At AIPAC, Romney Slams Obama Without Ever Mentioning His Name
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is getting lots of attention for his speech yesterday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Romney vigorously attacked President Obama's posture toward Iran, the Palestinians, and the Arab world at large—without ever mentioning the president by name.
Check out some of these thinly veiled attack lines:
The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical. Stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons. It will not. . . . Once an outstretched hand is met with a clenched fist, it becomes a symbol of weakness and impotence.
I am so very concerned by the current drift in our government's relationship with Israel. . . . In pursuit of a peace process, the United States today has exerted substantial pressure on Israel while putting almost no pressure on the Palestinians and the Arab world.
Inexplicably, the United States now places the burden on Israel to make still more unilateral concessions.
More than any other likely 2012 Republican candidate, Romney has picked up the Bush mantle of attacking Democrats for alleged weakness in confronting U.S. enemies in a war on terror. The title of Romney's forthcoming book: No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.
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I still believe in a country that is one Nation under God
It was God that said to "multiple and replenish the earth" and I have never come across anything that says God has rescinded that commandment. I still think God is in charge even when men want to take that role upon themselves.
GQ Candidate?
I'd argue that if Romney were in office today unemployment would be 2% pts below its current level. Look what he's done for every bottom line that he's touched (think Bain, Olympics, Mass Gov.).
Its the US economy that makes us strong and its too bad we don't have his fiscal savvy in the White House today...
Lori's praise of Reagan undeserved.. bad Gov. and Pres.
Reagan suffered from impaired memory some of the time he was in office. As Governor, he harmed our public education system & cut the number of people who graduted as professionals, especially in medical science. He was automatically a regent. With Catholic regent Mrs. Hearst who also preferred church schools, he imposed tuition on California's Land Grant colleges. His banker pals made high interest student loans. After graduation, many raise their fees to pay sooner those student loans. He closed most public health agencies. His pals built their own med centers & continue to profit from Medical-Medicare patients. Pres. Reagan banned using taxes to help poor nations regulate populations. So they produced more pauperized, starving kids. Along came church missionary groups on TV, begging money to "feed the poor." 15% of the money stayed with tax-exempt groups. RR said the pope guided his presidency. As Gov. he cut number of inspectors on public works projects. Men died when improperly-braced trenches collapsed. A young prisoner died when, ordered to change a big glass water-cooler bottle, had it break. He bled to death because there were too few guards to cover the big facility. Like Mitt, RR attacked civil liberties.
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