Yesterday the president held his first news conference in eight months. It was so exciting that I fell asleep half way though the response to his first question. Why in the H-E -double hockey sticks does he have to filibuster with his responses which are not really answering the questions anyway? God forbid one of the press corps (that’s pronounced ‘core’, Mr. President) should ask a direct question requiring a direct answer. The response is even longer and still does not answer the question. For example: What did you do to save the lives of four brave Americans who died in Benghazi? The president dances around this by answering a question with a prosecutorial attack. The Armed Forces code… the Department of State code….the Intelligence Bureau code… and on and on. Meanwhile, back at the ranch you still do not know what HE did. And the rest of the press corps are aghast at the directness of the question. I’m sure Ed Henry and his associates felt like chum in a shark tank.
During one of his tirades against anyone who has an honest question, he diverted to the senators who wanted to know who gave the information about Benghazi to Susan Rice. After all, she appeared on four Sunday morning news programs insisting it was an obscure video that generated the attack. The president accused them of “besmirching” the reputation of Susan Rice, not related to Condaleeza Rice who knows how to think. Excuse me, but didn’t YOU besmirch her reputation when your administration asked her to be point on an issue completely unrelated to her job? WOW! You really are a piece of work. Looks like you used her. And then you suggested that if they wanted to come after someone, they should come after you. Well, you made that kind of difficult by hiding behind her skirt instead of appearing on those programs yourself. I wondered why. The only thing that occurred to me is that you love to appear on the entertainment programs where your lies can not be prosecuted. After all, it is freedom of expression. But if you appear on a news program as President of the United States and lie, it becomes an impeachable offense.
In conclusion, we all acknowledge the president’s speaking abilities, especially when reading from a teleprompter. But, somehow, he stumbled when trying to say “besmirched”. And, I have noticed that without a teleprompter his speech comes out in short bursts punctuated by “uughh”. It’s as if he is on a five second delay which begs the question, “Who is feeding him the politically correct answers”? Is the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain? In the end the curtain will come down and the truth will be told.