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spanone

(135,917 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 12:51 PM Jun 2013

Mitt Romney to CNN: Rice appointment ‘disappointing’. only CNN would give 2 shits....

Park City, Utah (CNN) – As Mitt Romney begins to re-emerge into the public spotlight with a Utah conference, the former Republican presidential nominee told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger he was disappointed with President Obama's pick of UN Ambassador Susan Rice to be his next national security adviser.

"I find that a disappointing appointment on the part of the president. I think what she did was to very seriously mislead the American people about what happened in Benghazi. My greatest concern about the Benghazi events was the fact there was not a rescue effort attempted and that is very troubling to me," Romney said.


He was speaking about Rice, who days after the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya were attacked on September 11 of last year went on the five Sunday talk shows and blamed the incident on protests in the region instead of calling it a terrorist attack.

In the interview, Romney opened up about what it was like for him and his wife Ann to live in a security bubble during the campaign and the transition to private life which he said he mostly welcomed. Instead of living with around the clock security, he does grocery shopping and pumps his own gas.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/06/mitt-romney-to-cnn-rice-appointment-disappointing/?hpt=hp_t3

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graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
1. I really thought he was through with politics...his still being here means
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 12:57 PM
Jun 2013

he just might attempt to run again (and lose again).

As for his pumping gas, I would bet if there are 2 people in the car, he does not get out of the car.

dennis4868

(9,774 posts)
2. How is it that Susan Rice misled
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 12:58 PM
Jun 2013

if she was working off the CIA's intelligence at that time and using talking points they drafted and signed off on. I guess Romney was terribly upset when Condi Rice became the national security advisor after she misled about Iraq WMDs. Asshole!

C_U_L8R

(45,029 posts)
5. Mitt Romney is a hack
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 01:03 PM
Jun 2013

He can't even come up with his own talking points.
The suit couldn't be much emptier.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
6. Repukes have expressed far more concern and outrage over the events surrounding Benghazi
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 01:22 PM
Jun 2013

than they expressed over the events surrounding 9-11. Why did they not seem to be concerned over the failures surrounding 9-11? The answer to this question imo would tell us much about the motivation and character, heart and soul of modern-day conservatives.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
8. To wit: Repukes seem not to care a whit about how much death, carnage, destruction, and fiscal
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 01:45 PM
Jun 2013

madness and social unrest a Republican president inflicts on this nation and the world.

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