Mitt Romney's Cairo Moment
There are moments in a political campaign when what one doesn’t say tells you as much about their core values than what they do say. Romney had one of those moments last week.
Seizing on a press release issued by a lower level diplomat in Cairo who was trying to calm an increasingly dangerous situation, Romney fired off an e-mail to reporters saying it was “disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks”. He embellished his reckless statement the next morning at a news conference charging, “The statement that came from the Administration was a statement akin to an apology”.
Romney knowingly was wrong on everything. The embassy statement was not approved by the Administration, it was issued hours before attacks on the Cairo embassy and deaths of the American diplomats in Libya occurred and the Administration’s first response was a very strong condemnation of the attacks. There never was any apology.
Romney’s insensitivity to the human tragedy that was occurring was as disturbing as his crass attempt to politicize an international tragedy even as events were still unfolding. His statement barely mentioned the death of a consulate worker and only as a predicate to criticize the Obama Administration. The human costs of the unfolding events never seem to have penetrated his conscience. And at no time did he seem to show any appreciation for the personal danger the diplomats in Cairo were in or any concern that his comments might endanger them more. If he did grasp the severity of their predicament he never allowed it to influence his decision to use the Cairo press release to bash the Obama Administration. Between his statement and his body language during his press conference next morning he did not come across as a president who would take into consideration the human consequences of decisions he might make. He came across as an insensitive technocrat, cold and analytical, like a CEO of a company, callously calculating how many employees to fire, or like a politician who only sees the benefits of tax cuts in a Paul Ryan budget and never the pain the budget will cause those worse off.
Even Republicans were critical of Romney’s words and his demeanor. Talking about Romney’s press conference, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist and former speech writer for Ronald Regan and George H. W. Bush, indicted Romney’s character by saying, “At one point, he (Romney) had a certain slight grimace on his face when he was taking tough questions from the reporters. And I thought, ‘He looks like Richard Nixon.’ ”
We know what he looked like, what he didn’t look like was a statesman ready to take his place on the world stage.
Ron Kurowski
BUTCH
9:06 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
The best thing would be to cut off the 20 Billion a year to the Egyptians then the Red Army will fill the gap and take over the SUEZ CANAL and likely increase the extortion to the Islamist s it would isolate the 6th fleet from the Persian Gulf and make the nitwits anti Obama morons ecstatic, if so we would also cut the 100Billion to the outlaw Netanyahu government who are trying hard to get us into believing they are going to attack the CHENEY family holdings on Kharg Island the Iran oil export terminal serviced by Helliburton it is all part of the conspiracy between the ISRAELI WING NUTS the TREASONOUS lobbyist special interests and traitors of the TPARTY in congress
Twit Is not ready for prime time or Peoria he is not a bad actor he is pathetic but not as stupid as he appears his shoot first is Neo he is not a dangerous sociopath but a wannabe not on Cheney's level but with the same aim
vicky
8:05 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Where was the extra security for our diplomats & embassies on Sept.11th?
But Valerie Jarrett, the Commie advisor to the Prez has Secret Service even
when vacationing. Something is very wrong with this picture............
BUTCH
10:41 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Vicky
if Valerie Jarrett is a COMMIE what is the partner of the RED ARMY OFFSHORE OIL-GAS corporation now drilling in IRAN the ISLAMIST REPUBLIC of Persia SWORN ENEMY of Sheldon Adelson and Israel who also is the principal ( by millions) backer of TWIT and sole Vice LORD in all COMMIE CHINA.
Twit at best is a DEAD BEAT OPPORTUNIST - hypocrite extraordinaire TPARTYER who has dual residency like MICHELLE BACHMAN(who loves those socialist perks in SWITZERLAND) don't u love their hypocrisy .
TWIT has no health care in the CAYMANS and that is why he has his dual residency and maintains a home in MASSACHUSETTS, is there anything wrong with this snapshot?
Rock Bobster
9:35 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Once again we get the ignorant spewing of bile from George Soros and Obamas butt boys.
President Obama's State Department negligently failed to provide proper security for our embassies (he was too busy selling our nation out on the fund raising "bribery" trail), despite intelligence warnings days in advance, and losers like "move on" think Romeny's condemnation of Obama's incompetence is the issue here?
Romney can't assign the assets to protect our diplomats. Obama can, but didn't due to negligence or inddiference to governing.
While the issue here was America beinig strong and resolute against terrorist action, the incompetent boobs at the White House and State bought into the propaganda lie by the terrorists and made it seem that some obscure video on youtube was the cause.
It became quickly clear that this had nothing to do with the video this terrorist act was planned months in advance, and the terrorists were well armed with RPGs and automatic weapons. The video came out in July to virtually no ones interest.
The idiots in the Obama administration took the bait of this red herring hook, line, and sinker.
It is clear that the Obama foreign policy "leadership" is a disaster.
When he took office, we had a friendly regime in Egypt, a benign one in Libya and we had the Afghan War under control.
BUTCH
9:55 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Neo-ROCK LOBSTER
INTELL WARNINGS Feb-MAR to Sept 10 2001 from all over the world there is going to be a attack on the USA, President, DUBYA went to TEX to cut brush on the ranch, HIS kitchen NEO cabinet response was to falsify Intell lie and give the Sec State false info and Intell to give the UN this was NEO and now T PAR-GOP leadership, We had and have friendly regimes all over the world but lately the natives want their nation back not the Kissinger Diamond cartel or the CIA Shah, Saddam had his nation under control no anarchy or crazy fundy's but Cheney had a energy plan
The Heroin Hillbilly King butt boys are pissed there are no more wars for freedom for the 1% to loot, meanwhile the scum are purging and suppressing voters in the only way they can retain or achieve power.
NEO's and TPARTY call this love and respect (their only god is the golden calf) from 1997 to the present they are focused on eliminating dissent turn back time to child and slave labor, have women in their place and getiing the last of the declining RESOURCES for the NEO EMPIRE.
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Rock Bobster
9:45 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Now, due to his policies, there is a radical Islamist regime in Egypt, the one nation that has been the stabilizing effect with Israel, and Libya is so out of control that our diplomats are being murdered there.
While Obama strongly supported the Islamist terrorist Muslim Brotherhood revolution in Egypt and provided the military firepower for Al Queda to defeat Khadaffy in Libya, he did NOTHING to support the protesters in Iran, the sworn enemy of the US and Israel.
Destabilization of the middle East (and Obama's incompetent handling of the money supply) has played a major role in our paying about 2 1/2 times the price of gas compared to when Obama took office. THAT alone should be reason to fire him.
Based on Obama's foreign policy errors alone, he should be removed from US government. Couple that with the historically high over 8% unemployment rates his policies have caused, the decades low employment participation it the US, and having impotently raised our national debt by $6 TRILLION during his short tenure without improving our economy, having women lost over 600,000 jobs since he came into power, and having US prestige at the lowest point since the Carter administration, the REAL question is how this nation came to have so many ill informed voters that he has a CHANCE at re-election!
I guess a lot of voters out there are "stuck on stupid". It's the job of those who love and respect this country to get them "unstuck"!
BUTCH
10:01 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
NEO ROCK part 2
When the GINGRICH CONGRESS blackmailed PRES BUBBA into signing the de reg of the media the 1% bought up the media print and CLEAR CHANNEL and create a surrogate who by default is the king of HILL BILLY heroin to indoctrinate the know nothings info low voters aka freedom to pollute air water and be vigilant on the threats to take away their AK47 ammo and now includes KJ BIBLE by the Muslims Nazi commie in Lincoln's bedroom sleeping with the rag head bro hood.
As for having Afghan under control this has not been possible since Alexander the Macedonian conquered it and lost his life
BUTCH
12:09 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Based on these comments only Tparty do nothings in government are only persons ENTITLED to a vacation and despite the fact they are already are surpassing a BILLION raised by KARL ROVE from THE SAME MULLAHS IN Iran who made a deal with REAGAN'S CIA DIR, since lobster or whoever the writer mentioned Carter they know who is and is not stuck on stupid and who occupied the US embassy and have a better GRANDSTAND operation than these puny remarks that gave 666 the and eventually killed his Campaign and CIA boss who was given a LOBOTOMY the day before he was to testify to Congress about the real terrorists not the Iranians and now use treasonous lobbyists the Res Army chief lobbyist and GROVER NORQUIST the criminal who has surrogates like this writing their for them or maybe they are them , what we need is more wars to fight on the credit card and privatize MEDICARE that would be perfect for the TPARTY BOSSES, LET'S TALK about the Zionists attacking Liberty,VET'S CARE and VET'S jobs bills killed by 4 TPARTY flag wavers like u all u TAX-DRAFT DODGERS who write these misinform-disinfo are in love with this country as long as their is cannon fodder and guinea pigs to do the heavy lift.
BUTCH
12:31 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
The TPARTY IS NOT AMERICAN they were LIED into and persuaded to fight two and now more illegal wars by the CIC of the MURKANS,NEO'S and wall street banksters are respected MORMON and YALE DIVINITY draft dodgers are respected, CONOCO Princesses and MORMON goddesses are respected, AEI AKA AIPAC are respected,HELLIBURTON is respected ELECTROCUTED Marines ARE NOT, Wounded VET'S and victims of IED and trauma after multiple tours are not respected, Lyin foreign IRGUN and STERN GANG terrorists are respected, CAYMANS Swiss bank accounts and citizenship like their insane heroine MICHELLE BACHMAN are respected the greatest respect goes to the HILLBILLY HEROIN KING of CLEAR CHANNEL who has the TPARTY in his slimy size 50 pockets.
Bob Laird
2:54 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
We're doomed. Again we have a choice between a moron and a loser. Bama's sinking us into debt and worse. Mitt can't stop himself from stepping on his own pecker. Neither one of these guys are the answer. Where do we go?
Bob Laird
2:55 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
P.S.- I didn't say who was the moron or who was the loser, you decide.
BUTCH
10:05 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
the morons are the TPARTY and true believers who think the 100 MILLION spent on so far is for politics it is for a multiple number of reasons including moving the Cayman island tax shelters closer to his RED ARMY partners in MACAU the TWITSTER and his corporate off shore tax dodgers cost the USA TREASURY 1 TRILLION since DUBYA took office and began creating jobs for the morons like BOB laird and now the TWIT and LYIN want their thieving hands on SSA-medicare and all the TRUST FUNDS for the BANKSTERS of WALL street and the RED ARMY partners who are believe it or not right now drilling in IRAN for the mullahs while the MORONS are being prepped for a MOSSAD STRIKE that would also endanger the HELLIBURTON oil platforms on KHARG island the kabuki performances are sellouts.
So we get these imbecile POSTS by KNOW or low info TPARTYERS mostly Ron Paul delegates WHO WERE SHUT DOWN in TAMPA saying one candidates is a poster boy for either blind trusts are people too and the other a reckless debt spender which is typical DISINFORMATION from the wingnuts since it is THE SAME blind trusts political party that is responsible for both, the one they want us to relive after 8 years of prosperity for the RED ARMY-the CAYMAN ISLAND tax shelters and all the dead beats u van imagine.
BUTCH
6:58 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
what they both depends if u want yer SSA and or MEDICARE privatized, neither can do a thing about China who could wreck the economy because of the actions of the TPARTY and BLUE DOG DEM'S who are just crooks while the TPARTY LOBBYISTS are traitors plain and simple we have lost so much of the food processing, MEDICAL and electronics to the RED ARMY thank DICK ARMEE the patron of the TPARTY for this while the other traitor GROVER NORDQUIST has done his best to cripple the economy with the help of the treasonous Eric Cantor and the T PARTY-GOP Senate.
BUTCH
10:17 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Dubya's vision was only the first step and not even as radical as TWIT'S who obviously is still not comfortable with HIS bonanza's that have put his blind trusts into like hitting the LOTTERY BIG PRIZE EVERY DAY he and his fellow DEAD BEATS, slackers and moochers who give seminars on dodging and evading income taxes by making them offshore investments in a little ole building where 12,000 other corporate people are holed up or as they prefer situated in the caymans, the party that has lowered the CORPORATE taxes to less than 10% and rose PAYROLL TAXES as fast for the servants and peons wants us to wait for the details till after NOV to give us the news on the loopholes for the shrinking middle class he will close to pay for his LYIN and the rest of the 1% and wannabe TPARTY cuts AGAIN.
Juvenal
9:04 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
A terrorist attack on American soil, an ambassador tortured and killed -- and your concern is with the PRESS RELEASE issued by the guy running for president, rather than the lack of response (except for a Hillary near-apology to the Islamic fanatics for us having free speech) of the guy who IS PRESIDENT? Unreal.....
BUTCH
9:09 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
In the USA only Sarah Palin.Michelle Bachman and the TPARTY CHMAN Prebius has joined TWIT'S STUPIDITY that he called a apology the shoot first aim later like everything said is made up in the candidate's head,the irresponsible attack on the President after the attack is so Palin, Bachman,and their media outlets FOX and the Hillbilly Heroin King who never lets facts and truth get in the way of their lies this was one of the whoppers.was who cannot even define disgrace.
Chronicles of Bob
9:32 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Tell me juvenile .... what should his response be? Should he invade? The money is frozen... there was no apology...
BUTCH
6:37 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Bomb bomb bomb IRAN that's the top tune on the HILLBILLY HEROIN KINGS hit parade, it is hilarious how the faithful CHINESE COMMIE LOVIN T PARTY pick up the words to the ole tine different chorus, they never mention the only attack on MURKAN soil that made so many of them the 1% nor the DAILY WARNING for months preceding the FLA piper cub trained pilots steering their JET LINERS into the heart of the empire and now the flag wavin begins anew BOMB-BOMB BOMB IRAN for the usual suspects it don;t matter if the terrorists or AL quida were in LIBYA or NIGER bomb IRAN but what about Cheney's holdings on KHARG island?
SouthSide
1:49 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Romney shambles are a daily occurrence. He has proven to be unfit for leadership, on many levels, not just his ridiculous reactions to real life goings on.