Romney 'Outraged' Over Obama 'Sympathy' for Embassy Attackers

[Vertnut]

This is only going to spread to other embassies. They'll push to see what they can get away with, and no response from Obama will only empower them.

Not just embassies. I'm betting you will see strategic moves by Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea. Once lions spot a weak or wounded animal, they tear him to shreds.

[Sean88gt]

October surprise a month early?

[talisman]

Unbelievable. November can't get here quick enough.

[sc281]

Quotes?

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/12/dueling-pressers-romney-takes-questions-obama-doesnt-on-egypt-libya-attacks/

REPORTER: the statement you referred to was a toughly worded statement last night. Do you regret the tone at all given what we know?
ROMNEY: the embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached, protestors were inside the grounds, they reiterated that statement after the breach. I think heights a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that instead when our ground are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the united states must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. An apology for America’s values is never the right course.
REPORTER: governor Romney do you think, though, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded overnight was appropriate, to be weighing on this as this crisis is unfolding in real time?
ROMNEY: the white house also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate. They were the wrong course to take when our embassy has been breached by protestors. The first response should not be to say, yes, we stand by our comments that suggest that there is something wrong with the right of free speech.
REPORTER: what did the white house do wrong, then, Governor Romney if they put out a statement saying they disagreed witness?
ROMNEY: their administration spoke. the president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his ambassadors from his administration, from his embassies, from the 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 was a severe miscalculation.
REPORTER: you talk about mixed signals. The world was watching, isn’t this assault a mixed signal when you criticize the president when Americans are being killed shouldn’t politics stop.
ROMNEY: we were speaking about the different courses we could take with regard to the challenges the world faces. The president and I have differences of opinion with regard to Israel and our policies there, with regards to Iran, with regards to Afghanistan, with regards to Syria we have many distinctions and differences. We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. It’s also important for me just as it was for the white house last night by the way to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values.
REPORTER: governor some people have said that you jumped the gun a little in putting that statement out last night and you should have waited until more details were available. Do you regret having that statement come out so early before we learned about all the things that were happening?
ROMNEY: I don’t think we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles. We express immediately when we feel that the president and his administration have done something which is than consistent with the principles of America. Simply put, having an embassy which has been breached and has protestors on its grounds. Having violated the sovereignty of the United States. Having to embassy reiterating a statement apologizing for the right of free speech is not the right course for an administration.
REPORTER: if you had known last night that the ambassador had died, I’m gathering you did not know. That came later. If you had known that the ambassador had died.
ROMNEY: I’m not going to take hypothetical what would have been known when and so forth. We responded last night in the events that happened in Egypt.
REPORTER: now that foreign policy and the situation in the middle east has been thrust into the presidential campaign can you talk about why specifically you’re better qualified than president Obama to handle these specific issues.
ROMNEY: I think president Obama has demonstrated a lack of clarity as to a foreign policy. My foreign policy has three fundamental branches. First, confidence in our cause, a recognition that the principles America is based upon is not something we shrink from or apologize for. That we stand for those principles. The second is clarity in our purpose which is when we have a foreign policy objective we describe it openness lee and clearly to the American people, to congress, and to the people of the world. And number three, is resolve in our might. That in those rare circumstances, those rare circumstances where we decide it’s essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with force and with clarity of mission and with the US mission involved and understand when it will be complete, what will be left behind us when that mission has been terminated? These elements I believe are essential to our foreign policy and I haven’t seen them from the president. As I’ve watched over the past three and a half years the president has had some successes, he’s had some failures, it’s a hit-or-miss approach but it has not based upon sound foreign policy.
REPORTER: How specifically governor Romney would a president Romney has handled this situation differently than president Obama? You spoke out before midnight when all the facts weren’t known, how would you have handled this differently than the president did.
ROMNEY: I spoke out when the key fact was known, which was that the embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be a policy for American principles. That was a mistake. I believe when a mistake is made of that significance you speak out.

[SS Junk]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/mitt-romney-s-press-conference-concerning-the-death-of-the-u-s-ambassador-to-libya-video-20120912

Did you hear those reporters in the Romney press meeting?

Loved how one of those shit bags was trying to ask a speculative "... if you had known the ambassador died last night..." question. Morons.

[Geor!]

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/1...libya-attacks/

REPORTER: the statement you referred to was a toughly worded statement last night. Do you regret the tone at all given what we know?
ROMNEY: the embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached, protestors were inside the grounds, they reiterated that statement after the breach. I think heights a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that instead when our ground are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the united states must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. An apology for America’s values is never the right course.
REPORTER: governor Romney do you think, though, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded overnight was appropriate, to be weighing on this as this crisis is unfolding in real time?
ROMNEY: the white house also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate. They were the wrong course to take when our embassy has been breached by protestors. The first response should not be to say, yes, we stand by our comments that suggest that there is something wrong with the right of free speech.
REPORTER: what did the white house do wrong, then, Governor Romney if they put out a statement saying they disagreed witness?
ROMNEY: their administration spoke. the president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his ambassadors from his administration, from his embassies, from the 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 was a severe miscalculation.
REPORTER: you talk about mixed signals. The world was watching, isn’t this assault a mixed signal when you criticize the president when Americans are being killed shouldn’t politics stop.
ROMNEY: we were speaking about the different courses we could take with regard to the challenges the world faces. The president and I have differences of opinion with regard to Israel and our policies there, with regards to Iran, with regards to Afghanistan, with regards to Syria we have many distinctions and differences. We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. It’s also important for me just as it was for the white house last night by the way to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values.
REPORTER: governor some people have said that you jumped the gun a little in putting that statement out last night and you should have waited until more details were available. Do you regret having that statement come out so early before we learned about all the things that were happening?
ROMNEY: I don’t think we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles. We express immediately when we feel that the president and his administration have done something which is than consistent with the principles of America. Simply put, having an embassy which has been breached and has protestors on its grounds. Having violated the sovereignty of the United States. Having to embassy reiterating a statement apologizing for the right of free speech is not the right course for an administration.
REPORTER: if you had known last night that the ambassador had died, I’m gathering you did not know. That came later. If you had known that the ambassador had died.
ROMNEY: I’m not going to take hypothetical what would have been known when and so forth. We responded last night in the events that happened in Egypt.
REPORTER: now that foreign policy and the situation in the middle east has been thrust into the presidential campaign can you talk about why specifically you’re better qualified than president Obama to handle these specific issues.
ROMNEY: I think president Obama has demonstrated a lack of clarity as to a foreign policy. My foreign policy has three fundamental branches. First, confidence in our cause, a recognition that the principles America is based upon is not something we shrink from or apologize for. That we stand for those principles. The second is clarity in our purpose which is when we have a foreign policy objective we describe it openness lee and clearly to the American people, to congress, and to the people of the world. And number three, is resolve in our might. That in those rare circumstances, those rare circumstances where we decide it’s essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with force and with clarity of mission and with the US mission involved and understand when it will be complete, what will be left behind us when that mission has been terminated? These elements I believe are essential to our foreign policy and I haven’t seen them from the president. As I’ve watched over the past three and a half years the president has had some successes, he’s had some failures, it’s a hit-or-miss approach but it has not based upon sound foreign policy.
REPORTER: How specifically governor Romney would a president Romney has handled this situation differently than president Obama? You spoke out before midnight when all the facts weren’t known, how would you have handled this differently than the president did.
ROMNEY: I spoke out when the key fact was known, which was that the embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be a policy for American principles. That was a mistake. I believe when a mistake is made of that significance you speak out.

Could you imagine ANY of those questions being asked to Shah Obama? I certainly can't.

[Vertnut]

Romney did well. I hope all this hits the networks soon. I KNOW Fox is all over this.

[Geor!]

Did you hear those reporters in the Romney press meeting? Does that give anyone here who might be on the fence clarity as to the bias in media? It was hilariously pro-obama, to the point of being sickening. Obama is leading a pathetically weak and limp wristed administration, and permanently damaging the reputation of the US in the process. This whole situation is just fucking pathetic. EVERY SINGLE TIME Obama has a foreign affairs situation, he completely fucks it up. Do you remember the clusterfuck of bullshit info from the Bin Laden raid? We're going to release photos, we're not going to release photos, he was using his wife as cover, he wasn't using his wife, he was shooting back, he wasn't. Just a cluster fuck of terrible mismanaged resources. Everything he touches turns to shit, he is the opposite of King Midas. And an absolute flawless record of foreign policy failures.

Yeah, but OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD AND GENERAL MOTORS IS ALIVE!!!

[CJ]

Could you imagine ANY of those questions being asked to Shah Obama? I certainly can't.

Simple, they wouldn't be asked because he doesn't allow reporters to ask him hard questions. Only the questions he has approved up front.

Just look at those questions asked to Romney. Pathetic. They defend this fucking jackass no matter the cost.

[Sean88gt]

We need Lee Harvey.......Baileygates.

[bcoop]

Am I the only one that sees this as a poor attempt at pandering?

[Vertnut]

Am I the only one that sees this as a poor attempt at pandering?

On who's part?

I definitely see two very different "foreign policy" approaches.

[bcoop]

On who's part?

I definitely see two very different "foreign policy" approaches.

I definitely see two very different approaches as well. But that's not my point. Just seems like a bad time for one side to take shots at the other, that's all. It doesn't help that I really don't like Romney much, so I admittedly could be looking at it from a hostile standpoint.

[CJ]

I definitely see two very different approaches as well. But that's not my point. Just seems like a bad time for one side to take shots at the other, that's all. It doesn't help that I really don't like Romney much, so I admittedly could be looking at it from a hostile standpoint.

It's an election year, we're two months out, and Obama has yet again done something incredibly stupid and irresponsible. This is exactly the time to point it out as a reason to not re-elect him. This is typical of every election.

[bcoop]

It's an election year, we're two months out, and Obama has yet again done something incredibly stupid and irresponsible. This is exactly the time to point it out as a reason to not re-elect him. This is typical of every election.

It is not typical of every election to be pointing out something stupid, when there were American casualties invovled.