Subject: Re: Romney Flubs Attack Over Embassy Turmoil
From: "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:31:44 -0400

And now he's a desperate asshole:

POLITICO Breaking News
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Republican nominee Mitt Romney repeated his criticism of the White House
for its initial response to the attacks in Libya that killed four
Americans, saying the statement was "akin to apology" and it was
"disgraceful to apologize for American values." While expressing his
condolences to the families of those killed, he said the Obama White House
response "reflects the mixed signals they're sending to the world" on
American foreign policy and values.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> Romney Flubs Attack Over Embassy Turmoil<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/12/romney_flubs_attack_over_embassy_turmoil.html>First
> Read<http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13827378-first-thoughts-over-the-top?lite>:
> "This was news-cycle campaigning by the Romney campaign gone awry. Why
> didn't the Romney campaign wait until it had all the facts<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/12/obama_administration_disavows_cairo_apology.html>?
> On his overseas trip in the summer, Romney was so careful not to criticize
> Obama while on foreign soil. But how much time do you give an
> administration to work through a diplomatic and international crisis before
> trying to score immediate political points? You'd expect the Sarah Palins
> of the world to quickly pounce on something like this, and she predictably
> did. But a presidential nominee running for the highest office in the
> land?"
>
> "After the facts have come out, last night's Romney statement only feeds
> the narrative that his campaign is desperate. And given that the Romney
> camp has already moved on to other subjects this morning -- issuing a press
> release on debt and not the embassy attacks -- it appears the campaign
> realizes it, too. Right before our publication time, the Romney camp
> responds to us that it stands by its statement from last night."
>
> Steve Kornacki<http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/mitt%E2%80%99s_shameful_libya_statement/>:
> "The foolishness of Romney's reaction is glaring. Pretending that the
> statement from the U.S. embassy in Cairo was anything other than a
> completely understandable and reasonable attempt by its occupants to save
> their own lives borders on disgraceful. Romney's implication that the
> statement was issued at the height of the attacks is also false; it was
> actually released earlier in the day, a preventive measure aimed at keeping
> the protests from turning violent."
>
>
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