Until the past 48h., things were not looking too good for the President’s reelection hopes. The swing-state momentum was firmly behind Romney, who saw polls putting him even with Obama in Democratic strongholds like Pennsylvania and Michigan. Not only was Romney riding off of strong debate performances, but a few incredibly negative news stories were starting to develop…
On the domestic front, a story about Chrysler, one of Obama’s marquee bailout achievements, was starting to develop about Fiat’s new decision to move manufacturing of the Jeep to Italy from the US. One could not ask for a more stark and convincing example of poor government management of private industry resulting in the off-shoring of American jobs.
Obama’s bigger worries, however, were coming from a story that cast doubt on his leadership in foreign affairs. The story of what happened in Benghazi gets worse by the day, and revelations over the weekend depict a White House that willfully hung our SEALs and Libya ambassador out to dry when action meant tough political decisions. The story makes Bush’s 11th hour DUI revelation look like a formal letter of recommendation from the UN, but all media outlets not owned by Newscorp refuse to cover it. Just when the Benghazi story took a turn for the worse, Hurricane Sandy came to the rescue.
Rather than watching President Obama struggle to answer this:
The press got to show Obama act Presidential:
I’ll let Mr. Krauthammer take it from here…