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Romney’s Must Win Situation
Tonight, he will need to distinguish himself from Obama and McGovern.
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According to a Washington Post report, in a 2009 meeting with Jewish leaders, Obama complained about the lack of progress between Israel and Palestinians saying, “During [the past] eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that? When there is no daylight, Israel just sits on the sidelines, and that erodes our credibility with the Arab states.”
Obama wants Israel to retreat to its pre-1967 war borders, which are not defensible. In 2011, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta scolded the Israelis for the lack of progress on peace with the Palestinians and said that Israel needed to pursue peace: “Just get to the damn table,” said Panetta.
Romney has said there should be no daylight between the U.S. and Israel. But he needs to say more. He needs to say that Obama has adopted as American policy the false notion that Israel is the problem. Palestinian leaders — and their allies in the Arab world — are the problem and Romney should say that in just those words.
Israel, Romney should say, is more isolated than Iran because Obama believes Iran is a lesser threat than Israelis building apartments in Jerusalem. And he needs to say that Israeli PM Netanyahu was exactly right in his UN speech. We need to join Israel in setting a “red line” Iran must not cross on penalty of decisive military action. Romney should say that any negotiation with Iran must include Israel.
Obama accuses Romney of wanting to “start another war” over Iran’s nuclear program. Romney should say that war is a last resort, but because Obama let Iran continue its nuclear weapons program, the chances for a peaceful resolution are much smaller now than they were four years ago.
Romney will, and should, attack Obama’s devastating cuts to the Pentagon budget. Obama has already imposed about $500 billion in cuts over the next decade and the “sequestration” coming in January will add another $600 billion over the same period.
Those cuts make the “Pacific shift” Obama proclaimed hollow. Obama has no plans — and no budget — to build the ships and aircraft that could be deployed to make the shift of significant American strength to challenge China possible. There will be no shift. We know it, the Chinese know it, and so do our allies in the region such as Japan.
The problem in that for Romney is his own prescription for military spending, which would include items such as fifteen new navy ships per year, including at least two nuclear submarines. Romney’s plan sounds good, but his problem is parallel to Obama’s: how do we pay for it? Even under Paul Ryan’s budget, the exemption of the defense budget from massive cuts doesn’t pay for the huge expansion — in trillions of dollars — that his military proposals would cost.
Romney will try to tie national security to economic security. In truth, they are inseparable. Obama’s policies have forestalled economic growth and will continue to do so, making it impossible for us to spend what we need to in order to ensure our nation’s security. But voters won’t believe Romney’s economic ideas are an answer to Obama’s foreign policy failures.
Obama’s foreign policy hasn’t protected American interests or asserted American values. If Romney doesn’t demonstrate the major differences his policies would impose, he will lose tonight and, probably, on November 6.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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Appleby| 10.22.12 @ 6:23AM
I am waiting for these debates to be over, because they aren't getting us anywhere. I expect this one to be another shouting match with the "moderator" either shoved out of the way or taking Obama's side; and I don't think it will do any good either way.
Jack in Wi| 10.22.12 @ 6:58AM
If Romney puts forth a more moderate foreign policy program he will win the debate. If he goes out with a program like Mr. Babbin sujects he will lose the debate and election. The people are sick of wars and warmongers. Romney so far has hurt himself with foreign policy. He does not know much about it and he makes mistakes. Perhaps he has his act together. I hope so. Either way there isn't a dimes worth of diffeence between Obama, Bush and Romney. The one that lies the best on how much he is for peace will win the debate. Obama is the best liar and will proabaly win.
PCC| 10.22.12 @ 7:30AM
I respect Mr. Babbin and his opinions.
Nevertheless, I agree with Jack.
Firstly, Mr. Romney can win the election by pledging to remove all U.S. troops from the AfPak toilet the day after he is inaugurated.
Secondly, let's stop the warmongering (Mr. McCain's speciality).
Peace through strength should be our motto, not peace through endless sacrificing of U.S. military lives and limbs. What are the drones and bombers for but to save American lives and interests?
Foreign policy, the topic of the upcoming debate, should include relations with Canada (build the pipeline), Mexico (treat the drug wars as the urgent national security that it is), China (a largely mutually beneficial relationship with some important sore points on IP protection, cyber warfare and unwarranted belligerence in the South China Sea), free trade agreements (which, horror of horrors, require the U.S. to compete in global markets instead of doling out corporate welfare to farmers and other favored lobbies), and insisting that NATO allies either carry their weight or enjoy their so-called post-conflict defense policies on their own.
That's just for starters.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 8:42AM
That wasn't bad for starters. I agree with everything you said. I would get out of Afghanistan on Day 1, with the Absolute Pledge to Annihilate Everything, from the Sky, should they ever Fck with us again. Our Fathers and Grandfathers did it in Germany and Japan, and it's worked out pretty well so far.
I would Promise the same form of Retaliation for any further attacks on our Embassies.
Bring the Rain.
I prefer the Cluster Bomb, and the Daisy Cutter for these kinds of Nuisances.
Don't you?
Oh, and if anyone is thinking that there won't be some kind of Clusterfck Faux Retaliation on Libya by President By Any Means Necessary?
Think again.
c. j. acworth| 10.22.12 @ 8:48AM
I think we should arm our embassy guards with flamethrowers. I wonder if we still have any in an old military warehouse someplace. Anyone know if we still have them in our inventory?
Bob K| 10.22.12 @ 9:45AM
Carrying those things around would make them walking bombs and targets for snipers!
Harry the Horrible| 10.22.12 @ 2:37PM
put 'em in turrets with the fuels below ground. No problems there. Worked on flamethrowing tanks and APCs.
Anthony| 10.22.12 @ 10:48AM
Too bad Homeland Security didn't purchase several million flamethrowers in addition to billions of rounds of ammo. Maybe they did for all we know.
Perhaps we should put II Duce's grand daughter Janet in charge of embassy security; she apparently has all the right equipment and is armed to the teeth.....problem is, she's saving her stash for us, not terrorists.
As we know with Obozo and his leftist cohorts, conservatives are the biggest threat to leftism.
SUBVET| 10.22.12 @ 12:35PM
Yes.......it's call NAPALM
Cobalt| 10.22.12 @ 9:40AM
As long as it's going to rain, don't forget the fuel-air bomb (thermobaric weapon) and the MOAB.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 11:53AM
Yeah.
I like those.
The ones that take the Mountaintops clean off.
As long as it's gonna Rain, let it POUR.
SSG Baker| 10.22.12 @ 10:15AM
Logistically leaving Afghanistan is going to take more time than the day the President is inugurated. Be realistic on that, however, the bomb them to oblivion part, I am all for that.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 11:56AM
I love the smell of Scorched Earth in the morning. It smells like Sh*t, from all of these burning Goat Lickers.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 1:58PM
I would get out of Afghanistan AFTER I destroyed a few Taliban strongholds to the last man and spiked the dead men's heads.
They are vermin, Tim. They understand only force and pain. Kill a few thousand of them with overwhelming force and pitiless violence and then leave with the promise.
As for Bengazi, it should already be toast, and a subtle threat should be made to Cairo. A couple of bunker busters on the Aswan Dam and massive chaos will result.
Warrior| 10.22.12 @ 5:59PM
All you have to do is arm (actually rearm) the Northern Alliance. They are a natural enemy of the Taliban. Libya and Egypt would not have caused any issues if the Marxist would have not have put the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Queda in control.
Bob K| 10.22.12 @ 9:52AM
You are talking good sense here.
There are many important issues involving foreign policy than simply concerns about Iran.
SUBVET| 10.22.12 @ 12:33PM
Jack...........there you go again about WAR.
You are a POS coward.......
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 4:09PM
Jack was right, we were wrong: no matter what Romney does Afghanistan will not be a nation and Iraq will merely stumble on. Bombings will continue there and in (as last week) Lebanon plus several-- perhaps dozens-- of countries.
I'm not going to watch the debate tonight because the outcome is drearily predictable.. Romney will rightly point out what a cock-up Benghazi was/is; it will be too embarassing to watch Obama squirm, I like him as a person (and feel sorry for him that his veep turned out to be such an asshole). This is a foreign affairs piece so I'll go into why the domestic screw-ups (e.g. Solyndra) are also quite embarassing.
Postwar foreign affairs, when you factor in Ike, Nixon-Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, is the GOPs strong card.
the Dems had only Truman--
and Clinton was a Jerry Brown go-with-the-flow-type.
sweatyfederalist | 10.22.12 @ 5:33PM
Agreed, Jack in Wi. Unfortunately the neo-con buffer around both candidates insulates them from most voters whose views are more aligned with Ron Paul's.
If Romney seizes the moment and observes that nation-building in the Muslim world has been an unmitigated disaster and if elected he would end all foreign aid and military entanglements in that region and instead focus on Western Hemisphere energy independence, he'd win the November election in a landslide.
Sorry, was day-dreaming for a moment.
www.sweatyfederalist.com
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 6:27PM
Nation-building in the Muslim world has indeed been an unmitigated disaster, it is an oxymoron.
"This is a foreign affairs piece so I'll go into why the domestic screw-ups (e.g. Solyndra) are also quite embarassing"
Meant to write "this is a foreign affairs piece so I WONT go into why the domestic screw-ups (e.g. Solyndra) are also quite embarassing..."
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 7:25PM
The former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1990-1993), Henry F. Cooper, thinks you are full of crap, Jack. He argues that we need defenses to protect our coasts from Iranian nukes. Funny how I came to the same conclusion just by reading data on EMP, noting our weak coastal defenses, and noting that our port security sucks.
Jack, you are a traitor to your country.
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 7:37PM
But still, the decade of nation-building is over; it was a try, and it failed.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 7:41PM
Yes, but Nation Destroying can work well. Put their Heads on Spikes.
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.22.12 @ 6:50AM
Romney has a problem lying to the American in the face.
That problem us acute nowbecause we have been lulled nd lied to for four years
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 4:14PM
It was only truly good when Ike was president.
THAT was probably our finest hour.
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.22.12 @ 6:53AM
Romney needs to come down hard on our own lies to ourselves for four years.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 7:57AM
This is exactly what I thought, Ken. How do you have a Republic when all you get are lies and deception from the regime and MSM?
I saw Dick Turban on Fox yesterday. If you listen carefully to the CIA report they are spinning, they reported protests in Tripoli that could have included some using the internet video as an excuse. But in the attack in Benghazi, there were NO PROTESTS, therefore no crowds upset over a video, and THIS terrorist attack was with 100+ Islamist with RPG's. The whole story was a bait and switch.
With the regime knowing it was a terrorist attack real time, they inserted a general comment about "acts of terror" on 9/12 in order to return and conflate and confuse the story. Tripoli is still under relative security, while Benghazi has been lost to Al Qaeda. But Barry and "Bite Me" told us they are on the run. So the story had to be spun or the whole campaign based on foreign policy turns to shit. That is why they lied. Now more and more people know that the truth is foreign policy with this regime.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 8:50AM
You're being Paranoid.
How can we have a Republic when all we get are Lies and Deception from the Regime and the MSM?
Easy.
You do it like the old Democratic Republic of East Germany used to do it.
You do it like the Republic of China does it.
You do it like the Republic of North Korea does it.
And, you show up for the Contests on Fridays like the rest of us who reside in the People's Republic of Nothing Better To Do.
That's how ya do it.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 10:53AM
You know that socialist always call something the exact opposite of what it really is like "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" that is simply a giant tax and infringement on our Liberty. You will be a broke slave and denied health care.
I am not ignoring your Friday Contest. It is just that I know absolutely nothing about movies. If you make the contest about the French Revolution or the Weimar Republic, I will have to spot you points.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 12:06PM
It's not just movies.
It's Literature. It's Poems. It's The Classics, it's Cartoons, and it's West Side Story. And, for one of us, it's a Dissertation of the Effects on our Culture, and as a Nation, to the complete body of work of one of the Giants of the Film Industry (at least to one of us) - Linda Lovelace.
So, there's gotta be room for your Expertise.
All you need to do is just Uuuuuuuuuuse your Imagination.
Or, like you did the Contest before, just come along for the ride and crack some jokes.
See ya Friday.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 3:03PM
Crack jokes like the one about the movie "my arse in two parts. Come Saturday and see the....."
I'll be there.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:37PM
I know that I speak for the rest of the group when I say: We'll be waiting with Bells On.
Go to last Thursday's Story on TUNISIA.
You won't be disappointed.
Even Ross Kaminsky made a Cameo Appearence.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:38PM
Like the joke about your Arse - Crackatoa.
Mike W| 10.22.12 @ 8:28AM
As much as I detest B.O., I will not vote for another rump munch that wants to waste my tax dollars on another worthless war. A war with Iran would cost billions and do nothing to enhance our security.
Bush/Cheney almost destroyed the GOP. They are responsible for the election of BO. Why would I want that again?
Nancy in NC| 10.22.12 @ 8:34AM
So what do you suggest? Gary Johnson? Might as well vote for Obama.
Joellen| 10.22.12 @ 9:07AM
Nancy, people like Mike know that they have no choice this election. It has to be Romney, for if they vote Johnson, not only does Obama win, then of course, America/ we lose. Mike knows there are no easy solutions, yet he tries to defend his lazy rhetoric as a solid solution . Do Tim & PCC sound cruel, harsh and inhuman? Or do they sound like realist who know the real rules of war - for let's not kid ourselves we are in a war. If we elect Obama, is it four more years of "bending forward" and taking it and thus losing it? Or do we elect Romney and bring in some Military expertise who can direct and lead this country in a way that restores confidence in how we defend not only ourselves but again, those who yearn for freedom (both here and abroad)? Those are our only two choices right now. And the fool who throws away their choice this November, to make a statement that no one will hear, will have to hold themself responsible of our country's destiny. And yes it is that dire - our country's destiny.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:04PM
Mike W: not that expensive if we don't nation build. Destroying their electrical infrastructure can be done on the cheap. The expense comes in "giving a shit" about the civilians afterwards, not in the breakage. Why nation build savages?
Pecos Pete| 10.22.12 @ 8:38AM
PCC above at 7:30 AM made some good points.
PCC started with recognizing that Canada and Mexico should be priorities. Yes, build the Keystone Pipeline and then go on to improve and increase all other forms of economic activity with Canada.
As for Mexico, PCC is correct with treating the drug cartels as an urgent national security issue. IMHO we should protect the border between Mexico and the USA with whatever it takes. Do you remember King O's comments in El Paso (5/10/2011)?
"They (Republicans) wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete." A lie.
"Maybe they’ll (Republicans) say we need a moat. Or alligators in the moat." Humor ain't funny when dealing with national security.
Actually, King O's speech had some good rhetoric but nothing about how to get it done. The TSA is doing a good job at inspecting old women, babies, cripples and lots of Americans but when it comes to our southern border, not so much.
Their is a gold mine for Romney with the Fast and Furious debacle as it relates to our relations with Mexico. That might just cause King O to try an attack on gun ownership and wouldn't that be fun? Lest we forget, there is also the UN Arms Trade Treaty where Romney could ask, "Will you sign the UN gun ban treaty?"
And what about Great Britain? France? Poland? In fact, King O has turned away from Europe. The financial turmoil of Greece, Spain, etc. So much to discuss, in so little time.
Pecos Pete| 10.22.12 @ 8:38AM
It would be a mistake for Romney to get in a trap about how to "manage" the middle east. Basically the ME is a no win situation. Support Israel, declare any attack on the USA will result in a massive counter-strike. Be honest about Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan ... there is nothing to win in these countries. Pull a Russian and get out. It is either get out or lose more people, and waste more money, in an endless perpetual war. No one wins a debate question about these 4 countries.
That's just for starters.
Peppermint Tea | 10.22.12 @ 9:47AM
I agree. Romney should state "EVERY FOREIGN POLICY DECISION OF OBAMA'S HAS BEEN WRONG!"
Then let Shaffer lead them through Libya, Egypt, Russia, Poland, France, England, Mexico, Canada, China, Iran, Israel, as Romney should point out, "See I told you, WRONG on each count."
Then at the end, President Romney should summarize, "President Obama isn't unlucky with his policy, it is because of his lackadaisical misguided view that America is a spectator."
Intelligent Design| 10.22.12 @ 9:13AM
Obama's foreign "policy" is such a chaotic mess it would be easy to rip it to shreds in a debate.
delahaya| 10.22.12 @ 9:28AM
I think there are many things Obama has failed at, even some not generally considered classic foreign policy. For instance, just take our neighbors. Obama ticked off Canada by refusing the Keystone pipeline. Obama ticked off Mexico with Fast and Furious. Obama insulted England by returning the bust of Churchill and ticked off the queen by giving her an ipod of his own speeches (what narcissism). Obama's "reset" button has failed with Russia as they have stated they will leave many of the nuclear treaties. Venezuela and much of South America has turned progressive/communist (problem is Obama thinks that's good). The Middle East is imploding, but Israel is left high and dry and Iran is kowtowed to. We have had multiple embassies invaded and our Libyan ambassador murdered. China is devaluing their currency and engaging in wholesale economic and cyber espionage. India, a possible strategic ally and foil to China, has been left alone and neglected. Murderous dictators run rampant across Africa, causing mass migration into Europe. It's a dangerous world and Obama, while not being responsible for it, seems to have no idea of what to do.
Louis Jenkins| 10.22.12 @ 9:29AM
Obama will praddle away in Afganhistan, and more soldiers will be lost. There's hardly any news coverage of what is going on over there, except an occassional mention of 4 more soldiers dead from a roadside bomb. Romney needs to kick Obama in the pants for starters. There is so much mis-information being ground out by the Obama team that an ordinary man would have a field day. The article says that Romney doesn't have much experience, well, neither did Obama. And Obama's inexperience still shows. Romney can rip Obama a new one, if he will. Tonight will be a make or break episode for Romney, and I surely hope so. Otherwise, Americans, we'd better be prepared.
Stormy| 10.22.12 @ 9:42AM
I am sick and tired hearing he meme that Romney stumbled on Benghazi in the second debate. That was a set-up that he walked into. Besides, he stil had a reasonable question, if Obama called it terror on 9/12, why then go for 12 days talking about the video. And, as importantly, Obama never answered the original question. Who denied security in Benghazi and why?
Doctor Right| 10.22.12 @ 9:49AM
I don't think you can classify this debate as "Must Win" for two (2) simple reasons:
1. Romney WILL win.
There's simply NO WAY that Obama can run on his foreign policy record. To that end, he (Obama) will hem-n-haw incessantly, mention Osama Bin Ladin ad nauseum, and try to paint Romney as a neophyte. To counter, Romney will appear statesman-like, and tell Obama "You've failed."
2. The media will portray Obama as the winner NO MATTER WHAT.
To that end, this debate will not really change anyone's mind. Therefore, it's utterly irrelevant.
Barring any photos/videos of Romney at an actual lynch-mob or abusing a child, this election is OVER.
Romney...by a landslide.
Ted R.| 10.23.12 @ 3:38AM
Um, Whoops.
gene| 10.22.12 @ 10:11AM
It appears that President Obama's Domestic Policy would solve two problems at once. He would economically wreck the U.S. because he hates what we stand for and solve much of the immigration problem because people would start leaving the U.S of A in droves.
Adopt the "European Model"?
All of my Grandparents FLED Europe to escape from it. Now this man wants to "copy it"? I think not. As long as people are educated to reality, this man should lose on Election Day.
SSG Baker| 10.22.12 @ 10:19AM
Don't care, early voting starts today in Colorado. I will watch the debates, but my vote for Romney will alreayd be cast.
gene| 10.22.12 @ 10:31AM
I do not think I could EVER have the self control of some politicians. If I were debating Pres. Obama?:
"Look Poindexter! For three and a half years you have been making speeches:
"I am GOING TO create jobs."
"I am GOING TO cut taxes on the Middle Class"
"I am GOING TO help small businesses."
The Liberal MSM drool all over themselves and repeat what you say".
"Sooner or later, you have to wake up in the morning and you cannot just SAY
"I AM GOING TO DO SOMETHING"
You have to actually DO SOMETHING.
NOT go on another vacation.
NOT appear on "Letterman"
NOT go play another round of Golf".
You have to FREAKIN do something. And you ain't done it. Capice?
Simon Templar| 10.22.12 @ 11:52AM
Great points, gene!
Who Knows?| 10.22.12 @ 10:39AM
I can just see Kissinger saying “foreign policy” in his German accent. For most fat head Americans, though, this subject is fringe fluff.
Also, since I’ve “been around” since 1942, and 1960 was the first serious presidential election I cared about, the death of the 1972 swoon king, McGovern, resonates. Ah, so many “good” memories! Ha ha!
Here we are in 2012, and I agree the peacenik movement epitomized by his nomination by the jackass party still matters, forty years later.
Ah, living long DOES have its moments---I can’t help wondering if in 1972, people worried or even thought about what happened in 1932. Well, LOTS of crap happened in the 40 LONG years between ‘72 and ‘32!
Compare the number of violent deaths in those 40 years periods, the World War verses what---Korea and Vietnam? What about the steady march in economic well-being? There were lots of skinny people in the 30’s, and now there’s a plethora of obese ones.
Another thought arose, when thinking about Afghanistan—it WOULD be possible to copy the tactics of the Taliban, and have small teams of powerful special forces inserted randomly, wherever the most damage could be done.
WE could be the “insurgents”, and if they want an endless war, prolong it until they cry---Uncle Sam!
The US not winning against third world parasites---unbelievable!
Americans are really frivolous people.
Simon Templar| 10.22.12 @ 11:32AM
First, why do so-called conservative, RINO's, and the assorted bunch of hand wringers that surface every election continue to raise the bar on their own candidates. It is always the "must win" everything or else we are doomed scenario. Romney has too look presidential, show a decent grasp of the subject and POINT our the frauds complete incompetence in foreign affairs STARTING with uh, BENGHAZI! What the hell is a matter with you people?
If you think there is not a dimes difference between Bush, Romney, and the fraud, you are either a liar, demented, or have been dead the last 12 years. You are not going to find Romney calling terrorist attacks 'man made disasters', bowing to Arabs, refusing to meet with other leaders, sending statues back to other countries, shooting his mouth off to enemies about how he will have more flexibility to disarm us after the election, kissing the ass of the UN at every turn, reducing our military capability and spending to levels that are scaring people in his own administration, and on and on.
Simon Templar| 10.22.12 @ 11:40AM
Americans do not want war, nor seek it. Yes, a catchy phrase and certainly a truism. But it conveniently leaves out the other parts of the actual reality and implys that they desire peace at all cost. That is the rub, at what cost?
The correct view is Americans want peace through security and strength and will fight at any cost when that security and their way of life is threatened by anyone. They will not settle for a peace that is an illusion nor carries a cost that inevitably leads to war or the diminishing of their strength and their security.
Simon Templar| 10.22.12 @ 11:42AM
Thank you, Dr. Right, you are one of the few out here that can consistently keep your mind and eye on the ball.
Simon Templar| 10.22.12 @ 11:51AM
One more thing..how about actually cheering for our guy and being positive for once? How about dropping the back seat driving, hand wringing, and negativity for just once? How about FOCUSING,for once, on the a$$ sitting in the white house and his complete failures? He is the one in the hot seat tonight, not Romney. He is the one that has a hell of a lot to explain and defend.
Did anyone but Dr. Right and myself see this?????
Forget the Babble from Babbin.
gene| 10.22.12 @ 12:50PM
We need to relax and keep on target. Gallop Polls had Obama trailing and after White House threats after threats after threats, they re-adjusted their Polls to take into account more Minorities and "What Happened"? Obama is STILL TRAILING by a substantial amount of votes. Because many people in this Country, regardless of gender or ethnic background, are on to this fraud even with the MSM echoing his BS. Just get out and vote, and before that, enjoy the "show" tonight!
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:01PM
No foreign policy experience---he's been close friends with Netanyahu---close PERSONAL friends, since the early 1970s. He has business contacts all over the world. He ran a MAJOR International Event dealing with countries all over the world, and did it splendidly.
What is this about no foreign policy experience?
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:02PM
By the way, I think Mitt will wipe the idiot tonight. No doubt he and Bibi have been conferring on some vulnerable points...
John II| 10.22.12 @ 2:30PM
Good point. I'm not sure how this would play in the debate, Occie, but I would die right there in front of the TV and go straight to heaven if Mitt turned to the Professor and said:
"Mr. President, it may be helpful to the American people if I took this opportunity to point out the fundamental distinction in our foreign policy views: I consult with foreign leaders who have the most at stake in the foreign policy decisions Americans make; you hustle and receive illegal campaign contributions from foreigners. More specifically, America's allies want me to win this election; America's enemies want you to win."
And now back to "Red Dawn" (1984), a very exciting flick that was even more exciting in the hostility it generated among the early Obamanistas. Our Ron had a special screening of it in the White House.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:42PM
Red Dawn?
Methinks that the Contest runs strong in your veins, young Jedi.
Or, at least in your Ballet Shoes.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 7:28PM
Iran's press wants Obama to win and Romney to lose. Why is that? I'd ask the President that question myself if I were Mitt.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 7:29PM
No, good sir. Don't depart from us. First of all, you sound like a prof I wish I had had in college; second, may you live for the next hundred years, my friend.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 7:31PM
John II: My wife's nickname for me is "Wolverine." I have a ferocious temper; I keep going no matter what shit is thrown at me; I occasionally tangle with things much bigger than me; and I have more chest and back hair than Huge Ackman...I loved Red Dawn. Harry Dean Stanton's finest role outside of Repo Man....AVENGE ME!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 9:38PM
Red Dawn, when Charlie Sheen's view on "Winning" mattered.
JohnTee| 10.23.12 @ 12:31AM
I just watched the last debate along with analysis from the wizard of wuss, Karl Rove. If what Jed Babbin says is true (and I believe it is so), Romney wimped out. Does he have enough steam to inch across the line ahead of the Obammisar? Only God knows at this point. But the RINOs have struck again, maybe snatching total defeat from the jaws of victory