"Opening the door to radicals, then failing to deal with the threat they posed"

Walter Russell Mead, writing at The American Interest, points out that the Benghazi story is not helping President Obama's re-election. "The President in his naive eagerness to spread democracy and build bridges to moderates opened the door to radicals and then failed to deal with the threat they posed." "President Obama needs Benghazi to go away. Even with hurricanes and tsunamis it appears unlikely to do so; count this as another factor that has risen up to complicate what once looked like a relatively smooth campaign to renew President Obama’s White House lease." Read more here: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/10/28/the-benghazi-story-refuses-to-die-and-its-hurting-the-president/ via Instapundit