Stop Politicizing Libya Mitt Romney

[Straight Shooter]

Stop lying Governor Romney! You got the facts completely wrong. Four Americans are dead and this is how you respond? You said that President Obama was disgraceful, no Mitt you are the disgraceful one. It just shows that you will say anything to win the presidency. As one of your pollsters Neil Newhouse said, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” Apparently he is living up to his word.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened in a statement accusing President Barack Obama of ‘‘disgraceful’’ handling of ******** there and at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

‘‘The Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,’’ Romney said in a statement first emailed to reporters at 10:09 p.m. Eastern time, under the condition it not be published until midnight.

In fact, neither a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo earlier in the day nor a later statement from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered sympathy for attackers. The statement from the Cairo Embassy had condemned anti-Muslim religious incitement before the embassy walls were breached. In her statement, issued minutes before Romney's, Clinton had offered the administration’s first response to the ******** in Libya, explicitly condemning the ****** there and confirming the death of a State Department official.

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