Mitt Romney was RIGHT!
Mitt Romney was RIGHT!
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #1
Posted: 1/19/13 at 10:57am
MITT ROMNEY WAS RIGHT!!
Yeah, remember during the foreign-policy presidential debate when Mitt Romney mentioned Mali as a hotbed of Al-Qaeda activity?? And the left-wing media laughed at him??? Yeah, remember that??
Associated Press, Jan 16, 2013: Al-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages in revenge for Mali
ALGIERS, Algeria — As Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in a natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France’s intervention in Mali.
Mitt Romney and Mali LOL!
Updated On: 1/19/13 at 10:57 AM
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #2
Posted: 1/19/13 at 11:19am
I find your use of "LOL" offenisve. There is nothing funny about terrorism, in general, or the situation in Mali, in particular.
Do you imagine that Mitt Romney had access to intelligence on Al-Qaeda activity in Mali that was superior to the intelligence available to President Obama?
Are you trying to suggest that--presented with information about Al-Qaeda activity in Mali--President Obama or the Obama administration somehow intentionally failed to act on that information?
Or are you simply trying to make some vague connection between Mitt Romney's fitness to lead this country and the partisan rhetoric of some random, left-leaning web-site?
There are highly-partisan websites and blogs of all stripes to be found on the Internet. As a Progressive Democrat it is not my responsibility to endorse or explain every obscure, irresponsible blogger who hapopens to support the same candidate whom I support.
Mitt Romeny was doubtless "right" or--more accurately--"correct" about many things. That did not make him the right person to lead our nation.
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #2
Posted: 1/19/13 at 11:26am
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Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #3
Posted: 1/19/13 at 11:35am
Foreign policy is a distraction for Mr Obama
He can make better use of his time demonizing people and uttering phrases like " just ask the rich to pay a little bit more" etc etc.
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #4
Posted: 1/19/13 at 11:48am
The LOL was not directed at terrorist, the situation in Mali or the situation in Algiers, as you are well aware. It was directed at the media who mocked Mitt Romney for bringing up the INSIGNIFICANT nation of Mali, and it was directed at the people who voted for four more years of FAILURE.
Nice try at deflection, though!
"Mitt, you do know that most of America think Mali is one of Obama's daughters, right?" From Bill Maher's Twitter page the day after the debate
Mitt knew about Mali before you did
Updated On: 1/19/13 at 11:48 AM
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #5
Posted: 1/19/13 at 11:56am
Oh look it's the march of the republitards!
Updated On: 1/19/13 at 11:56 AM
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #6
Posted: 1/19/13 at 1:55pm
As presidential candidate, Romney was shown the same report about terrorist activity in Mali that Obama saw. The Obama administration chose to take a wait-and-watch approach to the situation in Mali. Romney blurted out something he should have kept confidential, something that Bill Maher would not have been told by any intelligence sources.
Similarly, the Republican administration of GW Bush saw a report about imminent terrorist activity, written in the summer of 2001, and took a similar wait-and-watch approach, but with far more disastrous results.
If we retaliated in advance of every reported terrorist threat, we would be acting on a lot of inaccurate reports.
It is up to our leaders to decide what action to take. If you judge Obama harshly for not taking action in Mali--and what in God's name do you think he could have done?--then you must judge George Bush even more harshly for ignoring the report entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #7
Posted: 1/19/13 at 2:04pm^^^^ All that.
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Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #8
Posted: 1/19/13 at 3:31pm
Mikey could you remind me of just how and when the "Left wing media" laughed at Mitt Romney for citing Mali as a hotbed of al Qaeda activity? All I remember was the small scuffle over the fact he revealed sensitive secret information on national television.
I am not going to ask Mr. Roxy to back up his bizarre statement that President Obama views foreign policy as a distraction as he drops lies like that and then never ever backs it up. I am hoping you are not another Republican who makes stuff up and runs.
And when i say Mr. Roxy never ever backs up his lies I mean never never never never never never never never never never never never never ever.
Updated On: 1/19/13 at 03:31 PM
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #9
Posted: 1/19/13 at 3:47pm
And Mikey--I defy you to explain the situation in Mali--in one paragraph, in your own words, without cutting-and-pasting. Because, frankly, I don't think you're intelligent enough to do so.
Define what the situation was during the debates and how it is different today.
One paragraph, no more than 200 words.
I defy you.
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #10
Posted: 1/19/13 at 7:06pm
Anyone else notice that when a Republican moron get's something "Right" (which is quite argumentative here,) the reaction from the Right seems to be "OH-OH! LOOK! WE HERE GOT 'SOMIN RIGHT!"
As if it makes up for the loads, upon loads of incorrect things the GOP spouts off on a regular basis.
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mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#11
Posted: 1/19/13 at 8:15pmEvery time mikey posts, he comes across as more stupid than in his last post.
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#12
Posted: 1/19/13 at 8:21pmWho's Mitt Romney?
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mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#13
Posted: 1/19/13 at 8:25pmSome loser...
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#14
Posted: 1/19/13 at 8:41pm
Pal Joey wiped the floor with mikey's smug, arrogant, republican ass...
He is now in a corner wiping away his tears because he had his ass handed to him on a silver platter. BRAVO Pal Joey!!!
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #15
Posted: 1/20/13 at 1:40am
I am back from crying in the corner. LOL!!
(CNN) -- During Monday night's foreign-policy focused presidential debate, President Barack Obama made the case that al Qaeda in Pakistan is decimated while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney argued they are on the rise in other countries:
The claims:
Obama: Al Qaeda's core leadership has been decimated.
Romney: This is a group that is now involved in 10 or 12 countries, and it presents an enormous threat to our friends, to the world, to America, long term, and we must have a comprehensive strategy to help reject this kind of extremism.
WHO WAS RIGHT????
Updated On: 1/21/13 at 01:40 AM
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#16
Posted: 1/20/13 at 8:28am
Neither actually. Both, to a certain extent.
But you're not looking for a discussion--you're just a stupid ninny who is looking for an argument, so I'll leave it at that.
I still DEFY you to explain what I asked 7 posts ago.
So this is my I-dare-ya PART DEUX.
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #17
Posted: 1/20/13 at 9:08am
I would agree with "both are right to a certain extent" which makes the title of my thread correct. Yes, Al Qaeda is decimated as Obama has said, especially when considering Afghanistan, which is usually what Obama is referencing. Romney was able to see that if you decimate Al Qaeda in country A, they will simply move to country B, especially if country B is experiencing chaos as was the case in Mali.
My point is that the left wing media and liberals in general were dismissive and/or critical of Romney's Mali comment, just as they were in regards to his Chrysler-China ad. However, in both cases he turned out to be right.
Updated On: 1/21/13 at 09:08 AM
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#18
Posted: 1/20/13 at 10:42am
You're always so silly about left-right issues.
Whenever you say "liberals in general," you're always wrong, because IN GENERAL no one believes anything remotely similar to what you describe. I doubt many people on this board even remember the Mali remark from the debates so to gleefully accuse us of being wrong just makes you look like a lunatic.
And stop being tiresome about the "left-wing media," which most left-wing people think is controlled by the right-wing and not nearly left-wing enough. The right-wing media is just as accusatory and dismissive over every single thing Obama and the Democrats do.
But you still haven't explained the Mali situation in 200 words.So I'm still assuming it's a task beyond your intelligence.
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#19
Posted: 1/20/13 at 11:14am
And--taking a step back--what the hell is your larger point, Mikey?
Mitt Romney was right on this point, or that--so the f**k what?
Progressive voters don't deny that Mitt had the capacity to process information and reach the correct conclusions occasionally.
You are making a huge deal about "winning" a fight that noone--on either side--is actually fighting.
Mitt was right about something. Yay!! He still was un-fit to lead the country.
Mitt Romney was RIGHT! #20
Posted: 1/20/13 at 1:07pm
My point is not about Mitt being right or President Obama being wrong. My point is the MSM is NOT doing their job. They carry the water (and piss and crap) of the Democratic Party and attack those on the right. Romney's Mali comments WERE criticized by the MSM. His Chrysler ad WAS attacked and criticized and even called the "Lie of the Year". Yet now he turns out to have been correct. Will ANYONE out there acknowledge that the MSM's attacks were, in hindsight, unfair? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!
Mitt Romney is a kind, decent, hardworking, intelligent man, yet he was portrayed by the left as a mean, hateful, gaybashing, racist, woman-hating bastard. And the msm carried this message to the American people. SHAME!
Updated On: 1/21/13 at 01:07 PM
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#21
Posted: 1/20/13 at 1:08pmIsn't Mali where Madonna bought her kids?
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#22
Posted: 1/20/13 at 1:53pm
"Mitt Romney is a kind, decent, hardworking, intelligent man..."
That's the lie of the year! They let you use the Internet at the psych ward?
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mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#23
Posted: 1/20/13 at 1:59pm
"Mitt Romney is a kind, decent, hardworking, intelligent man, yet he was portrayed by the left as a mean, hateful, gaybashing, racist, woman-hating bastard."
Well, he was proven all of those things,AND he was portrayed by the right as a dupe who didn't even want to run for president.
Again, mikey is just pissing into the wind.
mikey was WRONG! Go figure...#24
Posted: 1/20/13 at 2:08pm
Mikey--Thank you for responding to my query.
I hope you can see that--if your point was NOT whether Mitt Romney was 'right'--your choice of a thread title ('Mitt Romney was RIGHT!') was a bit of a red herring, which led to some confusion as to what the thrust of your argument was.
With regard to your argument re: the mainstream media and its response to Mr. Romney's comments about Mali--the evidence you submit for this shameful media conspiracy is a blog-post by--as I said earlier--some random, highly-partisan, left-wing blogger. Again--I hope you can see that this is hardly legitimate evidence of prejudice within the mainstream media. In fact, it is the definition of NOT the mainstream media--an unedited, un-vetted, highly personal opinion. This is an example of both the blessing and the curse of the Internet.
I think we can agree that the News division of the corporate American media conglomerates are imperfect. Too often, a narrative is put in place early on in a race by a given Network--whether left-leaning or right--and all subsequent stories are selected and/or presented in ways that support that narrative.
It is possible that Mitt Romney's comments about Mali or Chrysler or Afghanistan or the Greek Debt Crisis were not given their proper due or recognized to be as prescient by the so-called 'Mainstream Media' as they proved ultimately to be. But I am pretty confident that the same margin of error was uniformly applied to both candidates over the course of the campaign.
Your fundamental error, in my opinion, can be found in your statement that "Mitt Romney is a kind, decent, hardworking, intelligent man, yet he was portrayed by the left as a mean, hateful, gaybashing, racist, woman-hating bastard."
You are falling into the easily-made mistake of confusing Politics with Personality.
Mr. Romney may, in fact, posess all the admirable traits you mention. I am ready to accept 'hardworking' and 'intelligent' right off the bat. I, personally, hesitate to accept 'kind' and 'decent', but those are very subjective traits.
The important point, however, is that his personal 'kindness' and 'decency' are completely irrelevant. Mr. Romney was the standard-bearer and candidate for a party whose platform very specifically and unambiguously endorsed mean, hateful, anti-gay, anti-woman and racist policies.
We were told that Ron & Nancy Reagan "had gay friends". Who the f**k cares? Ronald Reagan died with the blood of thousands of gay men on his hands--men who suffered due to Reagan's criminal refusal to acknowledge the AIDS crisis or mobilize funds to respond to it in a timely fashion. Who can say why this allegedly "Gay-friendly" man behaved in this way? I suspect it was a purely political calculus. The Republican voters were not ready to see government money spent on AIDS. Do I forgive Ronald Reagan because--despite the suffering he caused--he was said to hang out with Gays? F**K NO.
A politician--particularly at the highest levels--must be ready to be held accountable and to be judged for and by the policies that he supports and endorses.
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