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“As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America's enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London. In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa. ‘We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,’ the adviser said of Mr. Romney, adding: ‘The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.’”
*** UPDATE *** The Romney campaign's Andrea Saul says categorically: “It’s not true. If anyone said that, they weren’t reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign."
The L.A. Times: “Preparing for his first foreign travel as the unofficial Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney used a send-off speech before military veterans Tuesday to deliver a scathing indictment of President Obama's defense and foreign policies.”
More: “The convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is a virtual command performance for presidential hopefuls; Obama addressed the group in Reno on Monday, winning a warm reception when he touted such achievements as the killing of Osama bin Laden. Another tradition is avoiding harsh partisan rhetoric while on foreign soil, and Romney, who embarks Wednesday on a weeklong swing through England, Israel and Poland, acknowledged as much. But he showed no such restraint Tuesday, scoring Obama repeatedly even as he offered few specifics about what he would do if elected.”
It also points out that despite Romney’s critiques of the president for defense cuts, “Unspoken was the fact that Congress — not Obama — effectively put a gun to its own head on defense spending, adopting the cuts on a bipartisan vote as a way to force a long-term resolution of the nation's debt. So far, that effort has been unavailing.”
The New York Times: "On the eve of a trip abroad intended to burnish his qualifications to be commander in chief, Mitt Romney accused Obama administration officials on Tuesday of betraying the country by leaking national security secrets for their own political gain and failing to stand up to adversaries like China, Russia and Iran. Mr. Romney’s address, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention here, was the most expansive foreign policy speech of his candidacy and opened a new and aggressive attack on President Obama on national security."
"A Republican group backed by the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is starting a new effort in battleground states to win over Jewish voters who could be persuaded to turn away from President Obama and support Mitt Romney. The group, the Republican Jewish Coalition, plans to begin a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in the coming weeks called “My Buyer’s Remorse,” targeting voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, aides said. The campaign uses testimonials from people who say they regret supporting Mr. Obama because of his economic policies and his posture toward Israel, in hopes of cutting into the wide advantage Democrats have held over Republicans among Jewish voters," The New York Times reports.
The Los Angeles Times: "Watching attacks that say Mitt Romney killed jobs instead of creating them, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan can’t help but feel ‘a little bit of deja vu.’ The onetime Republican mayor — who supported Barack Obama four years ago but plans to vote for Romney in November — advises the presidential challenger to rise above the fray. “They didn’t do as good a job on me as Obama is doing on Romney,” Riordan said, “but, quite honestly, what my backers told me was, ‘Don’t respond, don’t defend yourself.’ Because if you stay out of it, these become one-day stories.” So Riordan would advise Romney: Don’t play defense. Talk about what you want to talk about."
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Will FactCheck issue a retraction? Will it get as much publicity as their original verdict that the Obama campaign was stretching to say Bain outsourced jobs and Romney made money from shipping jobs overseas?
What are you hiding Mittens?
i think the question should be, "What isn't he hiding?" The answer to this question will be much, much shorter...
Amy but you are ok with Bain supporting Democrats right? So bottom line is Bain profits are good when they support Democrats but bad when tied to Republicans.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/205025-dems-receive-more-bain-dollars-than-gop/
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/21/democrats_and_bain_2/
Wow. As usual the Republicans appeal to the worst of their base by innuendo about race.
They ought to be embarrassed, reasonable people should REFUSE to vote for bigots.
Racism and bigotry is on full display within the Willard campaign.
It is important to understand that Mitt's blind trust is managed by his old friends at Bain Capital, as well. His blind trust is not so blind, it seems. In fact, blind trusts are "a ruse" as he said himself.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/24/romneys-blind-trust-ruse/
hmmm. what do you do when you really don't want to talk about anything? That seems to be the dilemma for this candidate. his only real message is, "I'm not Obama".
Bring on the debates !!, then we'll see who is the empty shell.
Romney has NO ideas besides "Hate Obama"
the man is a racial idiot who also called obama corrupt. wake-up america.
Maybe I'm wrong...but...maybe Romney's offshore accounts are so GINORMOUS, because MAYBE he's receiving funding from mormons. There are many many many more Mormons living abroad than here. Very easy to move money when your religious fans aren't even living in the US. Food for thought.
Did everyone see the clip of Willard telling the American Olympians back in 2002, and I quote "you didn't make it hear on your own, someone else made it hear for you". Sounds like Willard's putting the American Olympians down, he's against American Olympic athletes. Shame on Willard, how unamerican of him.
This guy and his friends have done so much damage and contributed to America's calamity by hoarding rich tax cuts vs creating jobs. Now this guy is going to go speak with leaders in foreign countries about what a bad job our President is doing!
Wow I feel safer knowing that he will bash our country/president and we will look like we have nothing going for us here...He is something else.
He is nothing but a wannabe and nothing but a liar and he is causing more trouble than he is worth...get him as far away from running our country as possible! Running on "I'm not Obama" is not going to work! What a scum bag!
Actually, Gov. Romney shares a hispanic/american heritage with Mexico.
Hey! Where is his long form birth certificate?
Willard pops up at Bain, then won't admit it!
Willard pops up as Governor, then destroys computer hard drives!
Willard pops up at the Olympics, then records are destroyed!
Willard pops up running for President (again), but refuses to talk about his past!
Willard is the incredible missing man at every turn.....Long form birth certificate, and of course those Tax returns!
Astonishing that Mitt the barber could imply that a white man born in America into a Mexican religious cult family can somehow appreciate America's cultural heritage with England better than a black man from a racially mixed family born in a state which features the Union Jack in its State flag.
Bain vs Obama's record...Obama loses
If you're measuring on the degree of concealment and secrecy, then, yes.
If you're measuring on the number of offshored jobs, then HE** YES!
Sometimes it is better to be the "looser", if it's a contest of unethical acts.
I find it very enlightning... The dems are stuck in a feed back loop about Bain and Romney's taxes. It's none of their Business.
on another note... Foreign policy... Romney already has the advantage, Obama already gave it to him and here is why...
Friends in europe tell me that they welcome the chance to hear from Romney who is a sucessful american business man instead of "that stupid Obama who spoke there while he was running for office"... ( they took offense to Obama apologizing for the US because, as they told me, " we know that the US saved us from the Nazi's and yet he is apologizing?").
And while I was in Frankfurt, a taxi driver realizing that I was American asked why we elected an incompetent fool as president.
I asked why he thought that, and he said " We germans know that America is a great nation, but you have a president that wants to hand you @!$%# like we have for health care and thinks it is a good thing, and that is why he is an idiot ".
I asked what is wrong with their health care and he said that financially it is breaking their country... Immigrants are moving there in droves because of the social benefits...
I could not have agreed more...
German citizens, like US citizens, have the vote, they have an elected legislature, they have a free press. So if their health care system (private insurance based and regulated, just like our ACA) was really all that bad, why aren't they all screaming to change it? They aren't, because for the majority, it works for them.
Granted, there are some malcontents, people with contrarian political views, but they're very much in the minority. Sounds like you found one, doesn't mean that's the nation's mood. I'm sure if you searched long enough, you could probably find one that thought Hitler was a great leader, too.
Don't forget that "Obamacare" is based on "Romneycare", which in turn was based on the German health care system. So to disparage both the German and Obama health care plan implicitly disparages Romney, too!
"Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves."Or, "take care of the country and your reelection will take care of itself."The wisdom of this was missed by the President's handlers, who also misjudged the savvy of the independent voters. Why else would they have bombarded them with dumbed down TV ads? Somebody should have told them that these folks are sitting on the fence for a reason, and it is not a lack of foresight. Indeed, it takes more foresight to figure out things yourself than to merely follow one herd or the other. And deciding the things you care about does take time. Yet, independent voters also need help. Though they do not blame the President for all of the country's problems, or expect him to solve them overnight, they do expect him to stay at the task day by day.Yes, honest effort is what they want, but they are not seeing it lately. Perhaps this is because the President's handlers are too worried about losing their jobs to let him do his. But he is the President and he should get them all out of his way to focus on running our country.Besides, keeping his nose on the grindstone might be the best way to convince the independents that he should get more time to finish out the task.
Yes, Independents will never vote for a candidate because of empty rhetoric - which is all Romney offers. Independents went heavily for President Obama in 2008 and will do so again in 2012. No one wants to see Romney drive the country over the cliff.
Obama/Biden 2012
SS can't you even try to add something of value to a discussion? Talk about spewing rhetoric!
I don't think you have an original thought in your head. You're too busy trying to impress Feisty by regurgitating her talking points.
C'mon, do a little thinking for yourself. It's really not that hard.
Andrea Saul it's on tape. So will it be "I stand by what I said, whatever it was that I said"?