Obama also claimed "tens of thousands of Libyans after the events in Benghazi marching and saying America is our friend"
Romney wasted his first response, as usual, he gives 1.5 minutes to general blahblah, mostly regarding Obama’s blahblah. Leaves himself only the end of his time for a few jabs. With 2.0 minutes aimed directly at Obama’s incompetence and being AWOL during the consulate attack, he could have left Obama stammering and twitching. Force Obama to answer hard questions: why no rescue etc. Were you following the live feed, or getting phonecall updates while on your regular routine?
Instead, Romney punted, and followed Obama lead to take the discussion general.Obama was dancing lead partnter most of the night, forcing Romney to follow.
I was not impressed. Romney was a great businessman I’m sure, but last night was where the typical “lawyer politician” would have been better. Any former prosecutor, say, Rudy Giuliani, would have torn Obama to shreds.
Remember back to the original “Libyan Liberation.” Qaddafi was pressing the dissidents hard, back to Behghazi, which as he said, was Al Quada HQ, the city that sent the most jihadists to Iraq and A-stan to fight the Amriki crusaders.
IOW, Qaddafi, then our ally or at least our bitch, (paid reps for Lockerbie, etc), was trying to destroy the big Al Queda nest in that area, then reconsolidate power. We intervened to save Behghazi and eventually topple Qaddafi, but the end result is we saved the biggest nest of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb.
And this is the thanks we get. It's the Aesop's fable about the farmer and the frozen viper, said snake warms up against his chest and immediately bites his rescuer, saying, “It's my nature.”