Mitt’s shameful Libya statement

That it’s fundamentally dishonest hasn’t stopped Mitt Romney from repeating his central critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy over and over – the idea that the president “went around the world and apologized for America.” So it shouldn’t be surprising that Romney’s response to the attacks on U.S. diplomatic installations in Egypt and Libya was rooted in the same caricature of Obama as apologizer-in-chief.

“It’s disgraceful,” Romney’s statement, which was released late Tuesday night, read, “that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

That’s not at all what happened, of course.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt%E2 ... statement/

Looks like he's taking lying lessons from Ryan.

From your demagogic opinion pile of bovine scat:

That’s not at all what happened, of course. The actual chronology goes something like this: As anti-American protests inspired by a crude Terry Jones video began gathering steam, the U.S. embassy in Cairo – and not the Obama White House — put out a statement condemning “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”

The obvious intent was to cool the passions of the protesters. As Marc Ambinder explained, it was “exactly what Americans inside the embassy who are scared for their lives now and worry about revenge later need to have released in their name.”

How about cooling the passions by telling them that our children have more self restraint than such caricatures of the supposedly peaceful Muslim religion do instead of appeasing them for once? How about telling them that they are making fools of themselves in they eyes of the world when they behave in such a childish manner? Mocking is what you folks do best, isn't it? Why not try it on some folks who deserve to be mocked instead of those who disagree with you politically for a change?

Leave it to Gov Etch-a-Sketch to take a line out-of-context from an Embassy staff-person who is trying to quell a riot, and try to turn it into a phony "issue" statement before the White House has even had a chance to officially respond.

Despicable PoS... Maybe he could go back to the U.K. and continue on his Blooper-Reel tour....

A leader waits until all the facts are available and the impact of one’s words can be more fully assessed. In speaking out before he was fully aware of the situation on the ground, Governor Romney chose the path of the impulsive politician rather that the road taken by a measured leader—and all in the quest of political gain.

GOP Foreign Policy Official Eviscerates Romney

"It’s deeply unfortunate when the circumstance of the statement becomes the story," said Rick Perry's former foreign policy adviser, Victoria Coates, who is now an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and who suggested that Romney should simply have "gone earlier rather than save it for midnight" to avoid appearing to play politics on September 11. "It’s unfortunate that it’s playing out this way, and hopefully they can get back on message, because their point is sound," she said.

Other conservatives were less sympathetic.

"It's bad," said a former aide to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. "Just on a factual level that the statement was not a response but preceding, or one could make the case precipitating. And just calling it a 'disgrace' doesn't really cut it. Not ready for prime time."

A third Republican, a former Bush State Department official, told BuzzFeed, "It wasn't presidential of Romney to go political immediately — a tragedy of this magnitude should be something the nation collectively grieves before politics enters the conversation."

The Republicans declined to speak for attribution, for fear of being publicly disloyal to their party's nominee.

"Romney blew it and revealed how seriously maladroit he is when it comes to foreign affairs and national security," said Steve Clemons, the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. "An attack on an Embassy, the murder of U.S. officials including an Ambassador, is an attack on all Americans and the idea of America — and Romney gave terrorists what they want — a divided country still torn emotionally and politically by the events of 9-11. Romney talks of leadership but with his reckless commentary when events were fragile and still unfolding, he belly-flopped."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/foreig ... romney-cai

Dang... Even his own GOP buddies are bailing on him... (But wait...The day is young... If we wait an hour or two, he'll realize how deep in the doo-doo he's gone, and he'll flip-flop...)

How about cooling the passions by telling them that our children have more self restraint than such caricatures of the supposedly peaceful Muslim religion do instead of appeasing them for once? How about telling them that they are making fools of themselves in they eyes of the world when they behave in such a childish manner?

Gotta agree with PS 100%. Stop treating their cave man reactions like somthing we need to apologize for.

LJ and Archer should take a vacation to Libya or Egypt sometime- see how they treat women all over the rest of the world.

Bear...please cite where I have ever posted anything in sympathy to muslim extremists or terrorists, or even to the middle east in general. You run your mouth off and make assumptions about people here to make yourself look tough on liberals. But you are posting from a position of ignorance. Maybe it's time for you to STFU about posters and their opinions you are totally ignorant about.

BearMtnHIB wrote: Gotta agree with PS 100%. Stop treating their cave man reactions like somthing we need to apologize for.

Boy, it's a good thing nobody apologized for anything.... :Snooze

Raees wrote: A leader waits until all the facts are available and the impact of one’s words can be more fully assessed. In speaking out before he was fully aware of the situation on the ground, Governor Romney chose the path of the impulsive politician rather that the road taken by a measured leader—and all in the quest of political gain.

Clearly that is why the White House has disavowed the embassy tweet.

rofllol

I'm not even talking about extremists or terrorists- The reaction to anything critical an American says about Islam is a violent Anti-American reaction, and it's mainstream in those countries, not just isolated to terrorists.

I really think you should get your liberal ass over there and start telling those men about how liberal feminist ideas "whipped the white boy" and how your going to do the same for the Muslim man, by liberating the Muslin women.

Go ahead, see what happens to ya.