Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Argue LIBYA in Town Hall Debate 2012 ELECTION

Sen. John Kerry took the somewhat unusual step of spinning reporters before a presidential debate Tuesday, arguing that President Barack Obama accepts responsibility for a terrorist attack in Libya while hitting Republicans for politicizing that incident. Kerry, a top debate adviser to Obama, told reporters in the hours leading up to tonight's second presidential debate that Republicans had turned last month's attack on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi -- which left four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya, dead -- into a "political football." "My view is that the people of the United States understand that when there is a tragedy that involves the loss of life at an embassy and people go through what we've gone through you bond together as a country and you don't make it a political football," Senator John Kerry told reporters here when asked if the issue of Libya was a vulnerability for Obama. "I don't remember a political football when 3000 people died about 40 miles away from here and you had 9/11." Highlights from the presidential debate Tuesday night between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney, just three weeks from the Nov. 6 election.Libyan rebels appear to have executed scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group said Wednesday. The report by Human Rights Watch on alleged rebel abuses that followed the October 2011 capture of the city of Sirte in the final major battle of the eight-month civil war is one of the most detailed descriptions of war crimes committed by the militias that toppled Gadhafi, and which still play a major role in Libyan politics today.Conceivably the biggest moment in Tuesday's presidential debate was when moderator Candy Crowley injected herself into the discussion siding with Barack Obama on remarks he claimed he made in the Rose Garden following the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/16/joe-trippi-crowleys-interruption-libya-looked-ref-just-threw-flag#ixzz29ZmleP3M