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The Spectacle Blog
This morning Ben Stein suggested the kind of speech that Mitt Romney should make in response to the Obama Administration’s behavior over yesterday’s attack on our diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya.
Late last night, Romney got off to a good start by stating:
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.
That is pretty blunt talk for Mr. Romney. He must keep it up without regard to the feelings of the Muslim world, the liberal media and especially the thin epidermis of President Obama.
Oldefarte| 9.12.12 @ 2:07PM
No I disagree! It is NOT Romney's place to speak out in condemnation of these dastardly actions, but rather that of this current POTUS administration to do thus. IMHO, what is entirely possible here is that this situation may have been set up by same for political purposes. Now the POTUS can boldly acclaim his outrage and/or take some extreme presidential actions, and thereafter perform his leaked chest-thumping credit-taking for his political gain in November, aka UBL's killing in Pakistan. It is not beyond this group of community organizers to set up and take advantage of this for political purposes, and the American people should not be brainwashed if/when such actions in the future occur!!!!!
Abu Nudnik| 9.12.12 @ 10:23PM
Wrong on two scores. Romney *was* criticizing the weak response. Read again: "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."
Secondly, while nothing is beyond the potential dishonesty of this president, you're crossing into paranoia. Isn't what he's actually done and evident enough? Usurped congressional authority thru executive order re: 1) Cap n Trade, 2) DREAM act, 3) Refusal to defend DOMA (along with usurpation of the judiciary branch of a former president who signed it into law) and usurped judiciary authority again by not answering the bell in the NBP case????
Ross Kaminsky| 9.12.12 @ 2:10PM
Aaron, did you notice that most of the questions of Romney from the press were along the lines of "were you wrong to bring up this issue late last night"?
Mike in N.C.| 9.12.12 @ 2:43PM
So some idiot, exercising, his free speech release a film guaranteed to provoke violence. The ambassy tries to avert the violence but doesn't succeed. Romney issues a patently false statement accusing Obama of of saying something after the attacks that were said by embassy officials. Now, Romney is going to have to walk back the statement which will be hard because the jingoistic right has already presented the error as fact. Maybe, it won't be a problem since fact don't matter to the right.
Mike in N.C.| 9.12.12 @ 2:47PM
Pardon the grammar, typing too quickly on an iPad is always a bad idea.
kpat| 9.12.12 @ 3:05PM
If you honestly think that facts don't matter to the right, then it's probably a bad idea for you to type anything, anytime, anywhere.
Mike in N.C.| 9.12.12 @ 5:56PM
Good point.
Abu Nudnik| 9.12.12 @ 10:26PM
"Obama administration" is what he said, not "Obama." There's nothing to walk back and he should be proud of his statement. Nothing in the Obama presidency has ever led in any direction other than apologizing to tyrants and trying to curry their favor. Finally the egg is on his face: make that "unsuccessfully trying to curry their favor."
I hope the lessen isn't lost. There is no way to curry the favor of a bunch of murderers except to slip one's throat under their knives.
SBGMetsJets| 9.12.12 @ 3:33PM
The embassy official is an official of the US Government, and thus an agent of the Obama administration and speaks for it in such situations. If the dems can hang some silly statement by Todd Aiken on Romney, who condemed them in no uncertain terms, then one could at least acknowledge that a US embassy official speaks for the US government and its president.
Also, can we expect the Muslims to act like adults? In the last couple of years there was a film released by Turkey, a series on Egyptian State television, and on Iranian television accusing Jews of murdering Muslims and Christians and using their blood for Matzah--a classic blood libel. By your logic, it would have been acceptable for World Jewry to storm embassies or maim or kill random Turks, Egyptians and Iranians. Funny I did not hear of any such things, did you?
Abu Nudnik| 9.12.12 @ 10:28PM
But they're special. Islam. It means submission, they to the will of God, us to their will.
Mike in N.C.| 9.12.12 @ 5:55PM
So, Aaron. How is Mitt looking at 6:00 pm now that you know a little more about the sequence of events.
Abu Nudnik| 9.12.12 @ 10:17PM
Romney's at his best when he's justifiably angry.