Posted on 05/19/2011 1:45:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama 'disrespected' Israel, threw it 'under the bus,' says Romney By Michael O'Brien - 05/19/11 03:29 PM ET
President Obama "disrespected" Israel and threw it "under the bus" in a wide-ranging speech on the Middle East on Thursday, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney charged.
Romney strongly criticized Obama, who, in a speech at the State Department, called for Israel to return to its border lines as drawn before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
"President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace," Romney said in a statement.
"He has also violated a first principle of American foreign policy, which is to stand firm by our friends," added the former Massachusetts governor.
Romney led Republicans in criticizing the Obama speech, which touched on broader themes throughout the Middle East, including the popular movements for democratization, from Egypt to Yemen, during the first half of the year.
"President Obama has betrayed Israel and made a grievous mistake by suggesting borders of Israel go back to pre-1967 borders. This is an outrage to peace, sovereignty of Israel, and a stable Middle East," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), a 2008 Republican presidential candidate who's been a staunch supporter of Israel, said in a statement.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), meanwhile, suggested Obama's stance could represent "the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another Republican presidential candidate, declined to comment on the Obama speech during an appearance on the Rush Limbaugh radio show this afternoon, explaining that he hadn't yet been able to listen to the speech or digest its contents.
The political battle lines emerged quickly on Thursday afternoon after Obama's speech, especially after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the president's call for a return to 1967 borders.
Netanyahu will meet with Obama on Friday at the White House, and he'll stay in Washington over the weekend before addressing the AIPAC conference Monday and a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday.
Other than Sarah?
1st choice, Cain.
2nd choice, Bachmann
3rd choice, Daniels
4th choice, Santorum
5th choice, Paul
6th choice, Pawlenty
7th choice, Romney
If I didn’t mention a candidate it is because (in the primary) I would never support him.
Does everyone love you yet Barak the appeaser?!?
Does everyone love you yet Barak the appeaser?!?
And you wondered why Obama was celebrating with that wagu steak that cost over $100 a pound!!
He thought he couldn't lose on this job ~ just kill some Jews, spend some money, and homefree ~
Dante says it's really cold when you get toward the middle. We may presume Obama got pretty tired of that sort of thing hanging around Chicago so many years ~ decades even! But, he will adapt, and might even get a taste for poking the many Democrat politicians who inhabit those inner rings.
And you wondered why Obama was celebrating with that wagu steak that cost over $100 a pound!!
He thought he couldn't lose on this job ~ just kill some Jews, spend some money, and homefree ~
Dante says it's really cold when you get toward the middle. We may presume Obama got pretty tired of that sort of thing hanging around Chicago so many years ~ decades even! But, he will adapt, and might even get a taste for poking the many Democrat politicians who inhabit those inner rings.
What did Romney do to boost employment in MA? Companies are getting out (by the droves) whenever and however they can, in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors of Romneycare. He boosted fees through the roof, which hurts anybody and everybody trying to make a business transaction. When I sold my house in MA, the fees ate me alive—as a *direct* result of Romney’s shenanigans.
I lived in MA while Mitt was gov. Illegals moved to the head of every state handout line. He didn’t raise a finger to stop it. He failed to use his bully pulpit to speak out against gay marriage while there was still time to possibly affect the outcome. While he was gov, taxpayers funded a GLBT ‘outreach’ group that graphically taught schoolkids as young as 12 how to perform risky and disgusting sex acts. The group that exposed these pervs was legally hounded to near-death under Mitt, while the group itself escaped unscathed.
I could go on. I’ll just conclude by saying there’s nothing pragmatic about Romney. He left MA twice the hellhole he found it. I’m so thankful to be out of that corrupt, fiscally doomed basket-case.
George Mitchell, special appeaser to the ME, carried Hussein Obama's message to all the Islam countries, then resigned to get out of the media spotlight.
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BTTT
Precisely!
Romney doesn’t get it.
How can we be sure this is how Romney genuinely feels about this? His sincerity is that much in doubt with me.
Obama 'disrespected' Israel, threw it 'under the bus,' says Romney
...Newt Gingrich, another Republican presidential candidate, declined to comment on the Obama speech during an appearance on the Rush Limbaugh radio show this afternoon ...Newt declined comment because he didn't hear the speech and had just concluded a campaign appearance when Rush asked him less than 10 minutes after Obama's presser. Gingrich didn't flinch, he said he hadn't heard the speech yet and would coment once he had. Maybe you should reserve your comments until you know what Gingrich did say - Rush went after him with vigor over recent comments and Newt explained himself and the slanted media spin quit well imho, ymmv.
Once burned, twice shy. He's going to flinch every time someone asks him a question
Ok, so it is Palin first, Bachman second and then, really, I am not excited at all. I used to think the world of Santorum, I cried reading about the time he proclaimed in the Senate "it is not a choice, it is a baby" and a baby among the visitors started crying! But now it doesn't feel like the same Santorum. The rest just does not excite me, we need someone who can take on the Democratic party and the whole culture of death/liberalism. Someone with Reagan's magnetism and way of getting people to follow him.
Netanyahu And Palin? [Bibi is waiting for President Palin]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2529725/posts
Palin got this one right: More Jews going to Israel
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-bloggers/2679580/posts
Israeli FM: No Palestinian State ‘til 2012 (Waiting for President-elect Palin?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2544776/posts
Wrong....I’d rather keep fighting Obama than see Romneybot in that seat. At least we know who and what BO is. Romney blows like a feather whatever the wind blows hardest.
Romney wouldn't put left-wing marxists on the Supreme Court. We MUST get that marxist OUT of the white house.
The sentiment is correct, despite the woefully unstatesmanlike wording.
Well, 75% of the Jews voted for the Obongo in 2008 (Hope ‘n Change and all that jive). You get what you pay for...
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