Unfit for Government
The responsible thing for a candidate to do when public officials are under threat abroad is to stay silent. But that’s not what Mitt Romney did, writes Andrew Sullivan.
The obvious responsible thing to do when American citizens and public officials are under physical threat abroad and when the details are unknown, and events spiraling, is to stay silent. If the event happens on the day of September 11 and you are a candidate for president and have observed a political truce, all the more reason to wait to allow the facts to emerge.
After all, country before party, right? American lives are at stake, yes? An easy call, no?
But that's not what the Romney camp did.
What they did was seize on a tweet issued by someone in the US Embassy before the attacks in order to indict the president for "sympathizing" with those who murdered a US ambassador after the attacks. Unfuckingbelievable. Here's the embassy statement from earlier in the day that set off the neocons:
much more:
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