Yesterday, President Obama’s campaign went after Mitt Romney for his response to the attacks in Libya and Egypt, calling out the Republican Presidential nominee for using “tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya” to “launch a political attack.”
But we only have to look back to July of 2008, just a month after Obama edged out Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination, to see him using the death of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to score political points against then-nominee John McCain and President Bush for their support of the Iraq War.
This is a clip from a CNN interview took place in July 2008, immediately after the deaths of nine US troops in Afghanistan:
