Romney hits new low in Libya remarks

[jaxx]

Romney hits new low in Libya remarks

By Eugene Robinson, Published: September 13

Once upon a time, there was a silver-tongued president. His foreign policy must have been seen by enemies of the United States as weak and feckless, because these enemies became emboldened. Mideast terrorists staged a brutal, bloody attack in which innocent Americans were killed. The president’s response could be seen as a display of shameful weakness rather than steely resolve.

I’m referring, of course, to Ronald Reagan and the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, which claimed 241 American lives — and led Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon.

<..> I mean, Mitt Romney. Really. U.S. diplomatic posts are attacked abroad, and your first reaction is to issue a statement blasting the president? J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials are killed in a commando-style assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, and your instinct is to seek not safety for other Americans at risk, not justice for the cold-blooded killers, but political advantage for yourself?

<..> But Romney’s tougher-than-thou bluster about the Middle East is no laughing matter, especially his attempt to appear to be more supportive of Israel than is Obama. Since Obama has been as supportive of Israel as any U.S. president, Romney has contorted himself into dangerous positions — practically threatening an attack on Iran’s nuclear program and saying he “can’t imagine” any circumstance in which he would be unable to meet with an Israeli prime minister.

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I wish I could post the whole thing, it's very good. Willard has crossed the boundaries of decency.

[pappy]

I don't think he has crossed the boundaries of decency. I think he is now and has always been on the wrong side of that boundary. The difference now is that he is in the harsh spotlight that comes with a campaign for President.

When he was in the world of "vulture capitalism" he was just another huckster in a sea of them. In Massachusetts he was a one term flash-in-the-pan. Here today, gone tomorrow.

[janedrake]

You know what gets me? In a time when our embassy was in danger, Romney stood not with the US Embassy, but against it - smearing its name with complete lies. And he is still clueless that being President means representing all of us, not just the Limbaugh devotees. And that means **getting the backs of those in our embassies**- not **stabbing** them in the back!