Daily News: Romney's Disgraceful Words
All things foreign seem foreign to Mitt Romney.
Its amazing how consistent that is.
If John Kerry was right when he said at the Democratic Convention the "last time Romney saw Russia was in 'Rocky 4,'" then the only thing he knows about Libya comes from watching Sasha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator."
Now it's Romney's Libya gaffe on the anniversary of 9/11.
Based, we must assume, on either the desperation or the incompetence of his campaign organization.
But by 10 p.m. Boston time, before the last beacon of light dimmed at Ground Zero, before Taps had finished echoing through Lower Manhattan, before the last grieving family member had gone to bed on a politics- and politician-free 9/11 commemoration, Romney headquarters issued an embargoed statement to the media on the barbaric attacks.
The campaign okayed its release at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 12.
"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi," Romney said. "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
Awful.
Political, exploitative, opportunistic.
As Rudy Giuliani learned when he ran for President the American people do not like politicians trying to exploit political mileage from the blood of our dead.
In boxing, a reckless roundhouse punch like Romney's is the mark of a desperate "amacha" reeling on the ropes after Obama scored a five-point post-convention bump in the polls.
Romney's Libyan punch missed by a mile and as we bury more innocent Americans killed on Sept. 11, it leaves Romney open for the kind of counterpunch from which even the best fighters often don't recover.
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