...pssst...Benghazi tinfoilers...when The Economist calls you a total blithering idiot...

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1. In all fairness, the GOP strategy isn't *quite* as silly as it seems

What they're trying to argue is that Obama ran on his reputation as the man who killed bin Laden and largely shut down the al Qaeda networks -- and if the American people found out there were still actual terrorists around with the ability to kill Americans, it would have undercut that image.

Yeah, it's pretty tenuous, especially since Rice's speech was on September 15 and the true facts of the matter came out long before the election and with no discernible impact on the outcome. But the difference between terrorists and angry rioters isn't quite as meaningless as the article makes it out to be.