to the Bastille!

The dumb SOB has been brutally curb-stomped for this idiocy even by the likes of Schmuck Toad and he triples-down on it? When the punditocracy turns on you this completely and viciously you are well and truly screwn. Willard is politically dead, and all that's left is the funeral on Election Day.

is deperate damage control.

He and his allies will try to give the impression that he's not a despicable bastard who is unfit for the Presidency.

Case in point: Bill Kristol who called out Mitt for not mentioning Afghanistan in his RNC speech just issued a vague statement trying to salvage Mitt's campaign.

That's an utterly ridiculous backhanded compliment that ignores that Mitt is being slammed by damn near everyone.

. . . .trying to blow past the lies and trumpet the virtues of Romney's opportunism. Stunning.

He's the genius who leaned on Grampy to pick Princess Dumbass.

He's never been right about anything in his life.

The President had no more control over that statement, than Mittens would if he were in the position.

It is damage control based on a completely false assumption that there is real foreign policy position taken by the Administration.

Huh?

And Romney foreign policy =

Where are your damn taxes Romney ???

Demonstrate in Cairo, over Islamophobic Film

Predictably, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the tiny demonstrations in Cairo and Benghazi by Muslim militants. The Benghazi mob turned violent in clashes with police and the consulate ended up being burned and an embassy staffer is said to have been the US ambassador and three staffers were killed.

Romney seized on the frantic tweets of the Cairo embassy issued *before the attacks*, which condemned the sleazy Youtube videos by American Islamophobes that had provoked the ire of the crowds, as evidence that the Obama administration was siding with the attacking mobs. First of all, really? Romney is trying to get elected on the back of a dead US diplomat? Second of all, really? He thinks the State Department thought the attack on themselves was justified? Third of all, really? Romney is selective. When it comes to Christianity, Romney decries a ‘war on religion.’ But apparently he thinks there *should* be a war on Islamic religion.

The victory in the Libyan elections of nationalist rather than fundamentalist forces, and the rise to power in Egypt of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood has marginalized the militant strain of Muslim activism, known coloquially as ‘jihadis’ because of their emphasis on vigilante violence. ... The vigilante fundamentalists typically reject elections and democracy, as inauthentic Western imports, and they are headline whores, plotting out attention-grabbing mob actions. These jihadis are tiny groups in Egypt and Libya, though sometimes well-armed and well-trained.

You could make an analogy to the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, which just has perhaps 5,000 active members. But people like Wade Michael Page, who had applied for Klan membership, can make a media splash by simply shooting down people at e.g. a Sikh Temple.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/romney-poses-as-militants-burn-benghazi-consulate-killing-one-demonstrate-in-cairo-over-islamophobic-film.html

elections and pushing Voter ID.

Somebody does NOT like their candidate!

Hell, you can be a cynical SOB about foreign policy and know that there are times you don't make your whole statement "America, fuck yeah!". Romney appears to be channelling John Bolton - and he was unpopular with some parts of the Bush regime.

this was going to happen...

I keep thinking about that 3:00am call at the White House.

I don't want it to be Mr. Romney who answers.

In a massive diplomatic crises you don't side with the instigators - even if he happens to be one of the biggest assholes in America. The more it piles on the more it looks like they're intentionally throwing this election.

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