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Romney: I will Put Netanyahu First and America Second - No Kidding
Romney: I will Put Netanyahu First and America Second - No Kidding
by TeamSarah4Choice
In December GOP Debate regarding how America should handle Iran:
Sounds like Romney would put Bibi First and America Second and that is very disturbing to me.
Romney is letting the world know that he will take his orders from Netanyahu rather than from the people of the United States. That bothers me.
Romney accuses President Obama of having a "foreign" Foreign Policy as Romney admits he would actually take orders from a foreign leader, Bibi Netanyahu.
Not only is it chilling that a U.S. President would be a puppet for a foreign leader, it is absurd that Mitt picked Netanyahu to be his Puppet-Master as Netanyahu claims he barely knows Mitt Romney.
Bibi Netanyahu told Vanity Fair
So, Netanyahu "supposes" he knows Mitt Romney - yet Mitt Romney is telling the world that Netanyahu will be his Puppet-Master and he (Mitt) will put Netanyahu First and America Second.
Romney lacks good judgement and is inept at processing real information. You see, as Netanyahu is saying he barely knows Romney -- Romney 'thinks' his scant direct dealing with Netanyahu make them BFFs.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/29/1114731/-Romney-I-will-Put-Netanyahu-First-and-America-Second
by TeamSarah4Choice
In December GOP Debate regarding how America should handle Iran:
ROMNEY: "I'd get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say, 'Would it help if I said this? What would you like me to do?'"
Sounds like Romney would put Bibi First and America Second and that is very disturbing to me.
Romney is letting the world know that he will take his orders from Netanyahu rather than from the people of the United States. That bothers me.
Romney accuses President Obama of having a "foreign" Foreign Policy as Romney admits he would actually take orders from a foreign leader, Bibi Netanyahu.
Not only is it chilling that a U.S. President would be a puppet for a foreign leader, it is absurd that Mitt picked Netanyahu to be his Puppet-Master as Netanyahu claims he barely knows Mitt Romney.
Bibi Netanyahu told Vanity Fair
“I remember him [Romney] for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections, I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”
~Bibi Netanyahu, July 2012 in Vanity Fair Interview, (middle of Page 4)
~Bibi Netanyahu, July 2012 in Vanity Fair Interview, (middle of Page 4)
So, Netanyahu "supposes" he knows Mitt Romney - yet Mitt Romney is telling the world that Netanyahu will be his Puppet-Master and he (Mitt) will put Netanyahu First and America Second.
Romney lacks good judgement and is inept at processing real information. You see, as Netanyahu is saying he barely knows Romney -- Romney 'thinks' his scant direct dealing with Netanyahu make them BFFs.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/29/1114731/-Romney-I-will-Put-Netanyahu-First-and-America-Second
Shambles: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021035644
He’s No Averell Harriman
Fred Kaplan has what I think is the best take so far on Romneyshambles:
I would only add that the bankers of yore operated by building relationships; Bain made its investors money in large part by breaking relationships, e.g. by walking away from implicit promises to workers. It’s not a style that makes for good diplomacy.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/hes-no-averell-harriman/
Fred Kaplan has what I think is the best take so far on Romneyshambles:
The thing that Krauthammer doesn’t get is that Romney is not the sort of businessman—that his brand of capitalism is not the sort of enterprise—that requires even the most elementary understanding of diplomacy, courtesy, or sensitivity to other people’s values, lives, or perceptions.
The American capitalists-turned-statesmen of an earlier generation—Douglas Dillon, Averell Harriman, Robert Lovett, John McCloy, Dean Acheson, Paul Nitze—took risks, built institutions, helped rebuild postwar Europe, befriended their foreign counterparts: in short, they cultivated an internationalist sensibility at their core. Whatever you think of their politics or Cold War policies generally (and there is much to criticize), financiers formed an American political elite in that era because finance (through the Marshall Plan, the World Bank, the IMF, and so forth) was so often the vehicle of American expansionism.
By contrast, private-equity firms, such as Bain Capital, where Romney made his fortune, tend to view their client companies as cash cows, susceptible to cookie-cutter formulas from which the firms’ partners reap lavish fees, almost regardless of the outcome. Their ends and means breed an insularity, a sense of entitlement, a disposition to view all the world’s entities through a single prism and to appraise them along a single scale.
The American capitalists-turned-statesmen of an earlier generation—Douglas Dillon, Averell Harriman, Robert Lovett, John McCloy, Dean Acheson, Paul Nitze—took risks, built institutions, helped rebuild postwar Europe, befriended their foreign counterparts: in short, they cultivated an internationalist sensibility at their core. Whatever you think of their politics or Cold War policies generally (and there is much to criticize), financiers formed an American political elite in that era because finance (through the Marshall Plan, the World Bank, the IMF, and so forth) was so often the vehicle of American expansionism.
By contrast, private-equity firms, such as Bain Capital, where Romney made his fortune, tend to view their client companies as cash cows, susceptible to cookie-cutter formulas from which the firms’ partners reap lavish fees, almost regardless of the outcome. Their ends and means breed an insularity, a sense of entitlement, a disposition to view all the world’s entities through a single prism and to appraise them along a single scale.
I would only add that the bankers of yore operated by building relationships; Bain made its investors money in large part by breaking relationships, e.g. by walking away from implicit promises to workers. It’s not a style that makes for good diplomacy.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/hes-no-averell-harriman/
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You know I hadn't thought about the possibility of Yoo nominated AG.
Or, I wonder if they'd try to add him to the SCOTUS.
Either one is frightening. 
he's a dangerous joke. woe unto us all if he steals the election with falsehoods and racism.
I think I fear this moron in the Oval Office more than I feared Bush. 
