In keeping with my generally curmudgeonly attitude toward presidential debates, I only saw the last ten minutes of this second one (and none of the first).
But I note on the social media much “back and forth” between advocates of the two candidates on whether President Obama mentioned terrorism in his Rose Garden statement on the September 11, 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Governor Romney evidently claimed that the President did not, intimating either naivete or willful deception on the part of the President. The President claimed that he did reference terrorism.
One tweeter said that Sean Hannity was “threatening” to post the video of the President’s statement to prove Mr. Obama wrong.
No need for threats. Here’s the Wall Street Journal’s posting of the statement:
The President does speak of "acts of terror" in the statement. Whether he then considered or meant to characterize the Benghazi attacks as the act of a terror group at the time is open to question.
It appears to me that both camps are engaging in a bit of parsing here, rather than addressing the bigger issues suggested by this event.
Can you say, "Quemoy and Matsu"?
[I write a personal blog and talk about altogether different matters than I usually address here. Its address is http://markdaniels.blogspot.com.]