“Panetta could have saved his comments until after the election. But he is blantantly blaming Obama now instead. I find that amazing.”
He will probably get more buzz and sell more books right before the election. His publisher may have had a hand in the timing, for that profit motive.
Also, Panetta was a long time Clintonista, so this may be part of Hillary’s campaign, to use Obama as the fall guy for the failure of their shared liberal policies.
But for a loyal Dem Sec of Def to say this 5 weeks before an election? Mighty strange.