The Romney campaign spent Tuesday criticizing Obama for referring to the riots and embassy attacks across the Muslim world as “bumps in the road.” But now the mother of one of the former Navy SEALs killing in Libya said she agrees with the road-bump characterization, and is sad to see the incident politicized, according to the Boston Herald:
The mother of a former Navy SEAL from Winchester killed in Libya said it is “very sad” that her son’s death was being used as political theater yesterday — and she agreed with President Obama’s controversial assessment that the latest round of deadly troubles in the region constitute “bumps in the road.”
She said every day, men like her son are making a difference for those who live in that region.
“Those people, not only there, but other places, are under horrid dictatorships,” Barbara Doherty told the Herald yesterday. “They’re very angry. They’re poor. It is a little bump in the road. They are making progress. You can’t expect it to happen in one night. Progress is slow.”
That will probably settle it for the media, which, as John wrote in his New York Post column, was already trying to ignore Obama’s indelicate comment anyway. How long do you think it will take for the press to turn this into a Romney-gaffe story? Maybe we can look forward to another round of breathless “did Romney jump the gun?” headlines.
Nobody is arguing that the attack in Benghazi is an insurmountable setback in the country or the region. But when the Commander-in-Chief describes it as “a bump in the road,” he’s suggesting that it was minor, unavoidable and inconsequential. That’s not what we’ve seen so far. This was the first assassination of a U.S. ambassador in over thirty years. For most Americans, that’s not a minor concern. There is evidence that we lost a massive amount of intelligence in the raid — again, not impossible to overcome, but something that will have consequences in the region. As for whether the attack could have been avoided, there are serious concerns about why the State Department failed to secure the consulate and the ambassador.
nThat made my blood boil when I heard Obama make that comment.
It is now rather obvious don't you think that Ambassador Chris Stevens and the others died because Obama skipped his own foreign policy briefings (I actually know a CIA analyst who did a briefing he showed up for many months ago on Arab countries) so he could golf, campaign, and party with Beyonce, and then had to have his entire State Department lie and blame Arab unrest on some dumb little movie as a wag the dog distraction. He is a liar, a murderer of innocents with his predator drones, and an employer who let his employees die from dangerous work conditions. n nOSHA should have him in prison. n
Well…these are interesting times.
I would like to clear one thing up right now. Contrary to what President Obama stated, The President does NOT have Israel’s back. That was a lie.
On the other hand The US Media Elite has Obama’s back.
Much has been made of Obama’s failures. Even Obama does not trumpet his successes. I can understand why. To do so would undermine his re-election bid.
Obama’s perhaps biggest success is the weakening of The US Israel Alliance. Not to mention, the transformation of Israel’s neighboring states as exponentially increasing immediate and long term mortal threats to Israel and world Jewry.
> Nobody is arguing that the attack in Benghazi is an insurmountable setback n> in the country or the region. But when the Commander-in-Chief describes n> it as “a bump in the road,” he’s suggesting that it was minor, unavoidable n> and inconsequential. n nAs usual, we should try to imagine that the shoe is on the other foot. Would or reactions and concerns be the same? n nIf the ambassador of Iraq or Afghanistan had been assassinated in 2005 and George W. Bush had regarded it as a "bump in the road" towards freedom and democracy in the region, would Goodman be criticizing the president? I don't think so…
Was Hillary Clinton responsible for the nearly nonexistent security at the Libyan embassy—or was that decision made by Obama? She will not be played for a sucker. Obama seems to be the only one still sticking with the silly movie reason for the attack. Everybody else appears ready to abandon ship. Obama is on his own.
Let's hope Obama is merely a bump on the road back to American greatness.
"If the ambassador of Iraq or Afghanistan had been assassinated in 2005 and George W. Bush had regarded it as a "bump in the road" towards freedom and democracy in the region, would Goodman be criticizing the president? I don't think so" n nYou are correct, Lindroos, Goodman wouldn't be criticizing Bush, because Bush, being a former fighter pilot, and son of a fighter pilot, would NEVER be so callous and contemptuous as to refer to several people who just died whilst serving their country as insignificant bumps in a road! It's incidents like this, and the cavalier attitude this administration shows to our soldier's well-being that are the reason the military is so inclined to support his replacement (and, of course, why the Obama admin is breaking the law by suppressing the military vote).