Mideast Lies Obama Told Me

Mitt Romney has experienced a surge in the polls. Many attribute it to the first presidential debate. That certainly had something to do with it. But more importantly Obama’s bubble as a trustworthy individual has been popped. The Libyan fiasco has caught up with him.

There is no other way to say it. The President lied. Faced with a disaster involving a dead ambassador plus three other dead Americans, instead of playing it straight with the American public, he lied. He said, over and over and over again, that the attack on the Libyan consulate was the result of an incendiary video attacking Islam. He sent his underlings onto all of the talk shows repeating the same story. He sent his United Nations Ambassador into television interviews repeating the same story. Almost two weeks later, even when his national security adviser admitted to Congress that they knew within hours that it was a terrorist attack, Barack Obama went in front of the United Nations and blamed the video yet again.  To make matters worse, now it has been disclosed that the Ambassador asked for security several times, including the day of the massacre, and he was refused.

What was he thinking? Even the slobbering press was aghast. He told one fib too many. The facts didn’t line up with the story, and the media was appalled. People accuse Fox News of having a conservative bias, but they employ hard core liberals as a counterpoint to the right wingers. Even liberals like Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, and Bob Beckel had to step back from this one. And CBS News has featured reports on 60 Minutes about the utter disaster in Afghanistan and resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Afghanistan was supposed to be the "just" war.

In an election where the economy should be front and center, it is a collapsing foreign policy that is bringing the independents to Romney. We may have our differences as to our economic problems but things are spinning out of control worldwide, and if we are dead…then the economy is irrelevant.

From the end of World War II, America’s foreign policy has been peace through strength. Jimmy Carter attempted a change in that policy resulting in helicopters crashing into the desert in a failed rescue attempt of our Iranian hostages. There were no spare parts. Ronald Reagan spent the first several years of his administration getting our armed forces operable again.

Now Obama is once again talking about the “peace dividend.” Really? The Mideast is burning. North Korea is threatening the US mainland with rocket attacks. The Russians are re-arming while we unilaterally mothball our nuclear weapons. Iran says it will blow Israel up. Pakistan is a basket case. Egypt is lost. Two thousand Americans have been killed in Afghanistan, and the Obama is flying drones all over the world killing those whom he has refused to “torture” or put in Guantanamo.

The aura of Obama invincibility has come crashing down around him. He was portrayed as the black Jesus. Halos backlit his campaign posters! Now we know that he is a politician like all of the rest of them, who lied to the public about a raid on our embassy. If he lied about that for political gain, what else has he lied about?