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Carter's Delta Force failed where Obama's Sea Team Six brought him the (figurative) head of our #1 "enemy".
I guess an October Surprise aint what she used to be (or what some would hope). So now the only thing the reich wing has left is to argue over verbiage. He said "acts of terror" not "terror attack" (pretty weak, boys, pretty fucking weak)
The more I look at the killing of the Ambassador in Libya the more I think that it might have been an amateurish copy cat of the Iran Hostage snafu. In Iran hostage "someone" hired a group of Iranian students to take over the embassy. In Libya, I wonder if anyone we know hired a bunch of thugs to grab the Ambassador only to fail and end up burning the place down.
"They" should've hired someone from the old guard, you know the group that got things done back in the 70's. George H W Bush, Robert Gates......
The thing about playing from an old playbook is that now anyone who cares to read it, can.
Better luck in 2020 guys.
jsr
(7,712 posts)still_one
(92,422 posts)gone badly
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)so for them to hang their entire election hopes on it is an exercise in epic failure-osity
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Other than that....
navarth
(5,927 posts)we have a winner
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)October Surprise and all, he kept working past his defeat to secure the release of hostages, a release which I honestly believe was intentionally delayed by shenanigans.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)i think of what reagan-bush allegedly did just to get elected. and how they were still dealing with the iranian government during the iran-contra scandal. when do you call it treason? because the deal that was made with iran in order for them to win, seems treasonous to the people in this country.
has anyone seen "argo" yet? loved the movie, especially loved the part at the beginning where it showed that we had a part of killing a democratically elected leader just because he nationalized the oil for his own damn people. just proved that parts of our government have no interest in protecting us, but any and all corporate interest.
also shows how far a sociopath will go to win. that nothing matters, except winning-like holding up job bills so you can make ads complaining about unemployment. they care nothing, NOTHING about the people, just as long as they win.
oh and mittens, did you say that the president had a super majority and could have passed those bills? did you? because if you did, you just told another fib.