Mike Lester for December 15, 2012

The real elephant should be; what about America makes us so violent, and yet any time some “foreigners” bring violence to us, the most violent among us call for scapegoats to punish?

As the “media” demanded the President come up with a response, and apparently solution, they didn’t dare call up the elephant today: the folks at No Rational Alternative.

I don’t think that’s a GOP elephant, it’s “the elephant in the room”. The main stream media doesn’t want to ask the hard questions.

Perhaps the day after Dubya answers for his involvement in the World Trade Center Murders?There they were, Saudi nationals taking flight lessons in THIS country, yet Bush did nothing…

^That may take some time as he stands in line as other presidents answer for violence on their watch..Perhaps he should also have to answer for meeting objectives in Libya with zero American deaths.

Both expressions are relevant. The elephant in the room alludes to “something” being so big, significant, dominant, etc that it can’t be ignored.

The 800 pound gorilla means whatever is being referred to has great dominance, strength or power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_lb_gorilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_the_room

This cartoon is drawn appropriately (for the symbol involved). It doesn’t refer to the republicans per se, it just means that Benghazi is a big issue that can’t be ignored. I explained the expressions in an earlier post.

I wonder how many questions were restricted from the interview or is Barbara Walters (ABC) that lame of a reporter?

right Drc need to discuss more important things like when nhl strike will be settled [more important to Drc]

Its obvious from the ’toon, that Republicans have made the whole “Benghazi thing”; the 800 pound Twinkie in the room.

Why did the Reeps cut funding for embassy security? That’s the Mammoth in the room.

But you’re the one who’s foolish enough to think that I’m saying that EITHER of them were precognitive enough to be held responsible for the attacks.A brain is a wonderful thing to keep your ears separated far enough for quality stereo reception, but it can be used for so much more…

Especially where there were also about a dozen embassy/consulate bombings during W’s terms.

In the minds of most Americans, while tragic, Benghazi is a much smaller issue. The Nov election made that very clear. Boehner and McConnell have dropped it and are focusing on the economy. The RWNJs should,too.

how come demo did not put in the security up grades passed 3 yrs ago how come bho decided the embassy in switzerland need more security than here

I suppose you blame Lincoln for starting the Civil War, as well.

Republicans are big and fat and useless and still obsessed with Benghazi. A Good Cartoon.

For a number of years, there were public service commercials on TV regarding alcoholism, nobody talked about it in the family that was greatly affected by a member that drank excessively. The comparison was similar to having an elephant in the room upsetting things, blocking views and hindering conversation. Nobody was talking about the elephant in the room. It had nothing to do with the gop.

The commercial came many years after the “elephant in the room” originated. Simply symbolism for a big problem everyone ignored.

Benghazi isn’t an elephant in the room if shrubster and cheney’s unbugeted wars that have killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are not an elephant in the room also.

There is no doubt that bush was the absolute WORST president the United States of America had to suffer.

Are people STILL whining about Benghazi?? !

Bush had gotten secret places to take “captured prisoners of war” , places where they tortured the prisoners. That is against the geneva convention! It was wrong, morally wrong and the bar kept going down on fair play and the American way!

So, with all of the regret about Benghazi, have the funds for embassy/consulate security been released yet? I have heard two senators and one representative say the funds have been delayed for two years now under a Republican committee chairman.Respectfully,C.

You guys’ insane obsession with the Benghazi thing is a perfect example of why you lost the elections this year. It’s because you are so, so far away from the real issues. You are amusing and pathetic and utterly hypocritical.

Go cry yourselves to sleep.