Not The Best 24 Hours For President Obama

The Cost Of Sloth: Americans Attacked, Bond Downgrade In The Offing -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post

In a series of events yesterday President Obama’s failure of leadership on the domestic and foreign policy fronts was on display. We received another warning of a debt-rating downgrade, and two embassies were attacked, with several Americans killed. The red light is flashing over the White House: FAIL.

The Post reports on the deaths of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and others after an Islamist attack on the U.S. Embassy:

U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday in an assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the White House said.

In a statement issued by the White House early Wednesday morning, President Obama said he had directed an increase in security at U.S. diplomatic posts around the world. CNN reported that the Defense Department has dispatched two Marine anti-terrorism security teams to Benghazi to reinforce security there

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My Comment: This is not the best 24 hours for President Obama. As to candidate Mitt Romney .... he should have waited to respond AFTER President Obama had made his comments on Libya this morning .... otherwise .... he had every right to comment even though it made some of the Obama supporters in the media unsettled that the President should be questioned right now.