# The second presidential debate: 10/16/2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-presidential-debate-10-16-2012/637847 "2012-10-16T04:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 899
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-presidential-debate-10-16-2012/637847/899 "2012-10-17T17:55:33Z")
> [@yorick73](#): > > It’s a fuck up in wording. Plain and simple. Apparantly “acts of terror” and “terrorist attack” have different meanings. If Obama wanted to imply that this was an act carried out by terrorists then he would not have mentioned the YouTube video and would not have sent Susan Rice out to all the Sunday news shows to tell us that the attack was “spontaneous” when they knew it was not. > [@Debaser](#): > > After Obama brought it to worldwide attention, yes. Weren’t the crowds in Cairo protesting the video the day before the attack in Libya? Also, it was the _Libyans_ who told on-scene reporters that the video was the reason for the riot. Good for the administration to wait until all the facts were known. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-presidential-debate-10-16-2012/637847)._