Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

Tags: associated press, los angeles times, the washington post, usa today, 2008 elections, barack obama, government elections, mitt romney, national security foreign policy, rudy giuliani

In covering the August 5 Republican presidential debate on ABC's This Week, many print media outlets reported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's attack -- in what the Associated Press' Mike Glover referred to as one of the debate's "brightest moments" -- on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) recent foreign policy statements: "[I]n one week, he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week." Romney was referring to Obama's statement in an August 1 speech that "[i]f we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." Giuliani also criticized Obama, claiming that Obama "didn't express" his comments "the right way," adding: "I think the senator, if he could just say it over again, might want to say that we would

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