{"id":7686,"date":"2012-05-06T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:41:16","slug":"republicans-on-politicizing-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/republicans-on-politicizing-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Politicizing Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because, of all the criticism Republicans have leveled at Barack Obama for taking credit due for killing Osama bin Laden, I have been looking for a definitive mash-up that compares what Republicans are saying now with what those exact same Republicans were saying earlier.  I found it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6Mission-Accomplished\"<\/p>\n

President Obama was criticized this week for \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the killing of Osama bin Laden in a campaign ad that stated that, had he been president, Mitt Romney would not have made the same call.<\/p>\n

Republicans immediately fired back, reminding everyone that it was the Navy SEALs who carried out the raid and for the president to make any claim to success was, unfortunate, appalling and shameless \u201cspiking the football.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this didn\u2019t strike you as odd, you may have been born in 2009\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n

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As I see it, the difference is that Republicans failed, and then they relentlessly politicized the lie that they had succeeded.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because, of all the criticism Republicans have leveled at Barack Obama for taking credit due for killing Osama bin Laden, I have been looking for a definitive mash-up that compares what Republicans are saying now with what those exact same Republicans were saying earlier.  I found it. President Obama was criticized this week for \u201cpoliticizing\u201d […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}