Posted on 10/08/2012 4:29:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Mitt Romney mounted a big foreign policy display on a flag-draped stage at the Virginia Military Institute on Monday, serving up a lot of tough-sounding sound bites and hawkish bumper stickers, some of them even bumping up somewhere close to the truth, to give the appearance that he would be stronger and more forceful on international affairs than President Obama.
He seems to consider himself, ludicrously, a leader similar to the likes of Harry Truman and George Marshall, and, at one point, he obliquely questioned Mr. Obama’s patriotism. The hope seems to be that big propaganda, said loudly and often, will drown out Mr. Obama’s respectable record in world affairs, make Americans believe Mr. Romney would be the better leader and cover up the fact that there is mostly just hot air behind his pronouncements.
Mr. Romney’s stated policies in Monday’s speech, just as they have been in the past, are either pretty much like Mr. Obama’s or, when there are hints of differences, would pull the United States in wrong and even dangerous directions. His analysis of the roots of various international crises is either naïve, or deliberately misleading.
One new element is Mr. Romney’s assertion that the threats have “grown worse.” He desperately wants to undercut the edge that voters have given Mr. Obama on foreign policy, even before he ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Americans deserve an intensive, textured and honest discussion on foreign policy. They did not get it on Monday. Mr. Obama should respond, forcefully, to Mr. Romney on these issues, even before their next debate on Oct. 16, which will include issues of foreign affairs.
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Nothing new, they spewed the same crap about Reagan.
You forgot the ROFLMAO alert!
Romney is a draft dodger?
What is a New York Times?
And who gives a smelly Obama about whatever it is?
This from the paper which praised Stalin for starving the Kulacks in the Ukraine, blasted away at Chang Kai Check for his wife sleeping on silk sheets while saying nothing about the millions Mao killed, portraying Castro as a sympathetic character,hailing the Stalin-Hitler non aggression treaty as both invaded Poland.
If I may say you are the most hateful person on FR. Before I even got to the bottom of your post to see who the author was, I knew. Nothing, nothing could ever allow you to display a level of reasonableness when it comes to Romney and, just as importantly, Mormons. You are an angry, angry person that NEVER adds to the conversation.
Who are you voting for?
At a time of great crisis for the United States of America, our President Obama ran to Las Vegas and hid while saying that his campaign workers are as brave as the Soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan.
“Hang yourself, brave Krilon, for we fought today at Arques AND YOU WERE NOT THERE.”
LLS
This should say,”In search of answers FOR Romney”
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