[Hoot Gibson]

I'm not downplaying the four deaths in Libya, but why are they talked about tons more than the soldiers that are dying every day? Is it political, or out of real concern? Honesty is your friend.

Romney, for whatever reason, has decided not to make this a major campaign issue - yet. Honesty is clearly not Obama's friend in this case because he and his surrogates have lied repeatedly about the incident.

The reason that this is a big deal is that one of Obama's campaign cornerstones has been the "GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead" line - in other words he has been telling us for months that Al Qaeda has been decimated and no longer a threat. The embassy protests and, especially the terrorist attack on the Libyan consulate in Benghazi has focused attention on the fact that terrorism is alive and well in the world and Al Queda is active in more countries now than it was four years ago.

The people making the most serious charges against Obama are some of the surviving family members of the Benghazi victims. Whoever is leaking information such as the three email messages that went to the White House Situation Room the night of the attack (most likely a Democrat or a career diplomat) is very concerned that those who botched the response to the attack will get away with it.

In the absence of information to the contrary, it is reasonable and logical to assume that Obama himself made the decision not to allow our military to rush to the aid of those who were under attack in Benghazi. The two CIA operatives who may have ignored orders and rushed to try to save the ambassador will eventually be treated as heroes in this affair. The fact that Obama and his administration are refusing to explain what happened speaks volumes about what happened.

Obama knows what went down on his end without waiting for an investigation after the election. Yet he is using the investigation as an excuse to dodge questions about his own role. Quite a contrast to how freely information flowed following from the lips of Obama and Biden following the death of Bin Laden.

The fact that Obama has boasted on the campaign trail about his handling the terrorism threat to this country and his direct involvement in the events that transpired in Benghazi is the reason that these four deaths are getting as much attention as they are.

IMO, the media is not doing enough to inform voters of the circumstances that surround those deaths or the cover-up that has followed them.