So can Mr. Romney talk about our troubles in Yemen today at the embassy...or would that be a despicable attack too.
This is all about failed US foreign policy. That policy is owned by the President and Secretary of State. Let's have a dialog about them and their shortcomings. If/when Mr. Romney is President and he is captain of a gigantic foreign policy failure like we see going on in the Arab world right now....I will be happy to have dialog about his failures.
But right now Mr. Obama is the President and Mrs. Clinton is Secretary of State. With those leadership titles comes responsibility...and with responsibility comes accountability. With an impending Presidential election...the time for accounting is NOW.
On 9-11-2012 the al-Qaida's No.2 leader in Yemen was killed. Under President Obama's leadership we have steadily made progress eliminating the leaders of the people who want to harm us. He has shown that he can run the country and campaign at the same time.
Romney made irresponsible comments while our embassy was under attack and our people were dying. He didn't have the facts, in his haste to appear like a leader he failed miserably. It was the anniversary of 9/11. There is still some doubt if this was an attack by a Libyan al Qaida cell because we killed one of their leaders in June. Romney didn't have a clue and made disgusting comments about a staff member at the (Egyptian?) embassy who was trying to diffuse a situation that could turn out to be deadly. And it was.
Mitt Romney lacks two essential qualities that a leader needs. Common sense and we need to be able to trust him and his word. For six years his 'job' has been campaigning and running for office. People still don't trust him, whether they are left, right or center. He says that whatever you say during a campaign can change when you're in office. He doesn't offer solutions or specifics for anything. He says 'trust me' and you'll find out where I stand once I'm in office. That's not good enough. It shouldn't be good enough for any of us.
“We’ve had this consistent critique and narrative on Obama’s foreign policy, and we felt this was a situation that met our critique, that Obama really has been pretty weak in a number of ways on foreign policy, especially if you look at his dealings with the Arab Spring and its aftermath,” one of Mr. Romney’s senior advisers said on Wednesday."
