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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama just tore them all a new one re Bin Laden - let them explain it
He was asked about Rmoney's comment on Carter (at the press conference with the Japanese PM).
The American people rightly remember what we as a country accomplished...entirely appropriate.
GObama!!
malaise
(269,157 posts)and that he had said he's go after him and he did.
Think he was talking about this?
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/romneys-2007-bin-laden-gaffe-comes-back-to-haunt-him.php
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In the campaigns first major election speech on foreign policy, Vice President Joe Biden made extremely prominent use of an April 2007 Romney quote on bin Laden, in which he told the Associated Press its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.
I was a little more direct, Biden said in his speech. We will follow the SOB to the gates of hell.
Romneys heaven and earth line proved a gaffe at the time as well. Sen. John McCain, who tried to portray Romney throughout the race as weak on national security, told blogger Jennifer Rubin that it takes a degree of naiveté to think [bin Laden is] not an element in the struggle against radical Islam.
Byron York, columnist for the National Review, held nothing back, writing at the time, we have already spent billions and gone to a lot of effort to try to get bin Laden
it would be worth still more money and still more effort to kill the man behind 9/11.
I cant imagine any serious Republican candidate for president would say otherwise, York wrote. Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again.
Romney walked back his remarks in a Republican debate, saying Well move everything to get him. But I dont want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person Osama bin Laden because after we get him, theres going to be another and another.
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kentuck
(111,110 posts)who recommended to Obama that he not send in the Seals but send in a bomb instead...
I hope they keep talking about this. People might even begin to remember "Mission Accomplished"..?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Obama drew the line in the sand and said out loud, the US should be pursuing Bin Laden in Pakistan....and the RW media and buffoon talking heads on the Hill pointed fingers and laughed.........
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)Is their ANY doubt, that if the Bin Laden raid had failed, they would have put all the blame on President Obama?
malaise
(269,157 posts)They've been bawling because they know the facts