Posted on 05/19/2011 1:45:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama 'disrespected' Israel, threw it 'under the bus,' says Romney By Michael O'Brien - 05/19/11 03:29 PM ET
President Obama "disrespected" Israel and threw it "under the bus" in a wide-ranging speech on the Middle East on Thursday, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney charged.
Romney strongly criticized Obama, who, in a speech at the State Department, called for Israel to return to its border lines as drawn before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
"President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace," Romney said in a statement.
"He has also violated a first principle of American foreign policy, which is to stand firm by our friends," added the former Massachusetts governor.
Romney led Republicans in criticizing the Obama speech, which touched on broader themes throughout the Middle East, including the popular movements for democratization, from Egypt to Yemen, during the first half of the year.
"President Obama has betrayed Israel and made a grievous mistake by suggesting borders of Israel go back to pre-1967 borders. This is an outrage to peace, sovereignty of Israel, and a stable Middle East," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), a 2008 Republican presidential candidate who's been a staunch supporter of Israel, said in a statement.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), meanwhile, suggested Obama's stance could represent "the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another Republican presidential candidate, declined to comment on the Obama speech during an appearance on the Rush Limbaugh radio show this afternoon, explaining that he hadn't yet been able to listen to the speech or digest its contents.
The political battle lines emerged quickly on Thursday afternoon after Obama's speech, especially after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the president's call for a return to 1967 borders.
Netanyahu will meet with Obama on Friday at the White House, and he'll stay in Washington over the weekend before addressing the AIPAC conference Monday and a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday.
Mitt got it totally right on this one. Obama again acted in a classless manner more appropriate to a street thug than a president of the US. When Romney said Obama “disrespected” Netanyahu, he answered in the same vein as Obama’s behavior and thereby included a word link to how Obama acted, and often does act: like a street thug.
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So you are suggesting it takes one to know one ???
Yes I see what you mean...
Romney is classless... and a street thug...
They'll just give him the finger until he loses in 2012.
Nanas: IMMORAL is a better word...and intentional
Will: Nope, Mitt got it totally right on this one.
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Well if you dont want to apply IMMORAL to Barry thats your gracious choice
Meanwhile we’ll apply it to Williard Mitt Romney
You cannot deny the term fits right there with Mitty the Hotel Porn Pusher and Same Sex Marriage Advocate...
Lol, I don't think you are at all objective on the subject of Mitt Romney. You're even trying to soften the criticism of Obama to avoid admitting that Mitt might have made one correct statement.
“Can’t even produce a workable budget but now Obama is going to solve complex foreign conflicts that have continued for thousand’s of years.”
He really is that arrogant - his chin is perpetually jutting out in defiance - that he thinks he’s ruler of the world.
And speaking of his budgetary/economic incompetence - how about his dismissing a $1 billion debt of Egypt’s, and stating how we’re going to do all this “democracy” building and job empowerment for middle eastern countries?
He hates Israel, and he hates US.
You’re even trying to soften the criticism of Obama to avoid admitting that Mitt might have made one correct statement.
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Mindread much kid ???
It seems that you are the one “trying to soften the criticism of Romney to avoid admitting that Mitt might have” a big fat liberal baggage hanging off his butt...
1. He has been an abortion pusher for 40+ years
2. He has giving money to planned Parenthood
3. He has pushed for same sex marriage
4. he has pushed for special rights for homopsexuals
5. He has appointed liberals to the MASS courts
6. He has voted for liberal Democrats
7. He has given money to liberal Democrat candidates
8. he has endorsed libedral democrats.
9. He is anti-2nd Amendment
10. He is a gun grabber
11. He never served in the military
12. he encouraged his FIVE sons not to serve
13 He equated his sons canvasing for him for POTUS in 2008 to be the same as though they had served in the US military
14 He is a TWO time draft doger
15 While young men were fighting in the jungles of Vietnam the privileged boy Mitty was vacationing in France in a mansion and driving an expensive car.
16. He wants China to have favored nation status because he does business with them
17 He is for Cap N Trade
18 His company produced porn videos
19 He has been on the board of Marriott for many years agreeing all that time with their Porn-in-every-room policy
20 He is a dogs worse nightmare
21 He is for AMNESTY..”path to citizenship”
22 He knowingly hired illegal aliens over a long period
23 His father was born in Mexico
24 He “disrespected” President Ronald Reagan during the 1994 MASS US Senate debates
25 He has no Conservative creds
and thats just a few of the reasons Williard Mitt Romney is not going to be POTUS and Bishop-in-Chief
He’s “unfit” and “IMMORAL” and “disrespected”
I don’t think you are at all objective on the subject of Mitt Romney.
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Well the object is Willard Mitt Romney..
so the subject would have a quasi truth ring when one has to list that liberal’s attributes...
“Look for Netanyahu to tell him the facts of life in their private meeting. If Obama fails to reverse course, info will begin to surface that will confirm all the suspected wrong-doings, illegal and corrupt activities of this administration.”
You really think so? I pray you’re right. BHO surely treated Bibi and his people abominably last time they were here. You think his intelligence has at least some of the dirt on BHO for real?
Nanas: IMMORAL is a better word...and intentional
Will: Nope, Mitt got it totally right on this one.
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OK so you dont like IMMORAL
How about “the most egregious”
Now mind you, if you like this one. the racist bigot Williard Mitt Romney has been one upped by a black man...
Congressman Allen West (FL-22) released this statement today:
“Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state.
Congressman Allen West Response to President Barack Obama’s Call for a Two State Solution in Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722399/posts
This became a waste of time some time back. You have gone off on all sorts of tangents which have nothing to do with my comment about Romney’s statement today concerning Obama’s treatment of Netanyahu.
Maybe we can both find something better to do.
Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace,” Romney said in a statement.
America should never negotiate with the Palestinian Authority- Congressman Allen West
You cannot know the disdain that conservatives feel for Romney, we are not going to get excited about every little positive campaign utterance that he makes.
One of the most horrible aspect of Romney’s single shot at governance was his liberal judges.
Only 1 out of four of his judges were even Republicans, and those were mostly if not all, liberal.
Those are his appointees that I mean there of course, only 1 out of 4 of his judge appointees were NOT democrats or independents.
You have gone off on all sorts of tangents which have nothing to do with my comment about Romney’s statement today concerning Obama’s treatment of Netanyahu.
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Kid I am trying
But the liberal abortion pusher Williard Mitt Romney has so few redeeming qualities it is hard to pretend objectively that he is more than he is...
Conservatively speaking...
For myself I dont want 4 more years of Barry...
Williard or Barry...same same...
Willie would be giving our money to China and dismantling the military...
Israel would be a thing of the past and illegal aliens would be taking your job and you childrens spot in college
Planned Parenthood would be refunded...with apologies and injury money...
More wise Latinos would fill SCOTUS...appointed by Mitty in his salsa shirt...but men this time...Romney doesnt hire females
Your guns would be confiscated and NAFTA would suddenly be considered as good idea..
RomneyCare would take your hard earned cash...those $50 abortions have to be paid from somewhere..
So Barry or Willie...same same...
Both have “disrespectedf” Israel...
Yeppers
Williard the Rat put his Botoxed finger up and checked the political wind..
Romney is the draft avoiding son (he moved to France) of the infamous 1960s antiVietnam war Presidential candidate George Romney.
Quote: "I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam..." Boston Herald, 5/2/94
Mitt Romney left the GOP in the 1980s because of President Reagan's conservatism and military strength, Mitt returned in 1993 to the GOP.
Quote: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Boston Herald, 10/27/94
WHAT DOES MITT THINK OF THE MILITARY???
Quote: Mitt Romney:"One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share."
“I think Obama, while not muslim, was brought up with muslim teachings, is trying to do his own “caliphate building.”
Why do you assume he’s NOT Muslim? Because he SAYS he’s a Christian and “prays to Jesus every night”? (His exact words).
This president lies every time his lips move. You have to look at all his actions and use common sense.
Wife wasn’t going to have the traditional WH creche (but later capitulated) their first Christmas there, cancelled the long-standing annual prayer breakfast but started the custom of hosting a Ramadan dinner, slips with Stephanopoulos on This Week in ‘08, saying “my Muslim faith” which GS corrects hastily, “you mean Christian faith” and BHO says “whatever”, he has the Christian symbol IHS covered for his speech at Georgetown, whenever mentioning the Koran, it’s “the Holy Koran” yet when mentioning the Bible, it’s always just “the Bible” or “the Christian Bible” (what??), and on and on and on. His foreign policy alone consistently shows how pro-Muslim, anti-semitic he is, yet Christianity tells us we are to protect Israel.
That’s what he said in front of an Israeli audience. No doubt he said the exact opposite in front of a Muslim audience.
No, because of all the time he spent in Wright's church, he's a proclaimed "christian" (I refuse to capitalize it in this specific case) in a liberation theology church. This sort of "christian" is the obverse side of the "christian identity" coin.
Not a recognizable Christian, but at the same time, not a muslim, but a dhmini who learned his place at the feet of his muslim masters while he was growing up in Indonesia.
Mark
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