Benghazi: Obama spokesman claims it is irrelevant where the president was during the attack

  One of the questions which remains after the Benghazi terrorist attack is where was Barack Obama during the attack? We know that he did not speak to Hillary Clinton and that he only spoke briefly to Leon Panetta at a pre-scheduled meeting at 5:oo on September 11th, but after that the president appears to have been MIA.

  To his credit Chris Wallace tried to get an answer to that question from White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer on ‘Fox News Sunday’ but all he got from Mr. Pfeiffer was what basically amounts to his own what difference does it make moment:

Wallace pressed him further: “With due respect, you didn’t answer my question: what did the president do that night?” Pfeiffer said that Obama was in touch with his national security team, but as Wallace pointed out, he didn’t talk to the Secretary of State except for one time after the attack was over, didn’t talk to the Secretary of Defense, didn’t talk with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as it developed.

 Finally, Wallace asked whether Obama was in the Situation Room. “I don’t remember what room the President was in on that night,” shot back Pfeiffer, “and that’s a largely irrelevant fact.”

  Dan Pfeiffer was sent out there this morning to defend Barack Obama and even he cannot tell us where Barack Obama was during the attack and we are supposed to believe it really does not matter where he was because Barack Obama was in contact with someone even though he cannot tell us who he was in contact with? Barack Obama is the Commander-in-Chief, he is the one charged with doing all he can to protect those in harms way, and nobody can tell us where he was even eight months after the attack, this is not irrelevant!

    With rumors circulating about Barack Obama going to bed in the midst of the attack so he could be well rested before a fundraiser in Las Vegas on September 12th I think it is highly relevant for us to know where Barack Obama was during the attack. Did Barack Obama put his reelection ahead of the lives of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods? It certainly seems to be the case to me.

  But then Dan Pfeiffer did what the Obama regime is quickly becoming famous for: He tried to turn the tables on those who are seeking answers by claiming it was “offensive” to question Barack Obama on this issue.

  This was the same tactic employed by Barack Obama himself last week when he tried to turn the tables on those who question him by calling the inquiry into the Benghazi attack a “sideshow” and a “political circus.” He went on to basically state that if you question him you are dishonoring anyone who has ever decided to serve the United States:

We’ve got a whole bunch of people in the State Department who consistently say, ‘You know what, I’m willing to step up, I’m willing to put myself in harm’s way because I think that this mission is important in terms of serving the United States and advancing our interests around the globe.’ And so we dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus,”

  No sir, you do not dishonor these people when you question incompetence in the highest levels of government, you dishonor them when you are the Commander-in-Chief and you fail to have their backs after they have committed their lives to serving their country. 

  The Obama regime is trying to discredit all of those who question his inaction during the attack when he is the one whose credibility is now being questioned. This is a typical attempt at shifting the blame while at the same time trying to intimidate those who question him by shaming them into silence and it is not going to work this time.