On Fox News, Charles Krauthammer suggested that "under other presidents, particularly Bush," there was "no storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo." In fact, there were seven attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates during the Bush years, and numerous other such attacks have happened under recent presidents.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/09/14/krauthammer-whitewashes-bushs-history-to-bash-o/189890

It is shameless. Fuck them.

Embassies, bin Laden, and - look, I know this is not one President Obama should touch - but 9/11 itself. Pretty fucking conclusive that they didn't pay enough credence to security briefings prior to that atrocity, isn't it? I'm not someone who thinks that they intentionally ignored that, or Bush, Cheney and whoever engineered it - I just don't believe that to be the case, and it is not an accusation I feel should be made without irrefutably stone cold evidence. Fact is, however, that they fucked up.

They fucked up on defence and foreign policy far more than this administration can be accused of doing.

It's time to get tough - If anyone can be tough and eloquent, it's Obama at this best. I think he is going to knock the second debate out of the park. Now, I'm a realist and something of a pessimist; if the election were held today, I suspect that Romney would eek out a win. He has the wind behind him, but there's a lot of soft support. That's why Obama took such a nosedive after one listless debate.

A lot of soft support, but support that, nevertheless, has shown that it is more receptive to President Obama and the Democratic party when it is one form and on message. As we speak, expectations are low for the second round, but despite the fact that I'm a bag of nerves - my hands are freezing cold as I type this, I'm barely sleeping, barely eating, until I get so hungry that I binge - but I have a feeling. A feeling that he is going to do something remarkable next Tuesday.