Posted on 09/12/2012 5:31:29 PM PDT by mandaladon
We're still learning more details about the events leading up to and surrounding the attacks by Islamic radicals on the U.S. consulate in Libya and embassy in Egypt, but the media has already agreed on one thing: Mitt Romney is the political loser.
"Unless the Romney campaign has gamed this crisis out in some manner completely invisible to the Gang of 500, his doubling down on criticism of the President for the statement coming out of Cairo is likely to be seen as one of the most craven and ill-advised tactical moves in this entire campaign," opined Time's Mark Halperin.
That instant conventional wisdom is a pretty fortunate turn of events for Obama, given that it diverted focus from his administration's bungled handling of the entire situation and the failure of his broader foreign policy posture.
When President Obama came into his office, he vowed to repair the damage to the U.S. image abroad that was done by the Bush administration. In April 2009, less than three months into his presidency, he boasted to the Turkish government of having ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay and prohibited the use of torture. "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history," he went on, referring to the legacies of slavery, segregation and the treatment of Native Americans.
In June, Obama delivered a speech in Cairo in which he called for "a new beginning" between the U.S. and the Muslim world. Taken together, such instances became known in conservative circles as the "apology tour." Though fact checkers have pointed out that Obama never literally issued an apology, it's clear that Obama was trying to make a break with the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Only the die-hard ObamaBots will buy their spin....they know deep down their boy is toast.
MSM evidently is part of Obama campaign team.
>> reports are that Americans are fuming at obama and each new detail confirms a man in over his head
Well, that’s certainly true here in the Tick household — but where are these “reports”? It would make my heart glad (or at least somewhat less heavy) to read one. Have a link, by chance?
What Obama should have done, what any real President would have done, when such an issue comes up during an election, would be to invite Romney to the White House, and brief him on the situation, and come up with a common response, if he truly was concerned about keeping politics out of it.
Besides, as bad as what happened there was, I do not think it rose to the level where Republicans and Democrats should have held hands and sang “Kumbaya” together like after the Twin Towers were attacked.
Yep....whole hog.
” - - - In June, Obama delivered a speech in Cairo in which he called for “a new beginning” between the U.S. and the Muslim world.”
Does EMPTY CHAIR-MAN Obama speak in code? What ever he says, the opposite happens.
They’re whipped up into a frenzy because Romney looked, sounded and behaved like an American President, while their empty chair was asleep at the switch. That is twice that Romney has done what a president should do, while their guy remained his self indulgent, tone deaf, day late and a dollar short, campaign-obsessed self.
Mormons may well be many things—but they are Not Wimps. Ever hear of a Mormon Fist Sandwich? We need a man like Porter Rockwell again.
Ari Shipiro was one of the reporters, (along with Janwhatever from CBS), who planned the attack on Romney.
Ari refuses to stand for the pledge of allegiance:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/12/npr-correspondent-refuses-say-pledge-allegiance-or-stand-national-ant
And Freeper pusilanimous homogenousness, apparently.
The only people complaining about Romney, are those who were not going to vote for him anyway.
I expect a huge break of undecideds towards Romney over the next few days.
LLS
And really how safe do you feel with BO being on the campaign trail instead of in the White House keeping his attention on this crisis! Really? Nothing can shut his party down...
I feel pretty safe... I am in Mississippi and I am surrounded by thousands of heavily armed Patriots.
LLS
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