By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com

There can be no two people happier about Donald Trump’s empty rhetoric this week than Obama and Hillary Clinton and while Trump continues to grin like the cat that swallowed the media canary, people who should care about real issues are being bamboozled.

For once, Obama doesn’t even have to concoct a distraction…Trump is handling that for him.

Was Trump right to state that we should put a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and employ profiling to minimize future jihadis entering our nation?

Yes, but he missed the key reason why…that being that we are engaged in a war against an ideology and not a religion as Islam is the former and not the latter but Trump has not explained himself and why should he? His Trumpers are eating it up and the media is talking about nothing else.

There’s a reason for that and I suspect Trump has been paying a staff to do nothing but look at social media to discern what Conservatives are calling for. Notice how Trump has yet to put forth an original idea. He takes whatever is the hot-button topic of the week and puffs himself up over it spewing rhetoric with no substance behind it.

Build a wall…make Mexico pay for it.

How?

How does he intend to make Mexico pay for it and for that matter, how will he keep anyone from climbing over it or digging tunnels under it? Also,, how is Trump going to deport the 22 million illegal aliens he claims he will deport?

He hasn’t provided any details on any of his claims but then again, he doesn’t need to as Trumpers have heard all they care to hear on the topic and don’t wish to be BOTHERED by the details.

How will he stop ISIS?

By, in his words…”bombing the shit out of them.”

Okay…and then what? Again, no details because his Trumpers heard exactly what they wanted to hear and that’s that but anyone with a working brain cell knows that bombing ISIS is not going to STOP ISIS and that ground troops and a committed real coalition is going to be necessary with a long-term presence in the region.

So far, regardless of the topic…Trump says HE is going to fix whatever problem is and that HE will make America great again.

Well…I’ve got breaking news for Trump and his Trumpers…it’s the American people, not a president in which greatness can be found and I don’t give a happy rat’s ass WHO that president is. A president can destroy or fundamentally transform our nation but only via executive orders and no president can do what Trump claims HE will do unless he also relies solely on executive orders and that being the case, Trump is no different than Obama.

Okay, that said, here’s a couple bits of REAL news that, had Trump any actual leadership ability, HE would be talking about.

First…Obamacare…it’s getting worse by the minute and just a couple of days ago, a CBO report came out that should have our Republican candidates kicking the hell out of liberalism on a grand scale.

Over the next ten years, according to the report issued Wednesday, Obamacare will cost the loss of some 2 million jobs and here’s why…there are numerous changes being enacted not only to federal programs but to federal tax law as mandated by Obamacare and those changes include Obamacare subsidies being strapped to income and as a person’s income increases, so too does their tax rate with both going up. Naturally, as their income rises, their Obamacare subsidies shrink and the end result will be people moving from full to part-time jobs so as to…keep their tax rates lower and their Obamacare subsidies higher.

Presto…when one takes work hours into account…the workforce shrinks by the equivalent of 2 million jobs.

With workforce participation already at an all-time low, it’s only going to get worse and by the end of this year, yet another 400,000 Americans will be without healthcare coverage as half of all the Obamacare state exchanges have already folded and more are set to follow.

There was a bill, passed last week in the senate, to repeal portions of Obamacare and it will be heard in the house shortly but Obama has vowed to veto it should it reach his desk thus leaving the mess for the next president to sort out and if no Republican candidates jump on this like a starving dog on a pork chop…they’re missing the boat.

Right now, there are 30 million Americans without health insurance and oddly, that’s the exact same number rowing that particular boat as there were BEFORE Obamacare but for Trump, the man without a plan, it’s not on his radar because it’s not a hot button on social media…yet.

Then there’s Hillary Clinton, the woman who already thinks she’s the Queen, who has her own bit of bad news to contend with this week.

It was revealed, on Tuesday, that a Benghazi email was obtained by Judicial Watch which states, in plain English, that while the attacks were still in progress, the Pentagon offered military assistance to attempt a rescue of our people trapped by Islamic terrorists.

While the offer came too late for Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, with military assets within reach, acceptance of the offer could possibly have saved the lives of Glenn Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

The email, which was sent to Hillary Clinton’s top Deputies by Jeremy Bash…Leon Panetta’s Chief of Staff stated, “I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]. After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”

The real kicker is at the bottom of that email… “Assuming Principals agree to deploy these elements, we will ask State to procure the approval from host nation. Please advise how you wish to convey that approval to us [REDACTED].”

The attacks lasted for 8 hours…the Pentagon had military assets spinning up and all they needed was acceptance from Hillary Clinton and approval of military action from Obama and…neither was ever given.

Here’s the real question…COULD military assets have reached Benghazi in time HAD they gotten the go-ahead from Hillary Clinton and a green light from Obama?

Obviously, the answer is yes. Tripoli is but 406 miles from Benghazi and Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty managed to find a way to get there in time to paint enemy targets with lasers while waiting for air support that they called for but never came. But it wasn’t ground troops, the sort that could have come from Tripoli in a C-130 that they really needed as flying into Benghazi would have been one thing but getting from the airport to the war zone would have been quite another.

What they needed was close air support, the sort that would have come from Aviano Air Base in Italy, 1086 miles away. That’s where the 31st Fighter Wing is stationed with their fleet of F-16s, combat ready 24/7 and, given the roll-out or “spin up” time, with a refueling stop in Sigonella, on the island of Sicily, they could have been over the attack site in Benghazi in about 2 hours at the bare minimum and 4-5 hours at the maximum…either way, the attacks would have still been in progress.

Could the F-16s have reached Benghazi in time to save Doherty and Woods? We’ll never know because neither Hillary Clinton nor Obama responded to the offer of military assistance and therefore, those planes never took off.

Why not?

Because Hillary was busy holding Obama’s prayer rug up while he was sweeping his and Hillary’s dirt under it but don’t hold your breath waiting for the liberal lap-dog media to blow up Hillary on this…they’re too busy blowing up Donald Trump much to the delight of the Trumpers who, for some inane reason, believe that poking the media with a stick and inflammatory, yet empty of substance rhetoric, is a true sign of leadership.

Until and unless this email conformation of what we already knew to be the case starts to become a hot-button social media blip on his minion’s radar, don’t expect Trump to issue a sound bite on it either but any real Republican candidate should start taking on Hillary over this IMMEDIATELY because HER inactivity, regarding the offer to send military assets to assist in the fight against the Islamic attackers, should be prime fodder against anyone who has designs on becoming the Commander in Chief.

Here’s the bottom line…

Knowing he lacks substance and that his strong point is pushing the media’s collective buttons, Trump is content to blow smoke up his Trumper’s asses while his Trumpers are content to marvel at the prospect of magical, rainbow-farting unicorns flying out of HIS.

As a nation, we face substantial issues at home and abroad and what we need is serious leadership with substantial solutions if we are to right the ship of state after the 2016 elections and magical unicorns aside…Trump’s self-aggrandizement is a poor substitute for either substance or leadership.