Steve Schmidt, the chief campaign adviser of John McCain in 2008, stated that Romney's attack on the Obama administration immediately following the killing of the US Ambassador in Libya, was a "big mistake." That's the consensus of most Republicans and Dems and media talking heads, other than Limbaugh who is of course on another planet, therefore having a unique viewpoint.
There's an additional problem with Romney's press release and public yammering about the "disgraceful" statement issued from the US Embassy in Cairo in response to the demonstrations against it. The timeline is all wrong. The statement was issued six hours before the demonstrations started- the statement was clearly intended as a desperate local effort to head off the violent demonstrations that were stimulated by the anti-Muslim youtube video pushed by Pastor Terry Jones, not as a RESPONSE to the demonstrations which had not yet happened. So Romney was factually wrong, as well as politically lacking in patriotism and civility at a time of mourning for American state department staff.
Romney is correct- something is indeed disgraceful. But it's not Obama's conduct. It's Romney's. People notice stuff like this, Mitt. What were you thinking? Now that we know what actually happened, who died, and what the order of events was, try again. Do you suggest sending in the drones and marines and gathering information from Libyan sources before making a strike against the Al Qaeda team that pretended to be "protesters" before carrying out their assassination? No, wait a minute, Obama is already doing all that. Let's see, do you suggest we drop a nuke? No wait a minute, that's what most of the right wingers on Gather are suggesting. You're not that stupid, are you Mitt?
Mitt?
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Of course.......Libyans might well then ask why our bombers dropped 10,000 dildos on them. My red-faced, heated, incendiary retort?
Gay panic defense.
What, if anything, is going to happen with Jones? I'm all for freedom of speech, but if his video did indeed spark riots, shouldn't he have to make some sort of restitution, at least to the next of kin?
or rather Sam Bacile (his psuedo-name. hmmm.)
The point is that we have to face, INLAND, a bunch of American Terrorists and Criminals who should be arrested and investigated.
In order to try to recover on the Presidency race, they don't even hesitate in trying to spark a war.
Warmongers! the GOP/TP people are.
could someone please verify for me?
Obama was for the apology before he was against it.
I hope you enjoyed it: you have been eating too many beans: expect some stinking stormy weather!
"These stupid liberals who don't even think like me, like my tiny brains, are not open-minded"
If you doubt of it, you may check: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981627539
It has been my general experience that social conservatives are more insecure in that they delete and threaten to delete my comments that are either satirical, snarky, use a blunt word, or disagree.
A few days ago I used the word vaginated on Gather to have fun with someone else's misspelling "varigated" instead of variegated. Poof!
My entire profile was deleted from another social site after a satirical comment - but I was never told if that was the reason. The openly christian fellow that runs the site also blocked my IP address. His right - but typical of social conservatives.
Of course, this goes hand in hand with the fact that government censorship is also much more of a social conservative preference.
The only comments I have ever deleted were chock full of swear words that did not attempt to make any point except to denigrate another member. Even then, I have some regret.
The Republican party has become the party of liars. Virtually nothing they say these days is true. And as some commenters on this venue show, once they create a lie they will pile on with more lies to defend their original lie.
In this case there are Americans who died in the line of duty. Romney has acted disgracefully. His behavior in this one case alone would be enough to disqualify him as a potential commander-in-chief. When you add in all his previous lies and plays to bigotry, it should be a warning to all Americans that Romney, Ryan, and the Republican party has devolved into nothing more than a dishonest Super-PAC that cares only about the super-rich 1%, the super-rich corporations, and their own existence.
They disgrace America.