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    can we say a member of bushco...

    With Mitt Romney's comments on Libya drawing attention today-specifically, his criticism of Obama-it's worth examining whom Romney listens to on such matters.
    Dan Senor is one of Romney's closest advisers on foreign policy. Since Paul Ryan has been selected as the GOP's vice presidential candidate, Senor has been traveling with Ryan-but today, he left the trail because of the "foreign policy developments" and is in Boston and NYC.
    Senor is the former spokesman for the American government in Iraq (the Coalition Provisional Authority at the beginning of the Iraq war under George W. Bush) and is a particularly close adviser to Romney on the Middle East. (He has traveled with Romney to Israel three times, as well as written a book on Israel that Romney often cites). With Ryan, he consults on domestic and foreign policy issues.
    Last month, the New York Times described Senor as an "advocate of neoconservative thinking that has sought to push presidents to the right for years on Middle East policy." Senor led a foreign policy briefing for Ryan on the plane yesterday from Seattle along with Jamie Fly, executive director, Foreign Policy Initiative and Reuel Marc Gerecht from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
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    yes, no one seems to notice that the repugs want to go back to bushco's failed policies, including starting wars
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    Dan Senor is one the most egregious examples of people failing upwards in the wake of the shitshow that was the Iraq War.

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    Lets not forget Obama during his first run for president..., most of his staff today came from the Clinton presidency

    A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy

    Behind the e-mail messages is a tight-knit group of aides supported by a huge 300-person foreign policy campaign bureaucracy, organized like a mini State Department, to assist a candidate whose limited national security experience remains a concern to many voters.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/us...oc.semityn.www

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    More Obama! There has never been so much success on both the domestic and foreign fronts as under President Obama. Granted, the deficit is high, salaries are low, fewer people are even trying to find jobs, and many are working for 1/5 of what they did before, but heh! They are working! Obama likes that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    More Obama! There has never been so much success on both the domestic and foreign fronts as under President Obama. Granted, the deficit is high, salaries are low, fewer people are even trying to find jobs, and many are working for 1/5 of what they did before, but heh! They are working! Obama likes that!
    Union busting, threatening to move industry from a state if taxes aren't lowered and people take a lower paying jobs at tbe threat of them moving the jobs overseas, it isn't just Obama, it is those people you plan on voting for in November. We are all suckers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    More Obama! There has never been so much success on both the domestic and foreign fronts as under President Obama. Granted, the deficit is high, salaries are low, fewer people are even trying to find jobs, and many are working for 1/5 of what they did before, but heh! They are working! Obama likes that!
    so do the repugs in congress that have thwarted obama's policies at every opportunity...their stated number one priority is to see that obama is not reelected, not govern the nation
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Quixote View Post
    so do the repugs in congress that have thwarted obama's policies at every opportunity...their stated number one priority is to see that obama is not reelected, not govern the nation
    Go Obama! More of the same!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    Go Obama! More of the same!
    so you endorse the return to bushco policies that got us in this mess to begin with

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    Default Elections And Digestive Disturbances! Elections And Digestive Disturbances!


    Romney, leaving this morning's press conference with a giant smirk that says,
    "I totally nailed that by acting so presidential..."




    Call it a "shameful" statement, as Salon does, or call it contemptible and opportunistic, but Mitt Romney attacking Barack Obama for the US embassy deaths in Libya renders Romney unfit to be commander in chief.

    “It’s disgraceful,” Romney’s Tuesday night campaign statement charged, “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.”

    In a news conference on Wednesday, Romney tripled down on the appeal to anti-Islamic sentiment by stating, before President Obama's appearance, that "The statement that came from the administration is akin to an apology."

    The statement Romney is referring to was one made by the US embassy in Egypt before the killings in Libya. It was a diplomatic effort to dampen down isolated Islamic frenzy over a curiously timed promotion of an American Islamophobe YouTube video – and to stall the momentum of the protests.

    According to the New York Times,
    The trigger for the anti-American outbursts was the amateurish, American-made video that opens with scenes of Egyptian security forces standing idle as Muslims pillage and burn the homes of Egyptian Christians. Then it cuts to cartoonish scenes depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a child of uncertain parentage, a buffoon, a womanizer, a homosexual, a child molester and a greedy, bloodthirsty thug.

    The trailer was uploaded to YouTube by someone identified as Sam Bacile, whom The Wall Street Journal Web site described as a 52-year old Israeli-American real estate developer in California. He was quoted as telling the Web site he had raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make the film. “Islam is a cancer,” Mr. Bacile was quoted as saying..

    Meanwhile, the right wing "war against Islam" contingent started fanning the flames to "commemorate" September 11th. Although no one can say for certain, it does appear curiously timed for an election day flare up, just as the Reagan campaign used the Iranian hostage crisis (almost certainly negotiating with the revolutionaries there, through Willliam Casey representing the Reagan campaign, to delay release of the hostages until after the 1980 presidential election.)

    What's important to remember here, beyond Romney's flame throwing opportunism, is that the statement Romney claims Obama apologized in -- which he didn't -- occurred before news of the killings were received by the White House. Yet, when questioned Wednesday morning by journalists about the timing of the original diplomatic statement (which was trying to cool things down, we remind you), Romney basically said that it didn't matter.

    This is consistent with the recent statement of a Romney campaign aide who said that facts wouldn't get in the way of the campaign (paraphrased).

    After Romney's ignominious political theatrics of last night and this morning, President Obama appeared before the press at the White House.

    He stated that "Yesterday (9/11) was already a solemn day." Obama praised the diplomats who died and condemned the killings, as is appropriate. He acted entirely presidential in representing the digniity and mourning of the nation.

    Romney will continue to repeat the lie about the original and diplomatically strategic foreign policy statement (aimed at defusing the situation in Egypt) because he is lashing about for some Hail Mary demagoguery to save his foundering campaign.
    The cost of his irresponsible behavior may be an explosion in the Middle East.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Quixote View Post
    so you endorse the return to bushco policies that got us in this mess to begin with

    bummer
    Is that what Obama is doing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    Is that what Obama is doing?
    no, it is what the repugs want, although they try to act like gwb never existed while using gwb advisers

    it is what the repugs in congress want

    the social conservatives and neoconservatives want a return to the gwb years and policies, except they want policies more to the right of gwb
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Quixote View Post
    yes, no one seems to notice that the repugs want to go back to bushco's failed policies, including starting wars
    I've noticed.
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    I'm noticing an alternative reality here.
    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
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