Hiding The Sun With Two Fingers

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are joined in ideological failure, both foreign and domestic, and the Dem’s are panicked about the current optics in the Middle East, al-Qaeda flags above US embassies, and flag draped coffins with a dead US ambassador.

All this Romney-hidden-tape nonsense is a strategic distraction.  P.E.R.I.O.D.

If you were to ask a random room of people to name one thing complimentary about Jimmy Carter’s term as President from 1976-1980 I can guar-an-damn-tee you the only thing they could come up with is the “Camp David Peace Accords”.

So with the exploding anti-Americanism visible ALL OVER the Middle East (Deja-vu), and with the President Obama doctrine essentially mirroring the Carter Doctrine,  who do you think stands to look the worst currently and historically?

Consequently, does it come as a “surprise” the legacy media-hyped video tapes showing Mitt Romney in a progressively defined “negative light” stemmed from, as in -originated from- wait for it, Jimmy Carter’s 35-year-old grandson, Jimmy Carter IV.    Hello?

(Via The Hill)  The grandson of former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News that he was motivated by Republican attacks on his grandfather’s foreign policy record to help leak a secretly recorded video that has become Mitt Romney’s latest headache.

James Carter IV, who is 35 and unemployed, said he helped persuade the person who filmed the May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., to leak the video to the press. Carter described himself as a “partisan Democrat” devoted to getting president Obama reelected, but he also told NBC that he had a personal stake in going after Romney.  (more)

Would it further be a “surprise” to find out the video as claimed in the current release to be in the full form is not, actually, the full video?      Yeah, that’s right….. contrary to what the Mother Jones journalist, David Corn, originally stated, the video during the Q&A session is “inadvertently” cut…

Professor Jacobson first noted the missing several minutes, and after questioning the author, Mother Jones’ David Corn sent the following response:

According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.

Oh, yeah, “inadvertently“, got it.    It just so happens that coincidentally, and “indavertently“, the tape *cough* “cut off” at the exact moment Romney was expanding on the controversial comment.

The cut in the audio and video comes while Romney is in mid-sentence, so we actually do not have the full audio of what Romney said on the subject.

So what we actually have is a convenient distraction at the exact time the Middle East is up in flames as a specific consequence of Obama/Carter doctrine 2.0 on full display with: al-Qaeda flags flying atop US embassies, flag draped coffins of Americans including a dead US Ambassador arriving home, Iran on the verge of nuclear weapons, Egypt openly stating they are going to ignore the Peace Accord with Israel -having elected the Muslim Brotherhood into government- and the Romney *controversy* stems from Jimmy Carter IV.  Hmmm…. Go figure?

But Why?   Because it is coming out that:

[…]  American Marines were not stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli or the American mission in Benghazi, as would typically have been the case. In the spirit of a “low profile,” the administration didn’t even want an American company in charge of private security. Blue Mountain, the British firm the State Department hired, was willing to abide by the “no bullets” Rules of Engagement (ROE), so were a logical fit for the contract. These sub-standard protections for American diplomats were signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the ROE. 

In essence, the Obama Administration tasked an unarmed British firm with security responsibilities that should have been handled by armed American servicemen, and it was all approved by the Secretary of State. Needless to say, the plan failed and an Ambassador was murdered, along with several others.

As of now, the State Department has not disclosed the full State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya.  Here is the full story.  (and here are some excerpts):

[…] The State Department selected a private British firm to provide security at the American mission in Benghazi, Libya in part because it was willing to accept the “no bullets” rules of engagement signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. […]

The picture of who provided security inside the mission at Benghazi, how many were in this security team, and what arms, if any, they had in their possession is still unclear.

Though it has been confirmed that two of the Americans (Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty) who were killed on the September 11, 2012 attack at the Benghazi mission were there to provide private security, it’s unclear if they were permanently stationed there and hired by the British security firm or if they were independently hired by the State Department to serve in some other security capacity.

In her press briefing on Thursday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the American security presence inside the mission perimeter was “robust.” However, she declined to reveal how large that presence was at the time of the attack, whether they were armed and authorized to carry ammunition, and whether they were provided as subcontractors by the British security firm hired to secure Benghazi or if they were independently hired by the State Department. […]

Under the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya, Marines were prohibited from providing security at any U.S. diplomatic installations in Libya, including the embassy in Tripoli and the mission in Benghazi. […]

The Wall Street Journal confirmed Friday that the Libyan security guards provided by Blue Mountain, the British-Libyan private security firm hired by the State Department to provide security at the American mission in Benghazi, were unarmed. […]

In addition, the Journal reports that there were apparently just four Libyan military guards on the exterior perimeter of the mission, and though they may have been armed, they were ordered not to fire. It is unclear if this order was given consistent with the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya. The Journal estimates the number of private American security forces as between four and eight.

Despite the Wall Street Journal report that a British private security firm, Blue Mountain, had been contracted by the State Department to provide security for the American mission at Benghazi, and Breitbart’s source’s statement that a British private security firm had been hired by the State Department to provide security at Benghazi, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland on Friday denied that the State Department had hired any private security firm to provide security in Libya. […]  (read full article)

As Obama’s Libya narrative of a spontaneous attack based on a film begins to unravel, the cover-up begins.