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Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:11 PM Oct 2012

Mitt 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 Monday’s 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 world—this from a man who couldn’t 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 Obama’s 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.

Let’s go through the text, point by point . . .


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Mitt Romney’s Most Dishonest Speech (Original Post) bigtree Oct 2012 OP
k&r... spanone Oct 2012 #1
Every day Willard gets more evil Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2
great post my friend. rec hrmjustin Oct 2012 #3
The only thing you have to know about Romney's Foreign Policy is... WCGreen Oct 2012 #4

WCGreen

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4. The only thing you have to know about Romney's Foreign Policy is...
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:29 PM
Oct 2012

He is listening to the same dipshits that got us into so much trouble all through the Bush adminstration.

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