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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN

 

It’s been almost a year since this:

OBAMA : “The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda...”

Now — as President Obama seeks re-election — his campaign’s latest web ad called “One Chance” uses a familiar face to tell voters — authorizing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden wasn’t an easy decision.

FRMR. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin Laden. Suppose they had been captured or killed. … He took the harder and the more honorable path...

The video quotes Obama’s likely Republican general election rival Mitt Romney from an April 2007 interview with the Associated Press, where he’s quoted as saying “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”

The implication — says Yahoo! News’ Oliver Knox is that Romney wouldn’t have killed bin Laden.

No More Mister Nice blog says : “What this tells us is that Romney is no leader.”

But Ed Morrissey of conservative blog Hot Air counters  — this is a moot point. Of course Romney wouldn’t kill the 9/11 mastermind, because...

“...Osama bin Laden is already dead.”

Morrissey goes on to call that Romney quote “crap” — saying it was taken out of context and that Romney wasn’t actually saying he wouldn’t have gone after bin Laden. Turns out — that was a little press-on-press fight back in 2007, too. TownHall has Romney’s full response to the AP’s question, which was “Why haven’t he caught bin Laden yet?” TownHall says the rest of Romney’s response was...

“...I wouldn’t want to over-concentrate on Bin Laden. … It is worth fashioning and executing an effective strategy to defeat global, violent Jihad and I have a plan for doing that.”

Romney’s camp is pushing back against the ad — with campaign press secretary Andrea Saul calling it a sad attempt to divide Americans. But The Christian Science Monitor’s Peter Grier says — at least politically...


“...the ad is well timed and constructed. The anniversary of the SEAL raid is Tuesday, meaning the subject will get more media coverage than it has in some time.”