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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:57 PM Oct 2012

Coming Up Tonight - Obama On Daily Show: President Defends Libya Response To Jon Stewart


Obama On Daily Show: President Defends Libya Response To Jon Stewart

President Barack Obama rejected allegations of confusion within his administration following the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya while taping an appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Thursday, according to a White House pool report.

"We weren’t confused about the fact that four Americans had been killed," Obama told Stewart while discussing the attack, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. "I wasn’t confused about the fact that we needed to ramp up diplomatic security around the world right after it happened."

"I wasn’t confused about the fact that we had to investigate exactly what happened so it gets fixed," he continued. "And I wasn’t confused about the fact that we’re going to hunt down whoever did it."

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Full article with more quotes here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/obama-jon-stewart-libya_n_1982377.html




NOTE:

The taped interview of Obama will be on tonight's The Daily.

Also, President Obama and Mitt Romney will be attending the Alfred E. Smith dinner this evening - telling JOKES / Zingers.
If MSNBC doesn't show it live then C-Span probably will - they did in 2008.
To see the Obama-McCain video clips from 2008's dinner see the thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251153857





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Coming Up Tonight - Obama On Daily Show: President Defends Libya Response To Jon Stewart (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP
On C-Span ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #1
I don't know why Stewart was harping on this "confusion" shit--he did that TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #2

TwilightGardener

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2. I don't know why Stewart was harping on this "confusion" shit--he did that
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:09 PM
Oct 2012

last night too. Anytime an incident like this occurs, there is usually some confusion until all the facts are known. I didn't see a problem AT ALL in the way it was handled. The GOP keeps wanting to exploit these deaths, why feed into that?

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