Multi-tiered swirl of psycho-sickness from LA to Cairo

The events in Bengazi and Cairo have the potential to trigger diplomatic, political and even military chaos.  This multi-tiered swirl of global hate-laced psycho-sickness boggles the mind.  

Promoters of hatred like Islam-hating "film producer" Sam Bacile and Pastor Terry Jones are pre-human scum.  Their cultural assault on Islam deserves condemnation from all responsible governments. 

That is not to say they are not free to create a film whose content is not in violation of our laws.  However, while they are within the law, their activities have nothing to do with art; the clear intent of the film was to offend and inflame, not to serve any artistic end.

The only thing that could trump the level of contempt and condemnation Bacile and Jones are owed is to act out reflexive hate with mob violence, heavy weaponry and murder. As Hillary Clinton pointed out this morning, the Libyan maniacs have murdered the very people who were responsible for preventing the wholesale destruction of Bengazi, the city where the attack occurred. There is no justification for what the Libyan and Egyptian mobs have done.

And Willard Mitt Romney swoops down like a blind fly on a fresh turd to condemn the Cairo embassy's condemnation in order to score political points in the midst -- not in the aftermath, in the midst -- of the mayhem.

He says Obama "apologized for American values" via the Cairo embassy statement.

Let's leave aside the quibble that the embassy had not cleared the statement with State or the White House, the embassy statement in no way apologized for American values. If he means "free speech" is an American value, he is totally twisting the content and import of the embassy statement. Free speech does not equate to unaccountable speech or the right to speak without public or governmental criticism or condemnation when the speech itself is antithetical to American values and policy.

I do think Romney's creepy behavior will only dig his hole deeper. Extreme righties will roar in approval at Romney's tone-deaf rant, but I do think most Americans on the sane side of the line that divides the far Limbaugh-O'Reilly-Hannity right from the rest of us will rightly be nauseated by the Romney campaign's impulsive and irresponsible attack on the president while American diplomats are still in danger. 

Romney has once again let his campaign react like a trained seal to the importunings of the Tea-Pee types telling him he needs to "go ideological" and attack more viciously. Moreover, his ongoing political ineptitude shows in clumsily misperceiving this as the perfect moment for an RNC do-over -- i.e., to undo the critique of the GOP at their convention for ignoring the troops in Afghanistan.

Romney's response is George Costanza's "jerk store called" episode revisited. Obsessing over their embarrassment at exposing their indifference to the horrific stresses on our armed forces and then having it rammed down their throats by the DNC's spotlight on troops and vets, they leapt at the first opening without thinking through the consequences.

Romney should reap the same kind of shame that George did in the culminating scene when he finally got to deliver his long-simmering comeback wittily invoking his antagonist's wife -- only to be informed that the man's wife was in a coma in the ICU. Oh, well.

I'm ambivalent about focusing on Romney when the important part of what's happening is the death and destruction and the smoking diplomatic volatility that has the potential to escalate in all kinds of directions. I pray that Morsi in Egypt has the courage to come down on the behavior of mobs and to impose the rule of law, including pursuit and prosecution of the perps. It will require courage because the so-called Muslim Brotherhood is calling for more mobs! The Libya situation looks to be stickier yet and may require direct, forceful intervention.
 
Whatever response Obama takes, at some point he needs to give the back of his hand -- as one would to a buzzing fly with a mouthful of excrement -- to the insufferable lying jerk-off who has decided that his campaign was more important than American diplomats under attack and more important than an unfolding international crisis, one that must be addressed by the real POTUS.