Posted on 07/12/2012 10:26:07 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama's reelection campaign mocked Mitt Romney late Wednesday as being "scared" of Venezuela's anti-American President Hugo Chavez "like he's ten feet tall," the latest rhetorical broadside in an escalating war of words.
"Hugo Chavez has become increasingly marginalized and his influence has waned," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. "It's baffling that Mitt Romney is so scared of a leader like Chavez whose power is fading, while Romney continues to remain silent about how to confront al-Qaeda or how to bring our troops home from Afghanistan."
The rhetorical rumble began late Tuesday when Obama told a Florida television interviewer that Chavez "has not had a serious national security impact on us." Romney promptly led a chorus of angry Republican charges that Obama had failed to confront the alleged threat posed by the Venezuelan leader as part of a "pattern of weakness" in foreign policy.
"People like Hugo Chavez want attention — and that's exactly what Mitt Romney and his supporters gave him today. Governor Romney is only playing into the hands of Chavez by acting like he's ten feet tall," LaBolt said in a sharply personal and mocking counter.
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Barack has pledged to not use a nuclear response if we are attacked.
I would rather we view a potential enemy as a possible or real threat rather than bowing to, supporting, financing or otherwise encouraging and kissing the collective asses of known and real threats.
It’s a safe bet that the vast majority of Obama’s supporters are either ignorant or supportive of Chavez and Ahmadinejad’s alliance, Iran’s nuclear aspirations, the Cuban missile crisis, or just plain lack the intellect to see the farce of history attempting to repeat itself.
First thing a new president should do for our troops is give them new rules of engagement that allow them to shoot first and not have to worry about non-combatant casualties.
If the non-combatants know that they can be shot, they’ll see to it that they leave beforehand.
Every war up WW2 gave the troops the ability to wage war without legal problems from lawyers and liberals back home.
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