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Flashback: Obama’s debate zinger on Romney’s ’1980s’ foreign policy (video)
Wash Post ^ | March 21, 2014 | The Fact Checker

Posted on 03/21/2014 11:09:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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Seven months later, during their debate showdown, Obama was ready with a zinger.

First, however, he mischaracterized Romney’s original point. “Governor Romney, I’m glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaeda,” Obama said. That was wrong, as there is a difference between “threat” and “foe.” During the debate, Romney called Obama on this error, emphasizing he was talking about Russia at the United Nations.

“Russia, I indicated, is a geopolitical foe. Not … Excuse me. It’s a geopolitical foe, and in the same paragraph I said, ‘and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face.’ Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again.”

For the purposes of the debate, such subtleties apparently did not matter. Obama offered a jab that spawned approving headlines: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years….When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s, and the economic policies of the 1920s.”

The Bottom Line

Obama’s comment on the “1980s” was clearly a planned zinger. In the wake of the Crimea standoff, odds are the anonymous author of that line is not eager to be identified. But it probably seemed like a clever idea at the time.

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No fan of Romney, but the real bottom line is Obama's Marxist policies have brought back the cold war of the 1980s, the social plantations (government plantations this time) of the 1850s, and economic failures not seen the 1920s.

Reagan extinguished the cold war. Obama re-ignited it.

Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama enslaved the free.

Roosevelt (they say) saved America from the Great Depression. Obama's plunged us right back into it.

1 posted on 03/21/2014 11:09:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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2 posted on 03/21/2014 11:12:24 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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And let me add that it is remarkable that the Washington Post is reminding readers today that Obama’s reset was fatally flawed from the beginning. I am somewhat amazed since the New York Times has yet to admit that one of its reporters LIED about the mass murder the Russian Soviets perpetrated on the Ukrainian people in 1933. Today, Holocaust deniers are treated like the cranks and malicious nutjobs that they are. Yet, the NYT never returned the Pulitzer Walter Duranty received even though no one thinks he merely made a mistake about this mass murder of millions of ordinary and innocent people for merely being producers of grain.


3 posted on 03/21/2014 11:17:18 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom.)
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Preaching to the converted. Talk to the 50% of the American people who voted for the stupid bastard.


4 posted on 03/21/2014 11:18:07 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Posting here = IRS audit.)
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5 posted on 03/21/2014 11:18:10 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Many of them read FR daily, thanks.


6 posted on 03/21/2014 11:23:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Jimmy Carter called...he wants his foreign policy back.
8 posted on 03/21/2014 11:40:07 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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The America First Committee called. They want their foreign policy back.


9 posted on 03/21/2014 11:42:54 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom.)
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Please don’t insult Jimmy Carter.

Carter was stupid and naïve.

0bama is willfully destructive and evil.


10 posted on 03/21/2014 11:45:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: JusPasenThru

Publically educated.


11 posted on 03/21/2014 11:48:54 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: NorthMountain

Nuclear engineer vs. Social engineer

Jimmy v. Obama

Jimmy gave away hostages and the Panama Canal.

Obama gave away waivers, iPhones and the MIddle East.


12 posted on 03/21/2014 11:53:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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The WH phone is ringing. It’s Chamberlain, asking for his naiveté’ back.


13 posted on 03/21/2014 12:15:39 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: elhombrelibre

George Constanza:

“Well the jerk store just called, and they’re running out of you !”


14 posted on 03/21/2014 12:21:45 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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Obama’s comment on the “1980s” was clearly a planned zinger. In the wake of the Crimea standoff, odds are the anonymous author of that line is not eager to be identified.

Why should he be ashamed? It worked well enough to help Zero win a second term. To a Democrat, power is all that matters. Reputation they can spin. Truth is immaterial.

15 posted on 03/21/2014 4:57:20 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To a Democrat, power is all that matters. . . Truth is immaterial.

You got that right.

16 posted on 03/21/2014 7:00:05 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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Retort: Oh yeah, well the jerk store called back... And said you’re their best customer!

George: Yeah? Well, I had sex with your wife!!


17 posted on 03/21/2014 9:47:36 PM PDT by Husker8877
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Obama re-ignited it. Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama enslaved the free.

As Hillary would say ("WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE") our next presidential wannabe candidate would say.

18 posted on 03/22/2014 10:59:18 AM PDT by TEARUNNER14 (When brains were passed out, my wife stood in the chocolate line.! She told me so!)
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To a Democrat, power is all that matters. Reputation they can spin. Truth is immaterial.

Perfect!!

19 posted on 03/22/2014 11:05:23 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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“Reagan extinguished the cold war. Obama re-ignited it.

Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama enslaved the free.

Roosevelt (they say) saved America from the Great Depression. Obama’s plunged us right back into it.”

Well said.

We know that Obama is personally kind of lazy,and is really talented only as a campaigner, pitchman and liar. So a lot of the credit for these historic depredations should go to the powers behind the throne - most of whom will continue to push the agenda of transformation/takeover after he leaves office.

Who are the rest of the team? I’d propose:

- John Podesta and the Center for American Progress (identified as the main coordinator by Andrew Breitbart in his last CPAC speech before his death).
- Wade Rathke’s organizations ACORN (however renamed) and the SEIU.
- Valerie Jarret and the network of Communist Party USA (CPUSA) red diaper babies and fellow travellers.
- George Soros and whoever manages his many and changing front groups, and targets his spending for him.

Maybe we need a deck of cards, like during the Iraq War, with the faces of all the High Value Conspirators.

Who am I missing?


20 posted on 03/22/2014 12:10:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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