Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Obama's Foreign Policy: Rules of Engagement

Updated with sacrificial lamb Hillary picture...see below
 
Remember this?

 
 
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The following from Yahoo News
I have the final word...not Obama, not Joe Biden...  ~ Hillary Clinton
Clinton to CNN: ‘I take responsibility’ in Libya attack
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN in an interview Monday that she—not the White House—takes responsibility for the security situation in Benghazi, Libya, ahead of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack there that claimed the lives of four Americans, including the ambassador.
"I take responsibility," Clinton told CNN in one of a series of television interviews she gave after arriving in Peru. The comments from America's top diplomat came on the eve of President Barack Obama's second debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a face-off that seemed likely to include questions about the administration's handling of the bloody assault.
"I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha" with just three weeks before the election, Clinton said, underlining that she—not Obama and Vice President Joe Biden—has the final word on security at America's diplomatic posts overseas.
The White House took heavy fire from Republicans for blaming the attack on Muslim anger at an Internet video ridiculing Islam—even though intelligence officials from the U.S., France, Britain and Italy had quickly labeled the assault an act of terrorism.
And Biden stoked the controversy when he said, in his debate with Republican rival Paul Ryan last week, that "we weren't told" of requests for more security on the ground. State Department officials had testified that such requests had been denied by Washington.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was slain in the onslaught, making him the first American ambassador killed in such an attack since 1979. Romney has led Republican charges that the strike is a symptom of Obama's "unraveling" foreign policy.
In the CNN interview, Clinton blamed "confusion" after the attack for the initial focus on the video, which has fueled angry demonstrations across the Muslim world. The State Department has said it never blamed demonstrations for the bloodshed in Benghazi. The White House has said that the intelligence community initially believed that the film had played a role.
Clinton also said that while she would work to improve diplomatic security, "we cannot retreat" from the world. "We can't not engage," she said.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Joe Biden's convictions of honor and good sense ...

I'm not going to say a whole lot about the vice presidential debates between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan except that Joe Biden invented a new doctrine for the Catholic Church...
Was it "defeté doctrine"  or "defeat doctrine" (see video below)?  In either case there is no such doctrine within the halls of the Vatican. 

Correction after the fact: I guess my hearing is worst than I thought!  So it was "de fide doctrine"(see comments [...thanks Adrienne] )

Biden fumbled over his belief in abortion and obviously was defeated or by the communist left elitists of the Democratic Party.  For you see Biden held the opposite opinion of what he now presents when he voted to overturn Roe vs Wade back in 1982 (the Human Life Federalism Amendment). 
Biden is clearly at odds with the Catholic Church on this issue and defines his superficial and/or weak denominational beliefs...I guess he never read (or heard) that famous quote by Sir Winston Churchill:
"...never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
Apparently he yielded to the overwhelming might of the enemy (those in favor of  Roe vs Wade).  Joe Biden's convictions of honor and good sense were lost long before tonight's debate.  ~ Norman E. Hooben

So it was "de fide doctrine"...then why does Biden's comment contradict it?
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