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McCain on Benghazi: Yeah, I Got a Pretty Good Idea Why Obama Would Mislead the American Public

jkash1776 Wrote: Nov 18, 2012 11:09 PM

Clearly you don't believe that. Anybody who had won honestly, and knew so, if they were even REMOTELY a real American, would not come over here such a hostile winner. You know your party cheated, lied and manipulated and you just want us all to be quiet so that there is no backlash as there was in Watergate. In WAtergate nobody died. Both Benghazi and Fast and Furious cost soldier and agent lives and those families aren't going anywhere.

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McCain on Benghazi: Yeah, I Got a Pretty Good Idea Why Obama Would Mislead the American Public

On CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning Arizona Senator John McCain made an astute if obvious observation about why the Obama administration would feel inclined to mislead Americans about the deadly raid (read: terrorist attack) on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya last September: It interferes with their erroneous “al Qaeda is on the run” talking point (via Mediaite):

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