re: #72 Jay C

Which leads to the question - WHY did he want to show America is weak, and why would he want to do this 2 months before the election?

Which answer is what Mitt Romney blurted out like, what, a few hours after the Benghazi attacks (and swiftly backpedaled) - that Obama’s reluctance to engage in mindless Muslim-bashing *somehow* meant that he was “sympathetic” to terrorism, and that said “sympathy” *somehow* led to the attack. Of course, it was all fearful BS (even Mitt tried - sadly, successfully, to bury this ), but it just played into the longstanding derangement most wingers have over President Obama. ODS - the Silent Killer….

What I remember about that announcement by Mitt was the smug, smarmy smirk on his puss as he left the podium. Probably thought he’d scored big. That’s life inside the bubble - all his friends told him how great it would be to score points on Obama over this, then at the debate he did his famous faceplant. I could watch the moment when Candy Crowley corrected him over and over - he starts out leaning forward, like his prey is in the trap, then his eyes pop open, his head jerks up, he takes an involuntary step backwards. Ah, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot, already in the mouth.