These statements are not equivalents;
TRANSCRIPT: Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy at Lynn University
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Obama “Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”
Transcript of Second Presidential Debate
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OBAMA: “So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team and I gave them three instructions.
Number one, beef up our security and procedures, not just in Libya, but at every embassy and consulate in the region.
Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again.
And number three, we are going to find out who did this and we’re going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.”
From the last debate, Freedom came up 4 times, all Romney,
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ROMNEY: “I wish that, looking back at the beginning of the president’s term and even further back than that, that we’d have recognized that there was a growing energy and passion for 1. ‘freedom’ in that part of the world, and that we would have worked more aggressively with our friend and with other friends in the region to have them make the transition towards a more representative form of government, such that it didn’t explode in the way that it did.
But once it exploded, I felt the same as the president did, which is these 2. ‘freedom’ voices and the streets of Egypt, where the people who were speaking of our principles and the President Mubarak had done things which were unimaginable and the idea of him crushing his people was not something that we could possibly support.
ROMNEY: Well I — I absolutely believe that America has a — a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend 3. ‘freedom’ and promote the principles that — that make the world more peaceful. And those principles include human rights, human dignity, free enterprise, 4. ‘freedom’ of expression, elections.
Idiot Alert.