Bottom Line: Can Debates Move the Needle for Romney? I have a question: When America was attacked on September 11, 2001, President Bush said America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. Yet when an ambassador was murdered in a terrorist attack on our embassy, on September 11, 2012, why did President Barack Hussein Obama say that our freedoms were at fault by laying the blame of the attacks on a youtube video?