What a job, trying to make the Kenyan Eunuch appear as a statesman.
A clutch of newly released White House emails provides the clearest evidence to date that top presidential aides sought to use anti-American protests sweeping across the Middle East in 2012 — as well as the aftermath of the Benghazi terrorist attack —
to push an image of President Obama’s foreign policy as “steady and statesmanlike,” just weeks before his re-election.
In one of the emails — written just hours after a top CIA official warned the White House that the Benghazi attack might not have been inspired by the Internet video that had triggered protests in Egypt, Yemen and other nations in the region —
the administration’s strategic communications adviser told U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice in a memo to push the favorable story line anyway on national television.
PHOTOS: Emails on Benghazi show aides' effort to make Obama look 'statesmanlike'
The Sept. 15, 2012, late-afternoon email from White House adviser Ben Rhodes,
now the No. 2 official on the National Security Council, was released this week under the Freedom of Information Act to a conservative legal organization. It offers what appears to be the first clear evidence that the White House sought a political edge in the confusing aftermath of the worst U.S. diplomatic tragedy in decades.
Under the heading “Goals” for Ms. Rice’s appearance on five Sunday talk shows, Mr. Rhodes wrote to other White House communications officials that
a main objective of Ms. Rice’s interviews should be to “reinforce the president and the administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”
A second goal was to link the Benghazi attack — and those on other diplomatic sites across the Middle East — t
o an obscure anti-Muslim video and to insist that the protests were not “rooted” in a “broader failure of [administration] policy.”
His story: White House adviser Ben Rhodes wrote that a main objective should be to
"reinforce the president and the administration's strength." (Associated Press)
Critics such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, called the
Rhodes memo a “smoking gun” backing charges that the Obama administration covered up its security and policy failures regarding the Benghazi attack to protect the president’s image at a politically sensitive time. Administration officials said the memo reflected the best assessment of a confusing situation and referred not to Benghazi but more generally to unrest spreading throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Ahead of circulation of the email by the activist group Judicial Watch, Mr. Graham and fellow Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and John McCain of Arizona wrote a letter Monday calling for
another round of investigative hearings into the White House’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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Meanwhile Obozo was sleeping and dreaming, getting ready for another fund raiser while folks are dieing and the country is drowning in debt and poverty. Statesman indeed! Community organizer in fact!