Romney stands by criticism of Obama over Cairo attack response

foxnews.com ^ | 9/12/12 | AP

[Evil Slayer]

Mitt Romney on Wednesday stood by his criticism of the Obama administration for its early response to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, even as he and President Obama mourned the murder of four Americans including the U.S. ambassador in a separate attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Romney said the administration's initial response to the attack in Cairo was "akin to apology" and a "severe miscalculation."

Both assaults were linked to a video being promoted in the U.S. that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo at first issued a statement saying, in part, that it condemns "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims -- as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."

The Romney campaign issued a statement overnight calling that response "disgraceful," prompting criticism from the president's campaign. The Obama campaign accused Romney of launching a "political attack" as reports were first surfacing that one American had been killed. By Wednesday morning, the death count was at four.

Romney, as he condemned the "outrageous" Libya attack during a stop Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla., did not back down from his criticism of Obama.

"I think it's a terrible course for America to (issue) an apology for our values," Romney said. "An apology for America's values is never the right course."

The Obama administration reportedly disavowed the Cairo Embassy statement, but Romney said Wednesday that "the embassy is the administration."

He said the disavowal "reflects the mixed signals they're sending in the world."

Romney went on to critique Obama's overall foreign policy, calling it a "hit-or-miss approach." Romney and his surrogates have been stressing foreign policy after the president, in his nomination address last week in Charlotte, called Romney and running mate Paul Ryan "new"

[WOSG]

It takes a severe amount of media spin not to notice the multiple failures by the Obama administration here:
- no security for a US ambassador - why?
- this was a planned assault - why didnt we know? what was President Obama told in intelligence briefings? and why is he skipping so many of them?
- why the Cairo embassy apology that pandered to violent extremists?
- has Obama’s support for these islamicist governments backfired?

Questions the press SHOULD be asking but hasnt. Romney said exactly the right thing, he led, Obama followed.

The press are too busy covering Obama’s butt to ask the real and serious questions of what this rmurder portends. It an outrage and a travesty and it taking place on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 9/11 attacks was not a coincidence.

[onyx]

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