Robert Gibbs

Both Obama, Romney making appalling use of bin Laden killing as political fodder

Appalled.

That is the only word I can use to describe my reaction to the Obama and Romney campaign's efforts to politicize the one year anniversary of the successful raid on Usama Bin Laden.It was my sense that president Obama was pushing the envelope by running a television ad a couple of days before the anniversary trumpeting his success. My sense was that this was the sort of circumstance that probably should not have been talked about in a political ad before the anniversary. While I guess that it is appropriate to take credit for a national security victory, to then couple that with Mitt Romney and what he said four years ago struck me as an unnecessary and destructive initiative that would only serve to do what Pat Caddell and I said that president Obama would do during the campaign which is to further divide the country.It is regrettable that the Obama campaign would use both the president and former president Clinton as a means of doing an attack ad on Osama bin laden. I was sa...

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