Then they said this: In an effort to cool the situation down, it didnt come from me, it didnt come from Secretary Clinton. It came from people on the ground who are potentially in danger, Obama said. And my tendency is to cut folks a little bit of slack when theyre in that circumstance, rather than try to question their judgment from the comfort of a campaign office.
But Obamas remarks belie the enormous frustration of top officials at the State Department and White House with the actions of the man behind the statement, Cairo senior public affairs officer Larry Schwartz, who wrote the release and oversees the embassys Twitter feed, according to a detailed account of the Tuesdays events The statement was not cleared with anyone in Washington. It was sent as This is what we are putting out, the official said. We replied and said this was not a good statement and that it needed major revisions. The next email we received from Embassy Cairo was We just put this out. People at the highest levels both at the State Department and at the White House were not happy with the way the statement went down. There was a lot of anger both about the process and the content, the official said. Frankly, people here did not understand it. The statement was just tone deaf. It didnt provide adequate balance. We thought the references were inappropriate, and we strongly advised against the kind of language that talked about continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims. . On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I liked Obama's response to Romney's attack: > > "There's a broader lesson to be learned here: Gov. Romney seems to > have a tendency to shoot first and aim later and as president one of > the things I've learned is you can't do that," Obama told CBS News > Wednesday."It's important for you to make sure that the statements > that you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought > through the ramification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:354828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
