Romney: Is the Wrong Headed one!
ABC's "This Week,"
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said on Sunday that the Obama administration's approach to Iran was "entirely wrong-headed" and made the case that the contested results of that country's elections proved that the president's policy of apologizing for America was "not working."...
"It's very clear that the president's policy of going around the world and apologizing for America is not working," said Romney. "North Korea is not just saber rattling. They've taken the saber out of the sheath. Iran is moving head alone towards nuclearization. Russia is on the same course they were on. And all the apologies he provided to the Europeans have not led any of the European nations to provide any additional support for us in Afghanistan. Look, just sweet talk and criticizing America is not go doing enhance freedom in the world."
First
off, President Obama is not going around "apologizing" for 'anything'.
He's 'talking' to our friends and enemies instead of being a bully as
the past administration was. He's trying to mend broken alliances that the GOP helped to break.
Secondly, if Obama's policy (which has only had 5 months to convert 8 years of the Bush admin's policies) isn't working, why then did millions in Iran vote for CHANGE this past election there? Why then are there thousands in the streets of Iran today protesting the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Iranians want to 'stay the course'? Why is the newly elected administration in Iran having to arrest members of the other candidate's group:
At least 10 leaders of two reformist groups who had backed opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi were under arrest last night as police used tear gas and clubs to quell mass street protests.
A total of 170 people were arrested over the big post-election protests and street riots in Tehran.
As for North Korea moving towards nuclearization; they've been doing that ever since the Bush administration and the GOP started saber rattling back in 2001. Check the stories back in 2001 forward, you'll see where NK made the very same threats.
When President Bush declared that Iraq, Iran and North Korea were the "axis of evil",
"a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman described Mr Bush's State of the Union address as "little short of a declaration of war".*****************************************************************************************
In a statement from the foreign ministry, Pyongyang said Washington's recent problems were "entirely attributable to the unilateral and self-opinionated foreign policy, political immaturity and moral leprosy of the Bush administration".
The US Central Intelligence Agency has released a report saying that North Korea sold numerous missiles to the Middle East and other areas of tension last year (2001 a Bush year).
In February of 2003, North Korea threatened to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war, accusing the United States of plotting a pre-emptive attack on the communist state.
North Korea's rhetoric has been escalating since the crisis flared up late last year, and warnings of an impending US attack are broadcast almost daily in Pyongyang's official media. It was not clear whether last night's statement broke that pattern or represented more of the same.
North Korea conducted their first nuclear test in 2006 - during the Bush so-called "get tough" years.
Fourthly, I believe it is former governor Mitt Romney that is hurting our relations with Iranians by making those statements today on This Week's ABC show. It is Romney that is being "wrong headed" here.
If reports are correct and if half of Iranians supported someone other than Ahmadinejad, than Romney just gave half of Iran the 'finger'! He's said to those that are fighting the STATUS QUO in Iran -- "You Failed! So give up"
I'm sure that those same Iranians will definitely bother listening to what Mitt Romney says from here on out.
Romney is IGNORING their efforts to "unclench their fists" by removing the current leadership.
















Willard Romney is a malevolent, blithering idiot.
June 14, 2009 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Romney has been exposed as a complete fraud and opportunist. It started in Massachusetts when he swung left to get elected governor then moved back to the right once he decided to run for President. This guy is completely smarmy. His speech at the Republican National Convention last year was embarrassing in its stupidity and complete lack of honesty. If he had an ounce of integrity he'd be ashamed of himself. But he has no integrity so he'll keep going on TV and spreading lies and nonsense.
June 14, 2009 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think Mitt Romney has ever had anything original to say in recent memory.
He gets the Republican "fax blast" of talking points electronically delivered to his brain, a sort of direct deposit mechanism that is set up to receive communication pulses from the central id of the Republican collective.
June 14, 2009 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please understand the only audience these propaganda vehicles have left are the demographics segments of the older Republican generations. Therefore it is a grantee they will have these fronts for a dying movement on the air.
Today’s media, including newspapers, are grounded in being bought off with advertising. The sooner they go bankrupt the better as they won’t change.....
June 14, 2009 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Romney is man completely made of plastic, dressed in a polyester suit with a little ring on his back that you can pull to hear the daily nonsensical republican jingle.Thanks Coonsey
June 14, 2009 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Romney is just another GOP 2012 hopeful. Mitt, Newt, and Sarah have all adopted the same tactic -whatever Obama is for, they're against it. How many times now have we watched Newt put his foot in his mouth attempting to attack Obama? Remember the day the Somali pirates were killed by the S.E.A.L snipers? Earlier that same day Newt was on the talk shows attacking Obama for showing weak leadership over the pirate standoff. After the successful rescue of the ship's captain later that afternoon Newt was forced to issue (else face looking ridiculous for his criticism only hours earlier) a tactical retreat type statement now crediting Obama's leadership. Pathetic.
Sarah Palin used the Letterman joke controversy to launch an attack on Obama. Remember her statement (paraphrasing), that Obama said his family was off limits and that - here comes Palin's opportunistic cheap shot - the CANDIDATE WHO MUST BE OBEYED was not being so... chopping words and twisting her sentences, as only Sarah Palin can, in an obvious if tortured attempt to avoid acknowledging the fact that Obama called out the press specifically to protect Palin's family as well! This, to me, is the proof that Palin cared not for her daughter's reputation and was only crying foul in an cynical attempt to turn political advantage for herself off of Letterman's questionable joke. We see Sarah Palin, yet again, exploiting her children rather than protecting them.
Now, we hear Mitt Romney becoming more vocal and in the same manner as Newt and Palin. Can't let himself fall behind the others, I guess. All three are throwing only red meat to the GOP base, long in advance of the primaries. The sad thing is, I doubt that any of them truly believes one word of what they are feeding their base about Obama.
June 15, 2009 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink