Mitt Romney Criticized For Hamfisted Libya Statement On 9/11, Attacking Obama For Response To Attacks
Mitt Romney has, in the past, demonstrated a certain lack of finesse when it comes to foreign policy — witness basically every single thing that happened from the second he left American soil for his disastrous trip to the London Olympics until his plane touched back down again in the US — but his response to the White House after yesterday’s deadly attacks in Libya and Egypt has widely been criticized as a show of ill-preparedness to handle America’s affairs abroad.
Late on the evening of September 11th, the Romney campaign (which had reportedly planned to embargo a statement until 12:01 am), released commentary on the attacks as well as a pointed critique aimed at the president, straight from the Dinesh D’Souza School Of Creative Imaginings And Extra-Sensory Perception.
In his statement, Romney fell back on his frequent and unsupported assertion that President Obama is in the habit of apologizing to other nations for America’s actions, claiming the White House sympathized with the attackers:
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi … It’s disgraceful 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.”
You know Mitt Romney has screwed it up big time when even the Republicans actually say out loud that he made the wrong move, and according to a “very senior Republican foreign policy hand” that spoke to Buzzfeed, the situation was a “utter disaster.” The unnamed GOPer said:
“They were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it’s just completely blown up.”
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt issued a statement in response, saying:
“We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack.”
Reaction to Romney’s odd response to the attacks has been nearly across-the-board regarded as imprecise, insensitive and ultimately, harmful to his campaign — but this morning in Jacksonville, Romney doubled down on his remarks when asked about inconsistencies in the statement.
Tags : Mitt Romney, mitt romney cairo, mitt romney libya, mitt romney remarks libya, obama apologizes for america, September 11
Posted: September 12, 2012
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Sep 12, 2012
I keep thinking about that 3:00am call at the White House.
I don't want it to be Mr. Romney who answers.
Sep 12, 2012
Well over a year after Bin Laden’s death and over 10 years since 9/11, American citizens are still blindly allowing their civil liberties to be taken away one piece of legislation at a time. How much freedom are we willing to sacrifice to feel safe? What difference did it make killing Bin Laden and Hussein if nothing has changed? You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html.
Sep 12, 2012
This makes it even more obvious these republicans hate Obama so much they would chose someone as deficient in so many ways as Romney to lead them WAKE up people please put your hate away for the better ment of our country.
Sep 13, 2012
Who are these empty minded idiot who would disagree with this statement? “I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi … It’s disgraceful 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.”.
Sep 13, 2012
I guess I am an empty minded idiot…I completely disagree with anyone who would make a statement like this without having the facts. Our president did not support or sympathize with the people who attacked us. People in Cairo were demonstrating in protest of a RIDICULOUS movie that disrespected the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The American embassy in Cairo issued a statement that condemned the movie in an attempt to quell the demonstration and avoid violence. The attack in Libya happened after that statement was issued and Mitt Romney decided to turn an attack on our diplomats and citizens into an attack on Obama. Then after knowing what actually happened, instead of apologizing or backing away from his statement, he doubles down on his idiotic and insensitive rhetoric. I'm not alone in thinking that is disgraceful.
Sep 14, 2012
Mike Hairston Utter nonsense. The movie was released in JULY Months ago! The protests had nothing to do with the movie. WE WERE WARNED THAT THE ATTACKS WERE COMING. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html
Sep 15, 2012
Webb You are beyond frightening. You would put away and sense of rational fairness to dellude and justifie your hate for Obama. Gee its cloudy today must be OBAMAs fault You guys would put your hate for him above whats good for the country and whats fair and kind to your fellow Americans Do you teach your children all of this lack of accountability? The worst thing in our country today is Republicans who can NEVER admit when they are wrong and come up with sick and twisted arguments just to try and convince themselvesa they have a point lol havent you ruined us enough?
Sep 15, 2012
YOU obviously have NO sense at all. Otherwise you would not be judging me. Proclaiming that you know I hate someone. This president in NO good for this country. Get a grip on reality and see that he is driving US into deeper debt, with less freedom, and more government control over our lives.
Sep 15, 2012
You are now blocked from your rants reaching me. Read, learn, pay attention, before you speak.