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Obama Campaign Calls Romney Trip ‘Disaster’
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 31, 2012 | Laura Meckler

Posted on 07/31/2012 3:25:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama’s campaign ripped into opponent Mitt Romney’s just-completed foreign trip, calling it “an embarrassing disaster” and a failed test for a potential commander in chief.

“Romney was auditioning to be leader of the free world, and it’s clear he was simply unable to represent America on the world stage,” said senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs.

He said that any president of the U.S. must be able to carefully measure his words, and that Mr. Romney failed, a reference to comments in London that the British took as an insult to their Olympic preparations and comments in Israel about cultural differences that upset Palestinians.

“He both offended our closest ally and triggered a troubling reaction in the most sensitive region of the world. He certainly didn’t prove to anyone that he passed the commander-in-chief test,” Mr. Gibbs said, on a conference call with reporters.

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To: Free ThinkerNY
Maybe Gibbs has a point? After all, Ahmadinejad has the same view!

Who could possibly argue with that meeting of great minds?

21 posted on 07/31/2012 3:52:18 PM PDT by Gritty (It's either Obama and the Democrats or America. You can't have both. - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sounds like the had the script written before Romney even got off the plane


22 posted on 07/31/2012 3:52:42 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Romney was auditioning to be leader of the free world, and it’s clear he was simply unable to represent America on the world stage,” said senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs.

As opposed to Obama, wanting to be leader of the enslaved world....who simply is unable to do ANYTHING but destroy and MISrepresent America on the world stage.

Riiiight.


23 posted on 07/31/2012 3:56:12 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Obama Campaign Calls Romney Trip ‘Disaster’"

Yeah, he didn't manage to turn even a single country over to the muslim brotherhood.

24 posted on 07/31/2012 3:59:08 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That’s right you LIEberals-—Romney should have just visited all of the ‘57 states’ instead and should have avoided visiting other nations. He didn’t even bow down to any of the world leaders like your boy Zero —shame, shame!


25 posted on 07/31/2012 4:04:13 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The bar of expectations for international relations has been set so extremely low to accomodate the efforts of the inept team in power, that it is doubtful that any kind of Faux passe would even be noticed.
26 posted on 07/31/2012 4:04:43 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Obama has given birth to siamese twins named Inflated goods and his brother Depressedearnings.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Faux pas.
27 posted on 07/31/2012 4:12:07 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Obama has given birth to siamese twins named Inflated goods and his brother Depressedearnings.)
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To: Common Sense 101

The reality doesn’t matter. They’ll just get as many Democratic politicians and journalists to keep repeating the charge and they figure that a large part of the public will assume it must be true, after they have heard it repeated over and over.


28 posted on 07/31/2012 4:18:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Owebama gets funnier every day....


29 posted on 07/31/2012 4:23:41 PM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I noticed that CNN and the other MSM Food Stamp President campaign auxiliaries did not compare Romney;s visit with Lech Wałęsa to the Food Stamp President's visit with Lech Wałęsa...oh, wait. Lech Wałęsa refused to meet with the Food Stamp President as Lech is vehemently anti-communist. Romney gracefully avoided accusing Poland of running Nazi death camps .... must have had a more competent aide.
30 posted on 07/31/2012 4:25:36 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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He certainly didn’t prove to anyone that he passed the commander-in-chief test,” Mr. Gibbs said, on a conference call with reporters.

Hey Gibbs - STFU. You're stupid.

OTOH, has anyone noticed that this is the first election in 12 years where a candidate isn't accused of being a monkey?

31 posted on 07/31/2012 4:34:51 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
"I noticed that CNN and the other MSM Food Stamp President campaign auxiliaries did not compare Romney's visit with Lech Walesa to the Food Stamp President's visit with Lech Walesa...oh, wait. Lech Walesa refused to meet with the Food Stamp President as Lech is vehemently anti-communist."

Yes, I noticed that too. You can be certain they will avoid talking and writing much about the trip to Poland, and photographs like the one below will somehow be "lost".


32 posted on 07/31/2012 4:42:06 PM PDT by Unmarked Package
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To: cranked
I still remember when Jimmy Carter called the GOP nomination of Ronald Reagan a debauchle Not to worry lol
33 posted on 07/31/2012 4:43:34 PM PDT by RightLady (Take out the trash the first Tues after the first Monday in Nov)
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To: Unmarked Package

With that picture, I believe Ann Romney will make an elegant and dignified First Lady.


34 posted on 07/31/2012 5:12:12 PM PDT by twoputt
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All

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35 posted on 07/31/2012 5:43:20 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
it’s clear he was simply unable to represent America on the world stage

Go spit Gibby. Romney does better than Junior by a long shot.

And next time tell your joeboy reporters that it's bad practice to shout at people on sacred ground.

36 posted on 07/31/2012 7:21:15 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Flag_This
Yeah, he didn't manage to turn even a single country over to the muslim brotherhood.

LOL.
37 posted on 07/31/2012 7:35:41 PM PDT by PA Engineer ("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
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