VAN METER, Iowa -- Mitt Romney said Tuesday that he had actually met one of the Navy SEALs to have been killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands during a campaign rally, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, in Van Meter, Iowa.
A day after delivering a major foreign policy speech -- which included sharp criticism of President Barack Obama's response to the terrorist attack -- Romney acknowledged having met the SEAL, Glen Doherty, during a past holiday party.
"This is kind of a strange story so bear with me here," Romney told an audience on a farm outside of Des Moines. He went on to say that he and his wife, Ann Romney, had been invited to a neighborhood Christmas party a few years ago, but they inadvertently went to the wrong party.
"We were a little embarrassed, but they treated us well nonetheless. And I got to meet some really interesting people," Romney continued.
One of them, Romney said, was a former Navy SEAL from Romney's home state of Massachusetts.
"He told me that he keeps going back to the Middle East," Romney recalled.
"He cares very deeply about the people there. He served in the military there, went back from time to time to offer security services and so forth to people there. You can imagine how I felt when I found out that he was one of the two former Navy SEALS killed in Benghazi on September 11th."
The events in Benghazi have become a charged issue in the campaign, as Obama defends himself against charges that the consulate was poorly protected.
The attack resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the first ambassador killed in the line duty in three decades. Three other Americans were killed, including two former U.S. Navy SEALs working as security contractors.
The Romney campaign later confirmed to reporters that the man Romney met at that party in La Jolla, CA, several years ago was Doherty, of Winchester, Mass.
A neighbor of Romney's reached out to the candidate last week to notify Romney of the coincidence. Doherty's sister said the campaign had notified her family that Romney would speak about the late SEAL, and the family set up a foundation in his honor in anticipation of the mention.


pretty easy to say he met a guy who's dead - that's from Sarah Palin's bag of tricks
Romney called him into his office to tell what a good job he had done for one of the Bain companies and then told him his job was going to China and he was being laid him off.
WHAT AN IDIOT. ARE YOU KIDDING!! LOL! Look at this from Obama own web-site as gleaming example of Romney's out-sourcing!! A TOTAL OF 829 JOBS!!!
http: //www.barackobama.com/romney-offshore-outsourcing/
No lie! Hilarious! IDIOTS.
Meanwhile, companies are running to China escaping the highest corporate tax rate on the planet, the Roman Legion EPA, Unions, and above all Obamacare.
This has translated to:
2.6 million Commercial foreclosures
Over 3.8 million business have gone out of business
38,000 US products moved offshore for manufacturing
The lowest number of patents in 35 years
And GM?
Bush signed TARP, as well as, the Bail-Out of GM which at the time was only $13 Billion placed in a working escrow. Obama over saw the administration of the funds, as well as, the re-structuring of GM.
With $50 Billion in their pocket in 2009, GM closed 13 plants, including the one in Janesville, laid off 21,000 workers. These plants were not part of Obama's approved re-structuring plan for GM.
Investing in China was. They opened 11 new plants, and hired 35,000 Chinese.
http: //www.financialexpress.com/news/general-motors-opens-new-plant-in-china/399643/
http: //voices.yahoo.com/uaw-furious-over-gm-plant-china-426020.html
http: //careers.gm.com/careers-worldwide/asiamiddle-east/china.html
GM has 11 joint ventures and two wholly owned foreign enterprises as well as more than 35,000 employees in China. GM, along with its joint ventures, offers the broadest lineup of vehicles and brands among automakers in China. Products are sold under the Baojun, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel, Wuling and Jiefang nameplates. In 2011, domestic sales of vehicles by GM and its joint ventures jumped 8.3 percent on an annual basis to 2,547,203 units. It has been the sales leader among global automakers in China for seven consecutive years.
Those GM Chinese cars have been imported for a year now.
If we give $50 Billion to a failing car company, is it not reasonable to have them use those funds to keep plants open here and not closed them like the one in Janesville?
General Motors Corp. will shift more production of vehicles bound for the U.S. market to China, Mexico, South Korea and Japan, but will keep total imports at roughly one-third of all sales here.
In a confidential 12-page presentation to members of Congress, obtained by The Detroit News, GM said it will boost U.S. sales of vehicles built in those four countries by 98 percent -- or about 365,000 vehicles -- while shrinking production in Canada, Australia and European countries by about 130,000 vehicles.
GM also has been importing vehicles made in China in 2011, reaching 51,546 vehicles in 2014. Imports from South Korea to the United States will jump from 36,967 vehicles in 2010 to 157,126 in 2014.
GM's plan to import more vehicles from low-wage countries raises questions about whether it should beef up its foreign operations as it is relying on federal money to stay afloat. It also puts the automaker at odds with the United Auto Workers, which is trying to protect U.S. jobs amid a dramatic restructuring of the domestic auto industry.
GM has faced strong protests from the union that its turnaround plan unfairly targets U.S. workers and plants for cuts. GM plans to trim 21,000 hourly workers and close 13 of its 47 U.S. plants by the end of 2010 as part of a tougher recovery plan sought by President Obama's auto task force. It will close three more U.S. plants by 2014.
And G.E.?
Apparently Immelt's idea of being part of the solution is to ship as many jobs overseas as he possibly can.
A recent article on the Huffington Post documented how GE has been sending tens of thousands of good jobs out of the country....
As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it's added 25,000 jobs overseas.
At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.
GE is supposed to be creating the "jobs of tomorrow", but it seems that most of the "jobs of tomorrow" will not be located inside the United States.
The last GE factory in the U.S. that made light bulbs closed last September. The transition to the new CFL light bulbs was supposed to create a whole bunch of those "green jobs" that Barack Obama keeps talking about, but as an article in the Washington Post noted, that simply is not happening..
Romney has no shame about anything. He uses a Navy Seal that gave up his life for nothing more than hopeful political gain!! Romney will say and do anything that his handlers want him to.
Shame? We have a standing President that has mentioned Big Bird and Elmo in his campaign speeches that the economy and Benghazi Gate
How did Chris Christie know that the caring compassionate more moderate Romney was showing up for the debate and changing most of the positions he had for the last year? Either Christie know Romney's character enough to see this or it was all planned and others knew but did not talk.
how
This tool can't sling the bodies around fast enough to try and get some PR out of it.
The consulate was poorly protected. End of story.
Sadly, end of story for the hero Chris Stevens.
And what does the President do? Hops a plane to Vegas...
Sips a cocktail, lays back in his big seat on Airforce One, with blood on his hands.
My gawd, like there is a choice in this election...
Can anyone here name the jobs that Bain and Romney outsource? 829 according to Obama. .
Bain and Romney have saved hundreds of companiesfrom the brink. They can be seen on every street corner of your City or Town. They employ millions of Americans and provide a tax base to help keep Local, State, and even the Federal government alfoat.
If Obama were a real leader, he would be thanking Romney in keeping these people employed/
This is called insourcing Mr. President. Keep money and jobs here, not shipping them off to China, Mexico, and Finland, like you do.
AMC Entertainment
Home Depot
Aspen Education Group
Brookstone
Burger King
Burlington Coat Factory
Clear Channel Communications
Domino's Pizza
DoubleClick
Dunkin' Donuts
D&M Holdings
Guitar Center
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
Sealy
The Sports Authority
Staples
Toys "R" Us
Warner Music Group
The Weather Channel
Now, compare that with Obama's head for business. This are all Green jobs failures to the tune of $20 Billion. Bain and Romney would never throw away $20 Billion of anyone's money. If Obama was in the private sector, he would be fired, and indicted for such criminal waste.
These are just a few of Obama failures.
LightSquared
Tanopah
BrightSource
Beacon Power Corp
Ener1 Inc
NextEra
Amonix Inc
Abound solar
A 123 systems
First Solar
LG Chem Battery
Oh, almost forgot, Solyndra
Gee Pubes let's compare .
Romney's list of minimum wage paying service jobs that were created by burdening the companies with debt to pay for his service fees and profit.
Or....
Federal loans given to companies attempting to bring new technologies into the mainstream while competing with state backed businesses. ( CHINA)
Like comparing a nuclear reactor to fireplace.
So, you would have them all at home on the couch collecting food stamps and a government check instead of adding to the economy?
Spoken like a true elitist Liberal.
We all worked at those places as kids, it taught us the responsibilty and the dignity of work.
HCA? Doctors and Nurses.
Aspen Education Group? Teachers anhd Drug Counselors for troubled teens.
Weather Channel? Meteorologist, Produces, Directors, technical people.
Clear Channel Communications? Mass Media marketing, Business and Marketing professionals.
GET EDUCATED BEFORE YOU POST!
PUBES,
Spoken like the Republican tool that you are.
Everyone of your above examples were acquired by Bain with others from 2006 on. After Romney's own avowal of having nothing to do with operations.
HCA - A glaring example of what is wrong with the healthcare for profit system. Largest fraud settlement in U.S. History. Overcharging the government for services. Sort of like laying on the couch collecting a check just done from a leather chair in a board room....read up on it ,get educated.
In each of the acquisitions you mention, thousands of jobs lost, pay cuts, benefits cut, all to maximize profits for the few.......read up on them and get educated .....tool.
Like Holder not knowing what was going under his watch?
Name the jobs lost under Bain and Romney, Quantify it with hard data and facts, I CHALLENGE YOU.
Meanwhile while your head is spinning on that one, let's compate a Romney Bain Company success to an Obama venture.
Dominos Pizza, trading at $40.00 A share.
Competitive salaries
Medical, dental and vision coverage
Health Spending Account
Prescription Drug Benefit
Team Achievement Dividend (performance bonus)
Partners Foundation (team member assistance)
Above-average paid holiday program
401(k) Matching Program
Employee stock purchase discount plan
Company-paid life insurance
Tuition reimbursement
National corporate discounts
Legal services
Adoption assistance
They employ 145,000. Most at their head Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
It is HUGE, nearly 1 million square feet in size. Over 270-acre campus in pasture-like setting.
GM: What did we get for that $50 Billion? Stock price around $20 bucks a share, Dominos is worth twice as much.
18 Plants closed, 25,000 laid off, hundreds of dealerships and FIVE brand names gone forever. The company still filed chapter 11, and U.S. tax payer is bank rolling GM pensions to the tune of $30 Billion.
GET EDUCATED BEFORE YOU POST!
PUBES,
Can't answer a direct question ?
Retreat to hold up a pizza pie as American accomplishment ! I'm so proud. We should make it our new American seal based on its stock price.
Not your so called saves of American companies on main street.You mean to say leveraged buy outs. Can't even tell the truth about that !
Go back to Rush and Newsmax , Tool !
Please point out the question mark in any of your posts.
Hey, I proved you wrong, Most those jobs are are far from minimum wage.
Sure, you can deflect and distract all you want, but I eat your lunch there as well.
Now, I'll try again, Name the jobs lost under Bain and Romney, Quantify it with hard data and facts, I CHALLENGE YOU.
Name them.
OOOOOOOH ! A CHALLENGE FROM PUBES !
From a thing that can't differentiate the risks from trying to jump start Green Energy manufacturing jobs , new technologies and MAKING PIZZAS ! That was the question dumba%%!
From a thing that equates success in America as a stock price.
From a thing that can't research his own claims.....Google it Pubes Educate yourself.
From a thing that calls the Bidens Cowards for their service to our country. Yeah I read that post you moron . You are less than whale crap , a perfect Pube !
I eat your lunch, now I am going for your dinner. You are not up to the challange because you can not back your own assertions with facts.
Fact: Dominos is a better stock buy than GM.
Fact: Dominos employs more Americans than GM by nearly a two to one ratio; 145,000 to 77,000.
Fact: Bidens are cowards. Everyone at camp Victory thought he was a turd.
Fact: You are as dense as depleted uranium.
Try being informed, instead of Brain-washed.
What a truly intellectual comeback . Right up there with boogers stick on you.
Enough of talking to a fool who thinks Pizza is a National Resource and knows everyone in Camp Victory , Afghanistan.
Take that ! I ate your night-night snack !
Google Barbra Doherty who is the mother of Glen Doherty the Navy Seal . She doesn`t trust Romney and is upset that he would USE her son for his campaign...
Typical liberal lies!! You Socialist CAN NOT say 1 truthful thing out of your mouths. You people are Free Loaders with NO CHARACTER, NO CLASS, NO MORALS, Just like Obama. You are pitiful delusional uneducated low life's.
MORE ROMPPY LIES !!!!! He blames OBAMA what a pathetic lying son of a Bitch!!!!!
I heard that the CONGRESSIONAL GOP AND TEA were responsible for PASSING A BILL that DECREASED FUNDING for the EMBASSIES. It was said by a Senator.
How TWO-FACED, and FORKED-TONGUE than the GOP and TEA get it the SNOW JOB of the CENTURY on AMERICANS. It is like watching a COMMERCIAL TO BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY but in this case VOTE,VOTE,VOTE,VOTE for the LYING son's of bitches.
Oh, Romney must think he's a hero since he once met a serviceman who was killed in the line of duty! Another one of his fairy tales to gain a semblence of caring for anybody other than his own self. Now, if he said he SERVED in the military with that seal, I would think more of his comment.
"...Now, if he said he SERVED in the military with that seal, I would think more of his comment..."
-- But Romney already did his patriotic part: Didn't he say that he got his sons to provide more vital services to the country than serving in the military? They helped him in the campaign trail!
Very touching Chuckles!
But when asked what your children were doing to serve their country, your response was "My 5 sons are serving their country by working to get me elected president".
The apples sure don't fall far from the tree, do they Chuckles?
Yet another generation of self serving, elitist one percenters.
Well done Chuckles, keep your legacy alive!!!!!
Why isn't MSNBC reporting about how the Obama administration LIED about the cause of the raid and killing of our Libyan ambassador? They cowardly blamed an anti-Muslim film but it was a terrorist attack. They have surveillance video which shows NO mob as originally claimed. And now Susan Rice is saying they never said it was due to the anti-Muslim film! What a bunch of liars! It was all over the freakin' news. This administration is so corrupt and inept and MSNBC is so biased. ROMNEY 2012!!!!!!!!
The Romney Draft Dodging Crew is now trying to Aquire military status by shaking hands with a Military member. Mitt Go home and stay there until you find out that you just got your Butt kicked again. YOU ARE NOT AND NEVER HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A PERSON OF LIKEABILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe some of your buisness associates had to but you have been up and down the road a couple of times and you are not the STELLAR STAR you think you are.
The news media is now reporting that Obama killed this Seal and the Ambassador by failing to grant a request for additional security after over 200 incidents in the last year. Then, of course, Obama lied about the attacks claiming out of control protesters when the WORLD was reporting that there was no protesters! I will assume Romney will point out Obama's incompetence and lies to the American people at the next debate. He should ask Obama to resign.
rom;nut's story proves there are some rich people who have morals and are people of character unlike the rom;nuts family. I assume the young man that was killed was rich if he was a neighbor of rom;nuts in La Jolla, CA. How many of rom;nuts spoiled rich brats joined the Armed Forces? How many 100,000s men and women will he send to be maimed and to their death if rom;nuts is elected? Even the Prince of the royal family in England joined their Armed Forces> The rom;nuts think they are above royalty! I got a newsflash for them: They aren't! America did away with royalty long ago and we don't want it now.
and Romney says his 5 sons are serving America by "helping him get elected". NOT. They are serving HIM.
I wonder how that makes the families of deceased and disabled veterans feel.
Biden had FIVE differements between 1963 and 1968.
And his son Beau? Joined for political reasons to further his career!
BEAU BIDEN WAS A COWARD IN THE REAR WITH THE GEAR!
WE ALL SAW IT!
THE BIDEN"S ARE COWARDS!
Biden joined the military in 2003 as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and was recently promoted to the rank of Major in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps as part of the 261st Signal Brigade in Smyrna, Delaware.
Biden's unit was activated to deploy to Iraq on October 3, 2008, and sent to Fort Bliss, Texas for pre-deployment training, the day after his father participated in the 2008 presidential campaign's only vice presidential debate. His father is on the record as saying, "I don't want him going. But I tell you what, I don't want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years, and so how we leave makes a big difference."
Biden traveled to Washington, D.C. from Iraq in January 2009 for the presidential inauguration and his father's swearing-in as Vice President, then returned to Iraq. Biden received a visit at Camp Victory from his father on July 4, 2009. Biden returned from Iraq in September 2009, his yearlong deployment complete. Biden had announced that during his deployment he would continue to actively serve as Delaware's Attorney General by working in conjunction with his office's senior staff in Delaware, although a member of his unit related Biden saying he had turned over most of his attorney general work to his deputy so as to focus on his duties in Iraq.
He put on a uniform, what did Romney wear, Versace in Paris?
No body really knows how LOW a politician will stoop if they think the situation might improve their image. Romney is now admitting that he will also use a name or situation to further [THEY HOPE] their image . I spent 22yrs in the navy and handshaking is/was not a memorable manuever. It was a courteous procedure not a Something a POLITICIAN would/could use to attempt to gain a few votes many unknown years later.
Wrong. A chance meeting with a Seal at a neighborhood Christmas gathering makes not the grand schem as you imagine.
Obama spent $200 Million painting Romney as Richi Rich who only hob knobs with the wealthy.
And how much does a Seal make? Not a %1er by any means.
Did you not read that it was by mistake he met the Navy Seal, he was not hanging around with him. Even though he wants to make it sound like he actually knew him.
Do you understand what a "Chance Meeting" is?
Try to keep up
Robme continues to pander to the stupid. And they continue to fail to understand who he really is and who he really represents. Hint: it is not the 47% that helped build his fortune for him.
And again with the GOP, Romney is all fired up about flexing his muscles at the Middle East and other Nations, but has ANY of his sons Served, Signed up, Volunteered for any of the Military efforts? Will they if he gets into office. Of course not! He's all about sending YOUR BOYS! Talk is ez, it's action that matters. And how is the GOP voting on Veteran Issues-Against them-look at the last law. www.opencongress.org/rollcall/all
Do the research on how Patriotic the Republicans are instead of just putting a pin on.
I met a Republican with a brain once, but he died a long time ago,,,,,,
You must be talking about Eisenhower. You know, the Republican who warned us about people like Robme and the Kochs and their greed.
Your an Idiot. Name the defense contract any Romney company had numbskull.
More like G.E. and Jeff Immelt.
Educate yourself before you post.
Uh, let's see, how bout the Cheney/Haliburton no-bid deals and the trillion dollars that cannot be accounted for in Dubbie's little lying war? Who is the idiot now? Educate? Since when have we heard a Neo-Retardican worry about that? LOL
Here is some news, Romney was never the CEO Haliburton.
So, you are a proven Idiot.
To show how dense you are, you did not even that there are four companies on the planet that can do what Hali does.
One is the American Bechtel, who opted out.
the others are French and Russian.
Did you want to give our tax dollars to the Frogs, and Ruskies???
Ya, trust them with our military secretes, involve them in our re-building plans?
There was only one company that could do the job, Hali.
The GOP is skilled at the art of deception. You fain collective amnesia and reconstruct history. Do remember the Bunny Greenhouse fracas in Iraq? Do you remember what she was blowing the whistle on?
Here is the link remind you:
But if your damage brain can't handle clicking a button for truth, here is the article:
"After years of fighting the government, Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, a
whistleblower who was demoted after exposing problems with a sole source
contract related to the invasion of Iraq, has won an almost $1 million
settlement.
The U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday approved awarding Greenhouse
$970,000 in full restitution of lost wages, compensatory damages and attorneys
fees, said her attorney, Michael D. Kohn.
Beyond the particulars of her situation, Greenhouse said her case makes it
“loud and clear that federal employees need better laws” to protect them if they
engage in whistleblowing.
The Greenhouse settlement with the Army Corps of Engineers closes a high profile government whistleblowing case that involved a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown and Root. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Greenhouse, who was the civilian procurement executive for the agency, objected to KBR using its own cost projections for a multi-year no-bid, no
competition contract."
I bet you conveniently forgot 8 bucks for a bottle of water too. It would have been 8x cheaper to mail them the stuff by USPS. There is some patriotism for, but the almighty dollar is more important than our troops. Just leave it to the GOP to twist the truth and fool you knuckleheads so easily.
Pube, how observant of you to notice that Robme was not CEO of Haliburton. Problem is that his friend, Lyin Cheney, WAS! Your attempt to dodge the truth has failed and you get to sit down now. LOL
Is Romney against war, as his religion commands? Or is he irreverent?
Where are those crocodile tear from you and the GOP on the 4000+ troops lost in Iraq the unnecessary War. Can't do that can you, it will draw attention to your hippocracy.
Skintagg and Ann-tonym the new makeover kit for the "Willard of Oz". Just can't cover or wash the ugly off can you, keep lying!. One puts on the spray on tan so he can look like the crowd he's wooing, the other tells him what to say that is the opposite of yesterday.
So he met the SEAL- newsworthy, how?
It is not. He mentioned the chance meeting at a campaign stop,
Nothing more, nothing less
Was that lie made up to make Robme look like a regular guy? LOL, what a fraudulent creep he is.
Because Majority Rules & Morality Matters.
A fag talking about morality that is funny.
If majority ruled, Obama wouldn't be allowed to pander to every little special interest group, with taxpayer money, just to get votes. Like ignoring a law that says don't ask, don't tell, just to get the (bundle of sticks) vote.Go ahead and vote for the losing side. I'm sure it won't be the first you've been on the bottom.
Sounds like a likely story. Too bad the seal who got killed can neither comfirm or deny it. Got any big fish that got away stories to go with this one willard?
The one I really like is his meeting the staff of a Chipote grill he was eating at and calling it courting the hispanic and black vote. lol.
You have about as much in common with these folk as a horse does with a flea.
Think about it.
All of a sudden Romney can supply in detail of meeting someone at a party years ago who happened to be a former seal serving at various posts in the Mid-east and it turned out that this person was one of the 4 ilitary/diplomatic personnel involved in the Libyan attack.
Ask him for details about his economic plan, or his healthcare
plan, or his tax plan or his defense plan or his social network plan or his
foreign policy plan or his energy plan or his environmental plan and neither he or zombie eyes can give any details of what's in any of these so-called plans for the future because they have no details just vague generalities and nice platitudes and nice fuzzy-wuzzy phrases, just like he used in his debate.