American Thinker
9/13/2012
Bizarro World: Candidate Obama used 9 military deaths to criticize his opponent’s stance on Iraq in 2008. In 2012, however, questioning President Obama’s own actions in the Middle East is considered inappropriate and ‘politicizing’ a tragedy. And the lapdog media just smiles and nods along…
Media turns Barack Obama foreign policy disaster into Mitt Romney gaffe
…Romney condemned the statement that was issued by the embassy, issuing a statement that read:
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. 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.”
Almost instantly the media attacked Romney as being “irresponsible” and “ham-handed”. Reporters claimed that the White House has sufficiently denounced the attacks on the embassies and distanced themselves for the controversial statement from the Cairo organization. Furthermore, they accused Romney of trying to politicize the attacks.
But rather than cave to the attacks, Romney stood his ground…
…“The media is somehow or another making Mitt Romney the bad guy in this. Somehow or another Mitt Romney should keep his opinion to himself. It’s a presidential election. We should absolutely hear what Mitt Romney has to say,” Glenn added.
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Obama Speaks Out on Egypt: ‘I Don’t Think That We Would Consider Them an Ally, But We Don‘t Consider Them an Enemy’, posted at 9 this morning.
By 12:30 this afternoon: White House clarifies Obama’s statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally’
Just before 3 pm, Jake Tapper reported at ABC News, White House Clarifies Obama’s Egypt ‘Ally’ Comment
…As The Cable’s Josh Rogin points out, in 1989 Egypt was designated by Congress to be a Major Non-NATO Ally along with Australia, Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand.) Today the U.S. State department, somewhat awkwardly, re-affirmed that Egypt is an ally…
Read the whole thing at ABC News.
So, “it depends on what the meaning of ‘ally’ is.”
More parsing. Another walk-back from the smartest man ever to be elected President of the United States.
Update: VIDEO: NBC News Stunned By Obama Gaffe
TODD: I just want to get your first reaction, before you give me a report, of the President saying Egypt was not an ally or an enemy.
ENGEL: Yeah, I almost had to sit down when I heard that. For the last forty years, the United States has had two main allies in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the other ally in the Middle East being Israel. For the President to come out and say, well, he’s not exactly sure if Egypt is an ally any more but it’s not an enemy, that is a significant change in the perspective of Washington toward this country, the biggest country in the Arab world. It makes one wonder, well, was it worth it? Was it worth supporting the Arab Spring, supporting the demonstrations here in Tahrir Square, when now in Tahrir Square there are clashes going on behind me right in front of the US embassy?
