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Excerpt :
"Ben LaBolt, the national press secretary at Obama for America, fired
back at Romney early Wednesday morning, 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.”
The Coward Jingoist Demagogue Mitt Romney is making politics with the deaths of some Americans including the Ambassador. And this imprudent declarations during an Ongoing Dangerous Situation.
Remember that Mitt Romney evaded the Vietnam War with the ridiculous excuse of being a Mormon Missionary in France.
POLITICO.COM
Romney blasts Obama ‘apology’
By KATIE GLUECK
September 12, 2012
Romney blasts Obama ‘apology’
Some excerpts :
The GOP nominee said the embassy’s statement was “akin” offering an “apology” to the violent protesters, and he called it “disgraceful to apologize for American values.”
“It’s their administration,” Romney said at a press conference on the campaign trail in Florida. “Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also the words from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world. And the statement that came from the administration—and the embassy is the administration—the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology. And I think it was a severe miscalculation.”
Romney’s broadside came after angry mobs attacked U.S. diplomatic buildings in Cairo and Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, 11 years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The incident immediately ignited a war of words between the Obama and Romney campaigns and sparked fiery reactions from across the political spectrum. In Libya, four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to that country, died in the attacks, according to the Associated Press, while in Egypt, angry protesters scaled the walls of the embassy and desecrated the American flag, replacing it with an Islamic banner.
Obama, speaking from the Rose Garden Wednesday morning, steered clear of Romney and the political flap, instead offering condolences to the families and friends of those who died in Libya, and pledging that justice would be done.
“We will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act, and make no mistake: justice will be done,” Obama said. “But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.”
Vice President Joe Biden echoed Obama’s comments in his own address in comments made Wednesday afternoon in Fairborn, Ohio.
“As we always have, Americans must be steadfast, resolved and committed in the face of such horrific events,” Biden said. “Let me be clear. We are resolved to bring to justice their killers.”
The violence came in the wake of a little-known video, produced in the U.S., that was considered inflammatory in parts of the Muslim world, and the protests were possibly connected to that film. The New York Times issued an alert mid-Wednesday saying that the attack in Libya may have been planned, according to Obama administration officials.
“I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens,” said Obama in a statement released Wednesday morning, ahead of the White House speech. “While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.”
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