General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney’s Most Dishonest Speech
from Fred Kaplan at Slate:
When it comes to lies and half-truths, Romney saves his best stuff for foreign policy.
Mitt Romney has delivered a lot of dishonest speeches in recent months, but Mondays address on foreign policy may be the most mendacious yet.
It was expected that he would distort President Obama into a caricature of Jimmy Carter. But it was astonishing to watch Romney spin a daydream of himself as some latter-day George Marshall, bringing peace, prosperity, and hope to a chaotic worldthis from a man who couldnt drop in on the London Olympics without alienating our closest ally and turning himself into a transcontinental laughingstock.
To the extent that Romney recited valid criticisms of Obamas policies, he offered no alternatives. To the extent he spelled out specific steps he would take to deal with one problem or another, he merely recited actions that Obama has already taken.
Lets go through the text, point by point . . .
read more: http://mobile.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/mitt_romney_foreign_policy_speech_at_the_virginia_military_institute_was_the_most_dishonest_one_he_has_delivered_yet_.single.html
spanone
(135,645 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)He is listening to the same dipshits that got us into so much trouble all through the Bush adminstration.