Notice that NBC’s Peter Alexander asks Romney a general question about the campaign, and Romney goes right to the Middle East. He thinks he’s got Obama in the corner there, and he’s politicizing foreign policy, aggressively. Iran on the cusp of nuclear capability– twice in the interview. And just now on MSNBC the talking head for the conservatives — didn’t get his name — is talking about Obama refusing to meet Netanyahu. Romney knows that the Senate took his side on the Iran issue, by 90-1 the other day. This is getting good; are Americans going to debate the Israel lobby this fall!
PETER ALEXANDER:
First, Governor thanks for your time; we appreciate it…. Polls show you are trailing in pretty much every battleground state, are you feeling some pressure going up against a popular incumbent?
MITT ROMNEY:
I think this is an election about a choice between two different paths. We watched 60 Minutes last night as a nation, people saw the President’s path forward, they saw the things I would do and we have very different views on foreign policy and a domestic policy. The president characterized as bumps in the road — the developments of the Middle East, we just had an ambassador assassinated. Egypt has elected a Muslim brotherhood or person as president. Iran is on the cusp of having nuclear capability. We have Tumult in Syria and also Pakistan and I don’t consider these bumps in the road, I think this is a time for American leadership domestically; the president’s policies are a continuation of the past four years. We can’t afford four more years like the last four years.
PETER ALEXANDER:
Governor, in your heart of hearts do you genuinely believe that President Obama, when he referred to bumps in the road and was not deeply — perhaps a better way to put it, is do you genuinely believe in your heart of hearts that President Obama wasn’t deeply saddened by the loss of four American lives in Libya – that he was speaking more widely about policy in that region not about the loss of lives that took place there at the consulate and embassy.
MITT ROMNEY:
When the president was speaking about bumps in the road he was talking about the developments in the Middle East and that includes an assassination, it includes a Muslim brotherhood individual becoming President of Egypt, it includes Syria being in tumult, it includes Iran being on the cusp of having nuclear capability, it includes Pakistan being in commotion. There are extraordinary events going on in the Middle East and considering those events either one of them or all of them collectively as bumps in the road shows a person who has a very different perspective about world affairs and the perspective I have. I think this is a time for American to exert leadership and this is not something that we are doing in the Middle East and frankly the course we are on also domestically has left so many people behind, I think we have to take a very different course than the course that has been followed over the last four years.
We can’t afford four more years like the last four years.
oh yeah, because another war is just so much cheaper mr no brain!
Mitt Romney — under heavy pressure from the Israel lobby and Zionist billionaires like Sheldon Adelson — is promising that he will lead Americans into yet another multi-trillion dollar war that most of them would oppose with every fiber of their being. The failed Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have sated their appetite for war for decades to come.
And Romney thinks his warmongering on behalf of Israel will help get him elected! :) Let’s see how that works out for him.
Romney may be the most inept and tone deaf presidential candidate in American history. On a different planet completely. His own political party has largely deserted him.
i recall when obama used the term ‘bumps in the road’ my radar went on full swing. knew he was gonna catch hell for that. definitely wrong wording.
Boy I can hardly wait for the televised debates between Obama and Romney, especially when the question of Iran and Israel are brought up.
It’s unbelievable progress for us Americans to be discussing Aipac and israel and war and peace en mass and so out in the open in 2012. We’ve been on a fast collective learning-ride since Muhamad Bouazizi (R.I.P) set himself on fire in Tunisia and triggered off the Arab Spring – or the Arab Intifada, as I prefer to call it.
Oh yes my dear fellow Americans, we have come a long way indeed. But there’s still much work to be done. We know that by liberating the American people, congress will be forced into liberation too. And a liberated congress = a liberated Palestine.
Grant Smith’s article on antiwar.com is a zinger. And no, this is not OT. It’s very much ON TOPIC, and stunning. I wish the debate moderators would question Romney about this info that Smith brings up.
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2012/09/23/aipac-drafted-us-aid-to-israel-illegal/