th last year. Of course, she accepted full responsibility for the deaths of four Americans, well until folks started heaping the blame on her. What most Americans will remember is the quote of hers from the testimony in which she says;
“Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Well, if it’s not that important, why did the Administration lie about it to the American people – you know, the folks who pay the bills and are actually in charge of this country, not the Clintons and Obamas of the world who think they can tell us only what they think matters. We already know now that the late Chris Stevens wrote to the State Department that it was Obama’s policies that were making Libya dangerous for our diplomatic mission there.
Clinton denies that she saw Stevens’ communications with his bosses which expressed his concern about security of his facilities. Well, why didn’t she see them, if that’s true? I mean, it’s not like Libya was a some backwater unimportant shit hole at the time. We had sent troops and material there during their civil war – if it was important enough that we committed our blood and treasure to Libya, why wasn’t it important enough to read the communiques from our ambassador there?
I guess Rand Paul upset her staff when he said that he would have fired her ample ass, and John McCain tried to recover some of his voters by getting tough with the secretary. From the Washington Times;
“The answers, frankly, that you’ve given this morning are not satisfactory to me,” said Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican.
“Were you and the president made aware of the classified cable from Chris Stevens [that] said that the United States Consulate in Benghazi could not survive a sustained assault?” he asked. Mr. McCain added that “numerous warnings, including personally to me, about the security were unanswered or unaddressed.”
“The American people deserve to know answers, and they certainly don’t deserve false answers,” he said.
Clinton blamed security failures on the fact that Congress had cut her funding for security, borrowing from the Mother Jones article which gave her that cover, but two things are wrong with that excuse; first, Congress hasn’t passed a budget in four years, so how could they have cut State’s budget? Secondly, they had security there and cut it back. They had military security as well as their own diplomatic security folks, which were reduced just prior to the assault. So why wasn’t any of our representatives questioning that, instead of co-starring in the theater conducted by Clinton for the cameras?
The Washington Times reports that investigators into the events leading up to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three veterans at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya discovered that the State Department had reduced by two-thirds the security detail in Libya in the days prior to the September 11th attack despite the warnings that folks on the ground were sending to Washington regarding the deteriorating situation there.
The investigators have determined that between May and September, the department reduced the number of Mobile Security Deployment teams from three to one, thinning the potential U.S. security officers available to protect diplomats by at least twelve, the Washington Guardian has learned.
In addition, the lone remaining six-member Mobile Security Team in Libya at the time Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed was detailed primarily to training Libyan security officials rather than providing force protection to U.S. officials, the sources told the Washington Guardian.
That’s been my problem with this situation all along – not that there weren’t enough security people, but that they had reduced security despite pleas from the ambassador for beefing up security. Remember they also had military people on the ground there which they also withdrew in the weeks prior to the assault on the consulate.
It’s almost as if they were inviting an attack.
CNN speculates that Joe Bite Me, the most incompetent boob in the country, is eying yet another run at the White House;
The vice president greeted Democratic National Committee delegates at the Omni Shoreham hotel in the nation’s capital, where they were gathered for the DNC’s annual winter meeting.
Tuesday’s outreach to influential Democratic leaders and activists from across the country follows a weekend of hints that Biden may be gearing up for what would be his third bid for the White House.
I think it’s a great idea. He’s been absolutely wrong on every single issue since he got into politics, he’s a braggart and a liar of the highest magnitude. Nothing would be more entertaining than watching him implode. While Americans have disappointed me over the last few years, I’m fairly certain that we haven’t fallen so far that we’d allow Joe Biden to occupy the Oval Office. But, I’ve been wrong before. Once.
Stars & Stripes reports that the Taliban punctuated the celebration in Washington, DC today with a nine-hour running gun battle through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan today which also included a car bomb set off in front of a police station and some suicide bombers detonating themselves.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, which started around 5:30 a.m., when at least four attackers stormed the lightly-defended headquarters of the Kabul Traffic Police, before taking up positions and firing light and heavy weapons down on an adjacent compound that houses the Afghan Border Police
In his inauguration address today, the president pronounced that “We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.” He should be giving that advice to the Taliban, not to us. If I may quote General Mattis for the second time today “…no war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”
From the S&S article;
Winter usually sees a lull in violence in Afghanistan, as insurgents head to safe havens in Pakistan. Monday’s attack, however, was the second in a week to hit the capital. Last week, suicide bombers attacked the country’s security services headquarters, killing two guards.
Gee, I wonder why they’re especially active this year?