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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:39 pm 
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Romney pissing off the press is about as smart as Orly pissing off the judges.
Not a good move when it involves people who hold sway over you.


Whether it's true now or not, Romney and his cronies have pledged to be the media's biggest clients for the next three months. Does Romney have a sense of entitlement about the press he should receive, regardless of his behavior and his treatment of the press?

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Sugar Magnolia wrote:
Romney pissing off the press is about as smart as Orly pissing off the judges.
Not a good move when it involves people who hold sway over you.


Whether it's true now or not, Romney and his cronies have pledged to be the media's biggest clients for the next three months. Does Romney have a sense of entitlement about the press he should receive, regardless of his behavior and his treatment of the press?


He's already done enough for "you people." How dare you criticize His Highness?

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The debates are going to be great. Romney will absolutely come across as what he is.


I completely agree. But I also think Obama has to be careful not to come across as gloating arrogantly over Mitt's self-immolation. I would advise him to practice debating someone who repeatedly makes himself look like an idiot.



:o :o Yowza...Obama might end up seeming down right uppity!

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One of Mitt Romney's top foreign policy advisors said Sunday that as president, Romney would respect Israel's right to strike Iran to unilaterally prevent that nation from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Dan Senor told reporters that Western nations partnering with Israel should "do everything we can" to stop Iran from developing weapons capability.

"And if Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability the governor would respect that decision."
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-romney-r ... 8051.story

This is not a "gaffe" -- this is deliberate. It's not like Dan Senor is a newcomer to this...

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 Post subject: Re: Mitt Romney
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Ok. Romney is deliberately positioning himself on the hardline Neo-Conservitive foreign policy line in the level of George Bush. This isn't something he can etchascetch either.

It is moving the debate to forign policy as well, an unusual realm for US presidential elections. Which is odd considering that it allows Obama not to have to play defense on the economy, whoch indicates that the GOP think they cant win on the Economy

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Which is odd considering that it allows Obama not to have to play defense on the economy, whoch indicates that the GOP think they cant win on the Economy


It seems to me that the Republicans' cupboard is still completely bare when it comes to the specifics of their economic plan. As much as they yell "Obama didn't fix it," it's hard for them to articulate policies other than the ones that are widely acknowledged to have caused the problems, including tax cuts, unfunded wars, and insufficient regulation. I think time is running out for Romney as far as an economic platform is concerned, and if I were in his position I'd be worried about the debates.

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Romney seem to want to amplify our "involvement" into active participation in a Cold War style campaign against Iran. It is quite apparent to me that we can outstrip the Iranis on weapons production and sophistication...

Just a question-- Doesn't Iran's right to 'defend' itself override Israel's right to attack her similar to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor? It has to be a "surprise" as the Iranis have tried to put up an effective air defense and may get lucky if there is a lot of warning.

With Russia's waning influence in the Mid-East, I would think they would be quite interested in using Iran to reestablish itself with a warm water port. Syria is falling apart. The warm water port the Syrians have graciously loaned to the Russians is in jeopardy due the impending Syrian Civil War.

When will the GOP realize that the Cold War is over and global politics have changed leaving them behind in the dust??? ](*,)

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Or mebbe the GOP is hoping that RMoney gets his gaffes out overseas where there isn't as much publicity or it is to detract from the fact that they have done nothing constructive domestically - unless you call blocking the will of the public (President Obama earned the majority of votes - like DUH!)

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Could RoboMittens and his team really have fallen so far down the rabbit hole that they actually believe the tea party version of reality, that Obama is weak on foreign policy? I thought the GOP leaders, at least, remained faintly grounded.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitt Romney
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...indicates that the GOP think they cant win on the Economy

It's a dog whistle to the fairly large bloc of Evangelicals who consider the state of Israel to be part of the plan for the Apocalypse and the Second Coming. Neo-conservatives do think that American defense of Israel is integral to our mission for a world ruled and pacified by America. Thomas L. Friedman said it best:
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The fact that no two major countries have gone to war since they both got McDonald’s is partly due to economic integration, but it is also due to the presence of American power and America’s willingness to use that power against those who would threaten the system of globalization–from Iraq to North Korea. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. [...] McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. And these fighting forces and institutions are paid for by American taxpayer dollars.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999), pp. 443-444

Beyond that, I'm not sure that there is evidence that the current GOP thinks.

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Beyond that, I'm not sure that there is evidence that the current GOP thinks.


GOP - Think???

I am not sure that there is evidence that the current GOP thinks at all. :-

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This is one of those who cares issues.

If Israel feels threatened, it's going to do whatever the hell it feels like. It won't ask our permission first, especially because our so-called intelligence outfits are like a sieve. They might as well announce their intentions publicly as tell our CIA.

So whether Mittens approves or doesn't, or whether Obama approves or doesn't, doesn't matter. Whoever is in the White House won't change the outcome.

Mittens is just using it as a dog whistle for the stupid dogs who bark their support of him.

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As an aside, I don't know why Iran wants nukes. They are expensive, highly dangerous to children and other living things and aren't a practical alternative to conventional weapons.

For all the money spent on them, the only uses were WWII. That has not been repeated as we are now aware of the severe consequences of detonating a nuke over a city.

Iran is spending money on something it can't use unless someone is invading their country using it as a last resort. This brings up whether the Iranis want to use one on their own soil.
They do have rockets, but at the moment rockets have to have a base to operate from. That base is open to airstrikes or guided missle/Cruize Missles attack.

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I know its controversial but I never thought Iran were doing anything but pursuing Nuclear power. They were being antagonistic to everyone about it because they are Iran. This is the last bit of Bush foreign policy idiocy playing out. Why Obama has bought into it I don't know.

But we should start a different thread on that before Raicha flies in on her B-52 broomstick

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I know its controversial but I never thought Iran were doing anything but pursuing Nuclear power. They were being antagonistic to everyone about it because they are Iran. This is the last bit of Bush foreign policy idiocy playing out. Why Obama has bought into it I don't know.

But we should start a different thread on that before Raicha flies in on her B-52 broomstick


No one else has come up with a plan that is acceptable to the US. I thought the President would do better than this on Iran, but I do realize the viciousness and recklessness of his opposition.

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Iran is spending money on something it can't use unless someone is invading their country using it as a last resort. This brings up whether the Iranis want to use one on their own soil.


Actually, having nuclear capability opens a lot of strategic options. It means you can stand up to any nation in the world, pretend to be completely insane, and threaten catastrophic consequences. Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. played this game for some time.

Attaining nuclear capability is, therefore, very important for a lot of second-rate nations. It's especially good if, like North Korea, your nation is utterly incompetent to achieve any other form of military superiority.

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The situations of North Korea and Iran are completely different. Iran has good reason to fear invasion and takeover because of their oil supply. They have the lessons of Iraq to consider. Saddam was a toothless tiger and the neo-cons knew it. It's remarkable that Iran has played by the rules as far as nuclear research and development but Israel never signed up or signed on to any rules. Our foreign policy is irrational.

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The situations of North Korea and Iran are completely different. Iran has good reason to fear invasion and takeover because of their oil supply. They have the lessons of Iraq to consider. Saddam was a toothless tiger and the neo-cons knew it. It's remarkable that Iran has played by the rules as far as nuclear research and development but Israel never signed up or signed on to any rules. Our foreign policy is irrational.


North and South Korea are still in a state of war. There has not been any type of treaty signed between the countries or between North Korea and the US.

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JERUSALEM — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angered Palestinian leaders on Monday when he suggested here that the Israeli economy had outpaced the economy of the Palestinian territories in part because of advantages of “culture.”


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So remember how all last week Mittens claims he was super best friends with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

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We can almost speak in shorthand,” Mr. Romney said in an interview. “We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning which is similar.” [...] “Before I made a statement of that nature, I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say: ‘Would it help if I say this? What would you like me to do?’"

“Israel’s current prime minister is not just a friend, he’s an old friend,” Mitt Romney, with whom Netanyahu worked at the Boston Consulting Group in the 1970s, told aipac in March.


Well Vanity Fair just had an article about Netanyahu and they even asked him specifically about Romney

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012 ... itt-romney

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“I remember him for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections,” he tells me. “I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”
Now that doesn't sound like someone who finishes Mitt's shorthand and is super best pals

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‘Would it help if I say this? What would you like me to do?’

It's nice that he'll ask for Bibi's approval and permission before acting.

Shows he knows his place. Restores our traditional relationship with the Israelis, not like that highhanded uppity guy we have now who makes his own decisions. 8>

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