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Obama, Romney Cancel Campaign Events; CO Attack Ads Pulled

Longplay Wrote: Jul 20, 2012 1:52 PM

This is silly. Did the candidates cancel events and ads for the numerous killings in Chicago and throughout the country? No. And neither should they. Leave local criminal issues to the locals and concentrate on national issues. To the extent any murder, other than one like Nidal Hassan's Fort Hood spree, is a national issue, it's only in that the federal government has worked so hard to eradicate the local non-governmental pillars of our civil society. I expect this of Barack Obama, but Romney's me-too reactions of this sort don't bode well.

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Obama, Romney Cancel Campaign Events; CO Attack Ads Pulled

The president and his challenger have both put politics on hold for today, even as many in the media do the opposite:

President Barack Obama's campaign said Friday it was canceling the second of two campaign events following a deadly shooting at a movie theater in Colorado. He will address the shooting at a first event at 11:20 a.m. ET in Fort Myers and then return to the White House. Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama also both cancelled scheduled campaign events Friday. The campaign of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney...

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