Barney Frank On Cantor Crediting Bush For Killing Bin Laden: ‘That’s Just Sad'

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Source: Think Progress

Barney Frank On Cantor Crediting Bush For Killing Bin Laden: ‘That’s Just Sad’


....................House Majority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) said in a statement, “I commend President Obama who has followed the vigilance of President Bush in bringing Bin Laden to justice.”



ThinkProgress asked Rep. Barney Frank (R-MA) to respond to Cantor’s comment and Frank didn’t mince words:

FRANK: Well first of all, I think, let’s give discredit where it is due. For Eric Cantor to phrase it that way, to say he followed the vigilance of President Bush is a degree of key partisanship that exceeded what I even expected from Cantor. That’s just sad. <...>

If Bush had gotten Osama after Clinton had failed do you think Eric Cantor would’ve given Clinton credit and said, “Oh good Bush got Osama bin Laden, he showed the same vigilance as Bill Clinton”? No. Not even close.



Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/02/frank-cantor-bin-laden/