James Lindsay, CFR
Editor’s note: James Lindsay is senior vice president and director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This entry of Water’s Edge was first published here. The views expressed are his own.
The Republican National Convention that wrapped up last week made two things clear: foreign policy will be at best a secondary theme in the GOP push to unseat President Barack Obama, and when the Romney campaign does turn to foreign policy, it will be heavy on criticism and light on specifics about its preferred policies.
Foreign policy was a side note in Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech, coming late in his remarks and taking up only slightly more than one hundred words in a four-thousand-word address. He repeated his standard campaign talking points that Obama “has failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat,” thrown allies like Israel and Poland “under the bus,” and been too eager to give Russian president Vladimir Putin “flexibility.” Romney was less specific about what he would do differently, saying only that he would give America’s friends “more loyalty” and Putin “a little less flexibility and more backbone.”
Just as important as the challenges that Romney cited are the ones he didn’t. He made no mention of Afghanistan (a war that has taken two thousand U.S. lives and that most Americans want out of), the rise of China (which could eclipse the American Century that Romney pledges to prolong), or the Arab Awakening (which carries the potential to remake peace and security in the world’s most volatile region).
Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan offered even less insight into what a Romney foreign policy might look like. His 35 minute speech accepting the nomination offered only a one paragraph vow that “we will act with the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.” He left it up to his listeners to decide how this would differ in practice from Obama’s foreign policy, if at all.
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The GOP platform offers few policy details to fill in for the ones that the Romney and Ryan speeches glossed over. The platform’s multiple provisions run long on criticisms – some fair, some not – of Obama’s handling of foreign affairs, and they pledge that the GOP will stand strong on everything from terrorism to nuclear proliferation to cyberwar. (But not climate change.) The platform is largely silent, however, on what precisely Romney would do differently to keep Iran from getting the bomb, stop North Korea from peddling missile technology to the highest bidder, and halt the growing power of the Taliban. Nor does it say why his approach to these longstanding challenges would fare better than Obama’s – or George W. Bush’s for that matter.
The lack of foreign policy specifics probably won’t hurt Romney for now. Threats overseas are way down on the list of the public’s concerns. Voters are worried about jobs and the economy, not Syria and the South China Sea. Unless Obama can make an issue of Romney’s vagueness in the upcoming debates, voters may not even notice that the former Massachusetts governor has said far more about what he hopes to accomplish overseas than about how exactly how he will do it.
Staying away from the how to’s of foreign policy offers at least one blessing for Romney: he would not be hemmed in as commander in chief by campaign promises should he win in November. Bill Clinton came to regret, and eventually repudiate, his campaign pledge to oppose permanent normal trading relations with China. Obama ran smack into a host of political, legal, and diplomatic roadblocks with his vow to close down Guantanamo, managing to alienate both his opponents and his supporters in the process.
But leaving the foreign policy details to later means that Romney is losing the opportunity to build public understanding of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces – and that he might one day have to confront. That could make it far harder for a President Romney to govern. For now, however, that’s a cost that candidate Romney looks to be willing to bear.
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Romney hopes to skate into the White House with as few specifics as possible. Be it his personal information such as taxes or public policy details, it appears his plan is to just say, I'm better than the other guy. Let's hope the American electorate is smarter than this... but let's also do a service as informed voters in holding out candidates responsible for the decisions and choices they make.
It worked for Obama. But seriously – there are NEVER any details given at a national convention – it all about defining a direction and introducing the candidate that is OFFICIALLY nominated at the convention. The media is only trying to make a big deal on it because Obama has nothing to run on and needs all the help he can get to reelected.
A standard part of the right-wing narrative is that Obama "has nothing to run on." That's factually dead wrong. 30 months of private-sector job growth, now totaling more than 4 million jobs, with no help from the GOP Congress; saved GM, keeping more than 1 million people earning wages and off of unemployment insurance and food stamps; reformed and improved health insurance without resorting to a single-payer option; delayed Medicare's insolvency by a decade, a move that Romney has promised to reverse; killed bin Laden and the top two dozen Al Aaeda leaders; helped take out terrorist murderer Qaddafi without putting one US combat troop on the ground; implemented financial consumer protection, which the GOP failed to activate. I can keep going but you get the point. Obama's record for effective governance as president far surpasses Romney's as a governor.
You should listen to "some guy in New Hampshire". In short, you'd be belly aching about a lot more if Obama had not been elected. Of course, you probably would have had to sell all on your internet access toys in order to pay your bills.
Nonetheless world leaders are hoping that Obama wins. The Brits don't take Romney seriously. China and Russia will rejoice, if he were elected, because the GOP would take the US on a course of international isolation.
I can't agree more with you! Unfortunately, most of the media, including CNN have coddled Obama for the past 6 years.I hope the independents will see the media for what it is, a pandering monopoly where the most important platform is the economy not about bird-brained reporting concerning Romney and his religion or what kind of lipstick his wife shouldn't wear! Obama is peddling a socialist idealism that has failed in every Country in the world, unless it is forced by a Dictator.
Some guy in New Hamshire, that's the best summary of Obama's achievements that I've seen! Good work and thank you!
Paul I hope the Independents do see your rhetoric as talking points of the RNC. And Sincerely hope they don't reward the party of No with the Presidency, especiallywith Paul Ryan as VP, he is part of the problem in the House, Gov. Christy would have been much better pick.
And, as usual, CNN ALWAYS has a stable of Op-Ed writers who are solely dedicated to attempts to malign any Republican or Conservative in the nation. Obama has DEVASTATED America...but just try finding a CNN writer who has ANY degree of Criticism on invective towards him. You won't and for a simple reason. CNN is just one of numerous major media outlets who try their HARDEST to INSULATE Obama from any reasonable critique or ANY attempt to describe him in the terms that he deserves, considering his record: viz........INCOMPETENT. This does no Service to our country. America cannot AFFORD to gamble by letting Obama "Experiment" on the nation with another 4 years of rudderless misery foisted on the American people. His incompetence has been shown over years now. Why let it go on??????
what was said is the gop wants to take away womens right of their own bodies if any woman votes for mitt shame on you
And this concerns womb?
No one has to right to kill an unborn child. Your parents let you live, didn't they. So that unborn has the same right.
Hey Von, keep your religious opinion to yourslef, OK? You have a right to believe what you want byt you do not have a right to demand that your opinion is what everyone should follow. Contrary to what you or the religious right may think this is a secular nation and should remain so.
Romas – nothing in von's comment implied a religious belief. You can oppose abortion on a moral and ethical basis without being religious.
to barb....based on their thinking and past actions and statements its not a stretch to think they will bring on 'Religious police" (To enforce their idea of modesty). I am sorry to say but if Mitta wins the Burka will be a "Must have".
I agree lets hope for sufficient intelligent life in this country to reject President Obama and his plan to transform us into another European style failure. We all should be smart enough now to recognize that regulation can not create either permanent employment or wealth. Both of these things are only possible with a private economy free to do whatever consumers are willing to pay for, not in conformance with government rules but in response to consumer demands. Capitalism creates success and failure but the failure is usually temporary if government does not interfere. Socialism, even the European brand of socialism can not create success, it replaces success with permanent failure, but I guess we are all equally poor. Winston Churchill said it best, "the problem with socialism is that it distributes misery evenly".
Lets hope that there are enough people left here who recognize that work is the only road that leads out of poverty, government dependence leads only to permanent poverty, both for individuals and for nations. Again, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc. are just the most current examples. President Obama has lead this country into $16 trillion in debt and continued out of control spending attempting to copy the European model and "transform" this country. Why in the world would anyone with a basic level of intelligence want to travel down a path when we know for certain the path leads to economic catastrophe. We are on the edge of an economic cliff and President Obama is yelling FORWARD!!! We need to move away from the cliff and back towards low unemployment, balanced federal budgets, and reduced federal debt.
A standard part of the right-wing narrative is that Obama "has nothing to run on." That's factually dead wrong. 30 months of private-sector job growth, now totaling more than 4 million jobs, with no help from the GOP Congress; saved GM, keeping more than 1 million people earning wages and off of unemployment insurance and food stamps; reformed and improved health insurance without resorting to a single-payer option; delayed Medicare's insolvency by a decade, a move that Romney has promised to reverse; killed bin Laden and the top two dozen Al Aaeda leaders; helped take out terrorist murderer Qaddafi without putting one US combat troop on the ground; implemented financial consumer protection, which the GOP failed to activate. I can keep going but you get the point. Obama's record for effective governance as president far surpasses Romney's as a governor.
You are either too old (memory loss) or too young to be there – the price of free enterprise – we end up paying for it unless you are Mitt and his rich friends. Remember Love Canal and Wall Street. The middle class taxpayer (the one who makes less than even $150k) pay for the cleanup and the medical bill. Where is the big corporation who dumped the toxic waste there? How much money did they make using Love Canal as the dumping ground. How much retirement fund did you lose. Oh, sorry! You are one of Mitt's so called middle class, the multi-millionaire. What is a 30% loss in investment? You can still live well in your golden yea, unlike me, one of Obama's middle class who makes less than $100k a year. Guess who bail you out or Mitt out. Funny, after the bail out, I have not heard a blip from the former treasury secretary Paulson. Is it amazing how low key the rich people becomes once they get my tax money.
Facts
We have 8.3% unemployment
We have had 8% unemployment since Obama took office
Our economy is growing at 2% or less. Sure that is enough to create a few jobs but it is not enough to reduce unemployment, even slightly.
The only way unemployment goes down under Obama is when people give up and are no longer counted in the statistics.
We have $16 trillion in Federal Debt, we had about $10.6 Trillion when Obama took office.
We don't have a Federal Budget, Obama's budgets have been so out of touch with reality that not a single democrat has voted to accept them. The Democrat Senate lacks the courage to comply with the law and pass a budget.
This is the so called record that Obama wants to run away from. That is unfortunately for you, the TRUTH.
lossmemory
How much did you contribute to Apple, to Microsoft, to Facebook? The government does bail out corporations like GM and Chrysler and it shouldn't. That is the best argument I can find for reducing the size of government. If the government was small and couldn't raise enough money to bail these corporations out, we would not have to worry about corrupt politicians and we would be a more free and prosperous people. We would have more of our own money to invest or spend as we choose.
The "socialism" Churchill was refering to to no longer exists in Europe. The quote is worthless. Furthermore how do you explain the success of Germay? Most of the problems in Europe are a result of the wholesale degerulation and corruption of the world's banking system and Wall Street ( I used to work there) , which started here in America( both dems and Reps being responsible). OH and 16 trillion? Where is that number from? Bottom line is your world veiw and your understanding of the current state of politics and power in the world is sophmoric at best. Stop drinking the American conservative kool aid and think for yourself.
Nonsense, TX. Take health care, for example. For both Governor Romney and President Obama the main objective was to create a system to provide broader access to insurance and therefore to medical care – not just for the poor, but for anyone who doesn’t have coverage. Romney and his supporters are scrambling to draw distinctions that aren't there, and it's unfortunate, to say the least, to see them move away from a good idea that worked to benefit Americans. Virtually anywhere in the world you go, governments are overseeing health care, and in those countries, in poll after poll, few are interested in adopting the crazy system America has. Far more of our citizens go to foreign countries (starting with Canada and Mexico) for medicines and health care than come into our country. There are things worth being paranoid about; government ensuring access to health care isn't one of them.
It is easy to explain the success of Germany, Germany isn't socialist. If you don't work in Germany, you don't eat. German Workers are the most productive in the world. Sweden, has long been heralded as the perfect example of modern socialism has also learned the correct economic lesson and has been reducing tax rates for the past few years trying to stimulate stagnate economic growth. The most telling example of the failure of socialism is Johnny Depp, remember him, Capitalist America was so terrible that he was moving his family to France. Well Guess what the latest headlines regarding Johnny Depp are "Johnny Depp Flees France Over Tax Hikes" I guess he feels like the money he has earned belongs to him and deserves to keep some for himself. That is the basic problem with socialism. You can say Churchill's quote is irrelevant today but it isn't. MODERN European socialism was supposed to prove that the failure of the USSR brand of socialism didn't really mean socialism was bad economic and governmental policy. Remember? The modern socialists in Europe were going to show the world that capitalism and socialism could co-exist. There could be a beneficial parasitic relationship between the profit motives of capitalism and the altruistic motives of government. Capitalism would continue to generate profit, private ownership would remain, but government would tax away the excess profit from capitalist activity and redistribute it for the betterment of society. Nice Theory. The government parasite simply can not help itself. It eventually kills its host. The corrupt politicians and bureaucrats can not resist taking more and more of the capitalist profit until the host organism no longer has enough to live on. To keep their promises, keep the capitalist organizations on life support, and buy votes they then start borrowing money instead of raising taxes. Eventually they run out of other peoples money. The government can not create wealth and when wealth is no longer created at a level necessary to create jobs and sustain an economy, the economy collapses.
Barbara and Jack
There is nothing wrong with government assuring ACCESS to health care. That is what Romney did and he should be proud of it. That is NOT what Obamacare is. Obama has created a huge government bureaucracy to control everyone's health care, the problems that he is having with the Catholic Church are not the result of his trying to provide access to health care, it is because he is trying to dictate the type of healthcare those with already existing health insurance have to have. Give poor people some money, let them go buy private health insurance. NO BUREAUCRACY is needed for the poor to gain access to health care, they only need money. We already have insurance, we already have doctors (but not enough) and we already have hospitals. We do not need some government burueacrat telling doctors or insurance companies how to run their business. We the people can do that by the way we choose insurance companies and doctors. Romneycare was about giving the poor money to buy insurance, Obamacare is all about creating a huge an unnecessary bureaucracy to give the federal government more power and control over our lives.
Wrong again, bar rag breath. How did the banks get away with virtually turning the home mortage market into a gambling parlor with a virtual market and banks betting against there own customers after selling them worthless financial products. Deregulation!
It is not a true capitalist market when you bail out the banks . The Republicans as in Bush's SEC, of Treasury decision to let Lehmans go under , After they bailed out one bank, that froze up the money (credit between banks , short term) causing a run on AIG and to not even give the Banks a Haircut. I lost my job because of this, after 16 years, I worked for a Construction Developer. we built our own buildings. This I blame on the deregulation and Republican miss handling of the banking Crisis, sending mixed signals etc.... It still burns my a$$
Malron
That is absolutely true, capitalism doesn't envision bank or GM and Chrysler bailouts. The banking crisis though is different from the GM and Chrysler bailouts for two reasons.
1. We the taxpayers have insured bank deposits and if we allow them to fail it still costs us a lot of money.
2. The Banks have paid us back plus Interest. GM and Chrysler have not paid us back and are unlikely to be able to. GM will probably be bankrupt again within a few years.
I am in the mortgage business, have been for about 5 years. I lost a good job in Telecommunications due to the collapse in mid 08. We, the banks, were required to create this mortgage crisis by the federal government, which is another reason for Bushes willingness to bail out the banks. The Federal Government required us to issue a certain percentage of bad mortgages so it was complicit in the collapse. IT STILL DOES. What do you think is happening with the ongoing OBAMA bail outs of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which are continuing to this day and will NEVER be paid back. We are still trying to protect those mortgages that were issued to people because of federal government requirements, not because the banks had any reason to believe these loans would be paid back. The increased risk associated from these known bad loans led to risk mitigating activity from derivatives, which started out to be sound idea but got completely out of control because of Wall Street Shenanigans.
This did not happen due to deregulation it happened precisely because of regulation and the current banking regulations are just doing more of the same. Freddie and Fannie, the causes of the mortgage crisis, are not covered by Dodd Frank regulations–gee I wonder why not? These two organizations are still the governments way to implement policy that keeps people in houses they can not afford. Eventually this house of cards is going to collapse again, there are no longer derivatives supporting this risky activity, the bill from this next collapse is going to be sent directly to taxpayers via Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
The government can not effectively regulate anything. How did Corizine get away with stealing $1.2 billion of shareholder deposits? We need to stop believing the lie that the Federal Government can take care of us, can protect us from big bad corporations or anything else. The smaller the Federal Government is the less likely we are to have corrupt politicians interfering in free markets and causing problems. We need to break up and downsize the banks along with the downsizing of the federal government. There may be some initial pain but we will all be better off in the long term. Obama has had his opportunity to fix this mess. HE Didn't succeed. It is time to give someone else, someone with actual experiencing making tough decisions and fixing things that are broken.
Hey everybody, I've got a great new business plan you'll all love. I can save you all 50% on all your trash and sewage collection fees. Just ship it all to me and I'll dump it all on the properties of those Republicans who hate regulation. I know they're going to love my free market, no government interference, business!!!
Oh right a guy who has followed the Bush agenda and has basically gone with every republican idea from the bail outs to the health care reform.
Spot on Bruce, it our responsibility as citizens to become an informed electorate and vote accordingly. If not, we get the government we deserve. The apathy of the past is no longer a viable option.
The missed opertunity was he did not get to call him a Kenyan Muslim
Spoken like a true misinformed Republican bigot!
Your UGLY roots are showing again!
Bigot much?
I agree with "Rude". That would have been AWESOME – because as half the crowd erupts in cheers – the other half falls into dead silence as they fully understand that this was the END of their chances in 2012. But as long as they (the bigot, over-50 wing of the Republican Party) keep posting messages like this en masse, it serves to remind the rest of us that the current Republican Party is unfit to govern right now. I hope, as an Independent, that 2012 and 2014 see big losses for the Republican party.
Two years of loses in a row (2012 and the 2014 off year elections) would go a long way toward repudiating the extreme right wing fundamentalist fascist theocrats' kidnapping of the republican party and start a long term process of moderate republicans taking back their party. One can only hope. I have never been and will never be a republican, but at least I had some respect for republicans stalwarts like Senator Everett Dirkson, Senator Dick Lugar, and Senator Olympia Snowe.
Have you washed your sheets lately? They're getting pretty soiled with your BS.
They're probably muslin sheets....
You and Leroy are the kind of white male bigots that we independant women divorced long ago and the reason we will never vote for any republican at any level.
This is indeed bigoted but so is the magic underwear comment below. Please be consistent and respond in kind to the make of that bigoted comment.
Rude your ignorance is showing again, How Stupid are you
as opposed to the Kolobian Mormon.
I think this race is more about class warfare then politics!
Just maybe it should be about class warfare. And I am just saying maybe. Laws have been put into place to make the Wealthy more Wealthy, Its gotten to be a joke. I ask a senior VP at my company about why our plant was doing so poorly and what was going to happen to the plant that was being built in Mexico. Well he informed me that they would get all of the USA market and would prosper and I ask why since we are in the US. His answer will stun you. "You don't get it, We don't have to pay them anything' Point being the Wealthy were able to outsource the jobs that made this country great to fatten there pockets to make a single person more wealthy. Hence Class Warfare. If we don't stem the tide the Middle Class will disappear. Thank you for reading.
The rich don't create the poor. You have got to become smart enough to recognize that this is a lie. The rich create other rich people, how many poor people were created by Steve Jobs or the founders of Microsoft and Facebook. These people created other rich people who believed and invested in them and a lot of middle class people with excellent jobs and benefits. The absolute irrefutable proof of that trickle down economics work is the poor in this country. The poor in America have a standard of living that is FAR FAR superior than the poor have in other countries, even better than the middle class live in many third world nations. Stop living in the fantasy land created by the main stream media and socialist teachers and politicians. Europe is FAILING. There is a reason Europe is failing, and the current President of the United States wants to duplicate that failure here while people like you and the media cheer him on. Please quickly remove your head from your rectum and take a look what is actually going on in the world. The real world will be a surprise to you, it doesn't work at all like the way you have been taught. You aren't poor if you fail, in this country you are only poor if you quit trying, and the Obama type government encourages people to quit trying.
And it should be. The 2% have been waging class warfare against the rest of us for decades now. We are only now starting to wake up and notice it. It is time to take back OUR America!
Foreign Policy is GOP ticket's weakest link so they would want to stay away from it since they really don't know how to tag this one of the most important pillars in the country.
Foreign policy ties strongly to national economical well beings since allies tend to work together hand in hand in security and economic...Romney has no clue how to build a common ground inside and out.
Romney is all about politic not the job........He wishes to be the president of United STates so that he could save gurad his wealth in overseas....in one of his inverviews with Brian Williams Romney claimed that the offshore bank accounts hasn't saved him one penny in tax....Does he really think American people are stupid like GOP?
You are so completely unintelligent that it is almost not worth responding to you. Romney has more money than he needs to live comfortably for the rest of his life, to keep it safe from Obama and the rest of you fools who think it isn't is and it should be taken away from him all he has to do is move it out of this country. And the more Obama and the uniformed people like you try to increase taxes and confiscate wealth the more wealth will flee this country and go somewhere that it can be safe. It will create jobs and prosperity wherever it ends up and only misery and poverty will be left to the countries who kill their golden gooses. You know nothing of the real world, you have been mislead, and apparently you are not intelligent enough to comprehend what you don't understand.
Please feel free to stay here and wallow in the misery that Obama will create if he is re-elected. The smart money and the smart people will go elsewhere.
"golden geese" not "golden gooses"
When has standards been of the past in America. I like America for opportunities it offers to everyone, Oh its a rat race-the survival of the fittest. Others before Romney released their taxes way before election, not just 2 yrs but 10 yrs. If you stand for morality the show us Americans, not GOP or Democrats, your 10 yrs tax records. We want a leader that would be transparent.
Johnalbert
Good catch. I stand corrected. It is killing American's Golden Geese that will cause America to become like Europe.
Please feel free to leave, boyd, since you seem to know other places better than the US. Don't let the door whack you in the backside. We don't need you quasi "intellectuals" here and I have 3 Phds to prove it.
Mafia+Madoff+Mormon+ Trump = Romney
Apparently your three PHDS have given you a narrow but in depth awareness of three subjects but have done absolutely nothing to provide you with a broad understanding of the real world or increased your totally common sense.
Leaving this country, and taking wealth with me when I go, is EXACTLY what is going to happen if Obama is re-elected. Those of you who are left will then be free to live off the scraps from Obama's table, because there won't be enough wealth left in this country to create jobs and provide you with economic freedom. Stop Studying, look up out of your books and take a look around at the real world. Then help us get rid of the plague that socialism is in this world.
golubchik
Reverend Jeremiah Wright+ Frank Marshall Davis+ Corizine + Solyndra = OBAMA
TXboyd I bet you are a birther also, to keep harping about socialism and Obama is just right wing talking points, name one industry that has been nationalised. You cant keep listening to Right Wing Radio commentators , the truth and Russ Limbaugh don't meet.
Malron
I am not a birther. I do not think it matters where Obama was born. I don't really care. What matters to me is $16 trillion in Federal Debt, out of control federal spending, putrid economic growth, high unemployment and a President who can make great speeches and excuses but cant seem to do a damn thing about actually fixing the real problems we have.
Malron
You really don't understand modern socialism. The modern socialists have conceded long ago that capitalism and private ownership is necessary for economic growth. Just look at China as an example, even the communist government there has introduced capitalism and private ownership in order to keep from collapsing like the USSR did.
Modern socialists believe that the government can tax the excess profits capitalism produces and redistribute them for the common good. Government doesn't have to own the means of production if it has the ability to tax the income derived from them. The failures now in Europe are evidence that this was a nice theory but not a workable option. The problem is government is greedy, very greedy, and can not prevent itself from killing the host organism.
"The golden geese". Nationalized industry is no longer the way to determine if a country is socialist. High Tax rates, large governments and huge piles of bureaucratic rules now determine socialism. And Obama believes in ALL these things, he is most definitely a modern socialist. This is in spite of the fact that Europe is failing. He still wants to take us there.
The 'crypto fascist airhead zombies' (republicans) will continue raping this country of it's resources & lining their pockets with money that should be spent to help the poor & middle class. The fascist republican party only cares about the rich getting richer & the planet – the environment & the middle & lower class & the poor – be damned. Don't vote for the fat cats who only care bout helping themselves.
as usual trailer trash republican party is hoping to be the puppet from the pig jews
Obama 2012 u got my vote
Wow. Hope you're just pretending to be an ignorant twelve year old. Many of us would like to discuss real policy issues on an adult level.
Congratulations to all you democrats voting for obama...just like gigi 3.0...you all deserve one another...let me add that you're all a pile of dog excrement....
rs1201: then what about the Republicans who use the n-word to describe Obama? Or call him a Muslim Kenyan? gg is an idiot. Every side has idiots and racists. There's no getting around it.
Often when I read a totally disgusting comment and it appears to come from one party or the other, I often think it is a "planted" comment to reflect badly on the presumed party of the poster.
gg 3.0
You are EXACTLY the voter that Obama is appealing to. The people who are capable of intelligent thought will not vote for this incompetent community organizer again.
Romney did talk about making trade agreements rather than the Obama apology tour. He talked about helping our friends rather than enemies.
Apology tour never occurred. Time for a reallity check.
You Obama supporters are having to tell so many lies to help Obama get re-elected that there is not going to be a single democrat with any credibility left following this election. Clinton will be the next victim of the Obama campaign of deceit and misdirection. In order to sell complete failure as success it is unfortunately absolutely necessary to lie to the American people, and do so repeatedly. No Apology tour???? Were you living under a rock in 2009?
Sure it did. You just have to be wearing a pair of magic underwear and click together your red shoes twice.
Lahdee, these guys just talk without understanding that at one point the world was prepared to do away with America. For eg. The Middle East talk had reach a point where Egypt could mediate without America, now Russia was prepared to trade with China without the American Dollar. America went to war with all the impudence and it was difficult for americans to travel anywhere without fearing for their lives. Europe has not failed, when did the dollar become stronger than the euro? Today Prez Bush can not travel anywhere in the world because of the fear of war crime charges. The old order is changing and americans must wake up and face the reality or the time is coming when every one will boycott America
Another LIE Strong Euro Really? It used to take more than $2 US Dollars to buy one Euro, you can now get one for $1.25 and if the trend continues, sometime in 2013 you will be able to buy them for less than a dollar, much less. Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal may soon have to leave the European Union and print their own money in order to survive. How much longer do you think the productive German worker is going to subsidize the rest of Europe? The EU is dead, it is only a question of when.
Awispi
Please get a grip on reality. The only reason the world keeps lending America money is because they world can not survive without the American economy. We buy the worlds goods and services. The world doesn't buy as much from us as we buy from them so guess what would happen if they were to boycott us and we quit buying from them? There would be no Jobs in many countries of the world. China would be devastated which is why they are the strongest supporter of our debt and why they are desperately trying to create domestic consumers and domestic demand for their products. When they do become self-sufficient we better not be spending money we don't have and have to borrow because they will likely stop lending to us. We need to get our fiscal house in order and the current President has proven he is not capable of doing that. We need to let him go.
Stop lying. The euro was never worth 2 dollars. In fact, it started at under a dollar, and from 2002 onwarrds it became stronger than the dollar, reaching a high of 1.6 in 2008. Also, you conveniently leave out European cou tries such as Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Holland when you talk about the European failures. Funny tjough, I don't see citizens from those countries beating our doors down trying tp emigrate here, and they consistently rank as better educated, longer living, and happier than us.
Give it a rest already...Exactly how much foreign policy experience did your community organizer, obama, have? With as little as he had...he made sure to alienate America's staunchest ally, Israel. Obama managed to insult, demean, and offend Prime Minister Netanyahu and the State of Israel. By doing so, he insulted and demeaned the American Jewish Community. Lest he and the rest of the democrats have forgotten...The American Jewish Community votes...en masse...usually for the democratic ticket...BUT NOT THIS TIME AROUND...THIS AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN WILL BE VOTING FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET ACROSS THE BOARD. I'D BE BETRAYING MY HERITAGE IF I VOTED FOR ANY DEMOCRAT ESPECIALLY OBAMA...NOT GOING TO HAPPEN...
Not only are you an insult to the Jewish faith but humanity as well. Get your facts straight before you vent your Jewish insults. Prime Minister Netanyahu and the State of Israel are an insult to the Jewish faith.
rs1201, you should go back to your country Isreal.
Israel is engaged in espionage against us; is that the staunchest ally you're talking about?
In our view, the most disappointing aspect of the RNC is that some speakers – including VP candidate Ryan – had to resort to lies. Most politicians, of all stripes, stretch the truth. That's not what we're talking about here. Ryan crossed some lines – as when he indicated that Obama was responsible for shutting down a GM plant. Obama has made enough mistakes – and Republicans should have enough of their own ideas – that blatant distortions like that aren't necessary. It's troubling, then, that all we seem to be getting is Romney repudiating nearly exactly the same health plan he established in Massachusetts, Ryan's big lie, and Gov. Christie talking about Romney "standing up for what's right" when he hasn't even been able to stand up to extremists in his own party.
There is a huge difference between Romneycare in Massachusetts and Obamacare. The Primary purpose of Romney care was to provide access to health care to poor people. The primary purpose of Obamacare is to create a huge federal bureaucracy to control everyone's health care. The poor people don't even get coverage until after 2014. The huge bureaucracy and the thousands of pages of rules that will drive doctors and hospitals out of business are already being created. It is very easy to see what Obama's priority was if you are only willing to open your eyes. BIG GOVERNMENT.
Again you are mistating the facts . You keep quoting Republican talking points and Russ Linbaugh logic, both disproven at fact check. org
The risky of experts/analysts dissecting his returns on the evening shows and pointing out the countless schemes/tricks he used .....WELL THAT IS WAY MORE RISKY than the political damage of HIDING HIS RETURNS, as some of these schemes/tricks might be outright ILLEGAL
Let me see.....Council for Foreign Relations?.......hhmmm.........Yep, another Lefty org that CNN allows to spew their opinions.
“we will act with the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace...."
Bwahahaha! So sad. On the global peace index, America was 88 out of a list of 157. No one thinks America is an influence for peace. Possibly because it invades other countries at the drop of a hat.
He did not miss an opportunity, he had no clue what to say other then Let's go to war.
Romney didn't say anything about another important national security and foreign relations issue either: global climate change. EXCEPT to make fun of Obama's statement about wanting to keep the oceans from rising, that is, do something to slow warming that is melting the polar ice. He thumbs his nose at Mother Earth. Not very smart.
Could not even mention Afghanistan or even the wars where american are being killed. He has 5 (five) sons and not a single one of them went to wars.
Neither did Obama. Some people are just not cut out for War. Fortunately we have an all volunteer force and those who are capable of dealing with the realities of war, join and make it possible for some of us to avoid that experience. God Bless them. I don't however condemn anyone who is not able to do it, I would find it difficult to kill other people, even those who are my countries enemies.
Txboyd you really are out of it, For one thing Obama does not have a boy , last i looked it was two very young girls . Second Obams's Convention has not happened yet, how could he have talked about Afgannistan . and I will bet he does.
CNN headlines are Obama propaganda.
So are CBS, NBC, ABC headlines and then of course there is BSNBC. I am not sure that BSNBC even rises to the level of propaganda.
foreign policy will be foreign to a Romney (god forbid) Presidency. The U.S. depends on it's foreign policy, killed by Bush, resurected by Obama!!!
Please don't vote.
You and many other Obama supporters are the poster children for revising voter laws to require a basic IQ test to be eligible to vote.
We are $16 Trillion in debt, we have out of control federal spending and a President who is yelling FORWARD!!! while we are standing on the edge of an economic cliff.
TXboyd, if Bush had not started a senseless war, our deficit would not be that high besides during Bush era the budget for the war was separate from the normal budget so everytime they account for the budget it was without the budget for the war. Obama administration brought all together. Go check the facts TXboyd. Meanwhile McCain released 10 years of his taxes [I love that man] so why can't Romney?
Bush should have raised taxes to pay for the war. He didn't, we can't go backwards. However if Obama is not capable of fixing the mess that Bush created then he needs to step aside and let someone who is capable of fixing those problems take his place. I am tired of the excuses. If he can't fix the problems he doesn't need to be President. It is very simple. Either he is incompetent and doesn't have a clue how to fix this mess or he lacks the courage to make the decisions that are necessary to fix this mess. Either way he shouldn't be President. He had his chance. It is now someone elses turn.
As Romney watches his prize possession slip away we're all reminded of just how much of an empty suit we have before us.
This is not a bold leader offering new ideas or vision for the future. We are reminded his leadership skills are based on ideas from a generation ago. Those ideas didn't work then and they will not work now.
We gave eight years to Bush in which he mangled the economy and set the country on a path of war based on deception and lies. Obama deserves another four years. We are better off than four years ago. The hemorrhaging jobs losses have been stopped, the wars are coming to an end, housing is making a comeback, health insurance is available to millions, our standing in the world has improved. Much more needs to be done and it will when Obama is re-elected.
Oh please. An emptier worthless POS suit than obama doesn't exist. He's done nothing for anybody but himself.
The triumvirate of Mad Mitch, Bonehead and Crazy Cantor with or without Lyin' Ryan's help was enough to have stopped Moses from crossing the Red Seas...Obama hadn't a chance to accomplish anything.
Ending the war in Iraq, risking his presidency on a 50-50 shot to get Bin Laden against the advice of his own advisers and something Bush and Clinton didn't do when given the chance, extending Medicare from 2016 to 2024, and ousting a dictator in Libya without the loss of one American life, blah, blah, blah. He wants to raise the top tax bracket back to the level we had when the federal budget was balanced and therefore he must go.
Truth is spoken !
Romney has actual accomplishments, his life experience of successfully fixing things that are broken has uniquely prepared him to be President.
We don't need any more speeches or any more excuses, we need someone who is actually capable of doing the job of President.
Driving companies into bankruptcy, taking MA from 37th in job creation in the country to 47th, "saving' the olympics by begging for and receiving more millions of dollars from the government, hiding his governorship records, hiding his olympic records, hiding his tax returns. Yup, there's a principled man and a proven problem-solver! You are laughable.
to KrotchRot......you are soooo correct. I also have no doubt that Mitt/Ryan will pass more laws concerning what a woman can do with her uterus. Based on their thinking having "Religious police" is not a stretch.
I AM.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/03/with-landmark-lawsuit-barack-obama-pushed-banks-to-give-subprime-loans-to-chicagos-african-americans/
This was more of a missed opportunity for the media. They failed to show their objectivity and have totally mis-characterized Romney's speech. Did you read the speech, Lindsay? Romney talked about our friends knowing they can count on America (e.g. Syria freedom fighters, Poles, Arab Spring), on China (trade partners needing to live up to agreements and many other policy pronouncements. He also talked at length about his mother's feelings about women deserving an equal voice in politics and had a featured speaker that talked only about the topic (a liberal democrat no less) and how Romney's top staff in MA was half women.
Did we hear one talking head mention any of this?? No, you people in the media are just lazy – passing on the same stuff as if you wrote your opinions before the speech (like a SOTU rebuttal).
The media shouldn't fill in the missing pieces. That Romney mentioned the need to save the defense industry by continuing to spend billions in tax money and failed to mention the soldiers in Afghanistan is not the fault of the media and gives a good indication of Mitt's priorities.
Yes, Mitt's priority is JOBS. Obama's priority is Golf and scouting out vacation spots for Michelle and the kids, oh and his biggest priority, SPEND SPEND SPEND as long as it is other peoples money.
It would be interesting to see Romney visit Italy or Great Britain in an official capacity. He is not welcomed in either due to his deals in Italy that deprived them of taxes and, of course, his criticism of the British Olympics. I suppose they will "hold their noses" if that should happen for what they can get out of the visit.
Sure and odopey is welcomed in either one of those countries...do you recall when he was in the UK a couple of years ago the odopey one was trying to give a toast while the band was playing that countries national anthem...he looked like a stupid moron...vote Romney.
Bull-mitt
Greece, Italy Spain, and a few other European countries will soon look like the old USSR and the current NORTH Korea.
There would be no reason for any US President to visit. The UK is slower to decline, apparently there is enough intelligent life in Great Britain to vote the socialists out every so ofter and move away from the edge of the cliff. Lets hope there is enough intelligent life left in this country to do the same.
You mean those countries whose leaders were stupid enough to buy the voodoo style economics Goldman Sachs sold them, and the American mantra that greed is good? Or those countries which were stupid enough to follow the conservative recipe for getting out of a recession (tax cuts) and are now mired in 4-yr recession, while we, thanks to the stimulus, and despiterepublican efforts to the contrary, actually have economic growth?
I USED to be republican...these 2 jokers have made me switch to democrat this time around. I may switch back, but it will take somebody a lot better than these jokers to do it.
LOL!
After 3.5 years of crying and whining these two are the best they can come up with??
I switched when McCain picked Plain. It was crystal clear then, as it is now, it's all about the party. Forget the people... forget Team USA!
NO JOBS
NO ECONOMIC GROWTH
NO FEDERAL BUDGET
NO DEBT REDUCTION
NO MORE EXCUSES– NO MORE OBAMA
@TX... better read, educate yourself and not just repeat what you "learn" while standing at a urinal. Get back to your bar seat before someone else gets it.
By the way... got a smoke?
Works4me
Lets talk about reality. What exactly is the unemployment rate? What was the unemployment rate when Obama took the Oath of office. What did Obama say the unemployment rate would be if his stimulus plan was passed? What did Obama say would happen to health care costs if his Obamacare bill passed? What has happened to health care costs?
What is the size of the Federal Deficit, what did Obama say he was going to do to the federal deficit.
How many democrats have voted for Obama's federal budgets in the past two years?
Do you know the answers to any of these questions? I think it is to late for you, someone has already stolen your bar seat.
When it comes to dealing with Iran the choice is between a politician who killed Bin Laden, ended the Iraq war, maneuvered through the Arab Spring, toppled Libya without the loss of one American life and has brought the world to our point of view with levels of support not seen for decades and his opponent who states "he hasn't done enough and I will do better because we are America." There's a reason Romney shouldn't mention foreign policy because it's a stone-cold loser of a topic for him.
He didn't miss anything...you lib puppets just deny or can't see and lie about it...vote Romney.
Vote Romney and vote death to the United States and freedom.
Please explain how voting for someone who will reduce the federal debt, balance the federal budget, create economic growth and create jobs will destroy America. It will definitely destroy Obama's vision for America. Obama wants America to look like Greece, Italy, and Spain. Complete and utter failures.
Here's some of the insanity the republican party will pursue if Romney gets elected. This planet is sick. The repubs will make it sicker. The Republican platform will pursue dirty coal, dismantle the protections of the EPA, give carte blanche to the fossil fuel industry, allow national parks to decline and sell off much of the land (while not taxing the 1% who earn 80% of the income), and many other environmentally hostile measures. Like it or not, when the environment suffers, we suffer. Don't vote for the selfish right, don't let them continue to line their own pockets & the pockets of the wealthy while they turn a deaf ear to the poor & middle class. They do not care about anyone but themselves, the rich, & keeping them rich – & the planet be damned. Vote for Obama in November!
YES YES YES. Dirty water, Dirty air, and good paying jobs. The problem with your Green agenda is that it is NUTS. You kill off the human species while pretending to save the planet. If no one has a JOB and everyone is starving what the hell good is this planet? We can be responsible to the earth and still create jobs by taking advantage of the low cost sources of energy we have here. Solar and wind are ridiculous lies. We need power when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. And if we want to have jobs we need cheap power so capital will once again flow into this country and create jobs.
No matter the winner ,half the nation will be VERY bitter.
If Romney wins the bitterness will dissipate once people are working again.
Its too bad that Republicans could not do the same. With the Party of NO in power, the house is ridiculous. Mitch McConnel stood on the floor of the Senate and said his main job was to see that Obama is a one term President. Not to help figure a way out of the Mess his party put us in , Not to create jobs , Just be the party of NO,
It is disingenuine for Mitt to say he wanted Obama to succeed when he has been running for the last 7 years.
Make war... not love.
Vote Republican!
Make WAR against our enemies decisively so that we and our allies remain free to love.
Seriously Trauma Boy..... your lunch break is taking too long, you've been replying any pro obama comment i thought you are on the grave yard shift of the Romney Candidacy.
Considering you re doing your job, i have one question for you, if you said Germany is not a Socilist political system, please inform us, what system is its governance platform on?
And please dont bring that leaflet of "if you don't work you dont eat in germany" because that is not the basis of eligibility for social assistance
GOP does not understand geography beyond NY. So they handle it out of ignorance and the only way is Guns, Guns, Guns. That is what Bush did and made a hash of the world and of America itself. And that is what Mitt proposes to do. No wonder, Mitt has few words to spare for foreign policy.
Ahahaha, Hey Libs, I guess the Clint speech was sooo bad that they had to respond by going out and getting Betty White to do the exact same thing for their side~ ahahahahaha. Nice response dems!!!!
Good Article, but in my case it was "Preaching to the Choir", because Willard's ill-fated "Fund-raising" trip last month, showed me all I needed to decide that the Only thing He knows about Foreign Countries, is which ones to Bank in !
Forget about his insults to England, what really showed his Ignorance, was when Willard insulted both the Israelis and the Palestinians by saying the Israel had both a Cultural and Economic Superiority over the Palestinians,..without showing any awareness that the Palestinian's poor economy might be due to the fact that they've been an Occupied Country for 60 some years. Willard kicked the whole trip off, with a blunder into racism, when he told the Australians that he could better relate to them than Obama, "because they shared an understanding of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Traditions". I other words, Obama just a dumb Wog ! I have No Hope that Romney / Ryan will ever understand anything as subtle as International Relations, and that is yet another Big reason why I hope and pray that that Mass of Voters who get their news from Faux alone, will wise up and read something like this Article, to at least make them think twice about a return to Trickle Down economics, and Bush / Cheney style Diplomacy. !
Dems have some great comedy writers...Obama's foreign policy consisted of an apology tour followed by total abandonment of Israel. Romney will have to work hard to fix all of Obama's screw ups
Romney has no plan, no platform, except, he will tell us when he's in office, Americans are not too smart, are they?
Typical Romney – says a lot of stuff while at the same time saying nothing – lots of broad points and criticisms but no specifics of his own. let the buyer beware!
Yeah, he missed an opportunity. He didn't bow down and apologize to the enemies of this country like the clown that's in there now has done.
Romney has no details becuase he has no plans.
He doesn't want to screw up like his pappy did talking about brainwashing.
The real brainwashing is the Mormon cult.
Mitt the Twit and Lyin Ryan lack any substance.
The only thing that was worth listening to at the RNC was the Clint Eastwood speech. Gordon Gecko and his liar running mate told so many distortions there were too many to count.
This guy's candidacy is ridiculous he is a complete fraud. He has flip flopped on every issue from abortion, health care and gay rights. Mitt the Twit!!
Two lying candidates with no solutions.
I am outraged. Why is CNN running Gloria Borger's report on Romney on the eve before the Democratic Convention??? Haven't we had our fill of this take-our-money and run, anti-middle class, anti-open minded and anti-open hearted uncaring, slick, greedy and blind to the needs of the people man? It's time to give equal time to create an equal view of who will be taking care of us. Repeating this Romney show ad nauseum has given my cause to press my MSNBC button.
Romney has missed an opportunity to release his tax returns.
Romney missed an opportunity because he has no solutions.
If it walks like a liar and talks like a liar it is a liar.Mitt the Twit Romney and Lyin Paul Ryan are the worst candidates for president I have ever seen.
No substance no plan.
Romney missed a foreign policy opportunity, because he has no policy.
The GOP missed ENTIRELY whatever chance at 'momentum' they MIGHT have gained - they were just TOO pathetic... Not even a BUMP in the polls - even after all that LYING they did... The RNC was SO PATHETIC (somebody ask, "How pathetic WAS it?"), I heard even die-hard conservatives and the biased media were saying that this was absolutely the worst GOP convention EVER! I heard the RNC was SO PATHETIC that Rush Limbaugh had to be put back on his heart meds - him AND Cheney! Now it's OUR turn! Whooopeeee!
Romney's foreign policy lacks substance and specifics like his tax returns.
Mitt Romey slogan "Keep America American" was the KKK slogan in 1922.....hummmm I see how the puzzle pieces are really coming together now with who he and others really are. As Maya Angelou said, " When people show you who they are, believe them"
Romney's resume.
1. Outsourced jobs to China.
2. Didn't pay taxes for 10 years.
3. Wants less pay for women.
4. Wants to go to war with Iran.
5. Wants to make Medicare a vourcher program.
6. Wants to privatize social security.
7. Wants to raise taxes on the poor and middle class only.
Obamas Resume
Outsource Jobs to Finland and destroyed jobs with Solyndra
Had Harry Reid create an imaginary friend and LIE about Romney's taxes
Wants MORE PAY for everyone including Minorities and Women
Wants to stop Iran from creating a Nuclear war in the middle east.
Wants to restore Obama's $716 billion in medicare cuts by repealing Obamacare and create a program that we can actually afford in the future.
Wants to create private deposits for Social Security that the Federal Government can't steal in order to preserve Social Security.
Doesn't want to raise taxes on anybody and repeal Obamacare's so that taxes on the middle class can be reduced.
Wants to actually take responsibility for fixing this mess that Bush left, balance the federal budget reduce the federal debt and create economic growth so that people can go to work again.
It's not enough Ryan is the biggest liar of any VP candidate we ever had, he gets his mommy to help him lie for him. How pathetic can one get.
Romney has no foreign policy experience.
His overseas trip was a disaster.
At every turn he was insulting the Brits.
The British tabloids called him MITT THE TWIT.
The UK could not wait to get rid of him.
Romney would start a war with Iran in a second. And he has no idea what he's doing.
Iran would make Iraq look like a walk in the park and cost 6 times as much.
Romney is a dangerous man.
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The British Press LOVE's Obama, he fits right in. He is a socialist, and pretends that government spending solves problems and that Debt really doesn't matter.
HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE.......Mitt the Twit will fail at it. Maybe its a good thing he didn't talk about it. I will say, not once did he mention anything about veterans........He has no clue, and his policies will only dwindle the benefits that are in place , with his policy cuts. No he doesn't say it ( he avoids it and a few other things – twisted to make you believe different.
Obama 2012 !!!!!
Obama doesn't have any real foreign policy experience. Hillary Clinton has developed and executed his foreign policy except of course during the times when he tells the Russian President to just hang in there because he can be a LOT MORE FLEXIBLE after the election. Obama has NO BACKBONE, will cause a complete an utter disaster in the middle east because he doesn't have the guts to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions and when he had the opportunity to do something good and help the Syrians get rid of Assad he sat on his hands and asked Russia for permission.
I think most people have been quite impressed with how effective Obama's foreign policy has been, from his efficient management of the military to rebuilding fractured relationships with other countries, to really going after terrorists for minimal financial and human cost. That's why the GOP is avoiding the subject; they know they don't have much ground to stand on in comparison.
The answer to that dumb statement is no way. This Nation's #1 job is JOB'S,after that is bringing the debt down. I'm sure those who have there head up there @ s s might thik otherwise to try to get 0bama re-elected!
The Republicans are only interested in Obama failing. The President put up 2 jobs bills, one over a year ago, John Bohner , republican Speaker of the House, and the rest of the Republican leadership has squashed it. If they wanted people to have jobs they would let if come to debate and put what they want in, debate it , you know work in a Bipartisan fashion, But they are the Party of No, No working with the Dem's on any thing. Mitch McConnel said, on the Senate floor after President Obama was elected," his number one job was to make Obama a one term President. that they were going to obstruct legislation. I consider that almost treasonist, while the nation suffers through a recession. Not to get people back to work not to work on regulations for wall street,
The republicans are anti worker , anti Union, anti immigration reform, anti Vetrans and as far as I am concered Anti American. The Party of No, but they are Pro Voter suppression, pro Government in your bedroom. by wanting to banish contraception pills. Pro increasing the Gap between the Rich and the Middle Class, Pro starting a war and then lowering tax's on the rich . Pro bailing out the banks and not giving them a Haircut , pro deregulation, Pro Obstruction in Congress, the list goes on and on. Face it people Mitt Romney is not the answer and Paul Ryan is part of the problem.
I think the GOP also made a big mistake focusing so much on misinterpreting Obama's "You didn't build that line". It may play to the uncritical base, but undecided voters are going to read the sentences before and after and see that Obama was stating a well established fact that public investments in creating things such as the internet, interstates, and schools help businesses thrive.
foreign or domestic this man has no plan.
blame, point fingers, divide, lie, deny....
anything to shift responsibility...
by FAR, the biggest whiner the oval office has ever seen.
...this must be the Only one you've "seen", then
As usual Romney;s speech was not deep enough explaining Medicare in detail,not explaining Foreign Policy in detail ,the Bugdet not in great detail ,etc.etc.etc.Only the Master Obama can explain EVERYTHING in great detail in 20 minutes. He's had 4 years to do it and still has not come up with anything that makes sense other than socialism. CNN have shame . No womder your color is RED.
In some of the comments I've read here, Obama's policies have been compared to socialism. That is simply not true. I don't see anything Obama is doing that is socialist - his commitment to the free market system is absolute. What I do see are policies meant to reign in excesses and abuses in the private sector: abuses that permit defrauding investors, destroying the environment, denying medical care to the sick, the list goes on. There is nothing Obama is doing that is dangerous or radical - simply common sense approaches to problems that threaten all of us.
yes, I know, and most people would see that too,,,but that's why the Republicans have to try so hard to unseat him,,,even lie, if they must
Romney is just sooo much better than Obama,,,,Nobody knows how he is better, he just is,,,trust me
Thats right nobody knows cause Nobody knows what he is about , will not release his tax returns ,wants to lower tax's on the rich, says we will be energy independant by 2012, How are you going to manage that, Mitt? What are you going to do mitt. besides making the Rich , yourself included , Richer . Are you really going to get rid of the EPA? Are you really going to bomb Iran. Can we afford another War of choice,
Trust me Orange Wedge , your all wet . Lets reward the party of No with the Presidency.
Very fun, indeed! Romney seemed to have seized the lazybones.
a war with Iran could NOT be won, why start one?
I'm going to start opening up some sewage treatment plants, coal fire power plants, and nuclear power plants right in the middle of some very expensive Republican neighborhoods. I know they'll be very friendly toward my free market businesses and would never want "evil big government" to do anything to interfer with private enterprise.
Elect me first, I'll provide the details of what I will do on (fill in the topic here) after I'm elected seems to be the overriding theme of the Romney campaign.
There apparently only two exceptions: 1) he wants to cut his own taxes, 2) he won't provide specifics of taxes beyond what he has already done (most of one year [incomplete on foreign investments/taxes/shelters] and a promise of providing the current year at some point in the future).
My comment didn't post either. I simply stated an opinion and supported it with known facts. No profanity either...I guess someone here just didn't like what I had to say!
Since my other comment didn't pass muster....I'll come right to the point. I don't like Mitt Romney....I think he's like a bull in a crystal shop when it comes to diplomacy. On his recent trip to Europe he managed to make a lot of people angry. I will be voting for Barack Obama in November!!
Mittens release your tax returns!!
Romney's foreign policy sounds more like a cold war agenda. Rather than going on about trade deficits he sounds like he wants to expand the war on whoever. He can't tell Putin what to do and Russia is not a bigger threat right now. He sounds more like he wants to fight China rather than ecnomically compete with them. Other countries have done significant changes economically like Brazil, Germany and among others yet the US does not seem to be on the right track. All we get is the same rhetoric from republicans and democrats over and over. Instead of coming up with big ideas we get propaganda.
Mitt the Twit and Lyin Ryan have no foreign policy.
Lyin Ryan and Gordon Gecko keep making stuff up.