Mitt’s Romney's Shameful Libya Statement

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from Steve Kornacki at Salon: http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt%E2%80%99s_shameful_libya_statement/singleton/


That it’s fundamentally dishonest hasn’t stopped Mitt Romney from repeating his central critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy over and over – the idea that the president “went around the world and apologized for America.” So it shouldn’t be surprising that Romney’s response to the attacks on U.S. diplomatic installations in Egypt and Libya was rooted in the same caricature of Obama as apologizer-in-chief.

“It’s disgraceful,” Romney’s statement, which was released late Tuesday night, read, “that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

That’s not at all what happened, of course . . .

. . . The foolishness of Romney’s reaction is glaring. Pretending that the statement from the U.S. embassy in Cairo was anything other than a completely understandable and reasonable attempt by its occupants to save their own lives borders on disgraceful. Romney’s implication that the statement was issued at the height of the attacks is also false; it was actually released earlier in the day, a preventive measure aimed at keeping the protests from turning violent.

But this hasn’t stopped other Republicans – including RNC chairman Reince Priebus and Sarah Palin – from echoing the Romney line. Again, it probably shouldn’t be surprising. This is the kind of nonsense you’ll get when one party spends four years convincing itself that a president is something he isn’t.


read entire article: http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt%E2%80%99s_shameful_libya_statement/singleton/

[H2O Man]

1. This will backfire.

Mitt will suffer further in the polls, the debates, and on Election Day.

Recommended.

[tjdee]

3. Are you sure?

Who listens to the cleanup but us hardcore politicos?

The statement is already out there "Obama stands with attackers". Even though it is an absolute falsehood.

I just don't know if I trust that people will see through the bs, and that their newsmedia will help them to do that.

[H2O Man]

9. Yes.

For just one example, today Andrea Mitchell interviewed former Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns. This is a man who has served under democratic and republican administrations. He nailed Mitt on the dangers of the rabid-right's level of agressive ignorance.

The Romney statement can only appeal to the necroconservatives .... who already have been willing to support him, though at a price. The same group that surrounded VP Cheney is now "advising" Romney. The majority of Americans -- including a portion of republicans -- are not going to support the necroconservative manifesto, which includes a joint military attack upon Iran.

Mitt has erred in his attempt to draw attention away from his obvious domestic weak points of helping the wealthy at the expense of everyone else, and instead re-focused it on his equally weak and dangerous and foreign necroconservative agenda.

[reformist2]

2. It's already backfiring.

[BenzoDia]

4. Can you elaborate? I believe it will, but haven't found anything yet.

edit:
I have read a few article criticizing Romney's response.

[reformist2]

6. No polling evidence yet (obvo), but the fact that journalists are castigating Romney is good.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Thanks for posting. Entire Salon piece is worth the read to

nail down the chronology and render Mitt's remarks quasi-treasonous.

Waiting for a Republican Top Gun to use the 'T' word ("Treason&quot this morning about this traitor, but doubt I will hear it.

[JeffersonLoveChild]

7. Romney was out of line, but

Romney was out of line, but Salon referred to the wrong video.
It was not the Terry Jones video that triggered the protests - it was the film Innocence of Islam

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