The Obama campaign went up with a video on the Osama Bin Laden raid on Friday in which they strongly suggested that Mitt Romney would not have made the same call, noting quotes from 2007 and 2008 in which he minimized the importance of catching the terrorist leader and chided then-candidate Obama for suggesting America send troops into Pakistan if necessary to catch him. Now Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul is pushing back, accusing the campaign of trying to “divide” Americans and change the subject from the economy.
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