Carney: Romney Began Politicization Of Benghazi
Source: TPM
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Friday dismissed Republican hand-wringing over the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya as a politically motivated effort that was initiated by the party's 2012 presidential nominee.
"There is the discussion about, you know, the Republicans again, and this ongoing effort that began hours of the attacks when Mitt Romney put out a press release to try to take political advantage out of these deaths, or out of the attack in Benghazi, and, in a move that was maligned even by members of his own party," Carney said. "And from that day forward, there has been this effort to politicize it."
Carney added, "If you look at the issue here, the efforts to politicize it were always about, you know, were we trying to play down the fact that there was an act of terror and an attack on the embassy. And the problem has always been with that assertion it is completely hollow because the President himself in the Rose Garden said this was an act of terror and he talked about it within the context of September 11th, 2001."
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Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)He needs to come out and tell these people to either put up or shut up and stop disrupting the nation over cheap political smears..
He and the administration need to hammer these right wingers once and for all...
They are hell bent on bringing about a crisis and I say "Bring it on!"
0rganism
(23,933 posts)Don't hold your breath.
KatyMan
(4,188 posts)and that sometimes it's best to pick your battles, but for cripes' sake, sometimes you have to stand up and defend yourself, especially when the other side is willfully damaging the country. It makes him look complicit in the republicans nefarious schemes. And I'm not an Obama basher at all.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)It's Obama's fault, they have been trying for a long time to have a reason to impeach and he has nit provided them with reasons to do so and now they are required to manufacture one.
1983law
(213 posts)says the straw man dressed as Romney standing in the corner. Stick to the truth, you will be fine.