Posted on 07/23/2012 12:19:56 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
The Australian foreign minister has privately warned Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that foreign leaders see "America in decline."
That's according to Romney, who says he met with Foreign Minister Bob Carr in a San Francisco hotel Sunday evening shortly before a Republican fundraiser.
Romney says Carr suggested that America could improve that international perception "with one budget deal" that helps balance the budget.
A Romney spokesman says the foreign minister requested the private meeting. The campaign would not say whether the two discussed foreign policy.
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Watch the Obamabots go bzerk over this.
By meeting world leaders before being elected, he is giving the impression that foreign governments would rather have him be president than Obama.
And considering that most world leaders would not make the time for Obama, it’s probably the correct impression.
I totally agree!
There are pros and cons to this. It could open the Romney campaign to accusations of untoward relationships. On the other hand I have no idea if Obama had the same issues (except well swept under the rug by the MSM) and also Australia may see the handwriting on the wall that is crossing out Obama in November and want to get an early start on talks with a half-sane president to be as opposed to the nut that is Obama. If played right it could help Romney.
If he doesn’t, Charlie Gibson will ask him how many foreign leaders he has met.
I think it’s fine. Foreign Minister Carr requested the meeting according to the article. I think it would have been rude to decline.
It’ll be amusing to watch the Obamites once more twist into pretzels about this, pointing and screaming at Romney for letting “foreign influence” into his campaign while ignoring all Barack’s overseas shenanigans.
Australia may see the handwriting on the wall that is crossing out Obama in November
That’s what I thought too.
I don’t think your point of view is disagreeable.
My general view is that Americans shouldn’t bash other Americans to foreigners, and foreigners shouldn’t bash us in our own country.
You are just looking for something to gripe about, IMO.
Petty!
Typically I agree but to tell you the truth I'm still not convinced Barack Hussein Obama is actually the President of the United States. That's why I refer to him as pResident. Is he eligible? I've seen nothing that proves it. As far as I'm concerned we have no President.
Three turds in the Democrat Party went to meet with Saddam Hussein.
Pelosi and some of the other rat nitwits spend some time in Italy singing the International and honky tonking with the communists over there, then she and some others went to lick the feet of the Syrian dictator.
Obama campaigned in Germany [apparently in his mind it was one of the 57 states] and made big ol' speeches over there, made shady land deals with a syrian-born financier, and played footsie with an iraqi billionaire, and invites foreign terrorists to the White House. So I doubt Obama could get much traction blasting Romney for talking with a US ally.
[Though the press will try to throw kitty litter under Obama's wheels to help him out, no doubt.]
What budget?
This was just a casual conversation at a San Francisco Hotel.
It's not as if he personally flew the SR-71 down under to Canberra.
Too many guns about: Premier Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:22:33 PM · by DaveLoneRanger · 13 replies · 590+ views News.com/au ^ | February 10, 2005
ONE gun in the hands of a criminal was one gun too many, NSW Premier Bob Carr said today. His comments follow revelations an early morning commuter was robbed at gunpoint at a western Sydney railway station last month. The 34-year-old victim, known only as Paul, had a gun pressed to his neck and was forced to hand over his watch at Harris Park railway station about 6.45am (AEDT) on January 11. Mr Carr today said the Government was working hard with police to reduce the number of guns in the community. When asked if there were too many guns...
In fact, "American Decline" (no sense debating this folks, enough of the jingoistic songs--it is established as a reality) may take several good US presidents one after another and a committed American populace to reverse the trend and not go over Niagara Falls for good. Like I said, this thing is much larger than Barack Obama alone, and will take much more time to reverse than under one or maybe even 2 consecutive Republican Administrations with companion conservative-majority US federal bicameral legislative bodies...and the administrations themselves are going to have to be bedrock Ronald Reagan Conservatism, no wishy-washy RINOism, or folks I am sorry, it is the beginning of the end. Folks in the know are already voting with their feet, their safe haven retirement locations, and their US dollars converted to which ever manner to spirit it away from the grubby hands of Uncle IRS. Kinda' like the Founding Fathers or original Pilgrims, actually.
And there it is.. Right there. All one needs to know in answering the question, "Are socialists within our government WILLFULLY NEGLIGENT for the sole purpose of crashing our free-market, capitalist Republic? Need more proof? How about 0bama's failure to meet with his Jobs Council while attending over 100 campaign fundraisers?
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