Swiftboating Obama: How Should Democrats respond? Mike Huckabee is taking the lead

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12. here's one response

"I hardly think you’ve seen any excessive celebration taking place here," Obama said at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Noda.

"I think the American people remember rightly what we as a country accomplished in bringing to justice someone who killed 3,000 of our citizens."

Obama said the anniversary would mark a time for “some reflection to give thanks to those who participated,” which is said was “entirely appropriate and that’s what’s taken place."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224559-obama-theres-been-no-excessive-celebration-marking-bin-laden-death


___ then, there's the entire series of statements regarding Romney's fitness for CiC, which very few miss the obvious dig at the recent critics who won't give him an inch of room to crow about the killing.

Without mentioning his opponent by name, President Obama took clear political aim at Mitt Romney on Monday, continuing a line of attack from his campaign that Romney would not have given the go-ahead to the mission that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden.

Asked about Romney’s comments from earlier this morning belittling how difficult the decision to go after bin Laden may have been, the president said “As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I’d just recommend that everybody take a look at people’s previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden. I assume that people meant what they said when they said it. That’s been at least my practice.”

The president was alluding to Romney’s 2007 comments about bin Laden that “it’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.” The Obama campaign last Friday released a web ad suggestion that this sentence suggests he would not have been willing to take the risk and order Navy SEALs to cross into Pakistan and infiltrate bin Laden’s Abbotabad compound.

Continued the president, “I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they’d do something else, then I’d go ahead and let them explain it.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/president-obama-suggests-the-public-look-at-romneys-previous-statements-on-going-after-obl/