The September Surprise: Blowback from Benghazi threatens Obama’s Lead.

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126. She is a convenient hook for a story. I don't endorse her conclusion, but agree that we haven't

really been told the complete and true facts what the Ambassador was doing in Benghazi, who he met, and what was said during those meetings. The fact that we are just a few days from the elections, and broad suspicions and unhappiness with events in MENA has demonstrably already eroded support for Obama (11% according to one major poll cited in the Postscript of the OP) tells me that the WH had better do something differently on the subject. Like immediately.

Other than Benghazi, and the worsening violence in regime change countries, there is no other structural reason for the erosion of support we've seen in the last month and a half. This is an 800 pound gorilla that nobody wants to get close enough to diagnose as the immediate cause of widespread unease among the electorate.

I'm not just asking questions, I'm calling for change in the Administration's regional regime change policy. I know that identification of it as a threat to Obama's reelection is not fully appreciated by many - understatement of the year -- and, it's unlikely that this will change anything, but it's something that I feel strongly has to be said, anyway.