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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-soviet-threat-again.phpA foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romneys campaign warned against policies that would aid the Soviet Union Wednesday, making him at least the third person from Team Romney including Romney himself to refer to a country that hasnt existed since 1991 in the course of attacking President Obamas foreign policy.
The Obama campaign has already accused Romney of having a Cold War mindset on foreign policy, so it naturally seized on a clip of longtime Republican diplomat Rich Williamson, a Romney adviser, speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday. Williamson was condemning the Obama approach to Syria.
He called the country strategically important to the Soviet Union.
RagAss
(13,832 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Blue_Tires
Funny you use a picture - with noriwgian text
Diclotican
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)That would explain the retroactive retirement.
Man, I wish I had superpowers.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)That has to be it. How can you make a mistake like this running for POTUS?!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Funny how money can buy most everything, except common sense.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)they call it "magic" underwear?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)aren't going to be happy about that.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)One has ancient history (which she obviously can't appreciate) and which the other can see.
Me thinks so...
Tikki
elleng
(131,106 posts)Can they really be this stupid? Can HE allow this to occur? EVIDENCE of his lack of competence. COMMANDER IN CHIEF???
BumRushDaShow
(129,443 posts)All that money being funneled in is probably being invested somewhere and they are keeping the interest or profits off of it to line their pockets. It's just like that guy on the 17th floor that Bernie Madoff had printing off fake statements on a dot matrix printer - THAT is the equivalent of what his "fake" staff are doing.
elleng
(131,106 posts)to line HIS pockets, that's HIS specialty, taking advantage of EVERY POSSIBLE SCHEME to enrich himself.
"Can they really be this stupid?"
...they can.
Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Attacks Obamas Czechoslovakia Policy
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/04/26/471692/romney-adviser-czechoslovakia/
elleng
(131,106 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I kinda liked that one, him being the big foreign policy expert in the Senate and all...
I tutor a man from Slovakia in English as a Literacy volunteer. I have to patiently explain to him that many Americans don't know where any other country is in the world, much less history about those countries. You should see the look on his face...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Those old Cold War Warriors miss all the boozing and broads they got in Russia. Now they've got the Middle East where ya can't even get a beer and the women are covered.
Think about it. They went from this:
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To this:
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nc4bo
(17,651 posts)he can't seem to control himself and is in serious need of some help; kotex, box of tampons and duct tape would do in a pinch.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)I need it in my life, probably for the next 4 months. I can just mash as needed.
Ack!!
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)for denying his greatest accomplishment.
Apologize retroactively.
BumRushDaShow
(129,443 posts)Pretty please?
He is the male version of Caribou Barbie because you know, all the trees are the right height and Putin will be rearin' his head just like he did to the last rethug candidates -
freshwest
(53,661 posts)mstinamotorcity
(1,838 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)McCarthyism. Republicans are simply dreadful creatures.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Damned bastards.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)It's pretty badass.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Meh. Not to my liking.
I laughed
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)improvised ottoman devices
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Mitt continues the stupid and we struggle to outdo him in comedy.
But we get As for effort!
spanone
(135,873 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)On the bright side, I'm 22 again. Woo Hoo!
My kid is 4 and I'm married to my ex-husband. I'm too old to be in my 20s.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... damn, I could save myself so much grief. And I'd be sure to invest a good bit in a struggling new startup called Microsoft.
-- Mal
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)when I read your post.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)all over the monitor, did it?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, how about the invading Mongol Hordes?
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)The one they used on Carol Cleveland was much too small (at least for her)
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I just love DU some days so much
phantom power
(25,966 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)Retroactive Man!
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They don't care if what they say is true or anywhere near accurate.
Just as long as they can put a sense of fear in weak minds.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Soon, they'll be warning about the Huns.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)between Russia and Soviet Union or that Czechoslovakia has not existed for 20 years. He can say whatever he wants.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:56 PM - Edit history (1)
rwsanders
(2,606 posts)Morgoth is once again occupying Angband and threatening Beleriand. After all, Sauron lived in Mordor. But I think that was after Led Zeppellin went there.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)They haven't had a new idea since 1991, so it's only logical.............
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)for Mitt & his team to call for a replay of the last 3 seconds of the '72 Gold Medal basketball game.
Jessy169
(602 posts)Romney's "Soviet Threat" message is directed at all those good 'ol boys and country hicks living out in the vast American wastelands. They've all been hiding out near their nooklar bomb shelters since August 1962, still waiting for the Soviets to attack.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Americans will hear this -- and all his other stupidity -- and still vote for him.
That is why we suck.
That is why we can't save ourselves.
Romney's no damned good, but it's your friends, neighbors and coworkers who are making this cluster-fuck possible.
SylviaD
(721 posts)Does the Republican nominee for president not understand that the Soviet Union has been defunct for 20 years?
Does he consider all Russians "Soviets"? Does he believe Russia is a communist country?
Is this the scope of his geopolitical knowledge?
If so, he is so ignorant he makes George W. Bush look like Cyrus Vance.
How is this not front page news on every website and newspaper? Instead is treated as a fairly humorous joke? We're supposed to grin and say "oh, that crazy Mitt!"??
I'm a little confused.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)one forgets to note that it is a stupid, short cut way of thinking in its own right. Diplomacy with the UK is a lot more complex than just claiming the common heritage. The Mittwit and his minions think they can get all of Europe to go along on any diplomatic question just because of common race. As usual they are intellectually lazy. He's not sounding any smarter than Palin when he does this type of thing.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)I guess we need to ask who's writing his material.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)The stuff Rmoney is currently spouting sounds a lot like vintage racist warmongering Pat.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Seriesly. Go for it.
thesquanderer
(11,991 posts)and as always, nothing works for Republicans like fear.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)In Romney campaign, party find you.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Now there's somethin' to be freaked out about!!
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)First it's the "Anglo Saxon" thing, now this.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)Those Soviets are everywhere............... quick Ann look under the bed.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Somehow Obama's policies would go back in time and help the Soviet Union at a critical juncture, possibly undoing the time Ronald Reagan conquered them. You don't remember Reagan conquering them? You see? Obama has undone our greatest President's most glorious triumph!
rurallib
(62,448 posts)and a word to the Kaiser: you better be ready - Commander Mitt is on to you
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Heck, we might even need to get ready to fight off Julius Caesar.
Mitt *does* have a time machine, right?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)After all, Chuck Grassley claims the prostitutes in the Secret Service Scandal were actually Russian Spies.
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(and people wonder why these guys are called a bunch of old leches)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75534.html
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tamron-hall-and-guest-romneys-silence-leading-to-concerns-with-mormon-white-horse-prophecy/
BOG PERSON
(2,916 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Are they really that uneducated?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)so they need a new boogeyman.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)What the hell is up with team romney-- don't they know anything?? He's an embarrassment to all of us. I hope people across the pond realize he's an incompetent, out-of-touch nincompoop who is not well-liked in this country.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)Didn't anybody learn anything from Buckaroo Banzai?
KansDem
(28,498 posts)They went out of vogue in 1989!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Or is it Konstantin Chernenko?
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Surely somebody around here has heard that song before
Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)"B" they're big shots
"C" they're communistic
"D" they're dead
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)50 years ago. More? No, thanks.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)AllyCat
(16,222 posts)I thought we were in the 21st, but I guess I was dreaming.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)He will save us from the red menace!
Romney will start a space program so that we can beat the USSR to the moon, too!
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)People that are still living in a pre-civil rights time warp of denial. They refuse to come to grips with any of the changes of the past 40 years.
tjwash
(8,219 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)He needs to move out of the 1980's. If Mitt thinks the Soviet Union, which really doesn't exist anymore, is our number 1 threat, he is a bigger ass then I thought before
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts)If there's one lesson they took from Reagan, that's dumb is not just acceptable, it's beautiful.
Man, the world will be pulling its hair out if Romney wins. Not to mention half the US.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)So he can leave 1985 and get back to the future!