Three requests for help during attack were firmly DENIED

Remember the Abu Graib (embarrassing and shameful) scandal? The New York Times alone had 57 headlines about it. The the left media talked about it for at least about two months, just hoping everyone would connect it to the Bush administration! Where's all that dogged coverage on this so serious issue??

I wish they could see all of these things, one lie after another, in a streaming video that would have to run for at least a day to catalogue all the illegal, shady, and dangerous things this administration has done. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

"he didn't care for Romney because he (Romney) comes across as having disdain for the people he can't relate to"... Sometimes you hear the stupidest things people say why they don't like a republican candidate! They take one momentary impression and make a snap judgment and that's about all there, to them, as to the issue of who should handle the job of being the U.S. president!

The left has promoted a politically correct bigotry. Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt due to this.. and very likely more than one.. On a personal note, a friend of mine during this past year found out I'm conservative (well, more libertarian actually) and I usually vote republican.. she was SO shocked to find out I was a villain!!

That's a liberal for you.

That is truly shocking.. and what also is shocking is how many are willing to swallow this.. and 'our' news media covering up..

He watched them being killed, and did nothing to assist. Yeah, that says a lot. It says more than even the most vocal opponents of this president have ever dared think or voice. It's one of the most disturbing images of our history.

I have heard those rumors. I haven't seen the evidence to back it up yet, but it's plausible. It is a really sad thing to say that I think it's plausible. It shouldn't be. We should never suspect our president of conspiring with terrorists to free a criminal by staging an attack. It does make sense though, that the video was all wound up and ready to go as the excuse to use if it all went wrong.

At the very least, in all logic, it is gross incompetence, but we can only conclude, as Rollo said, to watch it or know it is occurring and allow other human beings to die like that, is absolutely criminal, if that be the case, absolutely!

It was reported on one radio show that we have a force of 25 Marines stationed at the US Embasy in Paris France. The question that should be asked is why were troops not allowed to go into the area and help or at least send in air power. It has been reported that a trained force was moved to within 1 hour of Benghazi and could have made a difference with the battle still going on for 7 more hours. This administration doesn't understand the mind of today's soldiers, when fellow Americans are in trouble you help. You don't stand by and watch them get killed just so you don't offend someone.

Even though they disregarded their safety for months despite repeated requests for extra security, to actually watch the attack live as it happened in the situation room and to firmly deny those who ask permission to help while that attack is happening is something other than mere incompetence. It's criminal.

Not until 2016? Do you know something, or are you just being circumspect in your predictions? I hope we don't have to wait until 2016. I don't think we'll make it as a nation until then.

I personally just can't see him losing to anyone. He's too much of a cultural icon. People to whom politics matter, I'm sure that crowd favors Romney if only to spite Obama. These are the people putting a lot of stock in things like transparency, national debt, annual deficits, the inability of Congress and the President to work together to pass a budget in an entire term, the mismatched rhetoric-vs.-actions, the weakness exhibited, etc. But we all know that's not the crowd Obama chases. He gets what he gets from those people, and those that are partisan left swing his way regardless. He's after the Letterman-watching, MTV-admiring, Twitter and Facebook-using people whose breadth of political knowledge extends about as far as HuffPo, Media Matters and other tilted outlets lead them. He puts his fate in the hands of the people who willingly play homeless and take a break from spending their parents' money to b1tch about an unfair nation, where they need an iPad and believe everyone else should have one on the house, as long as they don't have to loan theirs. I think we'll certainly make it as a nation. I just don't know who the American-hating foreigners and the progressive Americans themselves will blame when it's shockingly worse in four more years. I guess the spin will be that everyone else is still playing an obstructionist role. Or that more wealth should be redistributed. Or that "Wall Street" should be abolished. Or that we're all just racists and greedy warmongers and nothing will ever fix that.

I certainly wouldn't say one is overreacting. Using Al Gore's method, we could all hold up a chart of how much the deficit and debt have grown, and subsequently show where overspending leads nations. Remove "Obama" from the equation altogether; the reckless spending alone is enough to sink the ship. And that's not even starting in on the quadrupling-down of government-backed loans, secrecy, hidden regulations inside hidden bills, and everything else we'd have to put up with for another four years under Obama specifically. But I do see hope in the fact that Obama's seat isn't the only one up for grabs this election, and 2014 is right around the corner. His hands may be tied a little tighter to cave to his progressive, wealth-redistributing, eat-the-rich, America-is-unfair mentality. And should he act like a dictator, Republicans would move heaven and earth to have him impeached, because they wouldn't care how it made them look. They'd know to the utmost degree of certainty that the Democratic political well was dry and that any 2016 Republican Presidential candidate would coast in by at least 8 points.