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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:36 AM Oct 2012

Mitt Romney’s Most Dishonest Speech

When it comes to lies and half-truths, Romney saves his best stuff for foreign policy.
By Fred Kaplan
|Posted Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, at 5:14 PM ET

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.

Romney began with the recent attacks on the Libyan consulate, the killing of the U.S. ambassador, and the anti-American riots that broke out across the Middle East—all signs, he claimed, that “the threats we face have grown so much worse” while President Obama does nothing.

Let’s pause here. First, these threats are not worsening; in fact, the number of attacks on U.S. embassies is near an all-time low. Second, the spate of attacks, riots, and American flag-burnings, which followed the attacks in Libya and Egypt, ended almost immediately. Romney himself, after recounting the grim events, noted that we’re now seeing “something hopeful”—protests by “tens of thousands of Libyans” against the militants and in support of the American ambassador.

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Mitt Romney’s Most Dishonest Speech (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2012 OP
I dont think very many DU'ers saw it... hexola Oct 2012 #1
True; most folk were hyperventilating and doing DonViejo Oct 2012 #3
This is Mitt's weakest link since he has ABSOLUTELY no experience in foreign policy issues bushisanidiot Oct 2012 #2
Yes indeed mimi85 Oct 2012 #4
 

hexola

(4,835 posts)
1. I dont think very many DU'ers saw it...
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:48 AM
Oct 2012

Hardly mentioned...

The airplane window comment got 50 threads...

There was a ton of stuff to call him out on yesterday...guess DU isnt up to it.

He made it sound like he was going back to Iraq...and would be using "our greatest power" in the ME...

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. True; most folk were hyperventilating and doing
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:52 AM
Oct 2012

their best impressions of Henny Penny in response to the PEW poll.

bushisanidiot

(8,064 posts)
2. This is Mitt's weakest link since he has ABSOLUTELY no experience in foreign policy issues
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:45 AM
Oct 2012

he will be talking out of his ass, repeating things that others told him to say
vs. the President, who knows exactly what he's talking about since he's met
with the foreign leaders who Romney has only read about.

romney will be put in his place next week... big time.

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