Is Coffman sorry he called Obama a “recruiting tool” for terrorists?
Last month, Rep. Mike Coffman wrote on Facebook that Obama is the “real recruiting tool” for terrorists, not GITMO.
Coffman: “President Obama wants to close GTMO because he thinks it’s a recruiting tool for terrorists – the real recruiting tool is a President who seems more concerned about protecting the rights of terrorists rather than defeating them and protecting the American people.”[emphasis added]
Yet it flew under the radar of Denver media, and Coffman never apologized for the recruiting tool comment.
But it seems, judging from a KOA interview today, that Coffman himself apparently believes that the comment was wrong.
On KOA this morning, Coffman said:
Coffman: This president refuses to acknowledge that we are a nation at war not of our own choosing and refuses even to identify those who have declared war on us. … He says Guantanamo Bay is a recruiting tool for terrorists. What is a recruiting tool for terrorists is having a commander in chief that projects weakness. [emphasis added]
It’s one thing to say Obama’s policies are a recruiting too. It’s another to write that the President himself is a recruiting tool for terrorists.
Does Coffman really believe that the “real recruiting tool” is the President of the United States?