Romney backs off of dead ex-SEAL story After Complaints from SEAL's Family

[bushisanidiot]

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/romney-dropping-ex-seal-story-after-family-complaint/

"Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is dropping a new addition to his stump speech after the family of the deceased man he mentions in the story raised an objection to it.

A campaign official told CNN that Romney will no longer use the anecdote, which he introduced on Tuesday while campaigning in Iowa and recounted again at a town hall meeting in Ohio.

Romney did not mention President Barack Obama in his story, but Doherty's mother said in an interview with Massachusetts television station WHDH that she was uncomfortable with the GOP candidate telling the story.

"I don't trust Romney. He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda. It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama," Barbara Doherty, told CNN affiliate WHDH. "

[courseofhistory]

1. Welcome to the club

Barbara! We don't trust him either!!

[Dawson Leery]

2. Mitt is a slick, smarmy LIAR!

"He came from Massachusetts, where I'd been governor, had family there," Romney said at his Mount Vernon, Ohio event on Wednesday. "He also had skied in some of the places, snow skiing that I had found during the Winter Olympics in Utah, that I'd skied at. And we had a nice chat together."

"You can imagine how shocked I was to learn that he was one of the two Navy - former Navy SEALs killed in Benghazi just a couple of weeks ago," Romney continued. "And I read on CNN International that when the report came that our consulate had been attacked, that he and the other SEAL that was killed with him, that they were in a different place, they were about a mile away, an annex somewhere else in the city. And when they heard that the consulate was under attack, they went to the attack. They didn't hunker down and hide themselves."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. Amazing

Yet Obama ordering bin Laden's death is classless as a talking point. Fuck the double standard. Rmoney should roast for his lies.

[Lord_Maculus]

5. It's funny how conservatives were screaming how Obama shouldn't "spike the football"

and should give credit to former President George W. Bush (for what, I'm still not sure) whenever he ordered the successful raid on the bin Laden compound and execution of bin Laden himself, yet all conservatives have done since the attack on our embassy in Benghazi is "spike the football" in some form or another in a disgusting politically partisan attempt to get the public back on their side when it comes to dealing with terrorism and foreign policy after they screwed everything up so badly during the Bush years (and would undoubtedly do so under Romney should he get elected, with his team of neocons plans for wars in Iran, Syria, and whoever the hell else they think we should go to war with).

[bushisanidiot]

6. The romney camp ran out of footballs to spike a long time ago

they can cry and whine all they want.

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama,
gave the go ahead for the operation that resulted in the
DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN - America's #1 enemy

[kysrsoze]

4. Backing off? What a F**king Asshole! We already knew, but this is more proof the "man" is subhuman.