Republican stupid reaction Not Optimal gate. Just as stupid as the Democrats the week before with Binder gate.

They're both kinda petty nitpicking, but there's a pretty big difference, both in substance and style.

The supposed issue behind NotOptimalGate is that Obama was showing a disregard for the lives lost. If you watched the interview, or even the actual video clip of just that question and answer, you can tell that's not the case at all.

With binders full of women, I didn't really get the sense that people were really thinking that phrase itself was a big problem, just that it was an inartful phrase that seemed to be the launching point for a whole lot of jokes made at Romney's expense.

So on the one hand, you have Republicans willfully distorting what was said in order to gravely accuse Obama of being disrespectful towards the dead in the aftermath of a national tragedy...and Democrats using Romney's inartful turn of phrase to make fun of him.

One seems really unscrupulous and hostile, the other seems like the kind of trash talk you get between sports fans when the other team fumbles the ball.
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Republican stupid reaction Not Optimal gate. Just as stupid as the Democrats the week before with Binder gate.

yeah, with NonOptimalGate, you have one inartful phrase cherry picked out of an interview where he articulates just how pissed he is about the situation and how he's resolved to bring those responsible to justice. He voiced his anger in the interview, and he voiced his anger in the debates, and it should be obvious that he's probably voiced his anger in other venues

with BindersFullOfWomenGate, you have another inartful phrase, also cherry-picked, but there is no supporting evidence that Mitt actually does give a damn about the equality of women in the workplace. The only reason the issue was even brought up is the apparent resistance from the right to acknowledge that women deserve equal pay and proper health care. The rest of the world wonders why this is an even an issue. The reasonable people of the world thought we resolved the issue of equality for women a long time ago.

Now we have Benghazi gate

Obama had emails and live video feed to the white house situation room during the attack. Then told Americans a lie for 2 weeks about a piss poor video upset some people which caused the violence.

Disgracefull

Timeline of events story by CBS...