Twit Romney: God created America to rule the world

[bigtree]

__ Leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Friday that God created America to lead the world, and accused President Barack Obama of deliberately weakening his nation.

Romney sought to bolster his credentials to serve as commander-in-chief as new polls showed him back at the top of the Republican field and in a tight potential head-to-head matchup with Obama ahead of next year's election.

"God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers," Romney said, in the most important foreign policy speech of the Republican campaign so far.

"America must lead the world, or someone else will," he said, arguing that the globe would be more dangerous absent a prime role for Washington . . .




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[msongs]

1. what he really believes is god created mormons to rule the world nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Why did God create colonists to wipe out the Native Americans?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Did he read that in the Mormon Bible??

[HughBeaumont]

4. Pushing the "Competition over Cooperation" nonsense, like a good little exceptionalist.

Our destiny was laid out by an omnipotent sky daddy. More faith-based governance.

A wonderful choice to lead America, voters . . . no??

:eyes:

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Manifest Destiny v. 2.0

:eyes:

[hatrack]

6. What a steaming pile of verbal shit

Arrogant, stupid, self-righteous and prickish.

And Romney's the "non-crazy" candidate.

:eyes:

[geardaddy]

7. Suck on it, Mittens.

If Mittens wins, we'll have another 9/11.

K & R

[hatrack]

8. Who's un-reccing this? The Oath Keepers' Flying Keyboard Squadron?

Unbelievable.

[nichomachus]

25. Freepers?

I think the whole unrec thing is stupid. It allows an opening to troublemakers to just come here and unrec everything they can get their hands on. I've seen very interesting articles -- not trashing anyone -- get unrecced into oblivion. That's smells fishy to me. I can see the Hillary crowd unreccing something not flattering to Hillary and the same for Obama, but when stuff critical of the GOP is unrecced 10 different ways, I smell a rat. Stupid idea.

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. Who gives a fuck?

Really.

What the fuck difference could it possibly make WHO is unreccing this or any other thread, for crying out loud?

What makes you think this thread is particularly worthy of NOT being unrecced?

Find something else to be outraged about, for fucks sake.

Posts like yours drive me nuts.


And just so you won't ever have to ask such a banal question again, please feel free to assume it is ME.

[Chorophyll]

9. At this point he'll say anything to be the front-runner.

And since the GOP no longer does "sane," the shit will be piling up thick and fast.

[hatrack]

10. Kicking some steaming mounds of Romney right to the top . .

In fact, it's almost a Race To The Top, one might say . . .

[gratuitous]

11. God certainly took a long time getting around to "creating" this country

What was all that history going on prior to the last five hundred years - prologue? And if we're supposed to be running the world, Mitt, I'd have to say we're doing a piss-poor job of it considering our overconsumption (for just one thing).

[nichomachus]

27. God can be kind of a slacker at times

[snooper2]

34. He's got seven hundred million trillion prayer requests

and hasn't responded to a single one :rofl:


See what farmville does to ya? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Worship Money]

12. Yeah, he's so "sane and moderate", right?

Doesn't matter anyway.

This spineless freak will be the last person leading anyone.

[nichomachus]

28. Scariest thing -- he's the sanest guy in the GOP field

[KamaAina]

45. Actually, I'd give that to Huntsman

but he has about as much chance of getting the nomination as I do.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. GAWD!

:puke:

[Skidmore]

14. Today the world, tomorrow the universe...

how do you explain to someone who gets a personal star eventually that the meek will inherit the earth?

[Lyric]

22. Apparently the earth will be the decrepit old shack

that the meek get to "inherit" once the Magic Underwear Squad all get their celestial star palaces.

:rofl:

[MurrayDelph]

15. ...and there goes

the future of International Diplomacy.

With an attitude like that, does it mean that a President Romney would try to reappoint John Bolton?

[ellie]

16. Goddamn loon.

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. So he has zero problems with Abu Ghraib and other acts of US superiority?

[Shandris]

21. Really, is this even a question? You KNOW he doesn't!

That might require some humility. You know...that thing that the Biblical Jesus mentions rather often, but modern Christians have turned into a dirty word? :nuke:

Abu Ghraib, Torture, Drone Murder...none of these things matter to them because they don't see them as a problem to begin with. Of course...I'm pretty sure you knew that already, so if I'm just preaching to the choir, forgive me...I JUST got up. :) :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. Yes, preaching to the choir, but you have to know that it is music to my ears.

:hi:

[hifiguy]

18. Delusions of grandeur

megalomania, a huge steaming pantload, or utter and complete bullshit on stilts? Whatever, Mittens.

[NNN0LHI]

19. Did they ask him about his belief that the garden of eden is located in Missouri?

That should be interesting.

Don

[fishwax]

20. "God did not create this country to ..."

Um, Mitt--God did not create this country.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Who knew that Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, etc. were 'god'?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. You had me at "Twit Romney."

[Ikonoklast]

26. He's religiously insane.

People who conflate their religtion with government are all loony.

[stevenleser]

29. Good luck conducting foreign policy after uttering that gem. nt

[malaise]

31. What a fugging asshole

:puke:

[SomethingFishy]

32. Just got off the iPhone with God....

He says.. and I quote "tell Mitt to shut the fuck up".

[otohara]

33. Oh God

please stop speaking to these lunatics immediately.

[Cid_B]

35. I agree... except for the God made it so part...

Just depends which audience he is trying to reach...

[bigtree]

37. It should depend on what we're purporting to be leading on

I'd be satisfied to acknowledge the preeminence of other countries in some areas where they excel. But the problem with seeking military dominance is in the motive. If we're actually talking about defenses, then there should be no quarter given to aggressors or those who threaten the nation or our allies.

The recent activity in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, has expended most of the military resources and blood for 'government-building'. Those ambitions foster more of an offensive posture that is reminiscent of empire-building and imperialism that kept nations at odds throughout the Cold War era.

Romney is anxious to start that all up again because he's completely ignorant of history (and a lot else). I'll bet he thinks he's exceptional in pining for it all.

[Cid_B]

38. Depends what you want... I like an offensive posture...

I think the US should lead in social, economic and military...

[bigtree]

52. that can be carried too far

The Bush administration, for example, liked to exploit the notion that the U.S, was losing it's 'military dominance' over potential rivals like China and Iran and needed to adopt a new family of nuclear weapons designed to address new sets of military requirements.

President Bush signed into law a Defense bill in 2004 which included $9 billion in funding for research on a next generation of nuclear weaponry.

"It's an important signal we're sending," then-President Bush remarked at the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, "because, you see, the war on terror is different than any war America has ever fought."

Our enemies seek to inflict mass casualties, without fielding mass armies," Bush cautioned. "They hide in the shadows, and they're often hard to strike. The terrorists are cunning and ruthless and dangerous, as the world saw on September the 11th, 2001. Yet these killers are now facing the United States of America, and a great coalition of responsible nations, and this threat to civilization will be defeated."

However, this scattershot offensive was a posture usually reserved for nation-states who initiated or sponsored terrorists. The devastating neighboring effect of a potential nuclear engagement would contaminate innocent millions with the resulting radioactive fallout, and would not deter individuals with no known base of operations. Yet, his administration (inspired by PNAC and a large band of military industrial warriors in his administration), for the first time in our nation’s history contemplated using nuclear weapons on countries which themselves had no nuclear capability, or posed no nuclear threat.

So, I guess you're right . . . it does depend on what you want.

[pokerfan]

36. Mitt Romney: America must assert military might

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday said that he believes America should be "the strongest nation on earth" and argued for an increase in military spending to ensure that the United States can assert military dominance over other nations.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20117309-503544.html

Sieg Heil!


We already outspend the entire rest of the world combined in military expenditures and this lunatic thinks we aren't spending or throwing our weight around enough?

Really?

[MrScorpio]

39. "Amerika Über Alles"? Really?!?

Give me a fucking break.

[Rambis]

40. Message from Kolob Mittens?

:crazy:

[Cid_B]

41. He had one good line...

"Since 1842, every tyrant, petty thug or great power that threatened America learned that if you wanted to take on America, you were taking on The Citadel. That’s a line of heroes that’s never broken and never will be"

I may be a bit biased though... ha... I remember when Bush W. spoke there as well. What a clusterfuck that was...

[Tom Ripley]

50. It's not even a real service academy and was founded for the purpose of putting

down slave rebellions.
You and I both know that.

[Cid_B]

51. Wow...

Someone have a bad pre-knob weekend or something?

[Tom Ripley]

56. I apologize for my vehemence

it's just that I'm a native-born sandlapper
who doesn't buy into sandlapper myths and legends
:)

[lindysalsagal]

42. From a man who believes that 2 magic gold tablets dug up from an upstate NY

backyard in the 1800's that no one has seen were written by the one true god, and put there by the one true god, so that some other moron would find them and start a wierd cult in Utah.

Oh, this is going to be fun! :popcorn:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. His magic underwear must be on too tight for the brain in his ass

[KamaAina]

44. He should have stopped running his mouth after "God did not create this country"

:eyes:

[bouwob2]

46. so if god is leading the world

does that also make him the antichrist?

[JoePhilly]

47. Mitt "Manifest Destiny" Romney!!!!!

[RainDog]

48. sounds like his magic underwear is in a wad

more and more - I have come to despise anyone who talks about religion in the public sphere.

if you want to believe in a sky daddy - your choice. we all engage in magical and delusional thinking. it should not be the basis for any governmental decision or policy, however.

[Whisp]

49. good gawd, and he's the smartest one ...

maybe that god will save us from him and the rest of that vile litter.

[and-justice-for-all]

54. News flash, god did not create anything...

PS: FUCK YOU MORON.

[Tom Ripley]

55. Edit: replied to wrong post