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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The statement from the Cairo mission was issued before the death of an American was reported, not afterward, a fact that wasn't clear when Romney pushed out a statement but did become clear as the dust settled on a complicated and developing international situation.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-condemns-disgraceful-obama-response-on-mideast-135249.html
ya... he jumped the gun...
another POV
Over the top: Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink would include -- on the anniversary of 9/11 -- one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general election campaign. Last night after 10:00 pm ET, Romney released a statement on the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. After saying he was “outraged” by these attacks and the death of an American consulate worker, Romney said, “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.”
Yet after learning every piece of new information about those the attacks, the Romney statement looks worse and worse -- and simply off-key.
First, Romney was referring to a statement that the U.S. embassy in Egypt issued condemning the “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
But that embassy statement, which the White House has distanced itself from, was in reference to an anti-Islam movie and anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones, and it came out BEFORE the embassy attacks began.
Then this morning, we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and others died in one of the attacks.

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The statement was not issued by Obama despite the GOP stating it was.

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ORIGINAL: Arturas

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The statement from the Cairo mission was issued before the death of an American was reported, not afterward, a fact that wasn't clear when Romney pushed out a statement but did become clear as the dust settled on a complicated and developing international situation.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-condemns-disgraceful-obama-response-on-mideast-135249.html
ya... he jumped the gun...
another POV
Over the top: Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink would include -- on the anniversary of 9/11 -- one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general election campaign. Last night after 10:00 pm ET, Romney released a statement on the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. After saying he was “outraged” by these attacks and the death of an American consulate worker, Romney said, “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.”
Yet after learning every piece of new information about those the attacks, the Romney statement looks worse and worse -- and simply off-key.
First, Romney was referring to a statement that the U.S. embassy in Egypt issued condemning the “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
But that embassy statement, which the White House has distanced itself from, was in reference to an anti-Islam movie and anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones, and it came out BEFORE the embassy attacks began.
Then this morning, we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and others died in one of the attacks.

The above post is from the Left alternate universe. Lots of words to spin something very simple.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

 
So the President, writes every statement, by every embassy in the world?



Who`s spinning?



The only one`s who buy that are drinking kool-aid......normal folks will be disgusted by it.

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ORIGINAL: Arturas

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

 
So the President, writes every statement, by every embassy in the world?



Who`s spinning?



The only one`s who buy that are drinking kool-aid......normal folks will be disgusted by it.

Do not pretend Presidents must actually write all statements from their Administration to be responsible for them. I said Obama is President, the buck either stops there or he has no control, you decide. It's one or the other.

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ORIGINAL: Arturas

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The statement from the Cairo mission was issued before the death of an American was reported, not afterward, a fact that wasn't clear when Romney pushed out a statement but did become clear as the dust settled on a complicated and developing international situation.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-condemns-disgraceful-obama-response-on-mideast-135249.html
ya... he jumped the gun...
another POV
Over the top: Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink would include -- on the anniversary of 9/11 -- one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general election campaign. Last night after 10:00 pm ET, Romney released a statement on the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. After saying he was “outraged” by these attacks and the death of an American consulate worker, Romney said, “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.”
Yet after learning every piece of new information about those the attacks, the Romney statement looks worse and worse -- and simply off-key.
First, Romney was referring to a statement that the U.S. embassy in Egypt issued condemning the “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
But that embassy statement, which the White House has distanced itself from, was in reference to an anti-Islam movie and anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones, and it came out BEFORE the embassy attacks began.
Then this morning, we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and others died in one of the attacks.

The above post is from the Left alternate universe. Lots of words to spin something very simple.

The Embassy did indeed issue the statement before the attack. It was the Obama's administration response to clear threats already made prior to the attack that encouraged the attack. You see, instead of speaking of strength and a quick response to anyone who would attack American interests, Obama, through the Embassy, issued a weak response and encouraged the attack. This is what Romney said and meant. It is the left who filters this through an alternate Obama universe funnel.

Romney, nor anyone else, seperates the Embassy (The State Department under Hillary) from Obama as the Left is attempting to do now to distance Obama from the statement issued from the Embassy in order to deflect critics.

There are strong parallels to the Democratic President Carter administration's known weakness in American Power projection which resulted in Iran attacking our Embassy there under Carter's watch and like Carter, Obama's response is weak to pre-attack threats and the result will be the same, attacks on our interests and then a strong President voted into office just as Reagan was voted into office at Carter's defeat which resulted in Iran immediately releasing the Embassy prisoners.

Nice try, though.

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The statement from the Cairo mission was issued before the death of an American was reported, not afterward, a fact that wasn't clear when Romney pushed out a statement but did become clear as the dust settled on a complicated and developing international situation.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-condemns-disgraceful-obama-response-on-mideast-135249.html
ya... he jumped the gun...
another POV
Over the top: Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink would include -- on the anniversary of 9/11 -- one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general election campaign. Last night after 10:00 pm ET, Romney released a statement on the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. After saying he was “outraged” by these attacks and the death of an American consulate worker, Romney said, “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.”
Yet after learning every piece of new information about those the attacks, the Romney statement looks worse and worse -- and simply off-key.
First, Romney was referring to a statement that the U.S. embassy in Egypt issued condemning the “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
But that embassy statement, which the White House has distanced itself from, was in reference to an anti-Islam movie and anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones, and it came out BEFORE the embassy attacks began.
Then this morning, we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and others died in one of the attacks.