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The Obama campaign went up with a video on the Osama Bin Laden raid on Friday in which they strongly suggested that Mitt Romney would not have made the same call, noting quotes from 2007 and 2008 in which he minimized the importance of catching the terrorist leader and chided then-candidate Obama for suggesting America send troops into Pakistan if necessary to catch him. Now Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul is pushing back, accusing the campaign of trying to divide Americans and change the subject from the economy.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-camp-obama-using-bin-laden-to-divide
Clearly, Mitt knows he f'd up: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002616958
warrior1
(12,325 posts)We that are happy he's dead, or you who didn't give a shit?
Johonny
(20,874 posts)so it's 99% pro getting Bin Laden to the 1% pro not getting Bin Laden until a Republican is president. So you can see how divided America is on this issue. Why does Obama keep dividing us. DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!
renate
(13,776 posts)Good to know.
And is Mitt's campaign saying that you can't talk about killing Osama and focus on the economy at the same time? Evidently Mitt is not a multitasker.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)King Flip Flop is a single-tasker. Almost 100% of his time is taken up with firing people and shoveling money from the middle class into the pockets of the 0.01%.
polichick
(37,152 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)These people are just about as low and despicable as they can get.
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Desperate already.
Spazito
(50,429 posts)the RMoney campaign even at this early stage. I love that the Democrats are already out hitting them hard with the facts and using RMoney's own words against him.
If they are screaming now, just wait until the fall, it's not gonna be pretty for the RMoney crowd and I am SO looking forward to it.
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
malaise
(269,155 posts)ReTHUG pigs. The ad is hurting big time.
Rmoney fugged up in 2007 - actually he fuggs up with regularlity
lastlib
(23,266 posts)What kind of cheese do you want to go with your w(h)ine??
GWB: "I honestly don't know where he is. I don't think about him (the man who killed thousands of our citizens in violent vicious attacks) much..."
Mittens: "I don't think it's worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars to go after one man..." (the man who killed thousands of our citizens in violent vicious attacks)
BHO: "We will crush al-Qaeda, we will kill bin Laden, and those who follow him."
Which one of these men is the REAL leader in the war on terrorism?
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Regardless, the 23% will lap this shit up and declare it delicious.
Marr
(20,317 posts)They tested it very thoroughly back in... I want to say the late forties? Anyway, the thrust is that you always push the idea that we live in this peaceful, happy society, where normal people are all just happy neighbors with different sized houses. Then you cast any left-wing activist as a troublemaker who is just bitter at their core, with a desire to ruin our wonderful harmony.
It seems really awkward and goofy when applied to this binLaden subject, but then, Romney isn't exactly smooth.
NoGOPZone
(2,971 posts)"You're with us or you're against us."
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)That happened on President Obama's watch. You didn't think it was all that important, and I remember you saying so. Not a good issue for you, Mitt.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Romney: "If I'm elected president I vow that we will do all it takes to track down Bin Laden and bring him to justice - something Obama has failed to do during his administration"
No mention of Bush
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Al Queda fostered by the Reagan administration is our friend against the evil Russian Bear. Mittens: completely and utterly out of touch.
Mitt Romney, March 27, 2012:
"This is without question our number one geopolitical foe; they fight for every cause for the world's worst actors."
By the way, did anyone see Andrea Mitchell's interview of Haley Barbour this morning on MSNBC? Barbour was defending Romney's foreign policy and he started blasting Elie Weisel, the holocaust hero and man of peace, for his support of Obama. Mitchell absolutely bristled. Barbour I think made an enemy today.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)living in the past: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002613677
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)should be made an issue. That fact alone shows poor judgment that seems to want to be out of touch.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Op ed in this Sunday's paper by the resident conservative writer was about that.
What they really mean is, "Obama won't let us take him down." "Obama promised unity, instead the country is more divided than ever", yada yada. Yeah, because you guys are fucking dicks.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)You have the American patriots and the wussy assed John Wayne partisan Republicans.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)How the hell can they make that argument?
cbrer
(1,831 posts)They're digging for material. When the debate occurs, which it most certainly will, the facts of how the NHP (New Hope Party) took serious and productive steps to fix the problems that the GOP (Government of Pigs) created.
Grandma said, while she was baking cookies..."Give it time".