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While In Kabul, Obama highlights foreign policy record
Obama “is in an unusually strong position, thanks to keeping his promises on Afghanistan and Iraq, overseeing the killing of Osama bin Laden and otherwise keeping America strong and secure,” said Doug Hattaway, who worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign against Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary.
“The economy will remain top of the list for most people,” Hattaway said, “but it definitely helps to highlight his successes in this area.”
Vice President Joe Biden launched the political argument last week.
“Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,” Biden said in a campaign speech. “You have to ask yourself, if Gov. Romney had been president, could he have used the same slogan — in reverse?”
The double-barreled taunt hit Romney’s criticism of the administration’s auto industry bailout and the mixed signals Romney gave in 2007 about the lengthy hunt for bin Laden.
Romney first told The Associated Press that it was not worth “moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.” He later said of bin Laden, “We’ll move everything to get him,” but it’s not “all about one person.”
Romney said this week “of course” he would have approved the raid on bin Laden’s compound.
