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Romney in blistering attack on Obama leadership
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September 13, 2012, Thursday
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FOREIGN affairs intruded dramatically on the presidential race yesterday as Republican candidate Mitt Romney launched a blistering political assault on President Barack Obama and said his administration had severely miscalculated in the early hours after assaults on US diplomatic outposts in North Africa.
Moments later in a televised statement from the White House, Obama condemned the attack and eulogized Chris Stevens, the 52-year-old US ambassador to Libya slain in Benghazi.
The Republican challenger said Obama's foreign policy leadership had failed because he allowed the US government to send "mixed signals" about the attacks on the American embassy in Cairo and its consulate in Benghazi.
Mobs in Benghazi and Cairo had been provoked by a YouTube video that insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and the US Embassy in Cairo had issued a statement hours before the deaths in Benghazi calling for calm, saying, in part, that it condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims..."
That prompted Romney to say: "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."
Yesterday, once the tragic events were fully understood, Obama issued a statement in which he said: "I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens." Obama also said: "While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants."
Moments later in a televised statement from the White House, Obama condemned the attack and eulogized Chris Stevens, the 52-year-old US ambassador to Libya slain in Benghazi.
The Republican challenger said Obama's foreign policy leadership had failed because he allowed the US government to send "mixed signals" about the attacks on the American embassy in Cairo and its consulate in Benghazi.
Mobs in Benghazi and Cairo had been provoked by a YouTube video that insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and the US Embassy in Cairo had issued a statement hours before the deaths in Benghazi calling for calm, saying, in part, that it condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims..."
That prompted Romney to say: "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."
Yesterday, once the tragic events were fully understood, Obama issued a statement in which he said: "I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens." Obama also said: "While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants."
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