“This is a phony piece of outrage. There’s so much serious stuff to talk about, why are we focused on this?” – Ellis Henican
In an appearance on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, President Obama said that the response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya was “not optimal.”
And the GOP exploded with complaints that the president was insensitive.
But was he? Or was he answering the question?
JON STEWART: “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.”
PRESIDENT OBAMA: “Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed it is not optimal .And we are going to fix it, all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency, you know the government is a big operation at any given time, something screws up and you make sure you find out what’s broken and you fix it.”
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