Just hours after my last post talking about the desperation of the Romney campaign, Romney goes ahead and tops himself. Here's the background - an "Israeli Jew" who is apparently a California real estate developer and is 53 or 56, creates a ridiculously over the top anti-Islam video on YouTube. People get pissed off, start protests. Okay, that's their right. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo releases a tweet that says, "hey, we think this guy is a jackass too," and the protests turn violent in Egypt and in Libya, and an ambassador and five other FSO's are killed. Romney blasts the Obama Administration (who didn't release the statement) for sympathizing with terrorists while these thugs were KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Now, the latest rumor is that the violence against the U.S. Embassies was planned in advance, and used the protests against the ridiculous web video as cover. This makes some sense because the U.S. has a 90% approval rating in Libya (we, after all, helped bring down the former government). Also, no one has ever heard of the creator of this web video - including the Israeli government who says that it has no record of an Israeli citizen by the name of "Sam Bacile." All of this, by the way occurs on 9 -11, and shortly after the U.S. kills a high-ranking Al Qaeda member. . .hmm. . .sounds very "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to me. Granted, I just finished reading The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (a great read by the way), so I am a bit suspicious about these sorts of things.
But I digress. This post isn't so much about what's happening in Libya and Egypt, but what happened in Washington, D.C. As I said before, Romney attacked the Obama Administration for "sympathizing" with the thugs who attacked our embassies based upon a tweet that was (1) issued BEFORE there was any violence; and (2) was written by a U.S. Embassy employee, and not someone in the White House. Did I mention that Romney unleashed this attack on September 11, and did so while Americans were being killed.
Oh, and during the whole cartoon blow-up during the Bush Administration, the White House said basically the same thing. And the White House, along with Secretary Clinton both issued statements that said the guy was a jack-ass, but he has the right to be a jack-ass, and that violence against the U.S. will not be tolerated. Again, perfectly reasonable.
This morning, Romney then reiterates his attack - that Obama issued a statement supporting the violence against Americans (which again, he most certainly did not). And the son of a bitch walks off the stage after lying about the President, and politicizing the deaths of Americans SERVING THEIR COUNTRY with a fucking smirk on his face. A. Fucking. Smirk.
In an astonishing, yet, refreshing change, the traditional media understood what Romney is up to, and they are pissed. Heck, Ezra Klein writes that Romney's actions reek of desperation. And he's right. The safe play, the right play, would be to strongly condemn the attacks, stand up for the freedom of people to say fucking stupid things, and then state that the perpetrators must be brought to justice. End of statement. And above else DO NOT FUCKING SMIRK.
But no, Romney had the temerity to accuse the President of not just being weak, but actually sympathizing with terrorists. Really. In the "West Wing" - which basically was the show that helped progressives live through the Bush years - there scene where President Bartlett decided he was going to kick his opponent's ass for reelection. I felt a similar reaction during Sarah Palin's speech at the 2008 RNC - when she decided to denigrate community organizers. I'm starting to feel that way towards Mitt Romney now.
And I have to say that I am amazed at Obama's ability to get his opponents to do dumb shit like this. In the past nine years, he eeks out a victory in the Illinois Senate Primary, only to have his Republican opponent blow up in spectacular fashion. So, Obama gets to run against Alan Keyes (who he slaughters). He then runs for President, and runs against Hillary Clinton, who's campaign fucks up her messaging, and can't keep a delegate count. Obama has to fight long and hard, but he wins. Then he takes on John McCain who, in a panic, picks Sarah Palin, and then tries to suspend his campaign over the Lehman Brothers disaster. Now, Obama gets Mitt Romney, who is a walking timebomb. At some point, you have to wonder if Romney actually wants to be elected, or if the whole thing isn't an elaborate hoax. A fucking smirk. . .
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