The furor over the handling of a terrorist attack in Benghazi reached its boiling point yesterday.
“President Obama continues to show that he does not grasp the dimensions of what’s occurring,” Mitt Romney said in his weekly Saturday podcast.
“We’ve seen a confused, slow and inconsistent response to the terrorist attack in Libya, a refusal to be frank with the American people about what happened, and a complete failure to explain the growing terrorist threat.”
Romney’s blistering criticism came just a day after Rep. Peter King (R-LI) blasted Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations, for her comments immediately after the Benghazi attack.
The attack, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, were initially portrayed by Rice as a “spontaneous” response to a low-budget movie depicting the prophet Mohammed in a negative light.
King yesterday called Rice’s remarks a deliberate attempt to draw attention away from an event inconsistent with the political narrative Obama wants to present.
Meanwhile, in his weekly radio address, Obama blamed Republicans in Congress for not approving a proposal he made in February to give “every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgages.”