Romney outlines “tough” foreign policy approach
To date, Mitt Romney’s critique of the Obama foreign policy has been a case study of bluster over content, without specifics, although the presence of men such as John Bolton, the shoot-first former U.N. ambassador, as influential members of his foreign policy team ought to give Americans serious pause.
In fact, if we are to judge him from the tone of his rhetoric and by those whose counsel he seeks — and that’s about all he has given us to go on — Romney proposes to pick up where Dick Cheney left off in 2004, when a chastened President Bush belatedly took back control of foreign policy from his over-adventurous vice president.
I note that in his speech today at the Virginia Military Institute (text available here), Romney blamed the Obama administration for differences of opinion that have erupted between the United States and Israel.
“The world must never see any daylight between our two nations,” Romney said.
However, I do not believe it is our responsibility alone to ensure that such daylight never occurs. Israeli leaders bear at least equal responsibility for keeping that important relationship on an even keel. We are certainly under no obligation to outsource our foreign policy in that region to Benjamin Netanyahu, as Romney seems to advocate.
(In fact, if forced to synthesize the Romney Doctrine to one sentence, I might offer this: The rest of the world will be required to abide by our wishes; we will be required to abide by Israel’s).
Romney also spoke, as he has in the past, of a foreign policy based on confidence, clarity and resolve. These are good and necessary things. Unfortunately, the man’s credibility in preaching these virtues is more than a little suspect. You may recall that earlier this year, as an uprising in Libya gained strength, Romney first supported U.S. intervention and then opposed intervention and then embraced it again once it had succeeded. At one point, he even fled reporters in Las Vegas rather than be forced to take a position on the crisis.
Likewise, he harshly criticized the goal of removing Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddhafi from power, then turned around celebrated once that goal was achieved.
That is not a policy based on resolve. Likewise, Romney’s outrageous claim that President Obama sympathized with those who attacked and killed our ambassador to Libya and three others — a statement issued on the very night of their deaths — communicated not mature confidence but hasty, amateurish desperation and an eagerness to inject partisan politics in foreign-policy decisions.
I am most curious about his policy toward Afghanistan. Here’s what Romney had to say:
“… in Afghanistan, I will pursue a real and successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. President Obama would have you believe that anyone who disagrees with his decisions in Afghanistan is arguing for endless war. But the route to more war — and to potential 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. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.”
Now, I would suggest that those are odd words from a man who just preached the necessity of clarity in foreign policy. Take a look again — do those words tell us anything about Romney’s approach to Afghanistan, or how it might differ in concrete terms from that undertaken by Obama?
Finally, Romney not only suggested that he would oppose any cuts in defense spending, he advocated what would appear to be a new military buildup. That is consistent with his pledge to commit a minimum of 4 percent of GDP to defense spending. By 2014, that would mean a $200-billion-a-year increase in spending over currently projected levels.
Given our financial situation, a 33 percent increase in projected defense spending at a time when we already spend more than the next 10 biggest military powers combined would not seem to be a wise investment. And again — although Romney continues to be painfully averse to specifics — in general the GOP candidate would seem pretty eager to put that larger military to regular use overseas.
– Jay Bookman
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USMC
October 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
“So many lines. So little time.”–josef
LOL! I think I will take that “b!tch” slap now, josef!
josef
October 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
FRED
D’acc…qui est…? On ne peut savoir rien sans programme…eh?
Paul
October 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
josef
I can see!!! Hallelujah!!!!
So tell me, just why are those two spoiling for a fight?
Jordan77 (Marine Dad)
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
Joe Hussein Mama, Make a donation
_________________________________
Joe thanks I will pass along your message and I know he will want me to thank you too. The Marines name was Gino Mills and his family live in Maryland. He was the “bright shining star” of his family and they are devastated by his death.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
2:51 pm
Couldn’t agree more about Romney not understanding the military.
Don’t think any president does until about 6 months after inauguration.
Unless they previously served in some capacity.
AmericaShrugged
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
RF – Looks like at least we agree it a choice between the lesser of two evils instead of the party lackeys.
Jordan77 – Thanks for your sincere posts. Bush made a horrible decision with Iraq (although we did wind up killing thousands of terrorists there). But he was in a tough spot. We were attacked by an enemy that won’t identify itself.
But Obama wasn’t under that pressure. He had the entire history of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions to use for his decision. And he made a horrendous choice, sending even more troops in.
In hindsight I think we would have been best served to put a carrier group in the gulf and use intelligence, bombers, and drones to kill as many of the terrorists as possible. Boots on the ground accomplished nothing, except a huge expense for our country not just in the national debt but in the deaths and injuries to our troops.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
Marty,
Your attack on our President’s daughter was sick.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
“I can guarantee without any doubt that I will swim from Alaska to Russia across the Bering Sea naked this winter.”–Kam
Okay Kam, go easy on that HELIUM bottle you are sucking on.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
In hindsight I think we would have been best served to put a carrier group in the gulf and use intelligence, bombers, and drones to kill as many of the terrorists as possible.
Thank Donald Rumsfeld for f**king that up. We could have done that from day one and not risked the amount of American lives that we have done.
Adam
October 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
td: Since when is it important to free the women of the middle east but clamp down on their rights here at home?
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
Wasn’t an attack but thanks for your concern.
I’ll put you in the ok to talk about young teens reproductive rights but not ok to talk about same teens plans to serve in the military.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
That’s fine I’ve dealt with tubby sh*ts like you before and can guarentee without any doubt you wouldn’t talk to me this way face to face man to man. That flight instinct would be too high and overpowering.
Maybe this one will get past the ol’ Bluenose. I might not have laughed hard enough the first time.
JKL2
October 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
kamchak- Obama: Walk softly and carry a limp stick. There’s your sign
I just hope I don’t have to watch him attempt to throw out another first pitch this year. Please send Michelle again so we don’t have to see another “girl” throw bounce up to the plate.
For someone who spends so much time playing basketball and golf, he’s a terrible athlete.
Pizzaman
October 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
I’ve already voted. How many of you can say that? VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN!
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
Marty,
Apologize.
Adam
October 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
JKL2: For someone who spends so much time playing basketball and golf, he’s a terrible athlete.
Because if you’re good at one sport, your’e good at them all. Just ask Bo Jackson
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
I don’t know Brocephus, mine didn’t get through lol
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Getalife,
No
nelson
October 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Do I sense desperation seeping into the rhetoric attempting to denigrate a great and good and brilliant statesman, Mitt Romney? Happy days are here again, a new day is coming under the brilliant leadership of the new and great President to be, Mitt Romney.
The deseparte state of the current administration reminds me a little of the Confederacy after Gettysburg.
RF
October 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
“The groups who feel such an affinity for Biblical Israel break for the Republican candidate, while the group that IS Biblical Israel (in a literal sense) break overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate.”
Amazing how that works, isn’t it? You ask someone who actually IS from Israel, and their answer tends to often be very different from those who just think they know everything based on what they hear on TBN.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
That’s fine I’ve dealt with tubby ***** like you before and can guarentee without any doubt you wouldn’t talk to me this way face to face man to man. That flight instinct would be too high and overpowering.
Oh rest assured That I most certainly would. Ask any of the many people on this site who have met me in person if I m ANY different face to face. You see pal, face to face I would be just as quick to call you on picking on a little girl. Maybe it’s just a Southern thing and you wouldn’t understand. I despise those who feel that their hatred of the President requires they bad mouth his wife as well.
I didn’t stand silent when folks did it to the Bush twins either before you try THAT tired old attack. At least during Clinton’s administration your talk show gods hadn’t dialed up the hate to the level it is now so that his daughter got a pass for folks like you.
(maybe takling his one word out will get it through lol.)
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
jk,
obl, many aq and daffy are dead.
Many in the ME are free.
mitt is weak and will runaway from his positions.
joe
October 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
Since Obozo has been bungling foreign matters since day 1, with the exception of killing Bin Laden, Mitt needs to address this fact. The rest of the world no longer fears America and that needs to change. We need to play up the strength of our military to keep rogue nations like Iran in check. Having Iran and others think we can “wipe them off the map” as they like to say about Israel is vital to keeping the peace, or at least what there is of it. Obama actually wants to rid the US of our nuclear weapons…which is asinine. Nov 6 can’t get here fast enough.
On a side note, any of you libs think Biden is going to help close the gap when he takes the stage later this week? he’ll be worse than Stockstill or whatever his name was who ran with Perot.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Marty,
Figures.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
The deseparte state of the current administration reminds me a little of the Confederacy after Gettysburg.
Wow, you were THERE? Did you get any autographs? Pictures? A t-shirt?
Did you meet any SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
RF…..typical Dem response.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
“Since Obozo”
I stopped reading joey.
independent thinker
October 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
Anybody want to explain why the military has over 800 bases worldwide including dozens in Germany Italy and Japan-countries that are fully capable of defending themselves? I thought WWII was over. How many military golf courses are there? I bet the cost for them alone exceeds the NPR budget. And Romney wants to get us back to that 600 ship Navy of Reagan? How many of those ships were mothballed and scrapped? Any half brain knows future combat is going to be based more on cyberwarfare and technology than a bunch of ships and airplanes. Neocon madness!
josef
October 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
PAUL
It goes all the way back to the Byzantine and Ottoman…the Turks are Turks and the Syrians are Arabs. There are some irredentist issues surrounding Hatay. Then there’s that Armenian thingie and the Kurdish problem. Mainly, though, I think there’s the military pressures on the Ankara regime. They’re VERY secular, the current government is Islamacist and the last thing the military wants in Syria is an Islamacist regime in the Arab-Sunni districts and an autonomous Kurdish entity, not to mention the refugee problem. The internal discombobulation in Turkey could provoke the military to stage (yet another) coup…
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
“brilliant statesman, Mitt Romney?”
Hilarious
RF
October 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
“In hindsight I think we would have been best served to put a carrier group in the gulf and use intelligence, bombers, and drones to kill as many of the terrorists as possible.”
I’m with Brosephus on that one. That was a screw-up from the very beginning under Georgie-porgie. Hopefully we’ve learned that lesson, but I doubt it. Big troop numbers are a throwback to WWII mentality and capability. Technology doesn’t get people as emotionally riled up, but is a lot more effective in the fight against terrorists. We’ve accomplished more with drones and special forces in the long run, but that doesn’t line the pockets of contractors who greedily await the next paycheck when we start another war.
Mick
October 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
joe
Yes, I think biden will completely handle that geek paul ryan. He’s got nothing to offer and plenty to go after like his infamous house budget, biden…have at it…
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:16 pm
“Since Obozo”
That’s when I started reading…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
3:16 pm
Technology doesn’t get people as emotionally riled up…
But getting the voters emotionally riled up was the main point.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
Fine Fred you are a true southerner.
well you got the pre-judging thing down
Still didn’t attack the president or his daughter certainly not out of any hatred towards him. Voted for the guy and don’t think romney is any different than Obama.
Romneys sons were brought up on more than one occasion here today.
Obama has a daughter and I don’t think gender should be a basis for different treatment.
I don’t consider an age range of which we have discussions of ways to prevent that same age from having babies are little girls.
Those would be young women, just as the same age would be young men.
I was asked from the time I was 8 about my plans to serve, but guess I’m different cause I’m a boy!
Lots of us quit saying what boys can do and what girls can do when we were like 8 or 9.
Of course some rednecks maintain that position still to this day.
Tom Middleton
October 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
I’m sure you’ll have us talking about this more and more until the election, Jay. But for now, let me just say that Mitt’s strategy seems to be to stay vague until the debate, then get hopped up again, then crush the moderator and swamp the president with BS, and then congratulate himself and have his staff slink around and correct all the things they didn’t want him to say.
In other words, Jay, it’s more Mitt-business as usual, more style over substance, but let’s please hope it won’t work this time!
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:19 pm
josef: Is today a school holiday? I saw my neighbors kid at around 1pm. Didn’t know if he was off or suspended lol.
Jefferson
October 8th, 2012
3:19 pm
Tell a lie then say the other side lies, the GOP creed. Their track record is awful. He is not a very good choice and is behind.
RF
October 8th, 2012
3:20 pm
“RF…..typical Dem response”
Lee: glad I could oblige! Actually, up until about 2006, I was a pretty much a dyed in the wool Reagan republican. But then I woke up…
Typical Repub response to ignore the obvious lack of intelligible evidence of your initial post. So what proof do you have of these WMDs? I guar-on-tee you we won’t fall for “we just KNOW it” like we did for Georgie-boy.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:20 pm
getalife…..great to see you are supporting Romney. Great job.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:22 pm
Getalife,
Didn’t do anything wrong.
Only apologize if I’ve done something wrong.
Did people do something wrong to me for asking about my plans to serve?
What about when I discuss it with my son, who is 6?
Or does it make it different because we are both boys?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:22 pm
RF….Ok, would you like to debate the WMD subject. Being that the entire world including the Democrats voted to go into Iraq? Being that Iraq USED them on their own people. You can pretend that they were not there but evidence say’s otherwise.
Anyways I was referring to Iran. Do you have any doubt that they are attempting to produce a nuclear weapon?
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:22 pm
“josef: Is today a school holiday? I saw my neighbors kid at around 1pm. Didn’t know if he was off or suspended lol.”
Columbus Day! Federal Holiday. Banks and schools are closed.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
3:22 pm
“I think that all of the chickenhawks who supported going into Iraq had avoided service in *previous* conflicts”
That they supported.
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
“That’s when I started reading…”
Succinct, yet explains so much.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
Lee,
You have a reading problem.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
Of course some rednecks maintain that position still to this day.
Well this redneck wants to see you have a baby.
As to the “Romney kids” thing? All of his boys are man grown. But aside from that, Romney said in his little tough man speech that he wants to start two or three more wars. When someone wants to kill MY children I think it’s a valid question to ask why the hell neither he NOR one of his FIVE boys ever served.
Maybe if HIS children were the ones facing death in the military he wouldn’t be so quick to decide to start 2 or 3 more wars and might try to find a better solution.
So what war did you serve in? Where were YOUR drops?
RF
October 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
“But getting the voters emotionally riled up was the main point.”
Exactly- hence the lies about WMDs, etc. It made a LOT of defense contractors VERY rich, led to a sweeping election win in ‘04, and almost lifted the Republican party to domination for the next generation… then the truth started coming out, people got tired of the wars with no end, and the economy crashed.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
Getalife….No, you said “brilliant statesman, Mitt Romney”…..well said.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Lee,
No wmd’s in Iraq.
Do you know who “curveball” is?
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
“Tell a lie then say the other side lies, the GOP creed. Their track record is awful. He is not a very good choice and is behind.”–George Jefferson
DNC CHAIRWOMAN benched because she was caught telling LIES in the media…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/05/DWS-is-MIA
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Fred
I can only imagine what you posted in response to that.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Fred….so you dont there is ever a situation that our military should get involved an any conflict? Yup, keep enjoying those freedoms you take for granted.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Did people do something wrong to me for asking about my plans to serve?
What about when I discuss it with my son, who is 6?
Or does it make it different because we are both boys?
God I hate when folks go all deliberately obtuse. YOU used the Presidents daughter as fodder for your political argument. Quit trying to pretend you didn’t and that you are some kind of victim here. How pathetic can you be? You sound like that McCreary guy who at 28 years old watched a boy get anally raped and did nothing and NOW pretends like HE is the victim.
Grow up.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Lee,
He states on thing today but changes when questioned.
Weak.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Getalife…..Can you post complete sentences?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
Getalife……Who?
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
Lee,
Mitt is like a lizard that changes colors.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
Being that the entire world including the Democrats voted to go into Iraq?
I thought they all voted to let Bush make the decision, but I could be wrong.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
USMC: Columbus Day! Federal Holiday. Banks and schools are closed.
And those kids that got on the bus this morning were going where then? Conservacamp? If you can’t get the simple things correct, we are suppose to believe you on other things?
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Fred….so you dont there is ever a situation that our military should get involved an any conflict? Yup, keep enjoying those freedoms you take for granted.
+++++++++++++++
Are you really that stupid? Did I SAY that? I’ve BEEN in combat, I’ve BEEN shot. I’ve carried the dead bodies of team members back to the DZ ass wipe. Have you? I’ve killed and bled for my Country. Have you? Don’t EVEN hand me that talk radio crap. Learn to read and comprehend before you make asinine statements like that and you won’t look like such a jack ass.
Jezz, the stupid in here is getting over powering……..
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
Obama doubled down with a surge in Afghanistan that is wanting to kill people’s children.
Maybe not yours but it was someone’s.
That scale thing again, look that that guy shouldn’t be driving he had like 12 drinks, let the guy that only had 10.
Except for one is only words so far while the other has been actions.
Oh goodie you reverted back to the 8 or 9 year old argument and went with have a baby model.
So it’s your position then based on sexual organs one should be treated differently?
How far right and 1950s of you.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Fred….McCreary will rot for what he did.
And if memory serves me correctly the left didn’t treat the Bush twins too kindly either. I think family members of any president should be off limits. However when he accepts office he knows the baggage that comes along with it.
RF
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Lee: so where did the WMDs go in Iraq? I realize everyone in DC practically voted for the war- who wouldn’t considering the “intelligence” they were given? That’s the problem- the whole thing was based on innuendo and in some cases, outright manufactured BS to garner support.
What does that have to do with Iran developing a nuclear weapon? You said Iran HAS WMDs pointed at Israel….and then you bring up nuclear weapons they haven’t even been able to develop yet. So are you saying they actually have the WMDs you speak of?
Of course I don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Or North Korea or any of the unstable idiot countries over there, but many have them. They also know how suicidal it is to use them, so they just end up becoming a bluff in a very scary poker game. I don’t see Iran gaining that capability in the short term, and I think there are better ways to deal with them than to attack because they have something pointed at Israel.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:30 pm
Fred….thank you for your service but you use your tenure as a badge of honor versus a badge of valor. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
“Mitt is like a lizard that changes colors.”–Getalife
That sounds a LITTLE racist there, Getalife. Go easy.
josef
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
FRED
Marty says…
“Fine Fred you are a true southerner.”
Et ça c’est une bonne chose…dans mon opnion ancestralement uppity!
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Marty,
Leave the kids out of it sicko.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
“I thought they all voted to let Bush make the decision, but I could be wrong”
And it sure as HELL wasn’t the “entire world”!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Being that the entire world including the Democrats voted to go into Iraq?
Not intended to be a factual statement.
House of Representatives — Dems 82 yes 126 Nays
Senate — Dems — 29 Ayes 21 Nays.
The entire world?
Not even close.
Jack
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Israel is the only friend we have in that region. Try to imagine a future without that friendship.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:32 pm
RF….Please read the full comment before you respond. I asked you if you believed that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon. I never said they had one. Comprehension is a skill you have yet to master young one.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:32 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
God nobody really cares what you hate 1st of all. Most of us are just bored wasting time. You obviously take it a little but more serious than some.
I asked the same question that was being asked of Mitt and his sons.
You have a problem with that line of questioning because of her age and more importantly her gender.
Oh yeah forgot it does not jive with your way of thinking and thus it must be attacked.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
3:32 pm
Lee — “RF….Ok, would you like to debate the WMD subject. Being that the entire world including the Democrats voted to go into Iraq?”
Nope.
Several of our key allies that joined us for Desert Storm did *not* join us for the second dance in Iraq.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:33 pm
Kamchak….You do realize the world is bigger than the US? Correct?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:33 pm
Joe….and many of them did. Your point?
josef
October 8th, 2012
3:34 pm
FRED
Kids have a holiday. The employees have a furlough day…no pay for us…gotta keep the legal department funded, you know…
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:34 pm
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:30 pm
Fred….thank you for your service but you use your tenure as a badge of honor versus a badge of valor. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
++++++++++++++++
You are incorrect. When some jack ass like you asks an asinine question like you did and makes an erroneous assumption just so you can trot out a talk radio bumper sticker phrase I’m going to jump in your ass and set you straight.
Did you listen to the speech today OR read the transcript? If not then maybe you should before you comment on it. Jay streamed it here live and if you look at the first page of posts you will see that. I HEARD what Romney said out of his own mouth. I don’t need to have talk radio or FOX news tell me about it.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:34 pm
Jack,
mitt thinks we answer to Israel.
Weak.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
3:34 pm
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Umm
I think the record will show I was by far not the one who brought kids into the discussion.
Oh you mean only Romenys kids can be talked about. Understood will try to do better.
But just for you!
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:35 pm
I would ask you how Obama voted in the Senate for or against the war in Iraq. Wait a minute, he was not there on that day…..hmmmm he must have been hanging out with his boy J. Wright or another one of his terriorst William Ayers buddies.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
3:35 pm
“Et ça c’est une bonne chose…dans mon opnion ancestralement uppity!
”–jonix
Hey, cut out all PIG LATIN!
We are getting dizzy trying to keep up.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
3:36 pm
Lee — ” but you use your tenure as a badge of honor versus a badge of valor. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.”
I think that veterans can use their service for whatever the hell they want to, and that they don’t need anyone else’s permission for it.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:36 pm
Nice Marty: You got called square for picking on little girls and you can’t stand it. Do you beat your wife?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:36 pm
Fred…..”Jump in my ass”…….Are you friends with McCreary???? Gross.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:37 pm
Marty,
You are too sick to realize romney sons are adults.
Did you ask ryan;s kids to serve too sicko.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:38 pm
Joe….Did I say anyone needed permission for anything? WOW you guys are great.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
3:38 pm
Lee — “Joe….and many of them did. Your point?”
You said ‘the whole world,’ and that’s provably incorrect. In fact, we had fewer allies the second time around.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:38 pm
I cannot wait to see the V.P. debates. Ryan will abuse Biden worse that Romney whipped Obama.
getalife
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Lee,
Dead wrong.
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Joe….”provably” Sorry I do not understand that word.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Thanks josef: We don’t follow the “normal’ schedule so I never know.
I think i’ve had my fill of sock puppets and idiots today. When IS Kyle coming back. I know this mindless crap is perfectly normal to them and they love it over there, but it gets tiresome over here where people actually think……..
Woodstock Mike
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Great stuff on the “Obama phone”, not that Democrats really care what he does…
“One of the major providers of the free cell phones—3.8 million subscribers as of late 2011—is Miami-based TracFone Wireless, a company whose president and CEO, Frederick “F.J.” Pollak, has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign.
Pollak’s wife, Abigail, is a campaign bundler for Obama who has raised more than $632,000 for the president this cycle, and more than $1.5 million since 2007. She has personally contributed more than $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008.
The Pollaks hosted Obama at their Miami Beach home in June for a $40,000-per-plate fundraising dinner, and hosted a similar event with Michelle Obama in July 2008. The couple personally donated a combined $66,200 to Obama’s reelection effort that year.”
Jm
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
“Romney is a new Republican war monger who could literally invite a nuclear attack on the United States.”. -ramzad
Out of bounds.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
You do realize the world is bigger than the US? Correct?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Of the 48 states on the list, three contributed troops to the invasion force (the United Kingdom Australia and Poland)
You do realize the “the entire world” is bigger than 49 countries? Correct?
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
Getalife…..Nice comeback. I would have expected better from you Getalife.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
Lee –= “Joe….Did I say anyone needed permission for anything?”
You’re trying to tell us how we can and can’t discuss our military service.
“WOW you guys are great.”
Yes, we veterans ARE great. Not so sure about you, though.
mm
October 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
Obama still up 50 – 45 in Gallup poll.
And the electoral picture looks even bleaker.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
“I cannot wait to see the V.P. debates”
Then I have some bad news for you: you’re going to have to wait
Lee
October 8th, 2012
3:40 pm
Kamchak…..So now there are 48 states in the world. WOW, this is great. I needed a great laugh. Thank you.