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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.
Evan Vucci / AP
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.
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There are some insensitive bastards on this Blog. Seeking sanity, feisty, and Newdaydawning, all need to be put to rest.
Face it schmucks, Romney is winning and will be our next president!
Romney/Ryan 2012-2016
You may be right Dali, but we will see how long it takes the American people to figure out that Robme is a bald faced liar. They may not get there before the election, but they certainly will after a year or so of his being in office.
Tex, I love the way all you libs jump on the talking points and call him a liar. Never before has a campaign stooped so low, but then again, never has a campaign has such a dishonest president to try to defend. But what can we expect from a team that has nothing to run on, no ideas that help us, an no retort that doesn't involve insults, name-calling and division. Remember, to a lib tolerance is a one way street. Believe as they do or be prepared to face to full wrath of the lib agenda.
You dont seem to remember the lows that Reagan reached in his blasphemous lies about Carter. Or the lies made up by the Swift boat cowards about a war hero, John Kerry.
Do you realize that the RNC, FAUX, and LImberger were falsely calling Obama a liar before Robme even started his lying campaign.
New lows, not even close, in fact the truth is that Robme will say ANYTHING to get into the WH so he can steal the rest of the US Treasury. GET IT?
Yea, right.
Robme also met Jesus when he was ordained in Salt Lake City as the cult candidate for President. LOL
Wow..Duh...now I really want to vote for the guy!
Obama supporters like 'fiesty' are nasty losers, welfare recipients, black bigots and all around degenerates.
Really? And republicans are 'ol so nice? That was about the most small minded thinking I've heard in awhile. Black bigots? What exactly is that?
Black bigot - aka 'rap artist', especially the variety that can rhyme at least 40 words with the word 'n---er'.
Type Romney into your spreadsheet, and you get a circular reference.
This guy is a scumbag liar! Wake the f*ck up people, this guy is going to be trouble if he gets into office. The groundwork is already being laid down, LIE NOW, LIE IN THE FUTURE, LIE AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS! He's a liar!
I'd be more impressed if the guy WAS a SEAL during the VietNam war.
Hell, even I've met a SEAL....yeah, the Navy guy, not the animal.
I'd buy that he met a seal. Probably at the local zoo. But to say that he met a specific seal sounds to me like he's stretching the truth again.
Maybe we should just start calling him Topper. That's a Dilbert reference for those that don't get it.
Mr. 4xDEFERMENTS has no business talking to any veteran face to face. He is lower than dishonorable. At least the dishonorable served.
I imagine you felt...
Somehow cheated your couldn't make a buck at this hero's expense.
I imagine you felt...
Like you could somehow find a way to blame Barak Obama for this.
I imagine you felt...
Glad it wasn't you or any of your brood.
I imagine you felt...
The knocking of opportunity at the mention of a foundation from which you could find a way to skim profits until you outsourced the foundation to China.
Do you really want me to keep imagining how you felt there, Mitt? Really?
Or have I covered pretty much everything?
Obama is in charge you certainly did not have a problem blaming Bush did you. Obama is responsible for cutting the security and has blood on his hands.
But Obama did not start with a healthy economy and end with a pile of Sh*t. And Obama did not start a war based on known lies with a dictator that his Republican predecessors created. Slight difference, but I doubt that you can tell the difference. You seem to have spent too much time in a hatred mode and not enough in an education one. America is truly in deep doodoo if you are the average Retardican out there.
Obama has lied over and over about what happened in Libya and now the chicken are coming home to roost.
In fact I think Barack and Hillary need to explain to us why they lied to the American public about what happened there.
I can't believe PMSNBC couldn't find a way to spin this story to make Romney llok bad. Wow, where are your editors?
Obama has blood on his hands and needs to explain his actions and lies he put forth to the people.
Barack Obama murdered those 4 men as simply as the terrorist did. He is no president or leader.
And you are no brilliant 5th grader. So, by your ignorant logic, how many men did Dubbie murder by sending them into a lie based war? Kinda trapped yourself there, USAF. LOL
What the? The death of these four Americans is OK with you liberals because of something Bush did???
It some how makes it right that Obama lied???
Talk about ignorance to the point of being completely asinine.
You are the one that trapped himself there Tex, in your own stupidity.
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Sorry, Pube, you dont seem to be able to parse the conversation. I'll try one more time. As a result of Bush's lies and demand that our troops go into a country we had no business in, thousands of young Americans are dead and even more are permanently disabled. Your so-called lies coming from Obama came AFTER the 4 were killed by terrorists who are stirred into violence by our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. See, you cant blame Obama for their deaths, your claim would violate the concept of cause/effect timing. But we can rightfully claim Bush/Cheney/Haliburton is responsible for the damage to our young soldiers. Now, try that on for size.
PS, it is only your opinion that Obama lied about this and if he did make statements that turned out wrong, he was using the best info available to him. On the other side, Bush and Cheney KNEW that the yellow cake hype leading up to the Iraq invasion was not true. Proof of that came from the outing of a CIA operative in an illegal attempt to silence the truth about their little plot.
So now tell me which President looks more honest and who looks like a complete fool?
I cant wait for the third debate when Obama will have to answer to the American people. This issue will be brought up and Obama will not be able to hide behind the media.
Flyboy, what do you think you know about ground fighting? Do you think that even if the compound were packed wall to wall with marines that somehow they could have stopped a mortar round being fired from blocks away? Or a rocket? You obviously know nothing about ground fighting. Stick to changing the tires on the trash haulers.
It was reported on all cable news channels this morning that the lybian embassy did request additional security before the attack. The state department said no ,not enough sufficient funding for that. All you right wingers are screaming at the top of your lungs aren't you? Not so fast . One reason that there is a short fall of funding is ,CONGRESS cut the funding for security and other things to the state dept. for the foriegn embassies all over ,they cut that funding by 300 million dollars . It's true ,go to the congressional web site and READ it yourself . And who controls congress ? This was brought up during the congressional hearings this morning.
Riiigght. And I met George Patton and he said I was great. Only he's dead now so I can't prove it.
All Willard wants to do is keep the military big and stronger so that his party can send more of our young men and women off to kill or be killed. Republs are a war mongering party. The military war machine has to make money out of a war.
Well he will have to stop telling this story anyway because there's a report that came out today that Glen Doherty's Mom hates that Romney is using here sons name at the rallies. Google it, you'll find it on any news site by now. In her own words, "I don't trust Romney. He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda," and she goes on saying, "It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.”
More hateful speech from the liberal left. obama and obama supporters cannot run on obama record so they pick and pick and pick on stupid things. Just hope the intelligent moderate Democrats, Christian Democrats and so on don't buy into the garbage the left feeds us daily. obama's foreign policy...4 killed and has been labeled the "apologetic one'", obama's border patrol. (fast and furious) one American dead and countless Mexicans dead across the border, obamacare....Pelosi saying, we need to pass it so we can find out what's in it, 16,000,000,000,000 debt, trillion $ deficit, and so on. When are the American people going to see the destruction he is leaving behind.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" Winston Churchill
I would rather save this country with Obama, than destroy it like the GOP want to do
Wheel, that is my point. He (obama) is not saving this country. Time for new leadership...I am sorry...he has showed no leadership. he panders to our enemies, he has the largest disconnect with our congress than any other president that I have been alive, he is divider of people and so on.
This deceased Navy Seals mother has already notified Romney's camp to NOT use her son as part of his campaign against the President, to not talk about her son period. It was also stated that Romney introduced himself to this young man at least four different times during the party like he didn't remember meeting him five minutes before, they have eye witnesses to that, and Mitt kept saying, I'm a former govenor and a politician, and on and on. I think this guy would sell his own kids if he thought he could end up as President, he's willing to lie and use anything and anyone, what a pathetic person.
Big bird notified obama to lay off.
a Mitt Romney presidency would feel like four straight years of waking up with a naked Lloyd Blankfein sitting on your face. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-hype-became-bigger-than-the-presidential-election-20121009
The last 4 has felt like hillary was on it.
romney will do ANYTHING to try to make himself look like anything other than what he is.......self-centered. The mother of the Seal to which romney is ATTACHING HIMSELF is speaking out.......she does not like what romney is doing.......(see article below from "The Ticket:"
romney is disgusting......!!!!!
What was it that Romney said he would have done to protect the consulate from rpg's and mortars?
He said he would have had more security and taken the fact that it was 9/11 and they had credible intelligence of an attack.
Why do you ask?