Mitt: "Even Jimmy Carter" would have ordered the Osama raid.

[pampango]

Mitt Romney informs us that the raid that took out Osama bin Laden one year ago was no big deal, because "even Jimmy Carter would have given that order."

But let's remember:

1) Jimmy Carter is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who spent ten years in the uniformed service of his country. As far as I can tell, this is ten years more than the cumulative service of members of the Romney clan.

2) Jimmy Carter did indeed make a gutsy go/no-go call. It turned out to be a tactical, strategic, and political disaster.

3) Precisely because of the consequences of Carter's failure, Obama was the more daring in making his go/no-go decision. That's the case I argued last year, and nothing I've learned since then changes my view. As a college student, Obama had seen a marginally popular Democratic president come to ruin because he approved a helicopter-based secret mission into hostile Middle Eastern terrain.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/even-jimmy-carter/256558/

[Skittles]

1. fuck off Mitt

you and all of your spawn could not be bothered to serve your country but now you want to give military advice? FUCK OFF

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. what an ass Mitt is!

[GoCubsGo]

3. Easy for an arm chair warrior who's armed with hindsight to say.

The more this asswipe opens his yap, the more I detest him.

[madinmaryland]

4. Mitt just cannot stop stepping in piles of shit...

Mitt the Shitt.

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. stepping in them? He is making them! He doesn't need an etch-a-sketch,

he needs toilet paper and a hose!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Memo to Jimmy Carter: This is the gratitude you get for crossing party lines.

Carter: I Would Be ‘Very Pleased’ to See Romney Win GOP Race


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/16/carter-would-be-very-pleased-to-see-romney-win-gop-race/

[DocMac]

16. Did you read the part where he says

that he doesn't think anybody will beat Obama?

I read the religious part. Maybe he thinks that Mitt is the easiest opponent.

[spanone]

6. chickenhawks shouldn't talk about those who served, asshole

President Carter has more integrity in his little toenail than mr romney

[liberal N proud]

7. Jimmy Carter was President - that is something that Romney can't say about himself.

Hopefully it will always be that way.

I would take Carter any day over the shit Romney is selling.

[Turbineguy]

8. Revenge remark

Jimmy Carter said he could live with Romney as Prez.

[UTUSN]

9. What a pissant is Mittens nt

[RobertEarl]

10. Question is:

Would Mitt have ordered the Osama raid?

Obviously not. "No big deal". Just like his friend and mentor, GWB, Mitt would not have made the call to kill America's #1 enemy.

[BeyondGeography]

12. OBL was there for years and * did nothing

Just kills these whiny-asses that Obama did the job.

[rustydog]

13. Next week Willard will vehemently deny saying any such thing!

[Raine]

14. STFU Mitt and go to hell while you're at it! nt

[C_U_L8R]

15. Mitt, whats with this politics of envy???

What a small person Romney has proven to be.

[spanone]

17. imagine the outrage if Obama had said the same of bu$h*

republicans would be demanding an apology.

[eyeofnewt]

18. those kids

of Mitt's are serving their country, campaigning for daddy.


Oh, and I'm sure they're cuter than Amy Carter (isn't this deemed important to the rethugs?)

[Canuckistanian]

19. Presidents always take risks. It's part of the job description

And NO president would refuse an action if it would serve his country obviously.

Carter actually did that and failed. It goes with the territory. Some actions win, some fail.

It's despicable for Rmoney to specifically mention the ONE FAILURE of Carter to score a cheap political point.

[treestar]

21. And funny how Obama gets not credit, just the Navy Seals

Yet right wingers then aren't consistent - if they were, then the failure of the mission under Carter would be the failure of the marines or whoever was carrying it out.

[treestar]

20. Another idiotic thing from him

Carter did make the call. It can always fail.

[frazzled]

22. GW Bush: ""I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. ...

"It's not that important. It's not our priority." 3/13/02

M. Romney: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." 2007