There was a rare kind word for President Obama at Monday’s South Carolina Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach. Frontrunner Mitt Romney was asked if he’d sign the controversial National Defense Authorization Act, the law that critics say will allow the president to indefinitely detain just about anyone.
Romney said he would do what Obama did when it came to the NDAA: sign it. That led to boos from the crowd in Myrtle Beach. But that’s when Romney said he wasn’t worried Obama would misuse the authority granted him in the NDAA, a legacy Romney said he’d continue if he wins.
“I recognize, I recognize that in a setting where there are enemy combatants on our own soil, that [power] could be abused,” Romney said. “There are lots of things I think this president does wrong but I don’t think he will abuse this power and if I were president I would not abuse this power.”
