2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney to after Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/romney_focusing_on_military_and_KEVuo9G7HD0tNLxDZ6ODKJRomney is set to accuse Obama of leaking for political gain classified details of the raid that killed al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
In excerpts of the speech released by his campaign, Romney called the leak "contemptible." He says such action betrays the national interest, compromises troops in the field and demands a full and prompt investigation.
This ought to be interesting. He's trying create a scandal where there is none. Does he think the VFW is really that stupid?
Iggy
(1,418 posts)"Our great and wonderful Special Forces did!"
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emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)qazplm
(3,626 posts)He was the guy IN CHARGE who successfully ORDERED OBL targetted and KILLED.
That's all he needs.
orwell
(7,773 posts)I'll assume that question is rhetorical...
Botany
(70,504 posts)We have a navy seal team 6?
We killed Osama bin laden?
We did not trust the Pakistanis so we had to sneak into Pakistan to get bin Laden?
The operation was a secret w/a limited # of people knowing about the mission?
The operation was run out of the White House and the Pentagon?
The operation was very risky and in the end it was President Obama's call?
The operation was a success?
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)Raven
(13,891 posts)Obama got OBL.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)in military matters
Willards plan to get Osama involved hoping his son (Tag? Twit? Barf? Biff?) would run him down in the luxury Winnebago. Campaigning is how they serve the country, don't you know. Josh Romney and his "military service equivalent".
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Response to Raine1967 (Original post)
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DocMac
(1,628 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)a pretty edgy strategy from someone who really has nothing to lose at this point.
To try and nullify one of Obama's biggest and most recent kudos in an effort to plug the leaking dam that is Romney's potential voters. Yeh, Romney has nothing to lose in trying out this strategy
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)1) This will just remind people who got Osama. It wasn't the Republicans.
2) It's bullshit.
3) Good luck getting the American people outraged over Osama's killing. A clue for the Romney campaign: people aren't going to care.
4) It's an blindingly obvious attempt to distract from Romney's Bain and tax issues.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)It's a pretty stupid move for him, but -- hey, I'll take it.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)'Where were you when we were fighting and dying in Vietnam? sipping some French wine'?
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)They are desperate and thus making dumber and dumber decisions, doing anything they can think of.
Americans simply aren't going to get outraged that details about Osama's death were released. People are glad he's dead and this will just remind everyone who was in charge when he was killed.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Is he for real??? I mean would he REALLY do something like that at a VFW speech?? That is NOT the place to lob those charges. Did he learn nothing from his NAACP speech??
Newt Gingrich was right.. Romney carpet bombs his adversaries. He clawed his way to the nomination on the bodies of the other contenders in that primary. I think that we are witnessing someone just as desperate, character-bereft, and immoral, as Nixon. He IS Nixon. '
Does he REALLY want to remind us that Obama was the one that got OBL and not those fucking poseur republicans????
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progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Shipping jobs and your money overseas doesn't make you a foreign policy specialist, numbnuts.