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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

2012 Romney's Foreign Policy?

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM

Whatever gets him votes, whatever hurts Obama, whatever works...

Last year, Romney called the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya “mission creep and mission muddle.” On Monday, he accused Obama of declining to use “America’s greatest power to shape history” and of eschewing “our best examples of world leadership” in that same corner of the world.

Last year, Romney said American troops “shouldn’t go off and try to fight a war of independence for another nation. Only the Afghanis can win Afghanistan’s independence from the Taliban.” On Monday, he spoke of that same conflict as a matter of the utmost national importance, saying the route to “attacks here at home is a politically timed retreat that abandons the Afghan people to the same extremists who ravaged their country and used it to launch the attacks of 9/11.”

Last night, I heard an old and drunk man in a wheelchair yell this at two cops: "Vote for Obama. Don't vote for the car salesman." A car salesman is a descendant of the horse dealer. What the car salesman inherited from the horse dealer of the past is the ability to say anything to make a sale. In the way a car salesman is dishonest about the mileage on a used car, the horse dealer was dishonest about the state of a horse's teeth. This is Romney we saw during the debate and who gave a speech on foreign policy yesterday—the Romney who cannot tell the truth about what he is selling, the Romney who, as the Onion points out, is running on outright lies. This, it turns out, is the best thing he has going for him. Nothing else has worked. Lying is keeping him in the race.

However, the lying has gotten so bad that it's now being explained as something normal, as nothing new under the sun, as the way any American politician gets the undecided votes. He/she lies:

CBS News, one the other hand, has decided to pretend Romney is not lying but is only being "unrealistic." I'm not kidding about this. Watch for yourself...

...Watch and be amazed at the idiocy.

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Soledad O'Brien, Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow are about the only television journalists left who ask hard questions about substantive issues. The goofballs at Faux News pretend to, but they're more about pushing an agenda than getting at the truth.

Posted by Clayton on October 9, 2012 at 9:24 AM

"Unrealistic". Ha!

Americans get the government they deserve.

Posted by Patricia Kayden on October 9, 2012 at 10:18 AM

Man, it's got to suck to have to live in America and pay attention to this bullshit.

Posted by Fistique on October 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM

While I also mourn our media's complete loss of their teeth, one should keep in mind these days that you can be sued for calling someone a liar, even if you can pretty much demonstrate that they are lying. I think a lot of these people are just trying to err on the side of caution.

This is likely why all the euphemisms: "massaging the truth," "stretching," "being unrealistic," etc.

It is no less cowardly though.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on October 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM

@4- No, you can't. You seem to be mistaking the USA for the UK.

Of course someone can file a lawsuit for anything, it doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere.

Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings

on October 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM

Thank God we have you to break down the stereotype of a used car salesman, Mudede.

@1: You're forgetting Jon Stewart. Sadly, the guy on Comedy Central asks tougher questions of his guests than nearly anyone in journalism. Just watch the way he ripped into Eric Cantor back when he visited in 2010. He gets warmed up about 7:30 into the first part of the extended interview.

Posted by Knat on October 9, 2012 at 6:58 PM

Obama's foreign policy is aimless. Romney's foreign policy is clueless. Looks like we're in for a rough ride. Ironically there's a lot of money to be saved if we actually did the right thing with our foreign policy, specifically...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEceg1YP…

gary

Posted by gdstark on October 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM