“…I’m the President, and I’m always responsible…”

Previously:

Presidential Debate: Benghazi, Libya was an act of terror (October 16, 2012)

Note that President Obama turned to Mitt Romney (r) during his response. Blistering.

The exchange:

….President Obama (D):  Secretary Clinton has done an extraordinary job, but she works for me. I’m the President, and I’m always responsible. And that’s why nobody is more interested in finding out exactly what happened than I do. The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden, and I told the American people and the world that we were going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror, and I also said that we’re gonna hunt down those who committed this crime. And then a few days later I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families, and the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as President, that’s not what I do as Commander in Chief.

Candy Crowley: Governor, if you want to reply [crosstalk] quickly to this please.

Mitt Romney (r): Yeah, I, I certainly do, I certainly do. I, I think it’s interesting the President just said something which, which is that on the day after the attack he went in the  Rose gar, Garden and said this was an act of terror.

President Obama (D): That’s what I said. [not audible in video]

Mitt Romney (r): You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an attack of terror, [pause] it was not a [crosstalk] spontaneous demonstration?

President Obama (D): Please proceed.

Mitt Romney (r): Is that what you’re saying?

President Obama (D): Please proceed, governor.

Mitt Romney (r): I, I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the President fourteen days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

President Obama (D): Get the transcript.

Candy Crowley:  It, it, he did in, in fact, sir. So let me, let me call it an [crosstalk] act of terror. He used the word.

President Obama (D): Can you say that a little louder, Candy?

[applause]

Candy Crowley:  He did call it an act of terror….

“…and the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as President, that’s not what I do as Commander in Chief…”