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Subscribe to RSSRomney gets front-page treatment from the big newspapers for his trip to Israel:
The New York Times: “Romney backs Israeli position on facing Iran.”
The Washington Post: “Romney: Iran ‘containment’ not an option.”
The Wall Street Journal: “Romney talks tough.”
USA Today: “Romney takes aim at Iran.”
The Jerusalem Post: “Romney: US must give Israel diplomatic support, not just military and intel cooperation.” Subhead: “Republican presidential hopeful has tough rhetoric on Iran but stops short of pledging military action.”
Haaretz: “Romney in J’lem: Obama’s Mideast policies bolster Israel’s enemies.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (sidebar): “Romney says he’ll stand with Israel against Iran.”
(Question though: Are these really positives? This is a lot of saber-rattling from someone wanting to be the leader of a war-weary nation. And if the campaign’s calculation is this is going to win over American Jews, it’s doubtful this will win over the two-thirds that voted for Obama. The people this appeals to -- conservative to orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians -- were already voting for Romney.)
“Required by law”… Political Wire: “Mitt Romney was asked by ABC News if there was ever any year when he paid lower than a 13.9% effective tax rate as his 2010 tax returns show. Said Romney: ‘I haven't calculated that. I'm happy to go back and look but my view is I've paid all the taxes required by law.’” He went on to note that he’s been audited in the past.
Newsweek cover: “The WIMP Factor: Is he just too insecure to be president.” Story by Michael Tomasky.
Romney’s response to CBS: "If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep, and I sleep pretty well.” And, he said, “They tried that on George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty great president and anything but. And, per CBS: Romney said he “doesn't ‘recall’ ever being called a wimp before.”
Flashback to Newsweek, January 1987: “Fighting the ‘Wimp Factor’” about George H.W. Bush.
But also here’s Newsweek again, April 16, 2008: “The Wimp Factor: Obama is starting to look more like Kerry in ’04” by Michael Hirsch. Story here.
There’s even a book by its name from 2005 about George W. Bush.
Prospects for Middle East peace under Romney? The New York Daily News: “Romney outrages Palestinians by saying Jewish culture helps make Israel more successful .” The lede: “Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the nearby Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who called his comments racist and out of touch.”
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat: “What is this man doing here? Yesterday, he destroyed negotiations by saying Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and today he is saying Israeli culture is more advanced than Palestinian culture. Isn't this racism?''
Flashback to Thursday when the Daily Mail in Great Britain asked, “Who invited him?”
The AP: “Mitt Romney's assertion that Jerusalem is Israel's capital is absolutely unacceptable, a senior Palestinian official said Monday, voicing the strongest Palestinian criticism yet of the Republican presidential candidate.” More: “Saeb Erekat, an Abbas aide, said Romney's comments about Jerusalem were ‘absolutely unacceptable,’ adding that ‘such statements and policy will push the region toward extremists.’”
Here’s Romney on his own foreign policy to CBS, per the Boston Globe: “I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity and confidence in cause is of extraordinary importance. … Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy presidents,’’ Romney said. “He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor. But his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well. And if I were elected president, I hope I could rely on those same qualities.”
As for a Romney doctrine, good luck with specifics: “Well, my doctrine is as I’ve described,” Romney said, “which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose and resolve in our might.”
Romney aide Dan Senor: “It is an existential threat and we in the West partnering with Israel should do everything we can from stopping Iran from developing that weapons capability. And if Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability the governor would respect that decision.”
The Ron Paul story: “Sixteen Republicans elected to represent Massachusetts at the national convention in Tampa next month have filed a formal challenge with the Republican National Committee, saying they were unfairly disqualified based on state GOP leaders’ concerns about their fealty to presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney,” the Boston Globe reports. “The group of delegates — originally supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul — were elected in April caucuses at which they unexpectedly defeated many of Romney’s chosen delegates, but they have been since disqualified by state party officials.”
More: “The filing sets off a formal but uphill process for the would-be delegates, who hope to convince national party officials that they are being unfairly excluded from the Republican National Convention, to be held Aug. 27-30 in Tampa. An RNC committee is expected to consider the challenge by mid-August, but the party is not expected to make a decision until the week before the convention. … The legal counsel for the Republican National Committee could not be reached on Friday and a committee spokeswoman declined to comment. A spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party referred calls to the RNC. … In their letter, the so-called liberty delegates say they were duly elected in April, but disqualified after failing to provide timely affidavits pledging their support to Romney.”
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Disgusting show from Romney.
Let him live in a teeny tiny country like Israel, and start living with war.
from the news:
"... he paid lower than a 13.9% effective tax rate."
wow, even his secreetary paids a higher rate than that. Mitt needs to release his tax returns. Hey, Mitt - Being president is not about evading taxes.
Obama/Biden 2012
I remember hearing a lot of GOP supporters n 2008 talking about the lack of foreign intelligence that Obama had. They were saying that we shouldn't elect a president with as little knowledge about foreign matters as Obama. I would have to wonder how those same people feel about Romney.
Romney is a career politician wanting nothing less than to be our president. The man takes it upon himself to visit three countries to speak with their leaders and to raise money there. Wouldn't you think that the man would have researched enough information about the countries he would visit if he didn't already have enough knowledge about them so he wouldn't look like a perfect ass? How does a person with a double degree from Harvard, a person who is running for president, not know what the capitol of Israel is?
So at this point he has not only insulted the people of England and Israel where he traveled, his statements in Israel have insulted the people of Palestine as well. What's next Mitt? Please do us all a favor and stop visiting other countries. You are making a fool of yourself and us. Please leave before you cause irreparable harm between us and other nations.
President Obama has demonstrated on numerous occasions that the nay-sayers were wrong. We have a stronger alliance with other countries than at any point in recent history. As long as the Romneys of our country leave well enough alone, we should be able to continue to have stronger ties with others around the world.
Imagine if Mitt the Bully was subject to Israel's 48% Income tax rate on income over $125,000. That and a 17% VAT (National sales tax) pay for cradle to the grave health care, education and defense.
Yes, exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH is a tough TALKER, but, his mouth doesn't have a BRAIN to go with it! Otherwise, he would be promoting peace not WAR! He's not worried, his ONE-PERCENTERS will take care of him while our 99% American young men & women go fight for them! We, the 99% American people are broke NOW! Where does this jerk think he's going to get this WAR MONEY from? Why should we be responsible for his corrupt Republican corporate MONARCHY sponsored wars?
Vote 100% STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC and let's rid our selves of these corruptors ONCE & FOREVER!! The lives you save WILL be YOURS & your CHILDREN!!! BELIEVE IT!!
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Romney opened his mouth and inserted his foot. He needs to understand that you can't broker peace with the Palenstinians if this is the mentality:
Way to go, Mitt.
romney is a war mongering profiter. if any person in this country votes for this man and more wars they are just plain stupid.
What amazes so many, is the fact that this foolish man, Willard Mitt-Wit Romney the talking lying buffoon, is the Republican choice for President of the United States. You people really sit your bar low.
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"You people really sit your bar low."
If we were liberals we would have to dig a hole deeper than the grand canyon to "sit" the bar as low as "you people" have for Obamma.
rukidding, you do realize that Romney's mouth and today's Republican party is following the policies of the Soviet Union that President Reagan destroyed.
Romney and today's Republican party repeatedly wants to send our troops to multiple countries at a time of high deficits.
President Reagan knew the Soviet Union was spending so much in other countries that they were not taking care of their own citizens. President Reagan was happy to force them to escalate spending on their military and it collapsed the Soviet Union.
We have two choices: (Republican solution) follow the Soviet Union's downfall and keep spending on more wars in the Middle East or (President Obama) build America.
I prefer President Obama's solution of American taxpayer money staying in America and building America.
If you love Romney, why not move to some foreign country where Romney puts his money.
I prefer the Obama approach to Iran: send in a computer virus to disrupt their nuclear program. Not so many dead children on the Nightly News.
that virus attack was from Israel! It had a Jewish Biblical tag.
Amy - I agree that the computer virus was great in disrupting Iran's nuclear program. Where I don't agree is using it as a political tool for trying to get reelected. That was a highly classified programs that, according to some experts and some politicians from both parties, should never have been leaked to the public. Why does the DOJ and the WH refuse to agree on the appointment of independent investigation into the leaks? WHAT IS OBAMA HIDING or WHO IS OBAMA PROTECTING? I am not saying the Obama personally leaked the information, but he damn sure knows who did and he should make sure that the person is held accountable.
BTW, anyone on the left want to commit on how well the Iranians responded to Obama's request to return our highly classified drone?
My plan would be to leak our success in planting a virus in Iran's offensive missile computers that would program any missile they launched to re-target to it's launch site.
We have the capability to do this because we control the World GPS satellites. (wink wink)
I watched most of his talk, I think he was out of bounds on most of his talking points and saw very little importance of what he was saying except that perhaps it was the only way he could agree with President Obama's policy on Israel and Iran. Everyone talks tough regarding Iran, as we should, but Israel is not the only country that is involved and that is a very important point that Mitt forgot to mention. Plus, I don't want the politics of my nation influenced by Israel or Iran, or any other nation for that matter.
Willard is not only a danger to himself, he's a danger the the United States of America. Somebody please bring this idiot home now.
Mo - is that short for "Mohammad?" Mitt is a danger for none, other than lying, cheating Obamanites!
Barack was born somewhere, this we know to be true. His ascension was a terrible tragedy for all humankind. For the sake of this story, let us say he was born in the state of Hawaii. In 2011, the progressives created an oily black smoke screen known as the “birther” agenda. This false story was used to stoke Obama’s mindless athletic supporters and open the gate for the call of racism. When everything else fails, Holler Racism! They enlisted Donald Trump to be their spokesperson and used their media to keep alive the story. I still don’t know if Trump is friend or foe. Trump “Birther” claims distracted others from the important story that Obama is an incompetent leader, bent on destroying America and reshaping it into his progressive, socialist, anti-capitalist way. His ultimate and over riding goal is to seek revenge upon white America, to punish them and redistribute their wealth to his people. Obama and his henchmen, the Obamanites are attacking Romney with Bain liberal make believe. Obama dares not run for re election based upon his words, deeds and actions.
The senior Barack Obama abandoned Barack Jr., when he was only 2 years of age. Barrack’s donor of sperm thought it was better to pursue his immoral convictions of social justice and need for racial revenge, than to be a father and common law husband. Morality meant nothing to SR, since he was married at the time to a women in Kenya. He thought liberal white women as cheap and as a means of racial revenge. Besides, he could always find an ample supply of liberal like-minded white woman that would serve his every need. It was like buying a candy bar at the grocery store; if you run out, you can always get another one cheap! How could a good Muslim Man let his wife be seen in public without the head to toe covering? If Barack’s mother would not either cover up or shut up, Barack Obama Sr. would have to leave. He also knew that gullible Americans would always provide for all the financial, physical and emotional needs of the young Barack. Since Barack was half African, it had to mean that his ancestors were mistreated and held as slaves years ago by the evil European-Americans. This terrible crime against nature had to be avenged! The shortcomings of the African race throughout the universe must be blamed and transferred to others. Nothing could ever be his fault! Barack soon learned to dislike being of mixed race. He was having trouble even getting to first base with young impressionable female conservatives. Barack thought it must be his “Old Spice Cologne”, not that he was damned at birth to be a Progressive, destined to destroy America and remake the country in his vision of Marxism. Barack seemed never to come to terms with being of mixed race, that of a Half White American and Half Arse Kenyan. . If you ask me, he turned out to be Half-Ass! His mother often late at night would overhear the young Barack fussing at himself, “You Cracker”, your N__ger. This would go on for hours at a time.
The senior Barack Obama abandoned Barack Jr., when he was only 2 years of age. Barrack’s donor of sperm thought it was better to pursue his immoral convictions of social justice and need for racial revenge, than to be a father and common law husband. Morality meant nothing to SR, since he was married at the time to a women in Kenya. He thought liberal white women as cheap and as a means of racial revenge. Besides, he could always find an ample supply of liberal like-minded white woman that would serve his every need. It was like buying a candy bar at the grocery store; if you run out, you can always get another one cheap! How could a good Muslim Man let his wife be seen in public without the head to toe covering? If Barack’s mother would not either cover up or shut up, Barack Obama Sr. would have to leave. He also knew that gullible Americans would always provide for all the financial, physical and emotional needs of the young Barack. Since Barack was half African, it had to mean that his ancestors were mistreated and held as slaves years ago by the evil European-Americans. This terrible crime against nature had to be avenged! The shortcomings of the African race throughout the universe must be blamed and transferred to others. Nothing could ever be his fault! Barack soon learned to dislike being of mixed race. He was having trouble even getting to first base with young impressionable female conservatives. Barack thought it must be his “Old Spice Cologne”, not that he was damned at birth to be a Progressive, destined to destroy America and remake the country in his vision of Marxism. Barack seemed never to come to terms with being of mixed race, that of a Half White American and Half Arse Kenyan. . If you ask me, he turned out to be Half-Ass! His mother often late at night would overhear the young Barack fussing at himself, “You Cracker”, your N__ger. This would go on for hours at a time.
WOW, the Obamanites are out in force on this post, today. Obama has done more damage to "America" that the other Muslim Terrorists on 9/11!
Would appear that nazarite has nothing better to do than post the same thing 3 times, and so far as I've read, he can't stay on topic any of the 3, kind of like his hero's, Mit, bush & cheney.
Nazarite is an idiot who has nothing worth reading, so I just skip past his insane ranting and raving.
Tennesse is Romney Country and Union Thugs suck!
As the Progressive Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) accepted the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, he proclaimed, “Throughout the nation men and women, forgotten in the political philosophy of the Government, look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth ... I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. This is more than a political campaign. It is a call to arms.” FDR assumed power rivaling that of a dictator. A good crisis should never go to waste! Recently Progressives have used the same thinking to forward their radical agenda. This was a time when many indigent people were forced to yield liberty to the Federal Government. To insure the support of the electorate, the populace must be made dependent on government for sustenance. Once liberty and freedom are traded, surrendered or stolen, it is almost impossible to regain. This is why the Progressives want as many Americans possible to be dependant upon their government. The trade for this dependency is more government control and votes for the Progressives. Most tyrants in history came to power during a depression or political upheaval when desperate people were grasping for a political or economic savior. The “New Deal” put Socialism on the fast track, attempting to “level the playing field” which later became “redistribute the wealth of the country to its rightful owners”. This “New Deal” set into motion a progressive social disease that became the “Raw Deal” on America. This disease like leprosy started out as a minor infection that now has consumed man. What started in 1932 will end November 2012. Obama, we definitely can make it without you or government.
OBAMA: Look, i-i-if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
FOLLOWERS: That's right!
OBAMA: You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, "Well, it must be because I was just so smart!"
FOLLOWERS: (laughing)
OBAMA: There are a lot of smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody else." Let me tell you something. There are a whole bunch of hardworkin' people out there!
FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help!
FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!
OBAMA: There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!
OBAMA: Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges! If you've got a business, you -- you didn't build that!
FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!
OBAMA: Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
So let me get this straight.
Romney defends paying far less taxes than the average American by saying that paying more than he's supposed to would make him unqualified to be president.
All right, well, hey, I'm not a reporter so I can't ask him to explain the logic of that defense.
I guess I'll have to rely on our crackerjack press. Hello.. anybody home yet or are you all too busing transcribing stump speeches?
How to Get Rich (NAALCP)
Or
Obama’s Vision for America
“The Breadwinner”
Produce them children like a bunny rabbit
Never ever get married
Mo sperm donors the better
Keep doing it till you get it right
It’s all mixed up!
Whos’ the daddy, you never know
Was it Barry, Alfons, little Dickey or Jeremiah too!
It’s hard work lyin on yer back
But the pay is Goood
Free food, housing, healthcare, abortions and a cellphone to boot!
Need Mo Money, put hm on disability
Need Mo Money, let Mamma foster care them.
Then I herd Shamicka proudly say, I’m the breadwinner and
I sur love my President!
He’s my Obama money honey!
Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and
Metastasize
Sudan offered
up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors
didn't respond.
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By MANSOOR IJAZ
President Clinton and his national security team ignored
several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates,
including one as late as last year.
I know because I negotiated more than
one of the opportunities.
From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels
between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both
countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy"
Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed
Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest
and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global
networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the
Palestinian Hamas.
Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who
piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center.
The silence of
the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was
deafening.
As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I
feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism
policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like
monster.
Realizing the growing problem with Bin Laden, Bashir sent key
intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996.
The Sudanese offered
to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to
"baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates.
But Saudi
officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to
overthrow them.
In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure
and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored
better in Sudan than elsewhere.
Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking
with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the
Sept. 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany to
obtain electronic equipment for Al Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, Bin Laden's personal
secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his
role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah
Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy
attacks.
Some of these men are now among the FBI's 22 most-wanted
terrorists.
The two men who allegedly piloted the planes into the twin
towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, prayed in the same Hamburg mosque as
did Salim and Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian trader who managed Salim's bank
accounts and whose assets are frozen.
Important data on each had been
compiled by the Sudanese.
But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data
away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion
Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton; then
again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan
and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence
chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI.
Gutbi had shown me some
of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I
returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan
Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did.
Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they
never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam,
for the administration, was a convenient national security threat.
And
that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack
on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible
offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy
bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States'
closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me
with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance
of U.S. counter-terrorism officials.
The offer, which would have brought
Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that
would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a
state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior
Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal
politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its
best.
Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly
organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to
directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy
failures in American history.
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Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
So Naz, are you capable of saying anything intelligent on your own or is copying and paste the limit of your talents. It's not a surprise to me. All of your posts consist of hateful borderline racist rants that only serve to make you look more and more unintelligent. I tried to be like you once but after losing all my sense of humanity the process of having my IQ drop by 20 points was just too much.
Wallow in your ignorance naz. Nobody cares what you think or post. You don't even qualify as white noise anymore. You are barely up to troll status. I've scrapped smarted then you off my shoes.