What bothered me about that exchange was Romney's bullying behavior, moving with aggression and belligerence into what I would consider to be Obama's personal space; do you remember how negatively that affected Al Gore when he did something similar in a debate with Bush?  

I was wishing that Obama had said, "Well, Mitt, the thing is that as president, I really do have to be concerned with what's happening right now on so many fronts there aren't enough hours in the day to always get to, so I don't have the luxury of spending a lot of time looking at my retirement account.  What I do know is that someone who has a retirement account that's valued at over a hundred million dollars, should probably not be spending as much time trying to find ways to cut the benefits of those at the other end of the financial spectrum, because at some point, that looks less like being a good steward of our safety net programs and more like just being mean."

You know I am not a big fan of Obama's - but even I can cheer for Obama doing what he can to reveal the real Mitt Romney and wake people up to how appallingly bad Romney/Ryan would be for this country.  I have the luxury of living in a blue state that will go for Obama, so I can vote for the candidate-no-one-will-give-a-microphone-to - Jill Stein - with a clear conscience.  

Please show some respect for the deceased, and stop peddling an obviously fabricated right-wing controversy.

Her message that Sunday morning was that evidence available at that time showed a protest was in progress in Bengazi which heavily armed extremists used as a cover for an attack on the compound.

Well, first of all, Chris, we are obviously investigating this very closely. The FBI has a lead in this investigation. The information, the best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. Those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya and that then spun out of control.

But we don't see at this point signs this was a coordinated plan, premeditated attack. Obviously, we will wait for the results of the investigation and we don't want to jump to conclusions before then. But I do think it's important for the American people to know our best current assessment.

2)  the investigation is ongoing, and there is substantial evidence that the attack was motivated by the video - including the statements by the attackers and groups allied with them:

To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence.

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The fighters said at the time that they were moved to act because of the video, which had first gained attention across the region after a protest in Egypt that day. The assailants approvingly recalled a 2006 assault by local Islamists that had destroyed an Italian diplomatic mission in Benghazi over a perceived insult to the prophet. In June the group staged a similar attack against the Tunisian Consulate over a different film, according to the Congressional testimony of the American security chief at the time, Eric A. Nordstrom.

Initial assessments of any such given situation -- i.e., the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- will be repeatedly re-evaluated, and findings are updated accordingly as further information and intelligence are obtained and analyzed during the nominal course of investigation.

Thus, the story of the Benghazi attack as it might have been understood in mid-September has naturally evolved, simply because we know much more now about what happened than we knew one month ago.

Now, as to why you and redwolf somehow refuse to grasp that particular concept and instead cling stubbornly to a patently disingenuous meme, I refuse to speculate regarding your personal motives.

Suffice to say, however, that life itself on Planet Earth tends to unfold in ad hoc fashion, and doesn't necessarily conform or adhere to the script of an episode of 24 or Hawaii Five-O.