The quote proved to be a stumbling block for Romney, who questioned Obama’s words and was eventually overruled by moderator Candy Crowley, who injected herself into the debate and backed up the president.
“It took them a long time to say this was a terrorist act by a terrorist group,” said a flustered Romney
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To me Mitt saw the setup when Candy convieniently recalled words from a longer speech where O called it an attack in the first paragraph, and then used terror following some lead in remarks about 9-11
It did throw him off for a second but his line of long time saved the point for the next debate.
Also, time was running out as Candy didn’t give Romney the opportunity to answer Barry’s feigned offense.
Crowleys later walk back cements the followup at the foreign policy debate.
O may think he won the battle. Mitt will win the War
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MestaMachine to onyx
Overlooked is the fact that Romney put an exclamation point on obama’s Libya lie when he said, “You are saying this FOR THE RECORD?”
After that, when obama and crowley doubled down, all they succeeded in doing was to compound the lie. It is on tape. They can’t take it back. And it WILL come back to bite both of them huge.