Great point that I’m sure Romney will hammer Obama with on Tuesday.
Here’s the approach I’d take with it if I were Romney:
If, as the President says, he receives all the information he needed from the PDB and feels attending the meeting itself is unnecessary then why did his attendance at those meetings suddenly spike after the attacks in Benghazi on 9/11?
Either he was receiving all the information he needed beforehand without attending or he was not and is now covering up. The fact that he’s now attending them means he believes he wasn’t receiving the information he needed to.
Did his non-attendance lead directly to the success of the attack in Benghazi? Hard to say. What we do know for sure is that he cannot claim he did “everything in his power” to prevent that attack. Even he doesn’t believe that - as evidenced by his new-found interest in the attending the morning intelligence briefing.
I honestly don’t think it makes a difference at all whether he is there or not. I think all of this is way over his head anyhow. Not sure if I want him making foreign policy decisions like this for our country, among other decisions that deal with our country. I think he is just a figure head and someone else is calling the shots.
One of the two must ask questions. The other is what’s up between you and Vladimir?