[tantiboh]

~”But that Hezbollah thing the other day, tells me I don’t need to be so reserved.”~

Hold the phone!

What Romney actually said was that Hezbollah gets its strength in the middle east by winning the hearts and minds of the people through social outreach. In this, Romney is objectively correct. He said that we need to emulate Hezbollah’s social outreach efforts in order to win hearts and minds ourselves. Now, you can agree or disagree with that approach; but it’s not the threatening message you are determined to portray it as.

People get offended at everything. Good grief.

[From One - Many]

model ourselves after Hezbollah... Romney must want a few heads offed.

[Graymatter]

We disagree. I don't see how you can maintain that his comment was at all excusable, particularly from a candidate for POTUS in wartime. Finding something admirable about one's enemy (not that I even agree what they are doing is admirable, because I do not), does not justify the remarks he made. Nor does objective correctness, i.e., that they actually do what he said.

I did not say his remarks were threatening, though they are alarming as indication of Romney's intelligence and judgment.

It is my sense that the man panders as effortlessly as he breathes; here he was complimenting known terrorists, a group either responsible for, or for whose interests was perpetrated, the murders of over 200 US Marines.

Since Romney himself is backpedaling furiously from his own remarks, I don't think his supporters need to remain spinning. But suit yourself. The more I hear the more offensive it sounds.