Joan Walsh: Mitt Romney will never be president

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt_romney_will_never_be_president/

Mitt Romney will never be president
His disgraceful dishonesty in using the murder of a U.S. ambassador to attack Obama will haunt him
By Joan Walsh


Mitt Romney, flushed and shifty-eyed, stepped to a podium Wednesday morning with a chance to disavow the despicable late-night attack his campaign launched on President Obama. Instead he intensified it, and that’s why he’ll never be president.

My thoughts and prayers are with the families of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other State Department employees murdered in Benghazi last night. It’s tragic that those deaths have become occasion for cheap political grandstanding by Romney. As everyone now knows, the Romney campaign blasted President Obama for allegedly sympathizing with Stevens’ killers in a ridiculous statement late on the evening of Sept. 11:

I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful 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 lie was apparently based on a message released by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo before the attack, which was designed to reduce tensions inflamed by the hate-speech of Terry Jones and his Muslim-hating supporters, who are promoting a despicably anti-Islam film via YouTube. The Cairo Embassy statement read: “The United States Embassy in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.” It didn’t come from either President Obama or the State Department, and it was issued before the killings in Benghazi, not after them.

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So Romney wasn’t criticizing Obama’s Libya policy with his statement. He was lying. He was making cheap political points out of the killings of four American public servants. From his tin-eared criticism of our closest ally during the Olympics, to his bluster on sensitive dealings with China and Iran, to his failure to even mention troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq during his Tampa speech, Romney is proving he would be a disaster as president.

Critics (and even some admirers) have pointed to Romney’s success at Bain Capital and noted that it was predicated on his willingness to do anything it took to close a deal. Mr. Bain will do or say anything to close the deal on his presidential run, including lie. It’s ugly, and it won’t work. Romney will pay for his cruel Sept. 11 opportunism in November.

[powergirl]

1. flushed and shifty-eyed 'splains it all

An accurate description of the Romney appearance during his "remarks."

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. And still no sign of sympathy

for the families of the victims. He is truly a sociopathic, lying ghoul!

[Tx4obama]

3. Romney left the podium SMILING after talking about embassy killings. Photo link below

Larger version here: https://twitter.com/CharlesDharapak/status/245893711257563136/photo/1/large

[babylonsister]

4. The journalists look sort of stunned, and rightly so. nt

[madaboutharry]

9. Yes, they do. Maybe even angry.

[gateley]

11. Someone posted other shots from that, and in each one he looked to be SMIRKING!

[Tx4obama]

13. Here's a link with a bunch of other photos

http://www.politicususa.com/hell-mitt-romney-smiling-about.html

[jimlup]

5. His base will eat it up but the rest of the country will see him for what he is

a pile of shit.

[OhmyGod]

6. The brain washing shows

Romney can't be something he is not, a human who was raised with free choice. His organization is sociopathic and they have totally brainwashed him, he doesn't know how to respond to human emotion...he thinks he comes from Aliens, that's scary

[Tx4obama]

7. More GOPers (including John McCain) turning on Romney, article on link below

Here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/foreign-policy-hands-voice-disbelief-at-romney-cai

[gateley]

12. I'd love for McCain to let something "slip" about Romney's taxes.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Willard shows he is not afraid to use dead Americans to be President

and also shows it does not touch his soul by his smirk

At least W had an excuse ........ he was/is a drunk



Every day I hate this man more and more

[gateley]

14. I've come to hate him, too. At first I thought he'd be pretty harmless,

but he's shown the ugliness that dwells within.

[DippyDem]

10. Tom Ridge, too

EXCLUSIVE: Bush Homeland Security Secretary Disagrees With Romney’s Remarks On Libya

WASHINGTON, DC — In an interview with ThinkProgress today, former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge criticized the charge, made by Mitt Romney, that President Obama “sympathizes” with those who attacked and killed four Americans in Libya.

ThinkProgress spoke with Ridge, who served under President George W. Bush from 2003 to 2005 and endorsed Romney earlier this year, on Capitol Hill today to get his reaction. He was unwilling to criticize Romney directly — “I don’t want to get in the he said, she said” — but rebuffed his charge that Obama’s sentiments were with those who carried out the attacks. “I don’t think President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked us,” Ridge said. “I don’t think any American does.”

Video and the rest at
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/12/837841/tom-ridge-obama-libya/

[babylonsister]

15. Thanks, and good. Cooler heads are prevailing and hopefully

rethinking their support of the clueless one.

[SoapBox]

16. I love Joan...

And, all President Obama has to do, is just the job he has been doing.

He's calm...measured...and just what we need in the White House.

[DeSwiss]

17. I agree completely. - K&R n/t