Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?

[DeistPaladin]

I don't think lying about it helped or would have helped him much at all. In my opinion the American public is understanding of the fact that sometimes, despite our best efforts, the bad guys are going to land hits. Obama didn't need to lie in my opinion.

However, the days after the murder, The Obama administration seemed hell bent on portraying this as spontaneouss consequence of Muslim anger toward a YouTube film instead of a pre-planed coordinated terrorist attack. So if you want to know why Obama felt the need to lie....you will have to ask him. I don't see a need for a lie. I see a lie.

OK, for now, we're setting aside my questions #1 and #2, which ask you to back up the allegations that he "lied", which shouldn't be hard since it was so "obvious". As an aside, I note you're already hedging, going from "obvious" to "seemed".

It was also, by the way, next day, not "days after the murder", that Obama called it a terrorist attack. But let that go for now.

Right now, we're focusing on what exactly the allegation is and why, if true, it's so terrible. Certainly more terrible than outing a CIA agent or lying our nation into a war.

You admit you can't put together any motivation for Obama to lie about the terrorist attack and then correct himself the next day? I'm not asking you or anyone to read his mind. I'm asking you to clarify your accusation, which normally includes means, *MOTIVE* and opportunity.

If you can't come up with a motive, you don't really have a strong accusation. If you wish to accuse him anyway, we can move on to my questions #1 and #2 and start providing strong evidence that he wasn't just mistaken or there wasn't just a lot of confusion but that he knowingly lied. Hopefully, your evidence will compensate for the weakness of the accusation itself.