Obama Campaign
Trots Out Bin Laden, Spikes the Football (Updated: Romney Responds)
The narrator in the ad is former President Bill Clinton.
This latest ad contradicts President Obama's own pledge after he took out
bin Laden. "You know, we don't trot out this stuff as trophies,"
Obama told CBS soon after the terrorist mastermind had been taken out. He
added: "Americans and people around the world are glad that he's gone. But
we don't need to spike the football."
With the Obama campaign's latest ad, it's pretty safe to say that the
president is now OK with "trot[ting] out this stuff" and "spik[ing]
the football," as long as it helps him get reelected.
UPDATE: Mitt Romney's campaign responds with this
statement from press secretary Andrea Saul: “The killing of Osama bin
Laden was a momentous day for all Americans and the world, and Governor Romney
congratulated the military, our intelligence agencies, and the President. It's
now sad to see the Obama campaign seek to use an event that unified our country
to once again divide us, in order to try to distract voters' attention from
the failures of his administration. With 23 million Americans struggling
for work, our national debt soaring, and household budgets being squeezed like
never before, Mitt Romney is focused on strengthening America at home and
abroad.”
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