Romney campaign caught lying, red handed

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MG1968 said:
weak sauce
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Huh? He condemns the administrations first response as sympathetic to the rioters who killed the ambassador, when that wasn't the first response?

They blew it, big time. That is going to be the news on this -- that Romney's campaign, in its haste to try to make some political mileage out of this, misrepresented the facts.
 
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he should have called them out on their contradictory statement about free speech
 
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lawgator1 said:
Huh? He condemns the administrations first response as sympathetic to the rioters who killed the ambassador, when that wasn't the first response?

They blew it, big time. That is going to be the news on this -- that Romney's campaign, in its haste to try to make some political mileage out of this, misrepresented the facts.
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you mean like how the Obama campaign misrepresented the facts when its surrogates accused Romney of causing the death of a woman

or how they consistently misrepresented the facts concerning Bain Capital?

again, weak sauce. you apologize for Obama when he's caught lying through his teeth, but when Romney plays politics you scream "Teapot Dome!!!" and "Tammany Hall, redux!!"
 
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MG1968 said:
you mean like how the Obama campaign misrepresented the facts when its surrogates accused Romney of causing the death of a woman

or how they consistently misrepresented the facts concerning Bain Capital?

again, weak sauce. you apologize for Obama when he's caught lying through his teeth, but when Romney plays politics you scream "Teapot Dome!!!" and "Tammany Hall, redux!!"
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Obama rebuked the cancer ad.

The facts concerning Bain Capital are from from clear, especially because Romney will not release his tax returns, which might well indicate income from a place he says he didn't have a job at.

Here, Romney is trying to jump on this tragic international problem to try to take political advantage of the ambassador's death, and in doing so his campaign was 100 % wrong on the sequence of events.

Let's see if Romney has the cajones to do what is right, like Obama did on the cancer ad, and to disavow his campaign's error on this.

I doubt it as he is at this point desperate for anything he can do to try to derail the president's momentum.
 
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There is a big difference between actively lying (like you are insinuating) and just getting your timeline wrong. Thus making you and Romney look like a jacka$$.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
There is a big difference between actively lying (like you are insinuating) and just getting your timeline wrong. Thus making you and Romney look like a jacka$$.
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Ok.

Will Romney correct it and withdraw the statement?

Nope.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Obama rebuked the cancer ad.

The facts concerning Bain Capital are from from clear, especially because Romney will not release his tax returns, which might well indicate income from a place he says he didn't have a job at.

Here, Romney is trying to jump on this tragic international problem to try to take political advantage of the ambassador's death, and in doing so his campaign was 100 % wrong on the sequence of events.

Let's see if Romney has the cajones to do what is right, like Obama did on the cancer ad, and to disavow his campaign's error on this.

I doubt it as he is at this point desperate for anything he can do to try to derail the president's momentum.
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Would that be before or after you get the mileage out of it?

For someone that pretends to understand politics and politicians your pretty naive.
 
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Obama's campaign took a lot of heat for the cancer ad put out by the PAC and he said it was not correct and should not run.

Romney's actual campaign puts out a statement by him that is entirely based on a completely false statement of fact. You can argue that it was just a mistake by them. Ok. If so, one would think that Romney would want to correct that.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Obama's campaign took a lot of heat for the cancer ad put out by the PAC and he said it was not correct and should not run.

Romney's actual campaign puts out a statement by him that is entirely based on a completely false statement of fact. You can argue that it was just a mistake by them. Ok. If so, one would think that Romney would want to correct that.
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Obama's campaign denied knowing the story prior to the ad being produced. That turned out to be a total lie.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Obama's campaign took a lot of heat for the cancer ad put out by the PAC and he said it was not correct and should not run.

Romney's actual campaign puts out a statement by him that is entirely based on a completely false statement of fact. You can argue that it was just a mistake by them. Ok. If so, one would think that Romney would want to correct that.
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it took Obama a couple of weeks so Romney has some time left on the clock
 
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Romney's took seven questions at his press conference:

1. Reporter brings up that Romney had a “toughly worded statement last night,” and asks, “Do you regret the tone at all given what we know now?”

2. “Do you think, though, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded over night was appropriate, to be weighing in on this as this crisis was unfolding in real time?” Follow-up: “What did the White House do wrong then, Gov. Romney, if they put out a statement saying they disagreed with it?”

3. “The world is watching. Isn’t this itself a mixed signal when you criticize the administration at a time that Americans are being killed? Shouldn’t politics stop for this?”

4. “Some people have said that you jumped the gun a little bit in putting that statement out last night and that you should have waited until more details were available. Do you regret having that statement come out so early before we learned about all of the things that were happening?”

5. “If you had known last night that the ambassador had died, and obviously, I’m gathering you did not know . . . if you had known that the ambassador had died, would you have issued such a strongly-issued statement?”

6. Reporter comments that Romney is running on his “economic know-how and private sector experience,” and adds, “but now that foreign policy and the situation in the Middle East has been thrust into the presidential campaign, can you talk about why specifically you think you are better qualified than President Obama to handle these issues?”

7. “How specifically, Governor Romney, would a President Romney have handled this situation differently than President Obama did? You spoke out before midnight, when all the facts weren’t known. How would you have handled this differently than the president did?”
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Only the final question is about the events in Egypt and Libya, and only to have Romney contrast his hypothetical response to Obama's.
 
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bamawriter said:
Romney's took seven questions at his press conference:



Only the final question is about the events in Egypt and Libya, and only to have Romney contrast his hypothetical response to Obama's.
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What's your point? That the reporters had the nerve to point out and ask about Romney's effort to politicize the tragedy, and whether that was just a mistake in the timing or assumptions made in haste about what was going on? That maybe his campaign jumped the gun on it and that the reason they did so was that they saw a chance to score some political points?

Seems to me that such questions are completely obvious, appropriate, and logical.

If Romney had wanted only the last question, he should have just made his comments on Fox. Or waited until he and his staff knew what the f they were talking about.
 
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lawgator1 said:
If Romney had wanted only the last question, he should have just made his comments on Fox. Or waited until he and his staff knew what the f they were talking about.
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Maybe he was expecting "What enchants you most about the Presidency?" or some of the other meaningless bull the press asks Obama.

Asking about Romney's statement is fine. Not giving a flying fart about the actual events in order to play gotcha politics is not.
 
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This whole situation is so FUBAR

Romney is trying to score political points by attacking Obama during this crisis. Yes.

Obama is trying to score political points by calling Romney insensitive. Yes.

They are both a-holes. They pretend like the death of an American is the worst thing ever, yet they are willing and ready to send Americans to their deaths on a daily basis. Following this logic we can never criticize the wars because that would be insensitive to the tragic deaths that are happening on the reg.

Any criticism of our foreign policy is therefore insensitive, (unless you think the death of a soldier is less sad than the death of a diplomat) and we are guaranteed war for the rest of our existence.

Welcome to America.
 
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