It's Time For Romney to Give Benghazi a Rest (Please Change the Subject Alert)

Mother Jones ^ | 10/17/2012 | Kevin Drum

[mojito]

There's lots of chatter this morning about Mitt Romney's "Benghazi moment" last night, and Ed Kilgore wonders if Romney will keep up the inquisition next week. "Given the extremely narrow nature of Romney's foreign policy critique of Obama last night and throughout the campaign, you do have to wonder what the final debate next week will be like. Will Romney continue to conduct an inquisition of exactly what Obama said when on the Libya killings, treating the incident as a sort of domestic version of Fast & Furious, a key to the Vast Liberal Conspiracy?"

That's pretty much my question too. Adam Serwer has a good rundown of the bickering over whether Obama really referred to Benghazi as an act of terror in his Rose Garden speech the next day, or whether he was just generically referring to acts of terror, and anyway, even if he did, why did he then decline to do it again a few days later, etc. etc. That's all fine, I guess, just part of a tight campaign entering its closing days.

But what I really wonder is: how has this become a serious question anyway? Why does anyone care if it took two weeks to decide that Benghazi was an act of terror?

[Brad’s Gramma]

bttt

[John W]

Thank you for that. Tweeted it to the author.

[BilLies]

“Mother Jones?”

JONES is code for OBAMA.

[American Constitutionalist]

I wonder if Kevin is actually Candy in drag ? because for the life of me that's exactly what Candy Crowley tried to do last night in the debate is to move on with another question because she knew Obama was not to comfortable with that Benghazi question.
The reason why Candy Kevin wants Romney to move on is purely political because it makes Obama look really bad and guilty.
Sorry Candy Kevin... Benghazi ain't going away, and guess what Candy Kevin ? you are as just as complicit in this as the rest of the MSM.

[American Constitutionalist]

MOTHER JONES ? BITE ME !

Kevin ? NO ONE DIED IN THE WATERGATE SCANDAL AND NO ONE DIED AT ABU-GRAPES THAT THE MEDIA HARPED ABOUT FOR WEEKS ON END 24/7.

[trappedincanuckistan]

We’re talking about this, but why isn’t Breitbart or Rush or someone all over this?

[dirtymac]

Obama stated the he, assuming a Presidential moment, immediately order hightened security at Benghazi and at all other embassies worldwide.

Where the HELL was this order 24 hours earlier!!!!!

Yes! I closed the barn door after all of the horses were gone. It took such courage that you can never immagine to do what I did not do in a timely and obvious manner. Please re-elect me so that I can further demonstrate my incompetance on a world stage.

Bengahzi is important. So are the lies and liars

[stephenjohnbanker]

” We’re talking about this, but why isn’t Breitbart or Rush or someone all over this?”

I think Breitbart is, but evidently, not Rush.

[hadaclueonce]

Thanks, after two beers, tweet would get me in trouble.

[trappedincanuckistan]

I’m just one of a few that caught it. Look to stephenjohnbanker’s post #33.

[rurgan]

I think most people will care more about how what is in their wallet is becoming worthless as the Obama communist prints more trillions of $ . we should get that out there first. then go with the cover up Obama perpetrated there.

[Proudcongal]

It didn’t take them 2 weeks to blame it on an innocent little filmmaker.

[HiTech RedNeck]

should have stuck to cat blogging

[American Constitutionalist]

Rush has been all over this.

[American Constitutionalist]

Rush has been all over this.... sorry, I meant... Rush has been all over the Benghazi scandal.

[Travis McGee]

[stephenjohnbanker]

Still the best possible TV ad we could have.

[sergeantdave]

Buckwheat is cooked, and Mother Jones hasn’t revealed anything since it discovered that fire sticks in America are called kitchen matches.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

[blueunicorn6]

I’ll bet the cats make him sleep on the floor.