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.
Why wouldn’t he be elected? I say he cuts Obama’s black support by 1/3rd. He’ll take well over half of the independants and 60 + percent of male voters. IMHO (I could be wrong) he will beat Obama 54/45 with one percent divided amongst the various and insignificant minor parties.
It will be a complete and total repudiation of Obama. Not just Obama but the voters of this nation continue to state, poll after poll that they are sick of business as usual in D.C. so do you elect a career politician or do you elect a businessman with a reputation for getting things done?
It will be a walk.
It would be wrong for anyone to comment on something they had not listened to firsthand.
-PJ
IN other news GOP hopeful Mitt Romney hsd announced that he will be on the ticket as Em-Rom.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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(Barry) has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace,” Romney said in a statement.
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What an ignoramous Romney is
He needs to read the Christian Bible
They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace. Jeremiah 8:11
My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD. Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, Ezekiel 13:9, 10
For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape. But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief. 1 Thessalonians 5:3
So far, Romney is one of a small handful of political figures who have come out and hit Obama on this. I give him great credit for this.
One does not have to be a Romney supporter to be gracious when he does the right thing,
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I will never kiss the slimy butt of that evil abortion pusher, Williard Mitt Romney
Did you get all gracious and warm fuzzy and gooey when Barry “got” Osama bin Laden ???
Are you gracious when Barry “does the right thing” ???
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Oh SNAP
Was he crying with joy ???
He is also strong on the military
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Lets qualify that one, kid
Williard Mitt Romney is a TWO time draft dodging coward
Feathers should be sent
Not gracious acolades
I’d bet the farm on that!
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Since youre giving away your milch cow send her on down here before they count her as one of your assets
Elsie will take the goats ...
UB needs a new tractor...
Romney wouldn’t put left-wing marxists on the Supreme Court
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He did in MASS
In this instance, Romney used an apt term, whether it was his full intention or not.
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And as usual MittTwit got it wrong when he said “disrespected”
“whether it was his full intention or not”
Mitty should have had the grace to ask the Jewish Rabbis what they thought...
IMMORAL is a better word...and intentional
“It’s immoral in that basically the president of the United States is asking that 500,000 people who live, work, and raise families around Jerusalem – Jewish families – that they be uprooted, resettled, deported from their homes, have their families broken,” Rabbi Aryeh Spero, founder of Caucus for America, told CNSNews.com.
Rabbi: ‘The President of the UnitedStates is Asking for Ethnic Cleansing’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722336/posts
LOL, Some days I wake up, and I just don’t feel like praising Mitt Romney, you know that feeling?
bump!
“Obama isn’t ‘disrespecting’ Israel - he obviously is seeking Israel’s destruction.”
Hannity’s having a debate on now between Brigitte Gabriel and this Muslim idiot, Mike Ghouse, head of “America Together” or some similar BS Muslim org. He’s smirking and saying what a “historic day” this is, while Sean and Brigitte are saying how shameful BHO is for throwing our ally Israel under the bus, saying Yeah, it’s historic alright.
Nope, 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.
I sure hope you are right. I don’t think you are, but for the good of the country it would be good to have a winning candidate.
this should be Obama’s Neville Chamberlain moment but the media would never cover it.
Saying that the Israelis should just give up some land to the Islamofascists is just like the Slavs just giving up some land for the National Socialists. It’ll all lead to “peace in our day”..
I’m assuming that the good professor never learned about that seminal moment in world history because he was either too stoned, tweeked or was busy with the radicals to remember that appeasement never works.
When will the Jews in the US wake up to this guy?
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