I am not sure why, but I happen to be on the White House political distribution list. That means that every political press release or other announcement that comes out of the Obama White House is emailed to me among countless thousand others. It is not the regular press list (although I am sure that most of the mainstream media is on the list,) The items I get are political in nature; they are the White House communicating with its strong supporters.
Today, I got a note from Washington telling me to "save the date". It was like one of those post cards that you get from a couple planning a wedding in which they tell you that in only thirteen months they are getting married on a particular day. You are supposed to keep the day clear so that nothing interferes with your presence at the ceremony. Anyway, I got an email with the reference "save the date" this morning. The content was so extraordinary that I thought I should repeat it here in its entirety, so here goes:
"Save The Date
Friends, we are writing to bring you good news. On October 28, 2014, a strike force from the Joint Special Operations Command is going to take out the leaders of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. These men organized an onslaught that killed four brave Americans including our ambassador to Libya on September 11, 2012. Since then, they have lived openly in Benghazi and elsewhere in Libya and have not even tried to deny responsibility for the attack. Our government cannot tolerate this sort of attack on American citizens and certainly will not tolerate such an attack on our diplomatic posts. Justice will be meted out to these reprobates.
We expect that the right wing Republicans will criticize the timing of the mission since it will occur just one week prior to the mid-term elections of 2014. This is just more of the usual baseless sniping from the Tea Party and its supporters among the Republicans. We tell you now that the date for the attack has been chosen because it is the earliest date when our forces will be ready and we know for certain that all the targets will be in disclosed locations.
We also know that we will have to get the word out to counter the expected phony outrage expressed by the right wing. They will have the Koch brothers to fund their attacks, but we will need to respond on our own. Please help us gather a fund that we can use to get the truth to the American people. Your contribution of ......................................."
I left off all the fund raising details, but you get the picture.
Today, I got a note from Washington telling me to "save the date". It was like one of those post cards that you get from a couple planning a wedding in which they tell you that in only thirteen months they are getting married on a particular day. You are supposed to keep the day clear so that nothing interferes with your presence at the ceremony. Anyway, I got an email with the reference "save the date" this morning. The content was so extraordinary that I thought I should repeat it here in its entirety, so here goes:
"Save The Date
Friends, we are writing to bring you good news. On October 28, 2014, a strike force from the Joint Special Operations Command is going to take out the leaders of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. These men organized an onslaught that killed four brave Americans including our ambassador to Libya on September 11, 2012. Since then, they have lived openly in Benghazi and elsewhere in Libya and have not even tried to deny responsibility for the attack. Our government cannot tolerate this sort of attack on American citizens and certainly will not tolerate such an attack on our diplomatic posts. Justice will be meted out to these reprobates.
We expect that the right wing Republicans will criticize the timing of the mission since it will occur just one week prior to the mid-term elections of 2014. This is just more of the usual baseless sniping from the Tea Party and its supporters among the Republicans. We tell you now that the date for the attack has been chosen because it is the earliest date when our forces will be ready and we know for certain that all the targets will be in disclosed locations.
We also know that we will have to get the word out to counter the expected phony outrage expressed by the right wing. They will have the Koch brothers to fund their attacks, but we will need to respond on our own. Please help us gather a fund that we can use to get the truth to the American people. Your contribution of ......................................."
I left off all the fund raising details, but you get the picture.
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