This Just Gets Worse And Worse

CIA ORDERED TO STAND DOWN DURING BENGHAZI ATTACK:

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11 . . . .

One guy was aiming a laser on a ground target, painting it for a plane to see. To drop a bomb, to attack with very heavy machineguns.  

But the laser itself is nothing, absolutely harmless. 

So he sat up there on the roof, risking his life to paint a target with laser light, and no one bothered to send anything to hit that target.  

Who Gave The Order To Let My Son Die?Asks Charles Woods, father of slain SEAL Tyrone Woods. 

Plus:  The CIA has seemingly just thrown the White House under the bus; denying that any order to stand down came from the CIA.

Obama, meanwhile, is ducking questions asking why no help was sent to Benghazi.

And Patterico rightly asks:  At what point does this become a story beyond Fox News?

With all of this new information, let's not lose sight of the fact that, just a few hours after these events unfolded, Obama responded by heading to Las Vegas for a celebrity fundraiser.

In September, The Obama Campaign Collected $2,199,204.38 In Donations With Non-Existent Or Invalid ZIP Codes.

The Romney Campaign's September total, by contrast, $29,620.

I'm sure the legacy media will be running with this story . . . first thing November 7.

Seems Poetic

Obama Campaign Borrows $15 million from Bank of America.

The Money Game

Team Obama raised $75 million in July, while Team Romney raised $101.3 million.

Remember when Obama was predicting he would run the first billion dollar campaign?  Feels like a long time ago.

You Think?

Survey: Obama’s switch on same-sex marriage mostly political.

Time will tell whether it was a good or bad political calculation.

The Good News: Obama Has Decided to Talk About the Economy for a Change

The Bad News:  Obama is only doing so to try and attack Romney over layoffs made by an Obama campaign bundler.

More Good News:  The Romney campaign has already put out a response.

Obama Has Held More Re-Election Fundraisers Than Last Five Presidents Combined

But, in his defense, he makes a far better campaigner than President.  And even then, he is well off his own 2008 pace for actual dollars raised.

But All they Want is Their Fair Share

Via Hotair: 

President Barack Obama has a bleak message for House and Senate Democrats this year when it comes to campaign cash: You’re on your own.

Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have privately sought as much as $30 million combined from Obama for America and the Democratic National Committee — a replay of the financial help they received from Obama in 2008 and 2010.

But that’s not going to happen, top Obama aides Jim Messina and David Plouffe told Reid and Pelosi in back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the high-level talks. It was a stark admission from a presidential campaign once expected to rake in as much as $1 billion of just how closely it is watching its own bottom line.

Messina and Plouffe told the two Hill leaders that there would be no cash transfers to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from OFA or the DNC, at least not before Election Day, the sources said.

Broken Promises: Super PACs

 Obama put his support behind Super PACs earlier this week, after having previously decried them as "a threat to our democracy."  Now, the RightScoop has found a video from 2007 in which "Obama went on and on about the fact that you can't be against these outside groups one day and then for them the next day only when its convenient."  As one commentor observed, it would seem that "YES YOU CAN!" 

Some good news

Obama's recent poll numbers reflect his vulnarability while signs also suggest that his presumed money advantage in the campaign may not be materialize.