Dana Perino is backpedaling on comments (that we reported on earlier) that seemed to suggest that terrorists have struck America on President Obama’s watch but didn’t on President Bush’s.
On Fox News last night, the former Bush press secretary was talking about how we ought to label the deadly shooting at Fort Hood — and implying that the Obama administration was shying away from calling it a terrorist attack out of political concerns — when she said:
We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think that we owe it to the American people to call it what it is.
See the video here.
This afternoon, Perino tried to explain herself via Twitter.
Last night on Hannity, I obviously meant no terror attack on U.S. post 9/11 during Bush 2nd term. We have the tools, just need to use them!
