2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJoan Walsh: Mitt Romney will never be president
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt_romney_will_never_be_president/Mitt Romney will never be president
His disgraceful dishonesty in using the murder of a U.S. ambassador to attack Obama will haunt him
By Joan Walsh
Mitt Romney, flushed and shifty-eyed, stepped to a podium Wednesday morning with a chance to disavow the despicable late-night attack his campaign launched on President Obama. Instead he intensified it, and thats why hell never be president.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other State Department employees murdered in Benghazi last night. Its tragic that those deaths have become occasion for cheap political grandstanding by Romney. As everyone now knows, the Romney campaign blasted President Obama for allegedly sympathizing with Stevens killers in a ridiculous statement late on the evening of Sept. 11:
That lie was apparently based on a message released by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo before the attack, which was designed to reduce tensions inflamed by the hate-speech of Terry Jones and his Muslim-hating supporters, who are promoting a despicably anti-Islam film via YouTube. The Cairo Embassy statement read: The United States Embassy in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. It didnt come from either President Obama or the State Department, and it was issued before the killings in Benghazi, not after them.
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So Romney wasnt criticizing Obamas Libya policy with his statement. He was lying. He was making cheap political points out of the killings of four American public servants. From his tin-eared criticism of our closest ally during the Olympics, to his bluster on sensitive dealings with China and Iran, to his failure to even mention troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq during his Tampa speech, Romney is proving he would be a disaster as president.
Critics (and even some admirers) have pointed to Romneys success at Bain Capital and noted that it was predicated on his willingness to do anything it took to close a deal. Mr. Bain will do or say anything to close the deal on his presidential run, including lie. Its ugly, and it wont work. Romney will pay for his cruel Sept. 11 opportunism in November.
powergirl
(2,393 posts)An accurate description of the Romney appearance during his "remarks."
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)for the families of the victims. He is truly a sociopathic, lying ghoul!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)babylonsister
(171,059 posts)madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)a pile of shit.
OhmyGod
(3 posts)Romney can't be something he is not, a human who was raised with free choice. His organization is sociopathic and they have totally brainwashed him, he doesn't know how to respond to human emotion...he thinks he comes from Aliens, that's scary
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and also shows it does not touch his soul by his smirk
At least W had an excuse ........ he was/is a drunk
Every day I hate this man more and more
gateley
(62,683 posts)but he's shown the ugliness that dwells within.
DippyDem
(659 posts)EXCLUSIVE: Bush Homeland Security Secretary Disagrees With Romneys Remarks On Libya
WASHINGTON, DC In an interview with ThinkProgress today, former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge criticized the charge, made by Mitt Romney, that President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked and killed four Americans in Libya.
ThinkProgress spoke with Ridge, who served under President George W. Bush from 2003 to 2005 and endorsed Romney earlier this year, on Capitol Hill today to get his reaction. He was unwilling to criticize Romney directly I dont want to get in the he said, she said but rebuffed his charge that Obamas sentiments were with those who carried out the attacks. I dont think President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked us, Ridge said. I dont think any American does.
Video and the rest at
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/12/837841/tom-ridge-obama-libya/
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)rethinking their support of the clueless one.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)And, all President Obama has to do, is just the job he has been doing.
He's calm...measured...and just what we need in the White House.