John Kerry: Ask bin Laden if he’s ‘better off

Source: Washington Post

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee, took aim at Mitt Romney’s foreign policy in a very well-received speech Thursday.

But his most memorable line came when he brought together foreign policy and the big question Republicans have posed this week: “Are you better off?”

“Ask Osama bin Laden if he’s better off than he was four years ago,” Kerry said.

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“We’ve all learned Mitt Romney doesn’t know much about foreign policy,” Kerry said. “But he has all these ‘neocon advisors’ who know all the wrong things about foreign policy. He would rely on them — after all, he’s the great outsourcer.

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