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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2012, 04:42:40 PM »
Shizzo,

What exactly does that have to do with Obama?  He didn't give that statement.

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A guy with control of the White House wouldn't let things like that out then.  But again, Obama is a MUSLIM.  Where does his allegiance really lie?  Barack Hussein Obama.  Probably not even an American citizen either.  Maybe he is a figurehead for somethin more?  I pray he doesn't get re-elected.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2012, 04:43:11 PM »
Romney repeats sharp criticism of Obama after Benghazi, Cairo attacks
By Philip Rucker, Updated: Wednesday, September 12, 1:42 PM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday strongly defended his criticism of the Obama administration after attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya, charging that a statement issued by the American Embassy in Cairo amounted to “an apology for American principles.”

Romney accused the Obama administration Tuesday night of sympathizing with the protesters who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

Responding to the criticism, President Obama said Wednesday that Romney has a predilection for making rash statements.

In excerpts of an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that were aired by CBS News, Obama said: “There’s a broader lesson to be learned here.... Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later. And as president, one of the things I’ve learned is you can’t do that.” Obama said it was important “to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts, and that you’ve thought through the ramifications before you make them.”

Asked whether he thought Romney’s attacks were “irresponsible,” Obama replied, “I’ll let the American people judge that.”

At the time of Romney’s statement Tuesday night, U.S. officials had confirmed that one American had been killed in Benghazi. Wednesday morning, the White House announced that Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were dead.

But the embassy statement that Romney was criticizing was issued before the protests in Egypt and before the Benghazi attack. The statement — apparently a response to outrage in Egypt over an anti-Muslim film made in California, excerpts of which are circulating on the Internet — said: “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”

After the grounds of the Cairo embassy compound were breached, the embassy tweeted, “This morning’s condemnation (issued before protest began) still stands.”

By reiterating the conciliatory message on Twitter, Romney said, the embassy was in effect “sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions.”

“I think it’s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values,” Romney said, addressing reporters at his campaign office in Jacksonville. “An apology for America’s values is never the right course.”

Romney appeared to take special care with his comments, looking down frequently at his notes and pausing at times as he delivered his remarks. He did not back down, despite strong criticism leveled at him for slamming the Obama administration Tuesday night even as events overseas were still unfolding.

“We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said.

But Romney stood by the tone and timing of his initial statement.

“I don’t think that we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles,” Romney said. “We express immediately when we feel that the president and his administration have done something which is inconsistent with the principles of America.”

He said Obama should be held responsible for statements issued at U.S. embassies and government outposts around the world.

Many other Republicans — including Romney’s vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) — took a different tack, issuing conciliatory statements on Wednesday that did not criticize the Obama administration.

“This is a time for healing. It’s a time for resolve,” Ryan said during a campaign stop in De Pere, Wisconsin. “In the face of such a tragedy, we are reminded that the world needs American leadership, and the best guarantee of peace is American strength.”

Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who is close to the Romney campaign, said she was “saddened by the tragic loss of life at our Consulate in Benghazi.... Ambassador Chris Stevens was a wonderful officer and a terrific diplomat who was dedicated to the cause of freedom. His service in the Middle East throughout his career was legendary.”

Even Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) — who regularly critique the Obama administration’s foreign policy — urged Obama to continue supporting democracy efforts in Libya and Egypt.

“We cannot give in to the temptation to believe that our support for the democratic aspirations of people in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere in the broader Middle East is naive or mistaken,” the senators said in a joint statement. “We cannot resign ourselves to the false belief that the Arab Spring is doomed to be defined not by the desire for democracy and freedom that has inspired millions of people to peaceful action, but by the dark fanaticism of terrorists.”

Romney’s responses to the attacks came under sharp criticism from strategists and analysts on both sides of the political spectrum.

Matthew Dowd, a Republican former top strategist for President George W. Bush, said Romney overreacted to the news at a moment of crisis when Americans are looking for tempered political discourse and steady leadership.

“It’s just a huge mistake on the Romney campaign’s part — huge mistake,” Dowd said in an interview. Asked whether Romney could fix it, Dowd said he could not. “The only thing that can fix it is if he gets on another issue other than foreign policy.”

Dowd said Romney’s response would appeal to the right-wing fringe of the Republican base but would turn off independent swing voters. “It almost feels like Sarah Palin is his foreign policy adviser,” he added.

“People trust Obama on foreign policy, and he’s demonstrated an ability to get that right. And with that measurement, Obama versus Romney, it’s not good for Mitt Romney,” Dowd said. “And you put this in conjunction with the things he said about the Olympics and his statements overseas, it builds a story in people’s minds — does this guy have the temperament, and can we really trust this guy to lead in the world? This was an opportunity to show some measured reaction, and he did the opposite.”


Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a telephone interview: “I think Mitt Romney is very sad, what he did last night.... There ought to be some limit to politics. There ought to be some limits to ambition and trying to exploit every opportunity.”

Kerry said that attacking the Obama administration “before you even know what the true story is, before you know what’s happened,” demonstrated “a level of political recklessness and expediency that I think defies America’s interest.”

As the gravity of the unfolding situation overseas became clear Wednesday morning, Romney’s aides scrambled to change the optics of his campaign stop here, at his campaign office in a Jacksonville strip mall next door to a Blazin Reptiles Pet Shop.

 Roughly 150 supporters had assembled in the Romney office expecting a small rally. Volunteers sat at phone bank tables, supporters held up campaign signs that read, “Florida Loves Mitt,” and shiny patriotic bunting lined the walls. There were two cardboard life-size cut-outs of Romney in the back of the room.

 But about 30 minutes before Romney arrived, aides quickly transformed the room into a setting more suitable for a formal news conference. They collected signs from supporters and removed them, and erected a blue curtain backdrop that covered up the patriotic bunting. Four American flags were posted behind the wooden podium where Romney would speak.

 Aides escorted Romney supporters outside to wait on the sidewalk outside and in the parking lot. Dozens of supporters pressed their faces against the storefront windows to watch Romney, dressed in a dark suit, crisp white shirt and blue tie, deliver his remarks.

 “Americans woke up this morning with tragic news and felt heavy hearts as they considered that individuals that served in our diplomatic corps were brutally murdered across the world,” Romney said. “This attack on American individuals and embassies is outrageous. It’s disgusting. It breaks the hearts of all of us.”
After Romney finished taking questions, supporters were allowed back in for an informal meet-and-greet with the candidate, who took off his jacket to shake hands with volunteers.

“Florida could decide,” Romney told some of them. “We’re looking for you to get the job done. I just want to say hi and shake a couple of hands.”

Wilgoren reported from Washington. Ed O’Keefe in Washington contributed to this report.


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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #27 on: September 12, 2012, 04:46:41 PM »
Romney repeats sharp criticism of Obama after Benghazi, Cairo attacks
By Philip Rucker, Updated: Wednesday, September 12, 1:42 PM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday strongly defended his criticism of the Obama administration after attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya, charging that a statement issued by the American Embassy in Cairo amounted to “an apology for American principles.”

Romney accused the Obama administration Tuesday night of sympathizing with the protesters who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

Responding to the criticism, President Obama said Wednesday that Romney has a predilection for making rash statements.

In excerpts of an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that were aired by CBS News, Obama said: “There’s a broader lesson to be learned here.... Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later. And as president, one of the things I’ve learned is you can’t do that.” Obama said it was important “to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts, and that you’ve thought through the ramifications before you make them.”

Asked whether he thought Romney’s attacks were “irresponsible,” Obama replied, “I’ll let the American people judge that.”

At the time of Romney’s statement Tuesday night, U.S. officials had confirmed that one American had been killed in Benghazi. Wednesday morning, the White House announced that Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were dead.

But the embassy statement that Romney was criticizing was issued before the protests in Egypt and before the Benghazi attack. The statement — apparently a response to outrage in Egypt over an anti-Muslim film made in California, excerpts of which are circulating on the Internet — said: “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”

After the grounds of the Cairo embassy compound were breached, the embassy tweeted, “This morning’s condemnation (issued before protest began) still stands.”

By reiterating the conciliatory message on Twitter, Romney said, the embassy was in effect “sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions.”

“I think it’s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values,” Romney said, addressing reporters at his campaign office in Jacksonville. “An apology for America’s values is never the right course.”

Romney appeared to take special care with his comments, looking down frequently at his notes and pausing at times as he delivered his remarks. He did not back down, despite strong criticism leveled at him for slamming the Obama administration Tuesday night even as events overseas were still unfolding.

“We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said.

But Romney stood by the tone and timing of his initial statement.

“I don’t think that we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles,” Romney said. “We express immediately when we feel that the president and his administration have done something which is inconsistent with the principles of America.”

He said Obama should be held responsible for statements issued at U.S. embassies and government outposts around the world.

Many other Republicans — including Romney’s vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) — took a different tack, issuing conciliatory statements on Wednesday that did not criticize the Obama administration.

“This is a time for healing. It’s a time for resolve,” Ryan said during a campaign stop in De Pere, Wisconsin. “In the face of such a tragedy, we are reminded that the world needs American leadership, and the best guarantee of peace is American strength.”

Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who is close to the Romney campaign, said she was “saddened by the tragic loss of life at our Consulate in Benghazi.... Ambassador Chris Stevens was a wonderful officer and a terrific diplomat who was dedicated to the cause of freedom. His service in the Middle East throughout his career was legendary.”

Even Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) — who regularly critique the Obama administration’s foreign policy — urged Obama to continue supporting democracy efforts in Libya and Egypt.

“We cannot give in to the temptation to believe that our support for the democratic aspirations of people in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere in the broader Middle East is naive or mistaken,” the senators said in a joint statement. “We cannot resign ourselves to the false belief that the Arab Spring is doomed to be defined not by the desire for democracy and freedom that has inspired millions of people to peaceful action, but by the dark fanaticism of terrorists.”

Romney’s responses to the attacks came under sharp criticism from strategists and analysts on both sides of the political spectrum.

Matthew Dowd, a Republican former top strategist for President George W. Bush, said Romney overreacted to the news at a moment of crisis when Americans are looking for tempered political discourse and steady leadership.

“It’s just a huge mistake on the Romney campaign’s part — huge mistake,” Dowd said in an interview. Asked whether Romney could fix it, Dowd said he could not. “The only thing that can fix it is if he gets on another issue other than foreign policy.”

Dowd said Romney’s response would appeal to the right-wing fringe of the Republican base but would turn off independent swing voters. “It almost feels like Sarah Palin is his foreign policy adviser,” he added.

[size=30pt]“People trust Obama on foreign policy[/size], and he’s demonstrated an ability to get that right. And with that measurement, Obama versus Romney, it’s not good for Mitt Romney,” Dowd said. “And you put this in conjunction with the things he said about the Olympics and his statements overseas, it builds a story in people’s minds — does this guy have the temperament, and can we really trust this guy to lead in the world? This was an opportunity to show some measured reaction, and he did the opposite.”


Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a telephone interview: “I think Mitt Romney is very sad, what he did last night.... There ought to be some limit to politics. There ought to be some limits to ambition and trying to exploit every opportunity.”

Kerry said that attacking the Obama administration “before you even know what the true story is, before you know what’s happened,” demonstrated “a level of political recklessness and expediency that I think defies America’s interest.”

As the gravity of the unfolding situation overseas became clear Wednesday morning, Romney’s aides scrambled to change the optics of his campaign stop here, at his campaign office in a Jacksonville strip mall next door to a Blazin Reptiles Pet Shop.

 Roughly 150 supporters had assembled in the Romney office expecting a small rally. Volunteers sat at phone bank tables, supporters held up campaign signs that read, “Florida Loves Mitt,” and shiny patriotic bunting lined the walls. There were two cardboard life-size cut-outs of Romney in the back of the room.

 But about 30 minutes before Romney arrived, aides quickly transformed the room into a setting more suitable for a formal news conference. They collected signs from supporters and removed them, and erected a blue curtain backdrop that covered up the patriotic bunting. Four American flags were posted behind the wooden podium where Romney would speak.

 Aides escorted Romney supporters outside to wait on the sidewalk outside and in the parking lot. Dozens of supporters pressed their faces against the storefront windows to watch Romney, dressed in a dark suit, crisp white shirt and blue tie, deliver his remarks.

 “Americans woke up this morning with tragic news and felt heavy hearts as they considered that individuals that served in our diplomatic corps were brutally murdered across the world,” Romney said. “This attack on American individuals and embassies is outrageous. It’s disgusting. It breaks the hearts of all of us.”
After Romney finished taking questions, supporters were allowed back in for an informal meet-and-greet with the candidate, who took off his jacket to shake hands with volunteers.

“Florida could decide,” Romney told some of them. “We’re looking for you to get the job done. I just want to say hi and shake a couple of hands.”

Wilgoren reported from Washington. Ed O’Keefe in Washington contributed to this report.


That is the last thing i would trust Obama on right now.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2012, 06:07:38 PM »
A guy with control of the White House wouldn't let things like that out then.  But again, Obama is a MUSLIM.  Where does his allegiance really lie?  Barack Hussein Obama.  Probably not even an American citizen either.  Maybe he is a figurehead for somethin more?  I pray he doesn't get re-elected.

HAHAHAH!!!

This is a good one... Holy shit.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2012, 06:13:58 PM »
President Obama's response to the attack.


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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2012, 06:28:45 PM »
Obama's response was infinitely more appropriate and Presidential than Romney's.

Romney does not come across well here.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2012, 06:38:27 PM »
When GOP stalwarts like Matthew Dowd, Richard Armitage, and Peggy Noonan are frowning on Romney's comportment that is not good.  :-[

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #32 on: September 12, 2012, 06:41:19 PM »
I once asked a mentally ill man if he knew who the president of the USA was.  He looked at me like I was nuts and replied, "Bahama".   :D

True story.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #33 on: September 12, 2012, 07:06:28 PM »
I watched it - seemed spot on to me.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #34 on: September 12, 2012, 07:33:09 PM »
Obama is an embarrassment to this country. Mine not his.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #35 on: September 12, 2012, 07:38:01 PM »
Polls are showing these statements have severely hurt Romney amongst independent voters.


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what a fucking windbag...

fuck romney

fuck jesus

and fuck the USA

amen

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2012, 07:39:10 PM »

what a fucking windbag...

fuck romney

fuck jesus

and fuck the USA

amen

And, Fuck You!!!!   :D

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #37 on: September 12, 2012, 07:39:25 PM »


politics
lol

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #38 on: September 12, 2012, 07:40:09 PM »
Romney truly should have stopped and thought about this... I will say that for him to take a stance that you can not "wait for facts" is a bit disheartening.

Hardly the worst thing ever said by a candidate, but definitely not good.

Romney spoke the truth.   Onlya piece of shit leftist Obama c unt agrees w apologizing to the sand nigs

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #39 on: September 12, 2012, 07:42:29 PM »
Beat me to it... complete bullshit.



The ghetto layabout repeated it in his presser today. 

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #40 on: September 12, 2012, 07:57:53 PM »
This is the nth time Romney has supposedly "just lost the election". ::)

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #41 on: September 12, 2012, 08:07:37 PM »
Well, someone had to play the part of President during this event.
OUCH, obama owned

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #42 on: September 12, 2012, 08:22:30 PM »

what a fucking windbag...

fuck romney

fuck jesus

and fuck the USA

amen

Why? Was it too much commonsense? Too presidential? Too much like Reagan? Was.he wrong? Or should we keep kissing the asses of people who want to destroy is most? Have some.substance besides name calling.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #43 on: September 12, 2012, 09:09:05 PM »
FUCK these sand blacks and nuke their asses what are we waiting for?
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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #44 on: September 12, 2012, 09:13:33 PM »
Two countries committed acts of war against the United States yesterday on U.S. soil. Four Americans were killed.

Mitt Romney's response was that of a leader, Obama's response was to kowtow to fanatical Islam. Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer.

Regardless of how the MSM tries to twist the story.

Ask the Israeli Prime Minister what he thinks of Obama's lack of leadership skills.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #45 on: September 12, 2012, 09:41:23 PM »

Ask the Israeli Prime Minister what he thinks of Obama's lack of leadership skills.
who care what king kike thinks

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #46 on: September 12, 2012, 09:46:05 PM »
who care what king kike thinks

Take his word over Wolf Blitzer's fawning, dicksuck praise any day of the week.

The Obama Administration came across as the cowardly weaklings we all know they are.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #47 on: September 12, 2012, 09:52:04 PM »
again sheeps arguing with each other. ::)

obama or romney...puppet master is same - JEWS.
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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #48 on: September 12, 2012, 09:58:02 PM »
Obama has gone after Al Qaeda with a fierceness that the previous administration wasnt even able to fathom. Drone attacks on pakistani soil like every fucking day. zero hesitation to go into the soveriegn territory of ANY country that harbors terrorists and kill every single fucker there, period. even murdered the u.s. citizen anwar al awlaki without a trial, and got major heat from the aclu for doing so.   dude is a fucking badass when it comes to national security.  the idea that he is somehow soft on terrorists is just plain stupid.

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Re: Mitt Romney Just Lost the Election
« Reply #49 on: September 12, 2012, 10:00:20 PM »
again sheeps arguing with each other. ::)

obama or romney...puppet master is same - JEWS.
hypothetically speaking, lets say thats true

doesnt change the fact that the two of them have enormously different views about domestic policy

but yeah your right, only brainwashed sheep think theres any reason to think one might be better than the other