We heard a lot of “malarky” last night from the President of the United States, Save Jerseyans. He bothered to show up this time (which is 80% of the battle), but his claims were even more incredible than the first time around; at one point, he actually blamed the economy for high gas prices…
Say what?
And oh, it gets better. The consensus is that Romney did pretty darn well on the economy (even CNN viewers felt he won that “issue” by 18-points; CBS found a larger gap). So let’s review the most glaringly brazen lie to come out of last night’s debate on the foreign policy front.
On September 12, 2012, one day after an attack on our US Consulate in Benghazi, Barack Obama said the following at a Rose Garden presser:
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.”
We can debate context until we’re blue in the face, folks. But what did the President say about the attack eight days later? At a televised Univision town hall in Miami?
Well, we don’t know yet.”
It’s a transparently insincere line that the President and members of his administration shamelessly repeated for weeks, alternatively blaming a poorly-produced YouTube video and feigning complete ignorance.
We still don’t have a resolution other than Secretary Clinton’s bizarre Tuesday mea culpa from Peru. They’re obviously lying to us. Yet when Mitt Romney finally pointed out this disconnect (albeit very clumsily) in the heat of last night’s town hall presidential debate, moderator Candy Crowley compounded an already bad situation by coming to the President’s rescue and correcting Romney! Only to appear later that evening on her own CNN network to retract her corrective statement…
In the main, the thrust of what Governor Romney was saying [on Libya] was right.”
Thanks, I guess…? Unfortunately for Governor Romney, more people watched the debate than have ever watched CNN. The damage was done. Fortunately for Governor Romney, his opportunity isn’t lost. The final debate’s singular focus is foreign policy, and in a sense, Crowley didn’t do the Obama Administration any favors at all last night by ensuring that this awkward story draws additional oxygen for at least one more week.
In the interim, Governor Romney absolutely needs to develop a better approach to this scandal down the stretch in order to close the deal with Obama-skeptic undecideds. He’s already there on the economic points as far as this key swing group is concerned; that Libyan question should’ve been a layup, too. He double-dribbled instead, and in so doing deprived himself of a sound bite coup. One week to make it right?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athcyCTnTTs
She was in the bag for the D team! Pretty obvious.
"And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, Governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as president. That’s not what I do as commander in chief." ~ Barack Obama 10/16/12
But you and your team did " play politics and mislead.." for days after the attack by citing that stupid video as a root cause of the attack and continued doing so for many days after. So Mr. president..it is We the American people who should be offended!