“My son is dead. How could that be phony?”

We have all watched as the multiple Obama scandals developed. Yesterday he dismissed all of them as “phony”:

President Obama on Wednesday dismissed a series of controversies dogging his administration as “phony” in remarks that represented a clear shift in White House tactics.

“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball,” Obama said in an economic address at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.

At one time they weren’t so phony:

Obama’s comments marked an inflection point in the way the administration has been dealing with a raft of controversies, many of which the White House has previously suggested were substantive.

And he wants Congress to stop scrutinizing them:

The president in Galesburg said the GOP’s focus on scandals “needs to stop. Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires,” he said.

No doubt. Especially as they close in on the Oval Office.

But these remarks represent a significant change- Benghazi is now among the “phony” scandals.

Obama on Wednesday did not specify which controversies were “phony,” but the administration has been attacked over National Security Agency surveillance programs leaked to the public, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, the Department of Justice’s seizing of media phone records, and last year’s attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

And someone took issue with Benghazi being called a phony scandal: Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith.

“I don’t believe him anymore,” Smith said. “He’s wrong. My son is dead. How could that be phony?”

According to Smith, she has been given no answers about what happened that night. She said the administration told her she “didn’t need to know.”

“When I was there at the ceremony of the welcoming of the caskets, both Obama and Hillary and Biden and all of the other ones, all promised me they would get back to me to tell me what happened,” Smith said. “I begged them. Please, I must know what happened with my son. How come this happened? They all promised me they would get back to me. You know, not one of them, not one of them ever got back to me in any way shape or form — not by a letter, not by anything other than I got a memo stating that I didn’t need to know because I was not part of the immediate family.”

Smith made one last plea to the Obama administration explaining her desire for answers.

“How can I tell you?” Smith added. “I mean, it is wrong. It is not phony. It is not fake. My son is dead, and why is he dead? All I am waiting for even to this day is just someone to get back to me and tell me what happened. Why did Hillary do as she did? Why was there no security there when there was supposed to be? Who was the general that called back the troops when they were going to help?”

You can see the interview here.

We still don’t where in the world Waldobama was during the attack.

President Obama has never revealed what, if anything, he was doing while workers at the Benghazi embassy were urgently requesting support, nor has the administration explained why no forces were sent to protect the embassy. The administration also denied the attack was a terrorist incident, claiming it was a spontaneous protest against an obscure YouTube trailer for a film that may or may not exist.

A prime suspect in the Benghazi attacks was allowed to walk for lack of evidence.

There are reports that the Benghazi survivors were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements:

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., is calling on the Obama administration to explain why the survivors of last year’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, were reportedly asked to sign non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from talking about the attack.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and CIA Director John Brennan, Wolf said his office has received reports that some survivors of the attack were asked to sign the confidentiality agreement as recently as this summer.

“If these reports are accurate, it would raise serious questions about additional restrictions the State Department has placed on those with knowledge of the Benghazi attacks,” Wolf said in the letter. “I also worry about the impact of any [non-disclosure agreements] on congressional efforts to understand fully what happened that night and why the agency responded as it did.”

And Obama? He only knows what he reads in the papers.

President Obama, who disappeared from action reports the night of last fall’s deadly terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, now admits he’s ignorant of anybody wanting to talk about what really happened in those dark hours when four Americans died and no rescue was attempted.

How fortunate Obama is to have such a blindly loyal, stupid and unquestioning constituency. It is truly embarrassing that these people can be called Americans.

There’s no point in asking Hillary about this. We already know what she would say.

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This is Pat Smith

Remember this?

But his humanitarianism will remain inhumane as long as he fails to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute.

How about a child killed in Libya? Where is Pat Smith’s absolute moral authority?

Oh wait- this is a phony scandal.

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Except for liberals being foolish.