This latest debacle could cut both ways. 1. people tend to rally around the president when the country is under attack; 2. the entire news cycle yesterday was bashing Romney for his comments on the issue.
I really don’t think the typical Obama voter looks at the 9/11 assassination of an ambassador as an attack on our country, they’re too busy looking at pictures of the Kardashians.
Only one man looked presidential during all of this. Mitt Romney.
I still haven’t seen a single Obama sign here in union rich western PA.
That's usually the case because when America is under attack, the president typically gets out front, talks to the public, and assures them that we will fight back.
But Obama has been so weak, while Romney is the one being strong; this issue is showing how badly we need a new foreign policy course.
And regardless of what the press says, people know that Romney is right.
If people rally around a president whose administration apologizes to these killers, who is flying out to Las Vegas to campaign and going on Letterman while our embassieS are uner attack, and after our ambassador is murdered by the local citizens, then the imbecility is what we need to be most concerned with.
which just shows that the media still has far too much power to control what the majority thinks. Obama spent the last 6 months of 2008 bashing everything Bush was doing. Kerry spent 2004 doing the same. Personally, I had not problem with it then (I felt like they were just demagogue the issues but oh well, that’s the game). The idea that you aren’t criticize foreign policy is a ridiculous one. What Romney said was fine, and timid at that. The media never questioned what he was saying (The white house did walk back what they said which WAS an apology). Listening to the coverage (online clips mostly) is a reminder that the Media REALLY wants Obama to win and I don’t know if their is much Mitt can do about it being the person he seems to be
“people tend to rally around the president when the country is under attack”
I tend to agree with that in most instances. However, given O’s weak actions and response - I see this as more like 1979, Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage crisis.