Dang it, I'm still angry

[janedrake]

1) Romney sneers about US Embassy personnel who find themselves facing a dangerous situation, lies about the nature of their statement, lies about when they issued the statement, then doubles down on it. Never pauses to show an inch of comprehension about the nature of diplomacy. Tacitly gives a national endorsement of vile bigotry. Puts his boot on the throat of the embassy when what was needed was understanding.

2) Romney-the-candidate jumps out in front of the POTUS's statement, and presumes to speak for the nation. I don't think I've ever witnessed a more extreme form of disrespect from a presidential candidate towards a sitting president.

3) Romney appears to have been prompted to do this in response to criticism of his campaign by right-wing radio hosts Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh - two utterly delusional individuals, and also because he's so very thin-skinned he couldn't even take some mild-natured ribbing from the President last week.

4) Romney clearly enjoying himself playing at being president at the expense of the tragedy that occurred in Libya.

5) All of this happening on, and immediately following, the nation's observance of Sept. 11th -- and yet Romney doesn't "get" why his behavior is widely regarded as stunningly inappropriate. And then the Romney camp has the unmitigated gall to start playing the victim card with its predictable whining about the kind of media coverage his severe overreach has garnered -- Mr. Romney, at long last, have you no decency? Have you no decency, sir?
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"Disgraceful" doesn't even begin cover it.

/vent

[jaxx]

I'm madder than hell and every word he says to twist the knife makes me madder. He's the anti-American candidate, the haughty rich boy who never learned any manners.

I do not like one thing about Willard Romney. I even liked a couple things about dubya, and once saw Cheney do something human. But Romney leaves me cold.

[jaxx]

Top Romney Adviser Faults Obama For Murder Of U.S. Ambassador, Claims Romney Would Have Prevented Attack

By Judd Legum on Sep 13, 2012 at 11:30 pm

The Romney campaign has escalated their attacks on President Obama following the murder of four Americans, including the ambassador, in Libya. In an interview with the Washington Post, Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser pinned the blame for the attacks squarely on Obama and flatly claimed they would not have happened if Romney had been president:

<..> “There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation,” Richard Williamson, a top Romney foreign policy adviser, said in an interview. “For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated.”

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/0...ed-attack/

If any of you weren't mad yet, this ought to do it. The Romney campaign has gone too far.

[jaxx]

This article has even more of what the moron had to say, and this is the Obama reply:

<..> The Obama campaign slammed Williamson’s comments Thursday: “It is astonishing that the Romney campaign continues to shamelessly politicize a sensitive international situation,” Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt said. “The fact is that any president of either party is going to be confronted by crises while in office, and Gov. Romney continues to demonstrate that he is not at all prepared to manage them.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/0...ppened.php

[janedrake]

Totally agree with the Prez - I'll never forget Romney's disgraceful antics. At least this gives me some relief:

[jaxx]

I wish the election was tomorrow so he could take his sorry ass back to one of his houses and live in obscurity.

[yowzayowzayowza]

(09-13-2012 09:52 PM)jaxx Wrote:  I wish the election was tomorrow so he could take his sorry ass back to one of his houses and live in obscurity.

The Republican brand could use many more weeks of this kinda clown car!!! Anticipation of the debate beat-down is growing. Yummy.

[janedrake]

Now Romney has clearly moved on to Cheney-style fear-mongering by saying that Libya would have never happened had he been president?! This is the guy who couldn't even stand up to Limbaugh, and who couldn't even give a straight answer at the press conference yesterday! Love the comments on that story, though!

[SeattleGirl]

I'm still angry too, and I have a feeling I'll get even angrier before election day. I have never in my LIFE seen such a cold, uncaring, discompassionate, weasily lying asshole as Willard Mitt Romney. Ever.

Given the problems he has caused as a candidate, there is no way in hell this man should ever reside in the White House.

[Brewman_Jax]

Willard was actually planning to do something? Really? What would Willard have done? Fire the terrorists? Firing people is something he's really good at, but that only works if you hired them!

[pappy]

(Keep in mind that I came up with cockamamie idea yesterday when I was running a fever.....so...)

Was this an "October Surprise" gone terribly wrong?

An obscure conman that owes thousands in court penalties and restitution comes up with the money to hire actors and pretend to make a movie that goes on the internet, sits unnoticed for weeks or months until someone calls attention to it and predictable violence breaks out in the Middle East.

My conspiracy theory is that someone with moderately deep pockets decided to finance this "movie" in the hopes of inciting a modest degree of protest in the Middle East in the hopes of making Obama look weak in the last months before the election. When the movie sat unnoticed it got hyped to the media with the hoped for results.

The Romney campaign was probably not aware of the plan but may have been told to expect a provocation that would incite violence and to be ready with a narrative to discredit Obama.

Where it went wrong is fairly obvious. Romney pounced too soon, the "producer" didn't have enough sense (or maybe too much ego) to adequately hide his tracks, and the violence escalated way farther than the conspirators intended.

No doubt someone with the means is at this time looking into the making and financing of this "movie" and looking into the bank records of the "producer". It will be interesting to see what they find.

[jaxx]

(09-14-2012 04:12 AM)pappy Wrote:  (Keep in mind that I came up with cockamamie idea yesterday when I was running a fever.....so...)

Was this an "October Surprise" gone terribly wrong?

An obscure conman that owes thousands in court penalties and restitution comes up with the money to hire actors and pretend to make a movie that goes on the internet, sits unnoticed for weeks or months until someone calls attention to it and predictable violence breaks out in the Middle East.

My conspiracy theory is that someone with moderately deep pockets decided to finance this "movie" in the hopes of inciting a modest degree of protest in the Middle East in the hopes of making Obama look weak in the last months before the election. When the movie sat unnoticed it got hyped to the media with the hoped for results.

The Romney campaign was probably not aware of the plan but may have been told to expect a provocation that would incite violence and to be ready with a narrative to discredit Obama.

Where it went wrong is fairly obvious. Romney pounced too soon, the "producer" didn't have enough sense (or maybe too much ego) to adequately hide his tracks, and the violence escalated way farther than the conspirators intended.

No doubt someone with the means is at this time looking into the making and financing of this "movie" and looking into the bank records of the "producer". It will be interesting to see what they find.

Yep. The 'producer' has no qualifieds. I thought from the go it was more like a Rove production with all the players put in place.

[janedrake]

With the Romney camp's laser-like focus on re-living the Carter-Reagan election cycle, it seems to be an amazing coincidence that Middle Eastern embassy violence has broken out in the homestretch of the campaign, just as it was a centerpiece as well during Reagan's run against Carter.

Very coincidental. That said, it seems inevitable it would happen in some form. But as Romney keeps showing us everyday, he seems to love the timing of it.

[NJMaverick]

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[Blue_Roses]

He thinks he's already president because he lives in an alternate universe. I seriously think he has no sense of reality.I can't stand that smirk. It's really creepy.