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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Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:40 pm
moonbat: That’s the same way I do my ribeyes but when I did the strips last time they were a little over cooked. (Kevin Rathburn did the green egg DVD I got with my egg and that’s how he said to do ribeyes).
OK. I’ll try it again. Thanks.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
4:40 pm
Willydoit — “Absolutely not! as the father of an U.S. Army Infantry man”
Hooah! I salute your son, sir!
I was Army Signal Corps; you can talk about us, but you can’t talk without us.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
4:41 pm
Fred
She’s the star of USA Network’s show Fairly Legal.
It is also my understanding that she also did some work on The L Word, but I haven’t seen any episodes of that show.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:41 pm
Marty Huggins’
October 8th, 2012
4:38 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:25 pm
That’s free defends against anyone asking if a young woman has plans to join the military.
But after dropping a bomb on babies……….
Well he would sleep like a baby
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Keep doubling down on stupid. I’m sure someone somewhere is impressed.
RF
October 8th, 2012
4:41 pm
“Absolutely not! as the father of an U.S. Army Infantry man, I would much rather BIG bomb the hell out of our enemies and keep our boys at home.”
Well, if you’d just said that to start with…
So, short of the big bomb, what do you see as a successful military strategy going forward? Do we keep up the current round of ground troop wars in all the ME hotspots, or do we find a more focused, strategic response using the technology and precision we have available? Seems to me we accomplish a lot more and look more like a strong military power when we use that versus the embarrassment too often caused of late by large scale ground wars.
moonbat betty (2 panties 1 wad)
October 8th, 2012
4:43 pm
“Mitt Romney is a loathsome turd.”
lol – what did he do to you?
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
4:43 pm
Kam
I don’t know where you pull all those names, but I generally know it’s worth it to click when you provide a link. Thanks again…
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
4:44 pm
willydoit:
“Absolutely not! as the father of an U.S. Army Infantry man, I would much rather BIG bomb the hell out of our enemies and keep our boys at home.”
So you must LOVE the current foreign policy of Barack Obama, then, right? Nothing is more “sanitary” and “surgical” than zapping people on a screen from the safety of a control room thousands of miles away, right?
moonbat betty (2 panties 1 wad)
October 8th, 2012
4:44 pm
Fred, depends on the thickness. Lower the time/temp a tad if thinner.
Boris Badnoff
October 8th, 2012
4:44 pm
Unquestionably Our Beloved Messiah’s Cairo speech in 2009 was the greatest and most significant speech since The Sermon on the Mount. It established peace for all time in the Middle East, East East, and West East. The fact that Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druids, Buddhists, Aztecs, and even atheists are working together to make a better world is more than enough reason to give this remarkable leader another 4 years as our god on earth. Daily we benefit from Jay Bookman listing the reasons for voting for the man who lower the seas which are almost as eloquent as Snoop Dog
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/10/18374-snoop-doggs-top-10-reasons-on-why-he-wont-vote-for-romney/
I await Jay rap musical.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:44 pm
What kind of idiot compares using a 14 year old girl as a political talking point because you hate her father with dropping a bomb during a war?
THAT is what passes for logic to a brain washed talk radio show listener. They are irreparably stupid, I’m telling you………
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:46 pm
Moonbat (two panties one wad): LO that cracked me up.
They are about an inch so I’ll do that. I have an extra one, want me to have it delivered lol? They came in a 4 pack from Sams. I ASKED my wife not to get meat from there……..
RF
October 8th, 2012
4:47 pm
“The fact that Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druids, Buddhists, Aztecs, and even atheists are working together to make a better world is more than enough reason to give this remarkable leader another 4 years as our god on earth.”
LOLOL!!! Please tell me that’s sarcasm, because if not I just have to pray you’re on the INSIDE of the state mental hospital…
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
4:47 pm
This is Mount Suribachi, the mountain on Iwo Jima where the flag was raised in the famous photo
Famous photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising.jpg
Mount Suribachi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iwo_Jima_Suribachi_DN-SD-03-11845.JPEG
Can you imagine having to fight your way up to the top of that?
No wonder the American attackers called it “Mount Sonofabitchi.”
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:47 pm
Boris Badnoff
October 8th, 2012
4:44 pm
Unquestionably Our Beloved Messiah’s Cairo speech in 2009 was the greatest and most significant speech since The Sermon on the Mount.
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Wow dude, you are delusional. He’s just a man. I know you might fantasize about him, and give him deity powers in your torrid little dreams, but he’s just a man……….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
4:50 pm
They came in a 4 pack from Sams. I ASKED my wife not to get meat from there……..
Of the few times that I have purchased those same 4 packs, I have always been pleased with the rib-eyes.
Good flavor and thick cut.
Got a couple of Angus chuck roasts that tasted great, but were a little chewy.
moonbat betty
October 8th, 2012
4:51 pm
Fred,
Yes, with one inch strips, cut the heat back and increase the time a little.
Luckily, it’s hard to f up on the egg.
If you have any left, throw the scraps on in here
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:52 pm
Brocephus: Did you see this?
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/attitudes-impediments-keep-black-men-from-the-poll/nSXR6/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
4:53 pm
Sermon on the mount?
Blessed are the cheese-makers.
moonbat betty
October 8th, 2012
4:54 pm
To bad Bush Co. wimped out. They couldld have dropped some nukes in Tora Bora we could have ended their ass right there, but the libs would have gone wet cat crazy!
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:55 pm
Alrighty then, thank Kam and Betty. I’ve had them sitting out since about 1 to get to room temperature.
I’d toss you one betty, but I think I heard Kam’s truck pull up outside……….
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
4:57 pm
“but the libs would have gone wet cat crazy!”
Do you know why the Army abandoned the use of soldier-carried tactial nuclear weapons?
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:58 pm
Damn. I HAVE to get that movie. I’ve never seen the Life of Brian.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:59 pm
No Doggone, why?
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
4:59 pm
“That’s free defends against anyone asking if a young woman has plans to join the military.”
Your definition of young woman is terrifying.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
5:01 pm
You didn’t build that
Kam, you’re right. It was part of the Dream Act….or was it page 258761 of Obamacare? I forget.
But I did demand to see her birth certificate and birthday suit. 
Paul
October 8th, 2012
5:01 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
My dad was on an Infantry Landing Shop in the South Pacific in WWII. Can see his ship in the background in MacArthur’s coming ashore in the Philippines.
It’s been only the past few years he’s opened up about those times – not just events on his ship and others in the midst of kamikaze attacks, but also picking up the troops on some of those islands when they’d been fighting for a week or a month.
I can really see why he didn’t talk about it for years.
BTW – he was the acting chief of the ship – was in charge of the engine room – at 19 years old. The captain they called ‘the old man.’ He was mid-twenties.
People grow up fast when they have to.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:02 pm
“No Doggone, why?”
Give it a little while, I’m curious to see of the “gung-ho, bomb ‘em to hell” babe knows.
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:02 pm
moonbat betty: “lol – what did he do to you? ”
Plenty.
td
October 8th, 2012
5:05 pm
Now even Pew has Romney with a lead: 49% to 45%.
http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/08/romneys-strong-debate-performance-erases-obamas-lead/
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:05 pm
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:02 pm
moonbat betty: “lol – what did he do to you? ”
Plenty.
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Do you have pictures?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 8th, 2012
5:05 pm
Damn. I HAVE to get that movie. I’ve never seen the Life of Brian.
I KNEW you were ignorant and undereducated!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
5:05 pm
Keep
I have seen photographic evidence of her birthday suit.
The box 23/26 joke just writes itself, don’t it?
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:06 pm
Doggone: Damn. That means I’ll miss the answer. I’m about to go upstairs and cook and doubt I’ll be back down. I HATE when I’m listening to the radio (talk radio) and the host teases something and goes into break. 90% of the time I never hear it because I either get to where I’m going or change channels…….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
5:07 pm
unskewedpolls guy looks at new Pew Poll and unskews it to show Romney leading Obama 119% to negative 42%.
Heh, heh, heh.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
5:07 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
4:41 pm
Awed the big bad Tough southerner boy doesn’t want to play anymore.
Tell us all some more about how you could drop a bomb on innocent children and sleep well tough guy
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:08 pm
An extremely virulent, vicious new strain of capitalism is being unleashed on the world. No one should underestimate the destruction that is going to be wrought.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:08 pm
“Doggone: Damn. That means I’ll miss the answer.”
Nah, it’s been long enough…if she was going to look it up so she could pretend to know, she would have done it by now.
They were abandoned because nuclear weapons are not predictable enough in their “area of influence” to be able to guarantee they wouldn’t also kill the soldiers who launched them.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
5:09 pm
” I HATE when I’m listening to the radio (talk radio) and the host teases something and goes into break. 90% of the time I never hear it because I either get to where I’m going or change channels…….”
I sure hope that isn’t RUSH LIMBAUGH you are listening to, Fred.
pogo
October 8th, 2012
5:09 pm
Seems the old saying “righty tighty, lefty loosey” no longer hold true (at least in politics). The left with its incompetent and lazy candidate Obama have gotten so tight you couldn’t drive a straight pin up their butts with a sledgehammer. As is proven here (and every where else in the leftist media) on a daily basis, the more vitriolic and hostile the hosts such as Jay and Luckovich and their dens of suckling liberal puppies become, the more it becomes evident that the democrats are sweating bigtime. They should be. At this point is going to change their level of enthusiasm about this campaign and they are not going to change their minds on who to vote for. And that should be keeping you Dims up at night. What is really funny is that you Dims have “out liberaled” yourselves. You have made your entitlement base so lazy by giving them everything they need (courtesy of the working taxpayers) without having to do anything they aren’t even going to bother to vote this time. Watch and see what the numbers look like next month.
bman
October 8th, 2012
5:09 pm
Does anyone here have a job?
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:09 pm
Fred: “Do you have pictures?”
Look around you.
Listen.
Read.
You’ll see what I mean.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
“Does anyone here have a job?”
How can we be part of the 47% if we have jobs?
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
Fred
I missed that one. I can’t go as far as Rep. Cleaver went, but I understand his sentiment. It pisses me off to no end that we (Black men) will know everything about the latest pair of Jordans or TI release, but don’t know diddly squat when it comes to politics. I do what I can to talk to the younger people about the necessity of voting, but until voting happens on the Playstation or XBox platform, I don’t hold out much hope.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
You abandoned all pretense at informed debate hours ago Marty. You are just trolling for attention now. Go beat your wife.
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
pogo: “The left with its incompetent and lazy candidate Obama have gotten so tight you couldn’t drive a straight pin up their butts with a sledgehammer”
You can just stop right there.
Barack Obama is in no way, shape, or form a politician of the “left”. I don’t know of any serious thinking left person who would claim him.
JamVet
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
I sure hope that isn’t RUSH LIMBAUGH you are listening to, Fred.
Who needs that disgraced gasbag?
We’ve got Rush Jr here on a daily basis!
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:14 pm
Thanks Doggone.
USMC: I sure hope that isn’t RUSH LIMBAUGH you are listening to, Fred.
Nope. I NEVER liked his stupid ass. I’ll tell you why some time when I have more time. And I mean I never liked him when I was a card carrying talk radio brainwashed sheep. I don’t like Cain either.
bob
October 8th, 2012
5:15 pm
For all you people saying Romney lied about his tax cuts not costing 5 trillion please read. It seems the economist the Obama camp is “quoting” says the Obama people are mis-representing his stance, a nice way to call them liars ….http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/princeton-economist-obama-campaign-misrepresenting-my-study-romneys-tax-plan_653917.html
They lied about Joe Sestak and they lied about the embassy bombings and you people can’t admit it.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:15 pm
Brocephus: I didn’t realize that once a prison sentence was fully served (including probation) that a convicted felon could vote. I always thought it was a life time ban.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:16 pm
“Thanks Doggone”
No problem…wanna bet she misses the point entirely?
bman
October 8th, 2012
5:16 pm
“I sure hope that isn’t RUSH LIMBAUGH you are listening to”
I think we’d all be supposed to know how many people who dont like ltalk radio and fox news tune in…
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:17 pm
“I always thought it was a life time ban.”
Depends on the state, and sometimes on the crime.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 8th, 2012
5:17 pm
It seems the economist the Obama camp is “quoting” says the Obama people are mis-representing his stance, a nice way to call them liars …
drudgey spam, fourth time posted.
bman
October 8th, 2012
5:17 pm
__surprised
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
5:20 pm
Fred
It varies state by state. There are only 3 states that automatically reinstitutes voting rights upon completion of the sentence, if I remember correctly. Most of the states require some legal hoops to jump through upon completion of the sentence and probation before rights can be restored.
I can’t understand why it isn’t automatic across the board. Regardless to whether you view prison as a punishment or rehab stint, once the sentence is done, that debt has been paid to society. You can’t expect someone to become a productive member of society when you purposefully limit their rights to becoming productive.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:22 pm
“I can’t understand why it isn’t automatic across the board. Regardless to whether you view prison as a punishment or rehab stint, once the sentence is done, that debt has been paid to society.”
In general I agree…but I would make at least one exception: if you are convicted of voting fraud, you lose your right to vote for life.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
5:24 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
Yep cause that first post you had directed at me questioning my man hood really set the tone for debate.
Just because you disagree doesn’t mean you are right.
Why bring up beating my wife again Fred? I would agree my wife’s hot but I don’t think we need to talk about her this much.
Do you have a wife?
That’s real southern of you to bring a mans wife into something.
You showed yourself to not care about children if you could bomb them and sleep well at night!
Go Call of Duty!
So any outrage you pretend over me asking as simple of a question as has a 14 year old given any thought to the military kinda rings silent.
Gotta give you credit though you got the fake tough guy routine down to an art!
getalife
October 8th, 2012
5:27 pm
bob,
I bet mitt changes his positions he said today.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
5:28 pm
Doggone — “They were abandoned because nuclear weapons are not predictable enough in their “area of influence” to be able to guarantee they wouldn’t also kill the soldiers who launched them.”
I believe you are talking about Davy Crocketts.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:28 pm
Have another beer and beat on your wife some more. Maybe find a 14 year old girl in your trailer park to beat on as well. It will make you feel like a REAL man…………
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
5:29 pm
Doggone
I wouldn’t argue against that one, and I am a firm believer that every eligible person should be able to vote.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:31 pm
“I believe you are talking about Davy Crocketts”
I never actually heard what they were named, so I’ll have to take your word for it!
USMC
October 8th, 2012
5:32 pm
More BAD news for the Obama Campaign…
PEW: R 49% O 45%
Romney’s Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama’s Lead
http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/08/romneys-strong-debate-performance-erases-obamas-lead/
willydoit?
October 8th, 2012
5:32 pm
“I was Army Signal Corps; you can talk about us, but you can’t talk without us.”
Thank you for your service! My son is stationed in D.C. right now, he is Old Gaurd.
“Do we keep up the current round of ground troop wars in all the ME hotspots, or do we find a more focused, strategic response using the technology and precision we have available?”
Not sure that we will ever be able to bring them all home if we want to keep some kind of presence there, but I do think our technology could be used more effectively than having to keep so many on the ground.
“So you must LOVE the current foreign policy of Barack Obama, then, right? Nothing is more “sanitary” and “surgical” than zapping people on a screen from the safety of a control room thousands of miles away, right?”
I can’t argue with you on that aspect.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
5:33 pm
Doggone — “I never actually heard what they were named, so I’ll have to take your word for it!”
Is this what you were referring to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Skip
October 8th, 2012
5:34 pm
So we no longer question if we should go to war, just how we go. What the h have we become.
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
5:34 pm
I don’t have any numbers, but I would be surprised if the percentage of folks who are currently serving prison terms or parole is all that high to begin with.
That said, restoring the right to vote after sentence completion is a very cheap way to to at least pretend to re-engage someone in civil society and would do more good than harm.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:36 pm
“Is this what you were referring to?”
Sure looks like it!
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:36 pm
“So we no longer question if we should go to war, just how we go. What the h have we become.”
Realistic. Only dreamers believe we can make the world a place where there is NEVER a need for a war.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
5:41 pm
Doggone — “Sure looks like it!”
I would not want to be anywhere NEAR one of those things. Don’t care if I were the gunner or the target. That thing just looks like a bad idea all around.
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
5:42 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:28 pm
Oh goody tough guy Call of Duty wants to play some more.
What level are you on now?
Is there something wrong with trailer parks?
You better than them?
I mean I don’t live in one. Don’t live in a mansion either.
But hey why would you stop now with the sophomoric made up insults now right.
Do you have a wife, girlfriend, boyfriend? Anyone or thing that loves u besides your mom?
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:44 pm
“I would not want to be anywhere NEAR one of those things. Don’t care if I were the gunner or the target. That thing just looks like a bad idea all around”
Yep! And testing proved you completely correct!
RF
October 8th, 2012
5:44 pm
“So we no longer question if we should go to war, just how we go. What the h have we become.”
Skipper, I’ve been a leftie for a long time, and even I know that military action of some type happens often. One could argue that since 1950 or so we’ve been involved in too many conflicts not directly related to us, but one could also argue that we became the guardian of democracy in much of the world for a long time post-WWII. Considering the volatile state of the Middle East, especially since the Arab Spring, I think it’s a fair assumption we’ll see a good number of situations that could need a military response from the USA. Iraq and Afghanistan aside, we have reasons to be ready to respond to a threat. How we do that is the question for me, and I think the massive ground forces ideology hasn’t worked well since WWII. We can, and we’ve proved it, go after specific individuals successfully on a very small scale. But, we have to accept that those situations will exist, regardless of political affiliation. I’m all against the gluttony of the defense contractors who make way too much profit off of the ground force wars and I believe we can reign in defense spending and remain just as strong, if not stronger in the eyes of the world. But that will take a strategic shift in the military mindset in the Pentagon and WH. What we’ve become is a world leader, and that comes with some responsibility to respond…tactfully and only forcefully when absolutely no other option exists.
Brosephus™
October 8th, 2012
5:45 pm
Hey, I have a quick test for y’all. I was looking at the AJC ballot thingie to see the candidate’s stances in all my choices. Can you correctly pair the statement with the party based on this:
Q: If elected, what would be your three (3) top policy priorities and how would you work to achieve results?
#1: 1.**************.
2.With the help of the Board, find a way to give the County employees some type of increase in their pay, raise and/or COLA.
3.Explore all options to provide the employees with a better health care plan.
#2: 1.Economic Development with Job Creation including small business growth, opportunities and resources.
2. Public Safety.
3. ***************.
I would achieve these priorities through Public Private Partnerships to increase Henry County’s Commercial Tax Digest being inclusive of various industries both domestic and international along with small business growth and expansion. Effective communications, leadership skills and government transparency pertaining to all aspects of how Henry County does business will be open to every citizen.
I purposefully left off one answer in each that would probably make it easy to determine which is which.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
5:46 pm
Doggone — “Yep! And testing proved you completely correct!”
How did you become aware of them? Family member in the Army? General interest in the topic? Stumbled on them while linksurfing?
ld
October 8th, 2012
5:48 pm
The Republican party is the party of the religious zealots in this nation. In the name of “religious freedom” the zealots of the majority Christian religion have been seeking to have its dogma enacted into law, even though doing so is seriously detrimental to our freedom and, therefore, determental to nothing less than the very founding purpose of our nation.
The moneyed investor employer class, which is the actual ownership of the GOP brand, have made the proverbial “deal with the devil” in pursuit of votes: Betting their future power that religious zealotry is within all other demographics, they have abandoned any pretense of libertarian social policy in favor of a policy of pseudo-theocracy to curry favor and gain votes — to get the one-issue “values voters” to go to the polls in a religious stupor and vote Republican, usually contrary to their own economic best interest.
Republicans aggressively seek to deny women individual liberty with regard to their personal medical and reproductive choices.
Republicans aggressively seek to deny equal right under law to any person that chooses a lifestyle of which they disapprove.
Republicans aggressively seek to divert funds from public schools into private religious schools via voucher programs, seek to teach children religion at taxpayer expense to reinforce the brainwashing of children with religion and to indoctrinate future generations of the “follower class” to be “meek” and passive as the wealthy thrive under Republican* rule, while the employee class live lives of sharecroppers and indentured servants — awaiting their reward in some hereafter. (* “How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich”, Rolling Stone, NOV 2011)
Putting religion back in schools will result in teaching children, as Georgia’s member of the US Congress Paul Brown has “learned” and recently public announced, that the earth is, supposedly, only thousands of years old rather than millions of years old along with other myths.
With religion in our schools, there is the risk that our children will taught that women are somehow less equal to men and less able to make their own decisions — that they should be subserviant helpmates to men, as most religions teach.
Religion will also be a disaster for science and, therefore, our nation’s ability to compete in the global marketplace in the future, a serious threat to our future economic well being.
Republican religious zealots in control of the Administrative branch of our government also puts them in control of our military. This is also, potentially, a disaster for foreign policy as it will polarize powerful Islamic extremists against powerful Christian extremists (and vice versa) at a time when mid-east tension has already given rise to speculation among the zealots that we are at the beginning of their anticipated “end times” — when the zealots of each flavor actually believe all others not sharing their beliefs will be vanquished.
The right-wing religious zealots of every flavor, whether consciously / deliberately or not, seem to be pursuing their self-fulfilling prophecy of Armageddon with the expectation that their “god” will arrive to destroy all the “nonbelievers” — all people that do not believe as they believe.
We do NOT need more neo-con wars in the mideast to win “hearts and minds” of zealots. Zealots cannot, by force, alter the beliefs of other zealots. Afganistan and Iraq are proof it is costly folly to try. “Just” wars are to defend the nation by killing the enemy or enough of them to prompt surrender and/or end of hostility. Wars based on lies and/or fearmongering and wars of the Republican neo-con self-rightous “Bush” ilk — wars attempting to “liberate” others from their own chosen primitive mindset and “nationbuilding” — have proven to be and would again be costly failures. (The current Republican candidate for president has those same neocon advisors.)
Religion “informing” — guiding — foreign policy is costly and dangerous.
As domestic policy, Religion is the current Republican flavor for social, medical, science and domestic social policy and it represents nothing less than tyranny for those of the female half of the population who believe in individual liberty and equal right under law.
If the Republican party will not accept science but insists children should be taught the ancient myths of religion in education, if they will not accept that women have the right of individual liberty — will not yield to women the right to exercise their own “free will” HERE, in our own homeland — because of religious zealotry; and if Republicans will not accept that then in a nation where freedom actually exists each person must be able to make their own most personal decisions about their own lifestyles without being penalized by denying them equal right under law, then how can we NOT expect them to guide foreign policy in accord with their religious zealotry and, therefore, in active pursuit of that “self-fulfilling prophecy of Armageddon” — in pursuit of the “second coming” in which they so wholeheartedly believe?
pogo
October 8th, 2012
5:48 pm
And the Obama Whitehouse congratulates Chavez on his victory. Why shouldn’t they? Obama would like America to be just like Venezuela and Cuba as long as he and Michelle can live in their mansions and live like kings. Obama would never be able live under the socialist policies he is so enamoured of and he won’t have to because he is rich. What he loves about socialism is the power that is to gained by his and the government’s ability to mandate how the the poor and the middle class are going to live. He loves the power. He and Michelle can eat filet mignon with truffles as often as they want while telling the rest of us we should be willing to “cut down”. That is the way with tin-pot ideoligical leaders and that is exactly what Obama is. No substance.
Look before I leap...
October 8th, 2012
5:48 pm
“Yep! And testing proved you completely correct!”
Not a good weapon to have jam on you (and your platoon) either.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:48 pm
“How did you become aware of them?”
Show on Discover Channel. Saw it just the other day, but I never did catch the name of it…I just happened to turn to that channel in time to see the part about those weapons.
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:50 pm
Do you have a wife, girlfriend, boyfriend? Anyone or thing that loves u besides your mom?
Ah, I predicted at 2:28 you or your other sock puppet persona would attack my mom. I see you have this thing about attacking women. But alas, she’s been dead now for 25 years now son. It was only a matter of time before you went there.
See, you don’t read much and the more you drink the less coherent you become lol. It’s blatantly obvious.
Come on now, “call me out.” Talk trash about my dad. You are so predictable.
Time to go fire up the green egg, the girls will be home soon. Sorry, you can’t beat these women, I know you want to, but you can’t. You’ll have to stick with the ones in your trailer park.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
5:51 pm
“And the Obama Whitehouse congratulates Chavez on his victory.”
And there’s your clue…
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
October 8th, 2012
5:51 pm
More BAD news for the Obama Campaign…
PEW: R 49% O 45%
Romney’s Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama’s Lead
http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/08/romneys-strong-debate-performance-erases-obamas-lead/
Meh. Obama still has a huge advantage in Electoral College.
Its still his to lose.
Debate 1 Collapse; Hempstead - Collapse Part II
October 8th, 2012
5:53 pm
Richard McCargar
The nice thing about the first debate was that for the first time in his presidency, Obama couldn’t run nor hide from an appraisal of his first term, from Romney.
And Romney treated him like an employee who had failed, and failed dramatically.
Obama knew that all could see him, in his moment of shame.
No matter how he tries to spin it, we all saw what happened when he had to stand alone and account for his time as manager of the executive branch.
He was publicly shamed, and there was nothing he could do but stand there, eyes down, and take it.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
October 8th, 2012
5:54 pm
“And the Obama Whitehouse congratulates Chavez on his victory.”
Damn that’s some spin.
What they actually did was this.
White House congratulates Venezuelan people on election, cites differences with Chavez
But that doesn’t fit the narrative does it ?
Marty Huggins'
October 8th, 2012
5:54 pm
Fred ™
October 8th, 2012
5:50 pm
Wow stretching that hard cannot only pull but possibly tear a muscle.
Sayin your mom loves you is attacking her?
Really!
Always in such a hurry to proclaim yourself right.
Wasn’t it you who brought anyone from our personal lives into this?
Hypocrit why am I shocked
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
October 8th, 2012
5:55 pm
The nice thing about the first debate was that for the first time in his presidency, Obama couldn’t run nor hide from an appraisal of his first term, from Romney.
I think he was more shocked at which Romney showed up.
Its tough to debate someone whos position changes daily. How could you ?
USMC
October 8th, 2012
5:55 pm
“Meh. Obama still has a huge advantage in Electoral College.”
Okie Dokie. Did you ever play the violin in the Titanic Trio???
Two Parties, One Con (Welcome)
October 8th, 2012
5:55 pm
pogo, do you have any clue at all?
Do you really think that Obama would be caught dead congratulating Chavez without this piddling little expression of “differences” with Chavez they put out?
Obama wants nothing to do with Chavez because he, like the entire US ruling establishment, has nothing but contempt for him. Believe me, the people in the Obama team welcomed the news of the Chavez victory like news of a death. They needed it like a hole in their head.
You might want to try crawling out of your little FOX News dirt hole sometime. The world’s actually a little bit more surprising a place than you seem to think.
A TAT
October 8th, 2012
5:57 pm
From what I’m reading there’s not a whole lot of daylight between Romney’s approach to Afghanistan and Obama’s.
‘We’re Not Going Anyplace’
Obama says that while the U.S. combat mission will end in December 2014, not all American troops will be coming home. The president signed a 10-year strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in May, which says the U.S. will help target al-Qaida and train Afghan troops.
In his speech in Afghanistan in May, Obama described that agreement.
“We’ll work with the Afghans to determine what support they need to accomplish two narrow security missions beyond 2014: counterterrorism and continued training,” he said.
Right after the agreement was signed, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, “The most important point is that we’re not going anyplace.”
“We have an enduring presence that will be in Afghanistan. We’ll continue to work with them on counterterrorism,” Panetta said. “We’ll continue to provide training assistance and guidance, we’ll continue to provide support.”
Romney advisers say the governor also wants an “enduring presence” in Afghanistan, but he hasn’t been as specific about what that presence will look like. Military commanders, for their part, are considering 10,000 or more troops.
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/oct/08/afghanistan-deadline-awaits-next-us-president/
Keeping the Taliban guessing?
That’s a good thing.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
5:57 pm
“But that doesn’t fit the narrative does it ?”
No, that’s not what RUSH LIMBAUGH told us today on his radio show.
Doggone/GA
October 8th, 2012
5:58 pm
“Not a good weapon to have jam on you (and your platoon) either”
Well, from what they were saying…it wasn’t a good weapon to have around you and your men even if it was working perfectly!
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
October 8th, 2012
5:59 pm
Okie Dokie. Did you ever play the violin in the Titanic Trio???
No
barking frog
October 8th, 2012
6:00 pm
We are now the world
policeman. Charge for it,
Don’t just pay the UN for
the priviliege. Iraq was left
with a budget surplus,
debt free and 29 cent per
gallon gas and a rebuilt
country. If that’s war then
invade Georgia, the US has
done it before.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 8th, 2012
6:01 pm
Look — “Not a good weapon to have jam on you (and your platoon) either.”
During one field exercise I was on in the Army, my team was attached to a mortar platoon that was conducting a live-fire. The mortarmen didn’t want the stoopid signal guys (us) handling their weapons or ammo, so we just crouched or knelt down in the tall grass and watched them hang round after round onto their target. Most of us signalmen had never seen a mortar fired up close before, so we just kept quiet and watched.
We didn’t know it, but apparently if a mortar round doesn’t fire when dropped, there’s a trigger mechanism or something on the weapon that can be employed to kick the round out and downrange. So the mortarmen decided to pull a fast one on us Signal guys. They dropped one round in the tube and instead of the hollow THOOP noise of the round being fired, there was a loud, metallic CLANK, immediately followed by about three or four mortarmen saying OHS**T.
You never saw three signalmen run faster or heard a mortar team laugh more loudly. Then they pulled the trigger mechanism and fired the round downrange.
Granny Godzilla
October 8th, 2012
6:09 pm
My most excellent prediction.
Romney remains toast.
No butter. No margarine. No jam.
Plain dry over done toast.
Who has time for blog a thons?
Gotta steam the veggies.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
6:09 pm
“Romney outlines “tough” foreign policy approach”–JAY BOOKMAN
Jay, we note your BLUSTER.
USMC
October 8th, 2012
6:11 pm
“Romney remains toast.”
Yeah but a good quality piece of Rye toast doesn’t need all of those sugary tricks and glitter that your piece of WONDER bread needs.
josef
October 8th, 2012
6:11 pm
FRED
You’ll like Life of Brian…!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE&feature=related
getalife
October 8th, 2012
6:13 pm
mitt’s warmongers are on cnn wanting to engage more with Syria.
That 2 trillion increase will pay for it.
Want more war, vote gop.