Who's Responsible For Libya?

Since the vice-presidential debate in which Joe Biden expertly defeated the hapless Paul Ryan who couldn't even keep his lies straight, Team Romney/Ryan have been trying to change the message into an attack on President Obama for the tragic killing of the US ambassador in Libya.

Only thing is their advisors forgot to vet the story before launching it.

If they had, they would have seen that the Republicans had cut off funding for sufficient security at US embassies and allowed far less funding than what was requested or needed. And this is cumming from their own surrogates:



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Mitt's Libya Disaster!

Mitt Romney had the worst day politically, a presidential candidate could have.  It all started with a tragedy in Libya where the US Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by extremist terrorists.

Mitt & Reince could not wait until the bodies were even cold before they were blaming President Obama and even worse accusing him of apologizing to the people who killed them.  

In a press conference delivered minutes after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the attacks, Romney expanded on his initial statement, in which he said the administration’s first response was “to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

“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,”Romney said. “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.”

Not only did was he despicable in his lies, he appeared (literally) to be taking great glee from this tragedy.  Here is Mitt at his press conference where he blamed President Obama:
       
                                   
 To everyone's great relief, the sane wing of the republican party stepped out and let everyone know that what Mitt did today was unforgivable:

Some prominent republicans pulled no punches:

“I don’t think President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked us. I don’t think any American does.” — Former Bush administration DHS Secretary Tom Ridge

“In the wake of this violence, the rush by Republicans — including Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and scores of other conservative critics — to condemn him for policies they claim helped precipitate the attacks is as tortured in its reasoning as it is unseemly in its timing.” — Mark Salter, former chief of staff and top campaign aide to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Then there is this from Kos:

 : "Over the decades we have survived the leadership of stupid men, and of criminal men. We have survived carpet-bombings of substanceless rhetoric, we have inched our way forward through blizzards of

of lies, we have pretended to be outraged about sex and pretended to not be outraged at misinformation; we are a hardy lot, apparently. I would hope, though, that we are still not so desperate as to look for leadership from someone who cannot even let a man's blood dry before scrawling his own name in it."

The sad thing is that while Mitt, who is the presidential nominee for one of two major parties in the US and  keeps doubling down on a folded hand of blame Obama, yet children from around the world have a greater understanding than he does. 

Looks like the republicans have the wrong nominee, when a 12 year old child understand foreign policy better than the actual candidate! 

Compare/Contrast - Libya Tragedy

Four Americans, including the US Ambassador, were killed in Libya by Extremists.

This was a tragedy for America and the Obama Administration(Who appointed Ambassador Chris Stevens).

 U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday strongly condemned the killing of the United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, in a rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday.

He called the attack "outrageous," and confirmed that four Americans, including Stevens, were killed.

"Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States," Obama said.

A day of mourning for everyone when a fellow American gives their life in service to our country. Well everyone except for a select few! The Romney/Ryan Campaign and GOP head weasel Reince Priebus, jumped on this as an opportunity to falsely attack the president yet again.  Down in the polls, the Gop "dream team" will attempt to score political points on any tragedy they can( just ask the unemployed workers from Janesville GM).

  Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus accused the president of siding with the rioters:

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Obama sympathizes with attackers in Egypt. Sad and pathetic.

From Hilary Clinton herself:

 “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” the statement read. “The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.”

 After the despicable Reince Priebus, the etch a sketch candidate jumped into the fray also:

Mitt Romney seized on the embassy attacks as an opportunity to condemn Obama’s “disgraceful” handling of the situation in a statement late Tuesday. Despite the embassy’s assertion that its statement was drafted before protests began, Romney slammed the White House for turning to apologies as the “first response” to violence. “I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi,” he 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.”

 You can almost here the smile and giggles in his voice! Luckily for the sanity of myself, and the good of our nation and our world, these are just extremists who will disappear into the annals of time after the November election.   Its also nice to have a president with a backbone who will not let such disgusting statements stand:

That didn’t sit well with the Obama campaign, who accused Romney of exploiting the crisis for electoral gain. “We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack,” Obama’s campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt said in a statement.

Mitt Romney is a small, ridiculous human being who has no core and no ethics or moral compas.  The fact that he jumped on this topic, distorted it so and was trying to score political points on Mr. Stevens death is just plain disgusting, and sadly not surprising.