Posted on 03/16/2012 9:52:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CHICAGO – Mitt Romney, in his bid to retake the momentum in the Republican primary from Rick Santorum with a win next week in Illinois, arrives in Chicago on Friday. But the city’s mayor – and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel - couldn’t wait to rip into the GOP front-runner, saying Romney lacked “the fortitude, strength or character” to serve in the Oval Office.
“Now I’m not going to give advice to Republicans. They don’t take it and I don’t want to give it. They’ll make whatever decision they want to make,” Emanuel said at an event Thursday morning in Chicago. “You just take a look at the fortitude, the strength, the determination and the vision the president made on the auto industry and juxtapose it to Mitt Romney, who doesn’t have the fortitude, the strength or the character in my view to stand up to Rush Limbaugh. How can he stand up and make a decision to save 1.3 million manufacturing jobs?
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A reporter followed up by pointing out to Emanuel that Bill Maher had made comments that some people found as insulting as Limbaugh’s. Limbaugh was ripped by liberals for insulting Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, while Maher has caught flak from conservatives for remarks he made about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“I thought what Rush Limbaugh said was … absolutely not only wrong, it was absolutely repulsive,” Emanuel said.
“That said, if you can’t stand up to Rush, how are you going to stand up to Russia? And I just don’t see it. I’m just telling you, having advised two presidents, and I think I’m very fortunate, it takes fortitude in the Oval Office, it takes strength, it takes determination,
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Don't say stuff like that. He might take you up on it.
LOL, since Barack Obama has not stood up to anyone, so far.
Just what I was going to say. Notice how he didn’t mention any heroes of the left like Al Qaeda, the Taliban, North Korea, Iran.
Exactly right. The first thing Obama did was capitulate to Russia and betray the Polish and another ally by backing out on the ballistic missile shield. He then unilaterally reduced our nuclear stockpiles and bragged about a “reset”. Russia has responded by vetoing the UN Resolution regarding Syria, has been arming Syria, and have been helping Iran with their nuclear ambitions and ICBM technology. Rahm clearly has “chutzpah” to claim Obama has stood up to Russia. Then there is our posture with China.....
LOL.
Rham wants war with Russia.
Soros is into Chrysler-Raytheon with over 100 million collars.
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