The President’s Benghazi “Sideshow” Commands the Center Ring

The Lyin’ King seems to seriously believe that his just claiming a lie is truth, miraculously, makes it so. His denials of any wrongdoing by him or his administration boil down to his statement on Monday: “There’s no there, there.” It’s too bad for him, that there is a there there. His regime’s vanishing act in response to the attack in Benghazi is, at best, evidence of incompetence. But orders had been issued that assistance was not be provided (not once but several times) to the ambassador. That’s confirmation that what the regime did … or didn’t do … was intentional. Facts overwhelmingly support “intentional.”

“Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down for three days? So the whole thing defies logic,” the Lyin’ King scornfully alleged during his performance. Logic was never part of his play book. In his zeal to enhance his “historic” presidency he should’ve exercised more caution; published reports, audio and videotape have more validity than his fantasies do. Benghazi sets an historic, presidential precedent all right; but the engineered incident is better described as notorious rather than famous; a catastrophe rather than a sideshow.