After skipping his daily intelligence meeting for 8 days straight — both in the lead up to and immediately following the September 11 attacks on our diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya — it appears that last week’s criticism of the President Obama’s intelligence briefing habits has finally had an impact at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
For the third business day in a row, the president’s official public schedule lists “The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Brief.”
Think we got to him?
Check out the schedules here:
What a grueling schedule. Three days in a row? Another historic milestone.
In concert with the Barack Obama movie that depicts the President in charge of the killing of bin Laden, French “cartoonist” magazine will publish cartoons of the so-called Prophet Mohammed. Will Barack Obama get to “spike the football” again?
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/french-magazine-charlie-hebdo-to-publish-mohammed-cartoons/story-e6frfkui-1226476940081
That’s weird. The people defending him on spotty PDB attendance – including some quarters of the Washington Post – have been arguing that there is no such thing anymore, that there never used to be but Bush didn’t like to read so he had them brief him instead, and that anyway President Obama’s method of simply reading his updates every day is more effective anyway.
So why would he start getting in-person briefings now?
Well no sh1t, four Americans are dead and now he has decided to start showing up…….Sickening!
Jeez, talk about locking the barn door after the horse has escaped…..
Not an Obama fan, but he gets most of his briefings via his iPad or smartphone. In case you haven’t noticed, this is 2012 – not 1952.
No milk and cookies
Until you finish your brief.
Stop pouting, Barry!
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Unreported: He spends the entire PDB working out with a small red ball attached to a wooden paddle with a rubber string. Like The Guv in Blazing Saddles.
But didn’t the president not need briefings because he is so smart? Which lie to believe?
Wow, he really IS committed to this whole “presidency” thing after all! Who knew. And all along all he needed was to be challenged. I guess he showed us.
I bet sitting through those rigorous learnin’ sessions earned him three extra rounds of golf at the course of his choice PLUS another mini-vacation.
It can’t be proven (unless someone leaks it). But I am guessing that there was a major, specific warning of a terrorist attach in Libya, maybe even specifically targeted at the ambassador. If so, then he is specifically responsible for the ambassadors death – especially if he actually didn’t really read the daily intelligence brief.
But it gets worse than that. The White House and its sycophants have been bleating that this was all due to that ridiculous movie. Here’s something that hasn’t been asked.
When the violence began peaking in Egypt, why weren’t the rest of the embassies immediately put on high alert? Its know that sometimes this Islamic childishness spreads.
By not putting out an alert, it becomes obvious that this administration was asleep at the wheel – no, delate that. That implies they were driving somewhere. No, they had pulled off to that sleazy little bar and were getting themselves all drunk over their imagined successes, and weren’t actually driving anywhere. And when they did get on the road again, it was, as in most extreme intoxication cases, a disaster.
That’s my theory. Gotta better one?
Too little, too late!