Romney seizes on Obama's Middle East comment

Bloomberg View columnist William Cohan and Democratic strategist Julian Epstein discuss why Mitt Romney is still fumbling for answers over his 2011 tax return – despite their Friday release – and whether he’ll ever be able to explain how he pays for his proposed, across-the-board tax cuts.

DENVER -- Mitt Romney today attempted to shift focus to what he called President Barack Obama's lack of leadership in the Middle East, as world leaders began to gather in New York City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Romney campaign this afternoon offered a series of interviews with major U.S. TV networks, in which Romney hammered Obama for referring to a series of flare-ups in the Middle East as "bumps in the road."

In Colorado, Mitt Romney insisted to NBC News that he'll win. The Obama campaign, meanwhile, has unveiled a new TV ad tying Romney's tax returns with his comments about the 47 percent. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.

"When the president was speaking about 'bumps in the road' he was talking about the developments in the Middle East, and that includes an assassination. It includes a Muslim Brotherhood individual becoming president of Egypt. It includes Syria being in tumult," Romney told NBC's Peter Alexander. "It includes Iran being on the cusp of nuclear capability. It includes Pakistan being in commotion."

Mitt Romney will stump in Colorado on Monday and then travel to Ohio via bus tour all ahead of next week's first debate. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.

Romney continued, "There are extraordinary events going on in the Middle East, and considering those events, either one of them or all of them collectively, as bumps in the road shows a person who has a very different perspective about world affairs than the perspective I have. I think this is a time for America to exert leadership and this is not something that we are doing in the Middle East ... ."

Romney was referring to an answer Obama gave in an interview which aired last night on CBS News' "60 Minutes," in which the president defended his support for emerging governments in the Middle East as a result of the Arab spring.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his plane in Denver, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.

Kroft: Have the events that took place in the Middle East, the recent events in the Middle East given you any pause about your support for the governments that have come to power following the Arab Spring?

Obama: Well, I'd said even at the time that this is going to be a rocky path. The question presumes that somehow we could have stopped this wave of change. I think it was absolutely the right thing for us to do to align ourselves with democracy, universal rights, a notion that people have to be able to participate in their own governance. But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam. The one part of society that hasn't been controlled completely by the government. There are strains of extremism, and anti-Americanism, and anti-Western sentiment. And, you know, can be tapped into by demagogues. There will probably be some times where we bump up against some of these countries and have strong disagreements, but I do think that over the long term we are more likely to get a Middle East and North Africa that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more aligned with our interests.

The Romney campaign seized on those comments -- in an attempt to chip away at the president's approval rating on foreign affairs, which slid in the last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll to 49 percent.

(However, a series of NBC/WSJ/Marist polls in the battleground states of Colorado, Iowa, and Wisconsin show Obama enjoying a double-digit lead over Romney when it comes to who would better handle foreign policy.)

NBC's Peter Alexander spoke with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Denver about the upcoming debates, world affairs, and if it is possible to change the tone in Washington.

The Obama White House fired back on Romney, arguing that it was "offensive" to suggest that the president was minimizing the deaths of four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador there.

"That assertion is both desperate and offensive," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "The president was referring to the transformations in the region, to this process that has -- only began less than two years ago, as we saw in Tunisia, and continues to this day, with remarkable transformations occurring in countries around the region."

Also in the interview, NBC's Alexander pressed Romney on the current polling that shows him trailing Obama.

Romney remained defiant.

"I'm very pleased with the fact that we have a campaign that is taking our message to the people across America,  and look --- we're gonna win," Romney said. "There is no question in my mind. We're gonna win."

NBC's Jordan Frasier contributed to this article.

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Romney "Open mouth and insert foot"!!!!!! Their is no way Romney can defend any comment he has made!!!!!!!

As far as I'm concerned Romney will never get my Vote!!!

Romney flip flop, flop flip, !!!!!!!

We all have heard Romneys foreign policy!!!! when he took a trip abroad!!! and came back mitt the twit!! that is a real foreign policy!!!!!!!!!!!

Romney also said let auto industry go bankrupt!!! Romney will pick the pieces up latter!!

Open mouth insert foot!!!!!!!!!

Romney " Russia is our biggest enemy" Open mouth and insert foot"

Romney " 47% of voters are freeloaders" Open mouth insert foot"

Romney " Companies are people to" need I say " Open mouth insert foot"



  • 2 votes
Reply#104 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:10 PM EDT

You're real good at talking Dumbocrat talking points! No mention that EVERY one of these was taken out of context except the auto industry comment. And what did Obama do..took GM into the same type of bankruptcy that Romney was suggesting! It was a reorganization bankruptcy that included a change in ownership (from investors to unions and the government). And now taxpayers are stuck with a $59 billion dollar loan that never will be repaid!

  • 3 votes
#104.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:33 PM EDT

Helmet - Politifact has a good story on the auto loans and how much has already been paid back years ahead of time. Maybe you can find somebody who can read and understand it to explain it to you.

And you are very confused about what Romney suggested. Maybe if you can find somebody who can read and understand stuff, they can help you with this too.

  • 1 vote
#104.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:46 PM EDT

The repayment was a ruse. Just shuffled the debt around, but it is still there and owed to the American people.

    #104.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:02 PM EDT

    ... OBAMA leading in every poll ... guess what Mitt - U BUILT THAT !

      #104.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:10 PM EDT
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      This guy must be the dumbest tactician in modern day politics. First he tried to suggest that the WH sympathized with terrorists—an asinine, Simple Sarah observation for which he was roundly criticized. Then he doubled down on the BS comment and got bit**-slapped by both Democrats AND Republicans for it. Now he tries to suggest that the President has failed to lead in the Middle East. Why? Because the President referred to recent Middle East events as a “bump in the road” and decided not to meet with any world leaders individually at the UN including Neten-yahoo. This is nothing other than “Terrorist Sympathizer”, Part Deux from the desperate leader of an amateurishly run campaign.

      Word to The Twit: the whole world now knows that the current POTUS is one cool, cold, poker-faced bad-ass. He’ll smile and shake your hand today and send a drone missile up your a** the next. And then, just for good measure, he’ll do a Kaiser Soze and send another drone to whack your friends, your extended family, your extended family’s friends, etc. He doesn’t need anyone in the Middle East (let alone that whack job Neten-yahoo) directing or ordering our Middle East policy. We’re not going to get dragged into a war regardless of how much bluster and bravado the Iranians exhibit just because Neten-yahoo says so. Not when we can kill their scientists, infiltrate their computer systems, cripple their economy and freeze their assets.

      Bottom line: for all his bold talk, Mr. Yahoo is a chicken s**t. If he felt that Israel’s existence and sovereignty were in real jeopardy he would have gone ahead (like Israel has done previously) and acted unilaterally. But he can’t or won’t because (1) doing so means he’d have to fight a war on multiple fronts—Iran, Hezbollah, PLO and a united Muslim world; (2) his evidence is as flimsy and as weak as Cheney’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” BS and everyone knows it (including a majority of the Israeli population); (3) everyone knows that the Iranian people will rise up again since the sanctions are seriously beginning to bite and take their toll.

      So, the President has led in the Middle East just fine Willard. Which is a lot more than we can say for your failed leadership of a campaign for–class president!

      • 4 votes
      Reply#105 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:10 PM EDT

      Yeah...it sure looks like Obama has led in the Middle East....we have an ambassador & three other Americans dead...looks like he is a real bad ass...or dumb ass...I will go with the latter....

      • 6 votes
      #105.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

      So how would you characterize "W" who was responsible for between 2000-3000 dead Americans in the Middle East? Not to mention all the Iraqi civilians that got killed. Bet you thought he was a real bad-ass (chicken hawk) but you'd be wrong about that too, because a true dumbass never deserves a compliment.

        #105.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:29 PM EDT

        Just a wonderful job of name calling! Nothing in the realm of intelligence, but an interesting display of a limited vocabulary!

        • 1 vote
        #105.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

        Helmet - from reading several of your comments, you do not want to talk about intelligence!

          #105.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

          Did you ever wonder if maybe Obama himself is responsible for the attack by Al Qaeda on our Libyan Consulate? His touting of the killing of Bin Laden the last couple of months may have been what really triggered this attack on 9/11.

            #105.5 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:03 PM EDT

            Uh, Dixie Girl, Bagga please. If you’d bothered to read (assuming you can) you’d realize I said “bad-ass”. You should probably reserve the “dumb-a**” label for you or Romney. And, by the way, I take it from your asinine comment that had Romney been POTUS there’d be no unrest in the Middle East. The Ambassador and the American staff would have been alive and well and the Americans would be viewed with such fear and trepidation that no one would dare mess with us, right? Oh, yeah, that worked out so well from 2001-2008. Those military casualties we suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred because they (the muslim world, radical terrorists and their sympathizers) feared America and Republican leadership. Today I coin a new word: Mittrified—(circa 2012). def., a state characterized by bewildering stupidity and unwavering belief in a politician’s widely discredited representations; a condition of dulled reasoning caused by fervent belief in the politically absurd; (n) Republicans; (n) Tea Baggers. Example, Dixie Girl’s desire to remain mittrified ultimately became her undoing.

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            #105.6 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:07 PM EDT
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            Romney; "It includes a Muslim Brotherhood individual becoming president of Egypt."

            This is precisely what is wrong with Romney's "foreign policy". We push for a country to become a Democracy, then when they do, we bitch about who they elected. What would Romney have us do? Go in there with the military ,oust their democratically elected leader and install a dictator of our liking? Romney, you have a lot to learn.

            • 2 votes
            Reply#106 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:11 PM EDT

            J. Willard Marriott

            You think the Muslim Brotherhood is a democracy??? When you moving over there?

            • 3 votes
            #106.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:27 PM EDT

            Times - there was an election and the Muslim Brotherhood won. What would you call that? Is it a democracy only when you agree with who wins? Do you know that most people in the Middle East are Muslims?

            • 1 vote
            #106.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

            Obama certainly did NOT grow up in a poor community as he tries to tout. He grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth as did Romney. Get over it.

            • 1 vote
            #106.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:06 PM EDT
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            As a senior member of the last Republican administration said, "Democracy is messy." Too bad Mitt can't remember how wonderfully well his foreign policy team handled the Middle East when they were in charge. Come to think of it, given the mess they made, I'm not surprised he's forgotten.

            • 2 votes
            Reply#107 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:12 PM EDT

            Old Vet....Mitt has never been commander in chief....and yes democracy is messy....when you have a community aggaitor in charge that's never had a real job in his life....

            • 7 votes
            #107.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:16 PM EDT

            dixie girl – my white supremacist group is voting for Obama. We will go back to hating blacks on November 7th. We don’t want to see the economy go back in the toilet. You might suggest that your white supremacist group do the same.

            • 1 vote
            #107.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:55 PM EDT

            Old Vet..At least the radical Arabs had a fear of Bush and America! Now, they are stepping all over us! And helping bleed us dry with our foreign aid! We now have the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt threatening Israel and making alliances with Iran, the same Muslim Brotherhood that was the birthplace of numerous terrorist organizations! All of our enemies, Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, to name a few, are laughing at us! When Iran nukes Israel, we sure won't be laughing!

            • 1 vote
            #107.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:56 PM EDT

            Helmet--Fear of us? You mean while they killed 3400 Americans and maimed another 40,000 or so. That doesn't look like fear to me. FYI, Egypt has promised to abide by its treaty with Israel and I've seen no sign that the new government is "making alliances with Iran." Those with knowledge of the Middle East know that Arabs and Iranians don't get along.

            • 1 vote
            #107.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:41 PM EDT
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            Obama is the worst POTUS this country has ever had....and if he's given 4 more years...we won't reconize this country...the lame stream media is doing everything in thier power to keep him in office..Obama was in Milwaukee campaigning...the compaigner in chief...in a stadium that seats 5,000..it wasn't full...the lame media put out a story that there were 18,000 people that showed up...it only seated 5,000...I guess they are as stupid as Obama...Ahmadinejad is meeting with OWS...I guess him & Obama have alot in common....

            Don't believe the polls.....Obama is not ahead...the media want's us to believe he is...

            Romney/Ryan 2012

            • 6 votes
            Reply#108 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:12 PM EDT

            The worst President ever was George Bush.

            Romney couldn't lead his way out of a paper bag.

            Returning to trickle down economics and novice foreign policy, as Romney would do, is the worst thing for this country.

            • 6 votes
            #108.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:15 PM EDT

            Liberal Eric...are you a paid poster...Obama couldn't lead a horse to water...Obama is the one that wants to cut defense spending...but....he will dish out another 197 million for a solar company....loser....

            • 7 votes
            #108.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:21 PM EDT

            dixie girl..are you a paid poster for fox? romney couldn't lead a horse to water...we already spend as much as the rest of hte world on defense, and he wants to spend more...loser...

            see how easy it is? :)

            • 3 votes
            #108.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

            You liberals are a waste of key strokes.....

            • 3 votes
            #108.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:45 PM EDT
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            I see desperation in many of the comments from Republicans. Is it realistic to expect ANY new president to have a perfect foreign policy from Day One. Obama promised to exit from Iraq. We are. He promised to begin exiting from Afghanistan. We are. His decisions as commander-in-chief have resulted in devastation of Al Quaida - yes by the armed forces, but HIS decisions. We killed Bin Ladin - HIS decision to do so when it became possible even though some counseled against it. (Remember that Romney in the past stated we should not enter Pakistan.) Obama's decisions saved the American auto industry, not Romney's. 30 months of job growth - not the hemorrhaging of hundreds of thousands of jobs before 2008. All this despite Republican/Tea Party opposition, whose goal is the defeat of Obama regardless of what happens to the country. Picture a McCain or Romney presidency since 2008. What a disaster. Romney may be a nice guy - his wife says so. But this is not a man who has a clue to running this country.

            • 4 votes
            Reply#109 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:13 PM EDT

            Yeah we now have supplies flying over Iraq into Syria...we have Afghan's killing our soldiers that are training them...Our soldiers are not allowed to have live ammo...seal team six killed Bin Laden...with the intelligence that was in place from the Bush Administration....and in case you missed the riots in Egyup...they were holding signs...We have billions of Usama's..don't look like he's gotton rid of Al Quaida....he is a freaking joke....his foreign policy is as bad as his policy on the encomony...keep on drinking that koolaid liberal Rich...

            • 4 votes
            #109.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:28 PM EDT

            Rich,

            The treaty to end the war in Iraq was signed by Bush in November 2008, in Afghanistan the President tripled the troops and has just removed the ones of the increase so we are in the same place as when he was elected. Actually given the situation we are in worse shape.

            Al Qaeda on September 11th of this year raised their flag on our embassy in Cairo so I do not think they have been destroyed. He did a great job on the order to kill Bin Ladin.

            On the auto industry the same people that blast Romney for saying that he want GM to go into bankruptcy have no problem with the President putting GM into bankruptcy which they did. Please remember that under bankruptcy laws it does not mean you close down it just means that you reorganize.

            • 4 votes
            #109.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

            Yes..there is desperation! My knees and back just won't let me bow and pray to Allah! That is, if I still am alive!

              #109.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:00 PM EDT
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              Romney's game of inventing a slogan, misstating Obama's position, and then saying the slogan was violated is tedious and wearing thin. Even Republicans say he should provide substance and specifics to his domestic and foreign "policies".

              The response: stone cold silence.

              The further response: defeat from the current "rolling calamity".

              • 3 votes
              Reply#110 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:14 PM EDT

              Romney's policies change with the polls, that's all we've seen so far. Not even his own party knows what he stands for.

              • 3 votes
              #110.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

              Romney is in complete control of his own campaign and it's a disaster. That's leadership!

              • 2 votes
              #110.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

              So do Obama's policies not only change with the polls, but also the current group he is talking to. All he really knows how to do is campaign and organize. Not exactly good qualifications though to be president.

              • 1 vote
              #110.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:11 PM EDT
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              Also read what 60 minutes cut, Obama admitted that his ads were out of line and not trueful. 60 Minutes did a good job but they cut that confirming what we already knew. Remember the ad of the closed steel mill saying the guys wife died because of Romney, She actually passed away 6 years later and it turns out she had her own health care plan from her own company. Debbie Wasserman Sultz was on AC 360 and was really getting frustrated when she admitted the emails she was firing off wern't true but she said thats the way she felt

              • 4 votes
              Reply#111 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:15 PM EDT

              Romney doubled down that his ads were misleading too, and he wasn't taking them down.

              Remember, Romney's campaign chief said, "our campaign won't be dictated to by fact checkers".

              • 2 votes
              #111.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:16 PM EDT

              Both parties ads are misleading but the early Obama ads were out and out lies. I was wonder why that stopped, even Obama admitted they were over the top.

              • 3 votes
              #111.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

              Crossroads GPS has some whoppers, but they don't take them down. If you do the math on politifact.com Romney only tells the truth 29% of the time.

              • 2 votes
              #111.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:23 PM EDT

              Eric-913730

              Why don't you Respond to the question? Are all you Libs so brain-washed that you cannot even admit a mistake when the Liar-In-Chief says that they were lies?

              You turn around and blame the other side, if that is not one of the Most Childish Thing then I have no Idea what is.

              My 5 years old Grandson even knows that that excuse will not be acceptable.

              OWN UP TO WHAT your Master even admits to... Damn!

              • 3 votes
              #111.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:33 PM EDT
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              This is amazing! Absolutely beyond belief.....

              Here is Mitt Romney with his foot in his mouth AGAIN - and the republi-tards are trying to blame it all on the President.

              It's not Barack Obama's fault that Mitt Romney doesn't know the first thing about foreign policy. One would thin that Romney, who has been running for the Presidency for over six years, might have thought it a good idea to learn at least a little about the subject.

              Benjamin Netanyahu has been a war monger and extremist for over thirty years, and his own career and history are ample proof of that fact.

              President Obama who is not a war monger, refused to let himself get sucked into Netanyahu's war-drum concert, is widely respected throughout the world for his willingness to look at all sides of an issue before going off half-cocked as Mitt Romney has shown a tendency to do lately.

              Romney knows, just as well as anyone, that saber-rattling and "pre-emptory" attacks are the work of fools. The buffoons of the Bush/Cheney administration clearly demonstrated that reality.

              And yet, here is the Republican nominee begging for a chance to beat the drums of war andjump into some dumb-a$$ed attack in the middle-east.

              Not only is that stupid in terms of foreign policy, but it's also outrageously stupid in terms of the economy.

              Two un-funded wars, an unfunded Medicare-D, and un-funded tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are precisely what got the US into the economic mess that the President and Democrats in Congress have been trying to help us overcome.

              Romney's hostile attitude toward 47% of us, and his war mongering are exactly what this country doesn't need - now or ever!

              • 3 votes
              Reply#112 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:16 PM EDT

              Tom,

              How many wars has Netanyahu started? We do know the President has authorized drone attacks in at least 6 countries so could please explain which one is the war monger.

              • 2 votes
              #112.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:35 PM EDT
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              Obama is all mouth and no action... much like all the liberals on this site... HAHAHA... Clint Eastwood was right when he was talking to an empty chair... that's about the size of it!

              Obama = EPIC FAILURE!!! , Amateur who is clueless to leading and has bad people skills...

              • 5 votes
              Reply#113 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

              Romney is all mouth and no plan, as are most Republicans on this site.

              • 5 votes
              #113.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

              djames = Inbred Meathead!!!, Intellectual dilettante who is clueless about politics and has POOR grammar skills.

              This is the typical right wing commenter, regurgitating whatever they're programmed to say or think.

                #113.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

                Macdeezy, are you looking in a mirror?

                  #113.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:13 PM EDT
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                  Romney...you make my eardrums hurt with your stupid comments. If your reprisal to an every-day comment like "a bump in the road" upsets you, you need to increase your prozac dosage. As a candidate for the POTUS you are a piss-poor excuse and if you are the best the GOP can come up with all we need to do now is flush the toilet.

                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#114 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:18 PM EDT

                  TVAR:

                  Then why do you listen to him?

                  Just listen to whatever the WH tells you, you need to know. Just like they are telling you want you can eat, drink and pretty soon they will be telling you when to go to beddy-bye and when to wake up.

                  • 2 votes
                  #114.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:36 PM EDT

                  I agree with you, within reason...sadly, it's just about impossible not to hear. As for the WH telling us what to do, I wish it were that simply. Our lives are becoming more controlled not only by the federal government, but also from the municipal level....example: local "code enforcement", "Homeowner's Asso.", senior-citizen volunteer "parking patrols", etc....and the list goes on. I would not be surprised to someday in the near future see young people wearing "brown shirts". Do you know what I'm making reference to? Don't reject such a statement, nothing is impossible in a society that is decaying as quickly as ours is. Sad, but true.

                  • 1 vote
                  #114.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:18 PM EDT
                  Reply

                  Romney had a seizure??

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#115 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

                  Mr. Romney may well start a multi-trillion dollar, no-win war with Iran because that is the preferred role for the American military by many of Mr. Romney's supporters and by the Bush-era neocon foreign policy advisors who surround Mr. Romney.

                  Can the United States in it's current weakened economic condition survive another massive drain on the economy by a another costly war? How badly will Americans be hurt by a marked and sustained rise in the cost of petroleum?

                  Imagine how much better the American economy would be if trillions of dollars spent on no win wars had instead been injected into the domestic economy and re-circulated for the last ten years buying goods and services that Americans need and want.

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#116 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

                  Croaker the Toad

                  All you libs say Romney wants to go to war... Show Me the Proof....

                  You can't because the only ones that have said that is the WH and obama and crew.

                  And the sad part about it is that you all eart it up and will go to your grave calling it the truth because that is what you were told...

                  • 3 votes
                  #116.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

                  All you libs say Romney wants to go to war... Show Me the Proof....

                  You can't because the only ones that have said that is the WH and obama and crew

                  You can't even provide a quote? That's why no intelligent person believes all the fear-mongering coming from the extreme right.

                    #116.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:55 PM EDT
                    Reply

                    Heck, even the WSJ, a Ruppert Murdoch right wing mouthpiece, says the same about ROmney. He needs to be specific.

                    Not-being-Obama will not win an election for him.

                    • 3 votes
                    Reply#117 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:20 PM EDT

                    This coming from the guy caught on tape saying to his rich, WASP 50k a plate donors saying he's going to do nothing but kick the can down the road, and HOPE something will magically happen to fix the Middle East. Does Mitt even listen to what comes out of his mouth????? And you tea baggers defending him make yourself LOOK REALLY stupid on here-defending the indefensible! THE ONLY way Romney wins this thing is down right thievery!! They (GOP) start with voter suppression, and will move to out-right thuggery come election day! Faux News will NO doubt be running their stories about the "new" Black Panther party, but will they run the story where the old white guys running the election stations in Alabama, Mississippi, and southern Ohio, who will do everything they can to block "the wrong kind of people" from voting?? We all know the answer to that question!

                    • 2 votes
                    Reply#118 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:21 PM EDT

                    Why don't you try to listen to the balance of the statement made by Romney about the Middle East that David Korn cut! it's out there now after Korn fessed up! Your comment is typical of all you libs in here! Can't you people think intelligently or are you just robots spewing out the Democrat cesspool distortions!

                      #118.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:10 PM EDT
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                      Do Republicans actually believe a guy with no foreign policy experience is going to be this knight in shining armor that will bring peace & stability to anywhere, much less the Middle East? Pipe dream fantasies.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#119 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:23 PM EDT

                      Romney on foreign policy is like Don Knotts with a gun.

                      • 4 votes
                      #119.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:23 PM EDT

                      ahhh.... the Barney "Fiefdom" strategy, makes sense.

                        #119.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:31 PM EDT

                        Macdeezy-2292705

                        I agree with you, we need to replace obama.

                        • 3 votes
                        #119.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:39 PM EDT

                        Maybe, just not with Romney.

                          #119.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

                          As long as Israel remains in existence, there will never be peace in the Middle East! At least Romney will create respect for our power and hopefully keep a major war from breaking out! The Arabs have been fighting Western Civilization since the Otteman Empire and their goal is Muslim rule throughout the world! Listen to their statements, read the Quoran and see that peace will never be achieved! You want a measured response..a measured response is one where we give a stern mesage that we will not tolerate riots, terrorist attacks and attacks on Israel, not one where our message is that the attack in Libya is just a "bump in the road"!

                            #119.5 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:22 PM EDT
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                            If Romney wants to battle the Demagogues in the Middle East, the blood will be on his hands. People in Libya, of all places, are staging pro American demonstrations. Would they be, if Romney were elected President? Remember, the Arab "Spring" is in it's infancy. It will be years before we will know the results. Measured response is the answer to American interests, not the war-mongering like Romney professes to.

                            If we gain Libya's confidence, we may gain others'. Let us hope and pray that we will. This is the chance that Obama is taking. It is too late to turn back now. We must grasp the opportunity of diplomatic gravitas, as Obama is displaying. Many years from now, we may well be very happy that we chose this path.

                              Reply#120 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:24 PM EDT

                              It's Obama & Hillary that have BLOOD on thier hands....do you not even look at the news..oh..I forgot..you watch the Obama networks...do you not know what's going on in around the world...Obama koolaid drinker...

                              • 4 votes
                              #120.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

                              dixie girl

                              You go Girl....

                              • 2 votes
                              #120.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:40 PM EDT

                              Yep they got OSAMA BIN LADEN's blood on their hands. Now try (feebly) again

                              • 1 vote
                              #120.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

                              Yep they got Osama! Then they released classified information to put the Seals and their families in danger. Obama ,Hillary and the rest of the Democrats blaimed it on the movie clip. What do you think will happen when the "Glorify Obama" movie comes out next Spring on the BinLaden raid? The terrorists and Omans will stir up enough hatred that the recent protests will look like a church picnic! Then Obama and the presumed Secretary of State John Kerry will have to apologize AGAIN!

                                #120.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:31 PM EDT
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                                Famous socialists: Marx, Lenin, Jesus Christ, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy.

                                They all redistrubuted wealth or at least tried to.

                                Remember, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

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                                Reply#121 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:26 PM EDT

                                You need to take Jesus Christ's name out...I think you mean't Barack Hussein Obama...

                                Romney/Ryan 2012

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                                #121.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:41 PM EDT
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                                Romney/Ryan 2012 PLEASE GOD. Nobama MUST GO!!!

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                                Reply#122 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:30 PM EDT

                                Mitt Romney is an utter d-bag, as is anyone who would vote for him.

                                He's always looking to 'seize' on something that he can use to embarrass the President, as if that will make Romney any less of a d-bag.

                                Willard is a clueless wonder.

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                                Reply#123 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:30 PM EDT

                                Remember the outcry from the Dems about Bush and water boarding? So now it's alright to send in a drone and vapourize the guy and anyone close, no questions, no prisioners. I think thats his plan to close gitmo fry them all no prisioners. and no complaints about waterboarding. Where is the outcry now?

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                                Reply#124 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

                                Obama dosen't believe in torture...he just believes in killing them....

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                                #124.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:39 PM EDT
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                                One Question, I feel very sorry for you. You just keep repeating the same thing. Your continued repetition of the same statement just proves that you have no real facts to support your position. With regard to "2016" Total RWNJ propaganda. Every credible news source on both the right and the left (Wall street journal,on the right and the Nation on the left), and all the TV networks Including FOX, have debunked this piece of Carl Rove funded crap. Total BS. I have no problem with people expressing their opinions as we do here. But I do have a problem with the spreading of crap by either side. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts!

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                                Reply#125 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

                                Funny I only heard Bill Maher debunking it! I am sure though that fat Eddy, twitchy Maddow, temper tanttum Mathews and Larry the loon probably railed on it! The Wall Street Journal and FOX comments were in Opinion Sections authored by left leaning journalists! Are both sides spreading the crap? From the left, it is diluting the actual news to nothing more than ideology tainted garbage!

                                  #125.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:45 PM EDT
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                                  Fact: if a republican is elected for the presidency we will be in ever small conflict in the middle east for two reasons. 1 so that the defense contractors (republican puppet masters) can get even richer at the expense of our sons and daughters. 2 So the elite rich in this country can maintain their economic interests in the middle east. The reason why most islamist groups hate us is because we stick our nose in their business because of the rich sons of bitches in this country. The reason we support isreal is because of the jews that munipulate this country (the federal reserve). Wake up people, this country is heading for another revolution. Or learn chinese because that's who will be running this country in 15 to 20 years!!!!! (Gotta love our politicians, gangsters who are legal!!!)

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                                  Reply#126 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

                                  You had better check back a little farther in history! The Arabs were fighting with the Western Civilization and trying to conquer territory over 1500 years ago! Their religion and ideology is to kill the infidels and make the Muslim religion worldwide.

                                    #126.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:52 PM EDT
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                                    I thought he promised to close Gitmo?

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                                    Reply#127 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

                                    Romney is polling at 43% to 46%. That is embarrassing! Some people said that they would vote for Goofy rather than Obama. Looks like Goofy will be on the ballot. Funny that he made his face brown when he spoke to the Latino community. Is he trying to prove he is the biggest idiot who has ever run for president?

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                                    Reply#128 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

                                    He didn't look brown to me, it was more of an orange tinge, tan from a bottle that didn't quite turn tan but orange. Nice pandering tool and don't thin the Hispanics didn't notice, they are not stupid.

                                    Obama 2012

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                                    #128.1 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

                                    Romney is polling +9 ahead of Obama on unskewedpolls.com... These guys are taking all the data from the poll giants and making sure it doesn't get skewed.... they tabulate all the pollsters....

                                    Obama is between 43 - 45% which is the correct number! more on the low end though... 43%

                                    This all makes sense since obama has botched so many things up and he wasn't going down in the polls... but we see that the dems are skewing the numbers... trying to cook the books....not this time!

                                    LOL

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                                    #128.2 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:43 PM EDT

                                    Jim...I guess you didn't hear that the JD...is suing Gallop...they are upset that Romney was ahead in the polls...imagine that...the polls are all rigged for Obama....but...we Americans know whom is really ahead...and..by the way...where is Oprah....lol...

                                    Romney/Ryan 2012

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                                    #128.3 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:53 PM EDT

                                    Check out unskewedpolls.com for the real numbers in this race.... Romney is up by 7.8 points and bigger in other polls...

                                      #128.4 - Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:06 PM EDT
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