When Democrats say stuff like this, the Romney campaign complains that they’re dividing the country:
“Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,” [Joe] Biden continued. “You have to ask yourself had Governor Romney been president, could he have used the same slogan in reverse?”
The administration is hitting Romney on multiple fronts. In addition to the vice president’s remark, we have Leon Panetta releasing a copy of his notes on the president’s order to get bin-Laden, a major article in Time about the raid, and a new video produced by Bill Clinton:
In a new web advertisement, President Bill Clinton says that Obama chose the “more honorable path” by ordering the 2011 attack that resulted in the death of bin Laden.
“Look, he knew what would happen,” Clinton explains. “Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there and it hadn’t been bin Laden. Suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him, but he reasoned I cannot in good conscience do nothing.”
The ad goes on to ask if Romney would have made the same decision.
Now, let me ask you, do you think Karl Rove would have used the death of bin-Laden as a political weapon if his boss had actually been concerned enough about him to find him and kill him?
It might be seen as a cynical political ploy, except that Romney is on the record as saying, “it’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
That suggests that Romney never would have made capturing bin-Laden the intelligence community’s top priority, as Obama did.
On June 2, 2009, just over four months into his presidency, Obama had signed a memo to CIA Director Leon Panetta stating “in order to ensure that we have expanded every effort, I direct you to provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice” bin Laden.
Would Romney have made the same ballsy call that Obama made? He never would have had the chance, because finding and killing bin-Laden weren’t things Romney wanted to devote resources to. He never would have found him in the first place.
So, this attack is fair.
Call me kooky, but I could have sworn I detected a pattern of disinterest among Republicans when it came to Bin Laden.
what was your first clue?
I don’t know, just call it a hunch. 😉
Of course it is fair. Romney’s whole history is that ob being averse to taking any risks that could result in anything bad for him. When he was picked to head Bain Capital, it was with the understanding that if it failed, he would not be held responsible. When he took over the Olympics ( an achievemnet he uses as a positive while also bemoaning government expenditures) he made sure he could get tons of money from the government so it would be a success.
The question Americans need to ask themselves is if they want a President who will never take any personal risks.
Would Romney have made the same ballsy call that Obama made? He never would have had the chance, because finding and killing bin-Laden weren’t things Romney wanted to devote resources to.
Any why wouldn’t he have wanted to devote resources to it? To ramp up the fear factor to 12 of course!!
Of course it’s fair, and of course the Romney people are whining about it. Hell, all they’re doing is reinforcing the point. Of course I’m probably biased, because I’ve seen enough of Mitt Romney by now to hold him in utter contempt, but I can’t imagine who’s going to be impressed by this response. When under attack, a strong leader does not start whimpering about how unfair it is.
Not to mention, it’s actually a counterattack anyway. Maybe Mitt should have thought about his own vulnerabilities when he started accusing the guy who took out Osama bin Laden of “apologizing for America.”
Romney was reading off the old GOP script, but he didn’t bother to notice that Obama cannot be outflanked on the right regarding the “War on Terror”. I believe Obama made damn sure of it.
Of course it’s fair, and of course the GOP would drop into their “offended” posture. why are we even discussing this?
I hadn’t seen the full Biden quote. Beautiful. I hope it’s available as a real bumper sticker.