Now this shoe drops. ..
Bad optics...very bad.
Not only that, but even if Obama tried to show some level of objectivism and got the Marine released from Mexico, it’ll STILL have the look of desperation.
Plus, Obama will have a hard time finding five illegal aliens to exchange who’d actually WANT to go back to Mexico.
Those 5 terrorists, who we wouldn’t have known about if not for Wikileaks, went free to get this loser back. Good, honorable Americans died to capture them. Good, honorable Americans died searching for this loser. The 5 terrorist will be directly involved with killing more innocent people. This is really, really bad.
“Bad optics...very bad.”
It seems they thought they could get away with doing this as a yellow ribbon affair. Makes no obvious sense when it was common knowledge up and down the chain that this situation was toxic.
Now Hillary comes out saying it was tough, but the right decision. Some have suggested that Benghazi blackmail is going on. That might explain it.