miércoles, 17 de octubre de 2012

Mitt Romney Gets Smacked Down Saying Obama Didn't Call Libya A Terror Attack

Mitt Romney heard President Barack Obama say he had called the assault at the US consulate in Benghazi a terror attack in the days after the incident and went for the jugular, expressing amazement and doubting that the president declared it so. The Romney campaign has hammered the Obama administration for allegedly downplaying the terrorist nature of the strike that killed Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans. "I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror," Obama told the crowd at Hofstra University. Romney was incredulous, apparently having forgotten the speech. "I think it's interesting, the president just said something which is that on the day after the attack he went in the Rose Garden and said this was an act of terror?" Romney said "That's what I said," said Obama. "You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, it was an act of terror, it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying?" Romney asked Obama again, his eyebrows rising. "Please proceed, Governor," Obama said to the stunned Romney. "I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror," Romney said. But, as moderator Candy Crowley pointed out, while it was true that many days passed before the Obama administration stopped suggesting the attacks had been spontaneous <b>...</b>
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