'Yes we all grieve for our Ambassador Stevens, our first ambassador murdered in over 30 years and our sympathies for the families and 3 other brave Americans who gave their lives. It's an historic tragedy. There's that key word again. Letting folks know he approves of wasting Americans.


The President commented today on the John Stewart show, " When 4 Americans get killed, it's not optimal".

What an appalling thing to say about the murdered Americans and their families. How presidential and UN- American.

If a Republican would have said that, the media would be all over him.

the context

Stewart said: "I would say and even you would admit it was not the optimal response -- at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page."

Obama, though, responded: "Here is what I will say -- if four Americans get killed, it is not optimal. And we are going to fix it." U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the strike.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/19/obama-on-libya-terror-attack-not-optimal/#ixzz29lBB3WaO





the response was not optimal, not the deaths

but you are correct that the press nitpicks every sentence, just like Romneys famous binders of women comment

totally distracting from the serious questions journalism would have once asked,,,

Where's the plan for justice?

No plan. Just BS.

Why is Hillary still on the job?

Why did barry let her take all the accountability?

did you miss the debates or something

I read the news.

What is his big, HISTORIC , plan?

how specific would you like it to be and which medium should he announce it on to appease that personal curiosity?

Barry's bucket of promises and resolutions is full of holes.

was that an answer?

As far as Embassy attacks go, it looks like the current president has done an improvement. The last successful one (Lebanon, in 1983) cost over 100 American lives and we evacuated from the country. That's right, the beloved icon of Reagan did nothing, left, and gave Hezbollah a nice strong foothold in the region. We remain in Libya.

While the loss of lives is tragic, our enemies no longer send written grievances along with a declaration of war. Which means, by it's definition, that we have little, if any, warning that an attack will occur. I'm almost certain that if the American public had any idea of the actual amount of terroristic threats that we, as a nation, received on a daily basis, we'd be so overwhelmed with fear (as our media and government love to drum up) that it would literally cripple our country.

To blame the president every time a handful of radicals does something stupid, shows a complete lack of respect for the office (even if you don't approve of the current office holder). I said the same thing when "W" was in office: the president cannot be blamed for the attack, only his reaction to it.

I would expect nothing less from this president.
16 trillion in debt = not optimal
8% unemployment = not optimal..........

What a waste of time and space from both of you...Ambassador Stevens, Mr's Smith, Doherty, and Wood are someones dead son, husband, friend, father, brother, uncle, mentor, etc!!
Any loss of life due to a terrorist act this many years after the fact is one too many!!!!...It is not on Clinton, it is not on security, it is on THE PRESIDENT because it happened on THE PRESIDENT'S watch....He is the one, the only one, who was OBLIGATED to step up IMMEDIATELY, take FULL responsibility IMMEDIATELY, and give a concise (honest) explanation once the facts were verified.....SOME members of the press/media and SOME GOP members are having a field day with this ONLY because, once again, Obama failed to handled the situation appropriately and honestly....Once again Obama tried to pass the buck and he did so primarily because it happened at an inopportune time for HIM....

AND FYI, Clinton is still working because she obeyed orders from her boss...That would be the president....Both should be tossed out on their azzes..

actually,Lebanon was a UN-Peacekeeping-Mission,the Marinebarracks at the Airport,NOT an Embassy!

The Beirut Barracks Bombing (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the American Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.[1][dead link] In addition, the elderly Lebanese custodian of the building was killed in the first blast.[2] The explosives used were equivalent to 5,400 kg (12,000 pounds) of TNT.

In the attack on the French barracks, the eight-story 'Drakkar' building, two minutes after the attack, 58 paratroopers from the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment were killed and 15 injured, in the single worst military loss for France since the end of the Algerian War.[3] The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building were also killed.[4]

The blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
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The 1983 U.S. embassy bombing was a suicide bombing against the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 18, 1983, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine. 17 of the dead were Americans. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by some[who?] as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.

The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force, made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War, to try to restore order and central government authority. It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen.

Clearly,the US did not Withdraw as a result of the Embassy-Bombing!

If a Republican would have been in office a comment like that wouldn't have been made and they would still be alive today and if something bad did happen we would have done what we should have done immedietly after.

Because she's not up for re-election and not to mention he is a narcicist and they can not have that kind of blow to their ego.

I dunno, he has had four years to show us...........

When you have an Ambassador jumping up and down screaming for more security and protection to the State Department, DOD and the White House even predicting his own death, yea the President could have done something about that but he's an amature.

The last time an Ambasador was killed was under the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Anyone else see the simularaties? Pretty spoky. The worst President in History about to get tossed out of office by Governor Reagan now the current and worst President in history (which is why Carter is smiling again, since he is now not the worst in history) is about to be tossed out by Governor Romney.

Maybe Obama will release some more top secret classified information. he is good at that.

also good at taking down terrorists,,,just saying,,,