Everything Is About the Campaign Apparently

Romney seems to have a thing about not apologizing, and it is so strong that he sees apologies where they don't even exist. He continues to make the allegation that one of Obama's first acts as President was to make an apology tour, which PolitiFact.com gives its "Pants on Fire" rating, and FactCheck.org agrees.

Now, as regards the killings in Libya he says:

 “It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

 “The first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation, and apology for American values is never the right course,”

And never forget that to mention gun control in the same breath as whatever happens to be the gun-related violence of the moment in the U.S. is to "politicize a tragic situation."

I think Obama is dead on when he says that Romney "shoots first and aims later."

As an aside, Heitor sent me a text from the subway today. The cars have TV screens arranged throughout to take our collective minds off our miserable, workaday lives in the subway, and he texted that he couldn't believe how much Obama has aged in four years. I told him the presidency does that to serious people...which is why W looks about the same as he always did.