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Not only has Barack Obama not attended an intelligence briefing since Sept 5, he canceled the briefing yesterday, the day after the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya.

Focused like a laser: Not only has Barack Obama not attended an intelligence briefing since Sept 5, he canceled the briefing yesterday, the day after the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya.

And why did he not have a briefing yesterday? He had a campaign fundraiser he just had to attend in Las Vegas.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • Things like security and the economy are secondary, his main job right now is to be reelected. Period.

    Then you will really know who Barack Hussein Obama is.

  • wodun

    I find these unpatriotic comments very troubling. The Obama demands our unquestionable loyalty during these difficult times. There will be plenty of time to examine the situation after November but preferbly not until 2016 if you find the need to be so un-american at all.

  • Chris Kirkendall

    I assume that was a heavy dose of sarcasm there, right wodun?? ! ! It really is a bit unsettling to think what Obama would have in store for us if re-elected, once he knows he doesn’t face the voters again. And it goes without saying he would interpret his re-election as a madate to continue doing what he’s done the last 4 years & even expand on it.

    To the point of this article, the most dangerous trait a leader can have is thinking he’s smarter than everyone else & therefore doesn’t need to seek or heed advice. By not attending daily Intelligence briefings, he may have just proved how mistaken that notion was, given what’s happened. And you’d think that AFTER what’s happened, he’d certainly want to be fully informed on every new development. The fact he’d regard an appearance on Letterman or a fundraiser as more importnat than our security is disturbing & unsettling – to say the LEAST…

  • “This morning, the White House announced that Obama will continue with today’s campaign schedule. He leaves this afternoon for Vegas, to attend a fundraiser for his reelection.”

    News item, 12 September 2012

    “You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.”

    Obama speech, February 2009

    “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices. It’s time your government did the same.”

    Obama speech, February 2010

  • And now we learn that there was credible information 48 hours before the attack on our embassies and the murder of four of our diplomats.

    When your totally immersed in getting reelected who has time to ensure that your people are safe ?

    In the real world what should the casualty rate be for every murdered diplomat?

    Barack Obama must be rejected by the people of America with extreme prejudice.

  • jwing

    And just where are the journalists of the mainstream media? It is obvious…they ceased to be journalists years ago. The forth estate’s foundation is cracked, the chimney is teatering, and soon the roof will collapse in to expose the building as a faux stucco ediffice of the past. Hopefully, Americans will wake up from their hypnotic spell cast by these odious elite statists before November.

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