The Obama campaign opened up a new line of attack on Mitt Romney Friday, suggesting that as commander-in-chief Romney might not have made the same decision to order an attack by U.S. forces to kill terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden that President Obama did.
In a new web video titled “One Chance,” the Obama team features former President Bill Clinton praising Obama for deciding to launch the strike last year. “Why path would Mitt Romney have taken?” the clip asks.
But four years ago this April, the Obama campaign criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using Osama bin Laden in a political ad.
On the eve of the 2008 Pennsylvania primary, Clinton’s campaign released a television commercial featuring an image of bin Laden and invoking President Harry S. Truman’s quote: “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”
The ad never mentioned Obama by name, but it was part of the Clinton campaign’s effort to brand the Illinois Senator as inexperienced, especially in the foreign policy arena.
“Who do you think has what it takes?” the ad’s narrator says as an image of Clinton flashes on the screen. (The ad showed a brief clip of bin Laden as well as images of Pearl Harbor, the 1920′s stock market crash, Fidel Castro, the fall of the Berlin Wall). “You need to be ready for anything, especially now.”
The Obama campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, accused the Clinton team of playing “the politics of fear” just like George W. Bush.
Burton, now the head of the Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA, said at the time: “When Senator Clinton voted with President Bush to authorize the war in Iraq, she made a tragically bad decision that diverted our military from the terrorists who attacked us, and allowed Osama bin Laden to escape and regenerate his terrorist network. It’s ironic that she would borrow the President’s tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points. We already have a President who plays the politics of fear, and we don’t need another.
Oh, that, too!
But, lest we forget, it was the same Obama who tried to prosecute the men who waterboarded Khalid Sheik Muhammad so we find Bin Laden who is now ”taking credit” for killing Bin Laden!
Obama went after a couple of CIA agents for the way they questioned KSM.
He tried to send them to prison and he did fire them.
I think he even blamed Bush for instigating those interrogation techniques that led to the intel that got KSM!
many dramatic events happened since the killing of BIN,
HOW ABOUT THE FREEZE OF CONVOYS IN PAKISTAN A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY,
THE LOST OF 30 OP OFFICERS NEVER TO BE REPLACE, MOB GATHERING OUT TO NO GOOD,
USING OTHER EXCUSES TO FILL THE STAGE, OTHER MILITARY HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES AND HOW ABOUT THE ONE TAKEN PRISONER STILL MISSING STILL IN THE HANDS OF THE PAKISTANI,
HE HAD AN IMPORTANT TASK TO DO WITH THE CONVOY EQUIPMENT, WHAT IS BEING DONE TO GET HIM BACK TO THIS COUNTRY HE DESERVE MORE ATTENTION THAN BINLADEN WHO WAS AN ALREADY DEAD MAN ALIVE, HOW ABOUT THE OPERATION ITSELF WHICH WAS PUTTING MANY SPECIAL OP IN GREAT DANGER AND THE PAKISTAN WOULD NEVER HAVE RELEASE THEM IF
CAUGHT, HOW ABOUT HAVING INCREASE THE DANGER OF ATTACKS ON AMERICA,
HOW ABOUT HAVING INCREASE THE HATE FOR AMERICA BY THOSES FANATICS
RESULTING IN SEQUESTING THE AMERICANS EVEN MORE ,ENDANGERING THOSE LIVING AND WORKING ABROAD PUTTING THEM IN CONSTANT DANGER,
HOW ABOUT PAKISTAN RAISING THE BILLIONS FOR CONVOY PASSING TRHU THEIR COUNTRY AND UNSAFE FROM BEING DESTROYED WHICH ACCELARATE AFTER THEY SAW AN ENTRY UNLAWFULL IN THEIR SOVEREIGN COUNTRY RESULTING IN CUTTING THE CLIMATE OF CONFIDENCE EVEN AS DELICATE AS IT WAS, WHAT ABOUT THE CIA GUN DOWN AFTER THAT, IT IS ALL RELATED OF COURSE IT IS, AND NOT FORGOTTEN EITHER.