Romney would not have killed Bin Laden, implies new Obama campaign ad

ABC News ^ | 04/27/2012 | Olivier Knox

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Would Mitt Romney have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden? President Barack Obama's reelection campaign released a new video on Friday that strongly implies that he would not have, using the presumptive Republican nominee's own words against him.

Ever since Vice President Joe Biden boiled down Obama's 2012 slogan to "bin Laden is dead, GM is alive," it has been clear that the embattled incumbent would not hesitate to use the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL strike as a political weapon.

The video, taken from footage shot for Obama's 17-minute campaign commercial "The Road We've Traveled," opens with the message "the Commander-in-Chief gets one chance to make the right decision" and turns to former president Bill Clinton for validation. "That's one thing George Bush said that was right: The president is the decider in chief. Nobody can make that decision for you."

"Look, he knew what would happen," says Clinton. "Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin Laden. Suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him, but he reasoned 'I cannot in good conscience do nothing.' He took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced in my opinion the best result," he says, amid images including a photograph of New York City firefighters cheering the news of bin Laden's death.

"Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?" asks the onscreen text. The video recalls Romney's contention, in an April 2007 interview with the Associated Press, that Americans will not be markedly safer if bin Laden were killed and that "it's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hahahahaha! They're trying to get to the right of a Republican? How desperate are they?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve yet to see any proof that the Obama regime killed Osama.

[puppypusher]

Who the hell do the democRats think they’er fooling?Obama had nothing to do with the killing of Bin Ladin.that guy is too much of a coward to wear the uniform of a member of the U.S. Military.

It’s Truely an embarassment having this guy in command of our troops.

[BuffaloJack]

Obama didn’t kill Osama. At best he had his corpse thawed out and dumped at sea for political advantage.

[Kharis13]

Most of America knows Obama has no military credibility what-so-ever, so this won’t produce the results he’s looking for. And to Romney’s credit, his response was perfect: Obama is trying once again to be divisive in a time of high unemployment, stagnant wages, etc.

Another swing, another miss for our Dear Leader.

[svcw]

We don’t even know if BHO killed OBL.

[Will88]

The best answer to this nonsense is to say that Obama taking credit for the killing of bin Laden would be like Nixon taking credit for the first moon landing. Both events were the result of much work by many Americans for years before either president even took office.

Obama and his gang just can't give the credit to those who earned it and deserve it.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Unfortunately, Romney doesn’t make it hard to do.

[C210N]

You will... probably no later than November 2 (The "Friday Dump").

[reg45]

If 0bama killed Osama Bin Laden, then Nixon walked on the moon.

[FreeAtlanta]

I doubt he would have had to be pulled off a golf course to participate in a meeting about the raid. Whatever is said about Mittens, he is more of a manager and worker than Leisure Suit Barry.

Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out Bin Laden

[Milton Miteybad]

Not only that, but when Joe Biden says "...GM is alive," he's lying about that as well.

You see...the GM that Barack Obama inherited was the original, which was ailing, to say the least. Obama killed it off via bankruptcy, thereby wiping out the holders of common stock as well as the bondholders. The assets were transferred to a new entity, unencumbered by the claims of the original stock and bondholders, as well as creditors, which is the new GM.

But the company now known as General Motors not the same entity that existed on January 20, 2009. That one is defunct. The only similarity between the new GM and the old one is the name. Nothing else.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"It's Alive!!"

[Vaduz]

Bush had everything in play for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and Obama only had to give the ok.
Obama’s nothing but a credit whore.

[chesley]

Getting to the right of Romney is no great task, and requires no great effort.

Still, as Democrats they will most likely screw it up somehow, as they cannot help but tell easily exposed lies.

[Resettozero]

Or ordered him killed.

[Suz in AZ]

“Romney’s not a killer like ME.”

[TigersEye]

That one is defunct. The only similarity between the new GM and the old one is the name. Nothing else.

My mind automatically converts that to Government Motors now so they've lost that too with me.

[daniel1212]

Will wonders never cease. The peace preaching liberals bragging about killing someone who was targeted by a Republican.