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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe media is (rightly) piling on Romney for his foolish statement on crisis
First Read: "This was news-cycle campaigning by the Romney campaign gone awry. Why didn't the Romney campaign wait until it had all the facts? On his overseas trip in the summer, Romney was so careful not to criticize Obama while on foreign soil. But how much time do you give an administration to work through a diplomatic and international crisis before trying to score immediate political points? You'd expect the Sarah Palins of the world to quickly pounce on something like this, and she predictably did. But a presidential nominee running for the highest office in the land?"
"After the facts have come out, last night's Romney statement only feeds the narrative that his campaign is desperate. And given that the Romney camp has already moved on to other subjects this morning -- issuing a press release on debt and not the embassy attacks -- it appears the campaign realizes it, too. Right before our publication time, the Romney camp responds to us that it stands by its statement from last night."
Steve Kornacki: "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."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/12/romney_flubs_attack_over_embassy_turmoil.html
BTW, this crisis reminds me more of the 1956 Suez crisis than the 1980 Hostage Crisis and Obama, like Ike in '56, will cooly handle this.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)And it IS as it should be. What Rmoney's campaign did was not only inexcusable but was insulting to the families of those who lost their lives.
catbyte
(34,485 posts)He would blunder us into WWIII within 6 months of taking office. What a menace. How 4th rate can you get?!?
DippyDem
(659 posts)Otherwise we would be rioting too and killing a few Mormons.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)That part of the world EARNED their dislike for the western world. How many crusades? How many attempts to take their land and destroy their religion?
Wounds like that are the foundation of our relationships in the Middle East.
As we can see, it will take many many many 100s of years for healing.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)"Just watched an excellent and moving stmt by Sec. Clinton- just the right message and tone." -Sen John McCain
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)There's only so many times you can do shit like shove your kids' faces into rancid butter before they begin to plot against you.
randome
(34,845 posts)...we should remind voters that this was the Republican point of view. Leave Romney out of it.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)When this is all over I'll have a good laugh at Team R&R but
right now the stakes are too high to not take them seriously.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Mitt, knowing zero about the situation, talked about the "day of shame" and then a couple of days later Chen is out of jail and studying English at NYU.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)They lurves them some Dubya Mitt and Boy Galt.
nolabear
(41,995 posts)He is truly without a single quality that makes a good leader.