On the Egypt/Libya Situation and Gov. Romney's response to it
It is absolutely incomprehensible that a presidential candidate can go on television to attack the Egyptian embassy for trying to defuse a violent situation, characterizing their criticism of the content of an anti-Islamic movie as apology for free speech itself. And then to further shoehorn it as somehow President Obama himself "sympathizing" with the attackers.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism; in fact, freedom to criticize what others say is the very heart and soul of free speech. The embassy's tweet of "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others as we condemn all efforts to offend believers of all religions" is not apologizing for American values, and it is not apologizing for freedom of speech. It is an EXERCISE of free speech to communicate a message against religious intolerance.
In essence, what Romney said was that the people in the Egyptian embassy were "sympathizing" with their attackers, because they were exercising their right to criticize a crappy racist non-movie in an attempt to save their own lives. It's such a ridiculous, untruthful, opportunistic, downright nonsensical thing to say, that it should put to rest any question that Romney is unqualified to be president.
