George Will: No, President Romney Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Libya Attack

Source: TPM

Conservative columnist George Will dismissed the Romney campaign's suggestion that if the Republican nominee were president the recent violence in Libya that left four Americans dead would not have happened.

Asked on ABC's "This Week" if there's reason to believe that the situation would be different under a President Romney, Will said, "No."

"The great superstition of American politics concerns presidential power, and during a presidential year that reaches an apogee -- and it becomes national narcissism," he said. "Everything that happens anywhere in the world, we cause, or we could cure with ... presidential rhetoric."

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George Will: No, President Romney Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Libya Attack (Original post)	DonViejo	Sep 2012	OP
wow	heaven05	Sep 2012	#1
+1	tawadi	Sep 2012	#14
K and R	goclark	Sep 2012	#30
I believe George Will's wife was working for the Rick Perry campaign	Zorro	Sep 2012	#2
Right! And by now everyone has heard Unsatorium's own words......	left on green only	Sep 2012	#28
How can someone who has been	nineteen50	Sep 2012	#3
Because in America's media,	Jamaal510	Sep 2012	#7
Agreed, however he has a high paying job because there is always	Bainbridge Bear	Sep 2012	#17
He has good hair	aint_no_life_nowhere	Sep 2012	#18
It's remarkable he's in so many papers	Alcibiades	Sep 2012	#24
Once in awhile that tiresome stuffed shirt is right about something.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#4
Baseball	pangaia	Sep 2012	#9
George Will has never said anything more true, or brilliant. nt	msanthrope	Sep 2012	#5
Maybe this will embolden	LiveNudePolitics	Sep 2012	#6
Good. Of all the rhetoric, I found that claim to be the MOST offensive. n/t	progressivebydesign	Sep 2012	#8
Stopped clock...I see George Will and I think "Stolen Carter Debate Briefing Books."	MADem	Sep 2012	#10
Why Liz 'Spawn of Satan' Cheney even	SayitAintSo	Sep 2012	#11
Patronage job at State Department x 2! Related to the Biggest Asshole in the Universe! On the Faux	MADem	Sep 2012	#12
Is she still at the State Dept? n/t	SayitAintSo	Sep 2012	#20
No--it was an appointed, patronage position under BushCo. Her paw made Colin Powell	MADem	Sep 2012	#22
Interesting - glad she's gone -Thanks n/t	SayitAintSo	Sep 2012	#31
I have never used the word unconscionable	Cosmocat	Sep 2012	#29
I think actually saw some sparks coming out of her eyes when she was trying to get	sad sally	Sep 2012	#32
Wesley's been to hell and back--the Spawn of Satan won't frighten him!!! nt	MADem	Sep 2012	#33
No, but a president Rmoney WOULD have nuked Tripoli in response, IMHO.	kestrel91316	Sep 2012	#13
President Romney would have had	cosmicone	Sep 2012	#16
Nice to hear but....	Hulk	Sep 2012	#15
We need Jon Stewart to rip them a new asshole, like he did on CROSSFIRE... nt	MADem	Sep 2012	#23
A broken digital led clock is never right	itsrobert	Sep 2012	#19
On the other hand WHY DO WE CARE AT ALL WHAT GEORGE WILL THINKS???	jimlup	Sep 2012	#21
Not every one is aware of Will's sordid past	DonViejo	Sep 2012	#35
Unfortunately, most wingnuts will ignore this rather than admit they can't understand his vocab.	Indpndnt	Sep 2012	#25
Geez, this is the second time in a year that I've agreed with George Will.	no_hypocrisy	Sep 2012	#26
Really George?	PossumSqueezins	Sep 2012	#27
K&R nt	avebury	Sep 2012	#34
George Will is still a dipshit	davidpdx	Sep 2012	#36