In an unusually direct and at times tense interview with Denver local news station KUSA, President Barack Obama on Friday admitted on two occasions that he doesn’t know whether the administration denied requests for military assistance by the U.S. Embassy in Libya when it was besieged on Sept. 11.
“Were the Americans under attack at the consulate in Benghazi Libya denied requests for help during that attack? And is it fair to tell Americans that what happened [in Libya] is under investigation and we’ll all find out after the election?” anchor Kyle Clark asked at the top of the interview.
“The election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened,” Obama replied. “Nobody wants to find out more what happened than I do. But we want to make sure we get it right.”
Clark then focused the interview on stimulus spending.
“Well, Kyle, I think that if you look at our record that these loans that are given out by the Department of Energy for clean energy have created jobs all across the country. … And these are decisions, by the way, that are made by the Department of Energy, they have nothing to do with politics.”
Clark ended with one more question about what he claimed was the president’s apparent hypocrisy.
“Mr. President, you’ve called for more civility in our nation’s political conversation – and much has obviously been made about the tone of this race. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, you called Governor Romney a ‘bullshitter.’ What did you mean and why did you choose that word?”
“You know, this was a conversation after an interview, a casual conversation with a reporter,” Obama said. “The basic point that I’ve been talking about throughout this campaign, is people know what I mean and they know that I mean what I say and what I care about, who I’m fighting for and you know a major issue in any election is can you count on the person you’re putting into the Oval Office fighting for you having a clear set of convictions that they believe in.”
The uncomfortable interview was unusual, given that the president rarely allows the press the opportunity to ask him tough questions. According to ABC, a university professor found that Obama has been less accessible to the media — both at informal press pool events and press conferences — than his predecessors.
In some ways, the Friday interview resembled the widely publicized grilling Vice President Joe Biden received in 2008 at the hands of a local Florida news anchor. (RELATED VIDEO: Biden asked whether President Obama is a Marxist)
In that interview, which took place just prior to Election Day in 2008, Biden also laughed off many of the anchor’s aggressive — and, according to many observers, loaded — inquiries. At one point, an exasperated Biden remarked, “Is that a joke?” and “I don’t know who’s writing your questions.”
Liar cannot give a straight answer but continues to turn the questions around and touts what he has "done" and why Romney is not the kind of President we need and want.
He was closing Guantanamo bay but instead he rebuilt it for more prisioners and spent quite a bit to do it.That was a lie , He said he bailed out the ato industrie and saved the industrie.Japans earthquake had more to do with the car companys growth than his bailout, and he let them go bankrupt before the bail out wiping out the stockholders.