Infidels

[Conan71]

Especially after Romney effed-up today's handling of responding to the Embassy in Libya incident.

It looks like Romney's campaign jumped the gun, according to this autopsy by Talking Points Memo.

The Talking Points article reports that Romney based his remarks on a State Department statement that came out before the attacks. His campaign released the statement to reporters Tuesday evening before Obama even knew that Ambassador Stevens was killed, according to Talking Points.

This was a time to wait for facts before leaping to conclusions. Consider if Romney were serving as commander in chief and he was called on to make a military decision with limited information. Would he make a snap decision, as he did in this case? His actions now are the best predictor of future behavior.

Romney got hammered at the Democratic National Convention for his lack of foreign policy expertise. His behavior here confirmed it.

http://seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019133266_mitt-romney-libya-embassy.html

Talking about this?  The president is always going to have more information at their fingertips than the opposing candidate.  How is it that all the Obama shrimpers have forgotten: "Who will be answering that phone at 3am?"

Simply laughable all the energy being spent trying to make Romney out as a foreign policy neophyte when Obama was exactly that four years ago at this time.  Most certainly any new president is going to bring in the most competent people he can for foreign policy. 

I happen to believe tapping Clinton as SOS was a brilliant move by Obama.  I suspect Romney will tap someone with like experience.

[Hoss]

Talking about this?  The president is always going to have more information at their fingertips than the opposing candidate.  How is it that all the Obama shrimpers have forgotten: "Who will be answering that phone at 3am?"

Simply laughable all the energy being spent trying to make Romney out as a foreign policy neophyte when Obama was exactly that four years ago at this time.  Most certainly any new president is going to bring in the most competent people he can for foreign policy. 

I happen to believe tapping Clinton as SOS was a brilliant move by Obama.  I suspect Romney will tap someone with like experience.

Haha, I see what you did there.

Hell, even those in his own party are giving him the business for the statement he put out.

Maybe you should consider re-registering.

[RecycleMichael]

I happen to believe tapping Clinton...was a brilliant move by Obama.  I suspect Romney will tap someone with like experience.

They are both happily married men. I find it hard to believe either of them would tap Clinton or similar.

[guido911]

So blame organized religions or the individuals?

I cut to the chase and just blame Bush...

[Townsend]

I cut to the chase and just blame Bush...

I try to distance him off to a memory.

[nathanm]

Talking about this?  The president is always going to have more information at their fingertips than the opposing candidate.  How is it that all the Obama shrimpers have forgotten: "Who will be answering that phone at 3am?"

Dude, he attacked the administration for a Tweet sent out by the Cairo embassy before the attack in Benghazi took place, saying that the tweet "apologized to our attackers" or some such nonsense. One which was shortly followed by this (in response to other Tweets): "Sorry, but neither breaches of our compound or angry messages will dissuade us from defending freedom of speech AND criticizing bigotry."

He stepped in it. Big time, and not because he didn't have as much information as Obama did, but because he didn't even have as much information as was available in the press several hours before his idiotic statement. And then he doubled down on it this morning, continuing to lie about the timeline. How many times will you let Romney blatantly lie to you before you finally say enough is enough?

It just boggles the mind that he wouldn't have the good sense to keep his trap shut in the middle of a bucking terrorist attack, or what may have been, it was hard to say last night and it still isn't clear. There's some disturbing stuff just now appearing in the media, but only time will tell if it's actually true.

[Hoss]

Dude, he attacked the administration for a Tweet sent out by the Cairo embassy before the attack in Benghazi took place, saying that the tweet "apologized to our attackers" or some such nonsense. One which was shortly followed by this (in response to other Tweets): "Sorry, but neither breaches of our compound or angry messages will dissuade us from defending freedom of speech AND criticizing bigotry."

He stepped in it. Big time, and not because he didn't have as much information as Obama did, but because he didn't even have as much information as was available in the press several hours before his idiotic statement. And then he doubled down on it this morning, continuing to lie about the timeline. How many times will you let Romney blatantly lie to you before you finally say enough is enough?

It just boggles the mind that he wouldn't have the good sense to keep his trap shut in the middle of a bucking terrorist attack, or what may have been, it was hard to say last night and it still isn't clear. There's some disturbing stuff just now appearing in the media, but only time will tell if it's actually true.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-death-of-an-ambassador/2012/09/12/ed3b719e-fcfa-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

[DolfanBob]

I try to distance him off to a memory.

Chip, Card or Mind? not sure which one lasts longer.

[Townsend]

Right-wing entertainment will run with this and spin it like Meadowlark and Curly spun basketballs.

[guido911]

Has this thread reduced to bashing Romney? He is not in charge of anything. This happened on Barry's watch, and whatever negative fall out should go to him--regardless of timing. We are playing by Katrina rules after all.

[Hoss]

Has this thread reduced to bashing Romney? He is not in charge of anything. This happened on Barry's watch, and whatever negative fall out should go to him--regardless of timing. We are playing by Katrina rules after all.

It sure appears that way these days....

[nathanm]

Has this thread reduced to bashing Romney? He is not in charge of anything.

He's the idiot that opened his mouth and let a bunch of diarrhea spew forth. Hopefully this thread will get back to more actual news when there is more actual news to report.

[guido911]

Seeing that our carp are biting today.  John Kerry did the same damned thing in 2004. The same thing.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/12/Flashback-Kerry-Slams-Bush-004

Go ahead and lob another one in there.

[Hoss]

Seeing that our carp are biting today.  John Kerry did the same damned thing in 2004. The same thing.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/12/Flashback-Kerry-Slams-Bush-004

Go ahead and lob another one in there.

Yep, and look where it got him.  In 2004.

[guido911]

I see Obama sent some warships heading over to the Libya area. I wonder if these are actual American ships....