Politics Romney - Is he ready?

Who said that there is no "outrage" from the left? I mean, just because you aren't aware of it doesn't mean that that is how the real world is operating. People on the left are and were extremely dissatisfied with Obama in regards to both the healthcare reform and foreign policy. In fact, at the start of this campaign there was a substantial enthusiasm gap in favor of the GOP because people on the democratic base were not happy with how much of a center right president Obama turned out to be. And that only started to change when Republicans started talking about their own policies.

 

Suggesting that Obama's middle east policy is a reflection of the PNAC and the Bush doctrine of the legitimacy of preventive war when there is no threat to the US is a bit of a stretch even for an avowed Paulist.
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Romney fucked up royally on this one.

US diplomatic personnel and stations are attacked and your first response is to blame the president? This goes way beyond pandering to the right wing on every domestic issue to the lowest depths of ignorant campaign rhetoric.

 

yeah nevermind nothing was done about the warnings 48 hours prior to the attack and the marines there weren't allowed to have ammo on the anniversary of 9/11 nonetheless. yeah let's not pass judgement on the poor president. i'd say that's a far worse fuck up than romney's.

 

Right......bombastic rhetoric like Romney's demonstrates clear and measure thinking in the midst of a foreign policy crisis.
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But its no surprise that you bought the gun nut bullshit about the marines not being allowed to carry live ammo which has been refuted by the marine's congressional liaison in a letter to Congress.

 

Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo | Mother Jones

this text of the memo from the marines is at the bottom of the page.

 

What is lost in the right wings baseless rhetoric is the fact that Chris Stevens was the kind of diplomat that should make us proud..as opposed to the John Boltons advising Romney.

Chris Stevens Was a Hero to Libya

 

well in the fog of this thing and all the spin it's hard to tell what exactly is happening. wouldn't there be a pile of dead terrorist who breachd the walls if they were armed or did i miss somethig?
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i guess i haven't noticed anyone distancing themselves from him. if anything he should double down and suggest this whole thing is a result of obama's unconstitutional war against libya and egypt, and had nothing to do with some dumb movie. however, romeny doesn't care about that because he's a war hawk too.

 

...a political leader should gather all the facts before making partisan campaign statements that could inflame the situation.

 

basically yes. we are at war with 'terrorists' and they dont know what country is going to get bombed, invaded, or overthrown next. i'd be pissed too if i lived in the middle east i suppose.
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Jay Carney just released this gem:

sure it has nothing to do with policy or the administration or people. it's oppostie day.

 

and Michelle Bachmann:

Obama appeasement and Libya attack was effort to impose Sharia law on US

 

first off, i will say that i am not a fan of the obama administration's foriegn policy. like alot of people, i had hoped for a wholesale repudiation of the lunacy of the bush people's "war on terror"---but obama campaigned on the idea that it was, somehow, legitimate--so it's not exactly a shock that he found it to be legitimate.

there's plenty of reasons for people to be pissed off at the united states. start with continued american support for israeli colonialism in the west bank and the ongoing seige of gaza. start with that. this is a fundamental reason the us has such trouble as it has in the region. the problem, of course, is that the entire mainstream us political spectrum cannot be far enough to the right on this. so shit will keep happening. it's likely to continue happening until there is a two-state solution, as they blandly refer to a situation that would enable palestinians to be treated as human beings and some kind of peaceful co-existence established. it'd be a good idea for everyone, israel included.

in egypt, like i said earlier, the us obviously put its marbles with scaf to keep the egyptian revolt within certain limits advantageous to continuity for the american viewpoint. and there's no doubt--at all---that behind this bet lay the idiocy of us policy toward israel. i'm not going through the situation i already outlined again.

in libya...well, nothing the right has said even makes sense.


Embassies under attack over anti-Islam video - Middle East - Al Jazeera English


it's not been an awesome day for one-dimensional interpretations of what's going on in the region.

 

looks like what rush limbaugh calls a 'random act of journalism'. i wonder if it was just a fluke or if conservatives are actually going to honor their vow to keep the gop conservative this time instead of drifting to the left.

 

You forget that in the weird place that is the USA, they no longer recognize what centre means. They shifted the goal posts so far right that Reagan is practically socialist these days.