Romney: Foreign trip not the time to detail my foreign policies

[maddezmom]

Romney: Foreign trip not the time to detail my foreign policies
By Greg Sargent
Mitt Romney is taking a lot of heat today for questioning Britain’s readiness to host the Olympic games — a sign, critics say, of his discomfort with the nuances of international relations on the first day of a trip designed to showcase his comfort on the world stage.

But speaking to reporters today in London, Romney said something else that Dems may pounce on — he appeared to say that he doesn’t think it’s appropriate to discuss foreign policy while on a foreign trip.

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If a foreign trip is not a good time to discuss foreign policy, why take the trip at all? This raises questions as to whether the trip is only about staging political theatrics for a domestic audience.

“It does not make sense that one would go on an explicitly described foreign policy trip overseas and not discuss the details of what a Romney administration would do in the world,” Mark Jacobson, a senior fellow with the Obama-supporting Truman National Security Project, told me.

To be as charitable as possible, Romney may have conflated discussions of his own foreign policy with criticism of Obama’s foreign policy, which would violate longstanding norms against criticism of the president while abroad. But even read this way, the remarks are questionable — because of what his failure to make this distinction tells us about how he views the function of such a trip, and how it might be received by foreign audiences.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-foreign-trip-not-the-time-to-detail-foreign-policy/2012/07/26/gJQA1QNuBX_blog.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Epic Fail

[nc4bo]

2. He's got nothing.

Empty suit.
Empty soul.
Empty.

[nolabear]

3. Just when you think ROmney's given you the best week ever

he doubles down.

Mitt the Twit had better not win this thing, or we are going to have to explain how he's not us for four years. If the frigging country lasts that long.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. So, he went to 10 Downing Street have a cup of tea and try to sell the PM some Magic underwear?

[ProSense]

5. This is a fundraising trip. n/t

[Wait Wut]

6. This is getting way out of hand.

Is there any way we can revoke his Visa and make him come home so he stops insulting other countries and making Americans look like a bunch of inbred idiots? I can't imagine the calls our President is getting from foreign leaders, including the 'Soviet Union'.

I apologize to England and am making a preemptive apology to Israel and Poland. Not all Americans are uncouthe, self-important assholes. Just ask Canada. They've tolerated us for a couple of centuries.

OBAMA/BIDEN '12 - Reason 12,432: to prevent WWIII

[maxrandb]

7. I'm a cynic

I think this crap of insulting Europe is Willard's attempt to appeal to the "mouth-breathing-morans" in the Tea-bagger circle-jerk.

He can't be that completely stupid, can he?

[Wait Wut]

8. Yes he can.

And is. And will forever be.

[randome]

12. Yeah, it's all part of a master plan.

Just like Palin.

[longship]

9. He talked foreign policy, but only to the MI6 chief.

So it's now privileged info. So let's have no more questions about it.
<== Poe avoidance.

[maxrandb]

13. We'll see the meeting notes

as soon as we see Cheney's oil industry meeting documents and Rmoney's tax returns.

Now all you peasants quit asking questions! The great "Job Creator" has spoken.

[dickthegrouch]

10. It's a vacation paid for by contributors

He probably thinks he's on vacation and can let down his guard.
I think we should alert the IRS and FEC to improper use of contributors' funds since he obviously doesn't know the first thing about international diplomacy.

[Initech]

11. Then when is a good time??? Talk about clueless.

[Zyzafyx]

14. "If I said that, I meant it."