Romney rips Obama foreign policy at AIPAC gathering http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/romney-rips-obama-foreign-policy-at-aipac-gathering/ Likely (and former) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he’s concerned about current U.S. policy towards Israel in a speech to AIPAC. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-10-29T;22:27:00-05:00 Comment by Boaz Blaustein Boaz@Inbox.com Go away Romney, America does not need a President of Israel. America needs a President of the United States who will act in the interest of the United States. We have too many politico’s of your ilk now. Go away Romney, America does not need a President of Israel. America needs a President of the United States who will act in the interest of the United States. We have too many politico’s of your ilk now.

]]> 2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00 Comment by R. Keith Rugg rkrugg@aol.com Walid- If you want to make a point, then make it, and back it up.  What did Romney lie about?  What is he an ‘outright phony’ about?  To scream “Liar, liar, pants on fire, I hate you!” just makes you sound like a first-grader.  Or are you just biased against Mormons? Walid- If you want to make a point, then make it, and back it up.  What did Romney lie about?  What is he an ‘outright phony’ about?  To scream “Liar, liar, pants on fire, I hate you!” just makes you sound like a first-grader.  Or are you just biased against Mormons?

]]> 2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00 Comment by Walid Maaytah wmaaytah@kmc.jo To fool and lie to others is one thing and is bad enough, but to fool and lie to yourself is as delusional and pathetic as can be. It amazes me when normally intelligent people believe a liar, who is an outright phony, in and out, and any semi-literate idiot can tell that he’s bullshiting you and telling you what you want to hear; not because he gives a rat’s ass about you and your issues, but because he wants your support in the next election, and he’d say anything to get it. Romney is a mere multi-face, phony US politician, like the many others who came before him and put on one hell of an act - an act as phony and loathsome as he is. I have no respect for phonies like that, who would tell you what you want to hear and not a word of what they truly think of you - just another cheap US politician. And yet, he is revered and applauded, by politicians as pathetic as he is, as a true friend of Israel. How sad to those who buy into that and how pathetic. To fool and lie to others is one thing and is bad enough, but to fool and lie to yourself is as delusional and pathetic as can be. It amazes me when normally intelligent people believe a liar, who is an outright phony, in and out, and any semi-literate idiot can tell that he’s bullshiting you and telling you what you want to hear; not because he gives a rat’s ass about you and your issues, but because he wants your support in the next election, and he’d say anything to get it. Romney is a mere multi-face, phony US politician, like the many others who came before him and put on one hell of an act - an act as phony and loathsome as he is.

I have no respect for phonies like that, who would tell you what you want to hear and not a word of what they truly think of you - just another cheap US politician. And yet, he is revered and applauded, by politicians as pathetic as he is, as a true friend of Israel. How sad to those who buy into that and how pathetic.

]]> 2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00 Comment by Evan Zuesse tzur@optusnet.com.au What a wonderful speech.  It is clear that the American people chose the wrong person to be their next president: they chose pie-in-the-sky-bye-and-bye/yes-we-can over substance and real understanding of the moral and historical issues.  The mistake will take a long time being corrected, and meanwhile could lead to some very bad conflicts, actually (even if unintentionally) brought on and encouraged by the feeble American policies.  Obama’s almost lunatic placating of extremist groups around the world, strategy a la Chamberlain, actually furthers their agendas and advances their cause.  E.g., Iran is getting good cover and even indifference toward its domestic repression of dissidents, as it continues unimpeded toward the nuclear holocaust it wants, without any significant set-back from the Americans.  As for the Palestinians, why should they sit down to peace negotiations when the U.S. does its work for it against the Israelis, wringing more self-damaging concessions out of them for no reciprocal concessions from the Palestinians? Romney makes all these points, and more besides.  He is certainly right about the danger of the U.S. ignoring the Asia-Pacific region.  China is basically taking over there, or at least moving strongly in that direction.  It is very worrying, for example, that China’s government enterprises are trying to buy up almost all Australian mining companies, so that they can control the prices and the supplies of even essential trace elements in modern industry around the world.  They have had several set-backs thanks to some principled decisions by the Australian government, but the pressure continues, and has met some successes already.  The U.S. should focus more on the Asia-Pacific region, and not get its attention distracted by the intractable Palestinian refusal to make peace. Where are the Democratic critics of Obama making Romney’s absolutely essential points?  Not to be heard from. What a wonderful speech.  It is clear that the American people chose the wrong person to be their next president: they chose pie-in-the-sky-bye-and-bye/yes-we-can over substance and real understanding of the moral and historical issues.  The mistake will take a long time being corrected, and meanwhile could lead to some very bad conflicts, actually (even if unintentionally) brought on and encouraged by the feeble American policies.  Obama’s almost lunatic placating of extremist groups around the world, strategy a la Chamberlain, actually furthers their agendas and advances their cause.  E.g., Iran is getting good cover and even indifference toward its domestic repression of dissidents, as it continues unimpeded toward the nuclear holocaust it wants, without any significant set-back from the Americans.  As for the Palestinians, why should they sit down to peace negotiations when the U.S. does its work for it against the Israelis, wringing more self-damaging concessions out of them for no reciprocal concessions from the Palestinians?

Romney makes all these points, and more besides.  He is certainly right about the danger of the U.S. ignoring the Asia-Pacific region.  China is basically taking over there, or at least moving strongly in that direction.  It is very worrying, for example, that China’s government enterprises are trying to buy up almost all Australian mining companies, so that they can control the prices and the supplies of even essential trace elements in modern industry around the world.  They have had several set-backs thanks to some principled decisions by the Australian government, but the pressure continues, and has met some successes already.  The U.S. should focus more on the Asia-Pacific region, and not get its attention distracted by the intractable Palestinian refusal to make peace.

Where are the Democratic critics of Obama making Romney’s absolutely essential points?  Not to be heard from.

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