Rudy Giuliani ripped into President Barack Obama on Friday night for campaigning after Hurricane Sandy, and for the administration’s response to the attacks in Libya that killed four Americans.
“I don’t know what the heck he was doing in Nevada while people were still being discovered dead in New York. I sure wouldn’t be flitting around the Midwest,” Giuliani told CNN’s Piers Morgan after speaking at Mitt Romney’s rally in Ohio.
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“Maybe the first couple of days he was keeping his eye on the ball, but we‘ve got gas lines that are a mile long, we’ve got bodies still being discovered and we’ve got a president playing campaigner-in-chief.”
When asked by Morgan why it was fair to level such charges against Obama and not Romney, Giuliani said the Republican nominee has “no responsibilities here.”
“I feel pretty darn offended seeing my president floating around campaigning while people are suffering,” Giuliani said.
On the terror attack on the Benghazi Consulate in Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens died, Giuliani echoed his remarks from the West Chester rally stage, saying the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would not have let such an attack happen.
“I can’t imagine a John McCain not sending the American military in at the earliest possible moment and not worrying about what Libya or Libyans might have thought,” Giuliani said. “This is what happens when you elect someone president of the United States who isn’t ready to lead, who wants to lead by following.”
U.S. officials on Thursday detailed for the first time the CIA’s response to the Libya attack.