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Flashback: Obama Chides Romney: 'The 1980s Are Calling, They Want Their Foreign Policy Back'
Youtube ^ | 9/11/13 | C-Span

Posted on 09/11/2013 7:17:07 PM PDT by Nachum

A blast from the not-so-far past.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


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Vid at link

Bet America is wondering if they can take a Mulligan on that election right now...

1 posted on 09/11/2013 7:17:07 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Romney should have replied, “1917 is calling and wants it’s economic policy back.”


2 posted on 09/11/2013 7:19:52 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao
Romney should have replied, “1917 is calling and wants it’s economic policy back.”

Romney should have said directly to him that cliche's is an expensive excuse for a foreign policy and Americans will pay for that naivite' with the blood of our sons and daughters.

3 posted on 09/11/2013 7:24:24 PM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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To: Nachum

Romney should have responded:

“It is precisely that adolescent attitude toward foreign policy that defines you as singularly unqualified for the office of President!”


4 posted on 09/11/2013 7:57:50 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: kevao

Romney should have replied, “Karl Marx is calling and wants his economic policy back.”


5 posted on 09/11/2013 8:00:57 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Nachum

People who say “____ is calling, he/she/it wants his/her/its ____ back” are using a worn out cliche that needs to be retired.


6 posted on 09/11/2013 8:06:50 PM PDT by RPTMS
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To: Nachum

1970’s are calling and they want the Carter years back


7 posted on 09/11/2013 8:09:07 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Nachum
Oh yeah, well your village is calling. They want their idiot back.
8 posted on 09/11/2013 8:22:06 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe)
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To: Nachum

Dumbo is calling, he wants his ears back


9 posted on 09/11/2013 8:23:13 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe)
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To: Nachum

Romney should have replied that he rejected the Reagan foreign policy of the 1980s and left the republican party because of Reagan, becoming a supporter, fund raiser and voter for democrats, and not reregistering republican until October of 1993, after the Reagan/Bush era was ended.


10 posted on 09/11/2013 8:40:19 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Libertarians, the left's social agenda with conservatism's economics, which is impossible of course)
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To: Nachum
Bet America is wondering if they can take a Mulligan on that election right now...

Yeah, that was the first words out of my mouth after the 2008 election, "can we have a Mulligan?"
11 posted on 09/11/2013 10:28:28 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.

[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]

Sen. Cruz Statement on Egypt (Suspend aid over anti-Muslim Brotherhood ‘coup’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055492/posts

Ted Cruz blames Egyptian violence on Obama’s disregard for foreign aid law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055589/posts


12 posted on 09/12/2013 5:45:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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Arab states ready to cover any cuts in aid to Egypt: Saudi Arabia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3056296/posts

Saudi Arabia Promises to Aid Egypt’s Regime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3056525/posts

Saudi King Abdullah backs Egypt’s military ruler, warns against outside interference
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055530/posts

Saudi king backs Egypt’s rulers against ‘terrorism’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055599/posts

Saudi warns against pressur[ing] Egyptian military over Islamist crackdown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3056092/posts

Saudis Warn the West: We Won’t Forget Your Stance on Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3056613/posts

Saudis Warn the West: We Won’t Forget Your Stance on Egypt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3056718/posts

Obama Dithers, Kerry Bungles Egypt Crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3057073/posts


13 posted on 09/12/2013 5:46:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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14 posted on 09/12/2013 5:46:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Nachum.


15 posted on 09/12/2013 5:46:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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Here's the passage at issue:
In the 1980s, the war caucus in Congress armed bin Laden and the mujaheddin in their fight with the Soviet Union. In fact, it was the official position of the State Department to support radical jihad against the Soviets. We all know how well that worked out.
Let's leave aside for now the insulting, utterly asinine, sickening, inexcusable use of the phrase "war caucus" to describe those (including Reagan!) who supported the mujaheddin against the Soviets. That word choice alone is almost entirely disqualifying for its purveyor to ever be president.

Instead, let's just look at a little history here -- because the ignorance evident in this paragraph is truly astonishing. One would be hard pressed to find even a single historian, whether right, left, or center, who would argue anything other than that the Soviet failure in Afghanistan was not just a huge factor, but probably an essential one, in the Soviets' ultimate loss of the Cold War.
[Rand Paul’s Really Ignorant Paragraph | 7 Feb 2013]

16 posted on 09/12/2013 5:49:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: kevao

Romney should have replied, “1917 is calling and wants it’s economic policy back.”


Or it’s 1968 and Chicago wants its radicals back...


17 posted on 09/12/2013 7:10:36 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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