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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:54 AM Sep 2012

George Will: No, President Romney Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Libya Attack

Source: TPM

Conservative columnist George Will dismissed the Romney campaign's suggestion that if the Republican nominee were president the recent violence in Libya that left four Americans dead would not have happened.

Asked on ABC's "This Week" if there's reason to believe that the situation would be different under a President Romney, Will said, "No."

"The great superstition of American politics concerns presidential power, and during a presidential year that reaches an apogee -- and it becomes national narcissism," he said. "Everything that happens anywhere in the world, we cause, or we could cure with ... presidential rhetoric."

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Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/george-will-no-president-romney-wouldnt-have-prevented

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George Will: No, President Romney Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Libya Attack (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2012 OP
wow heaven05 Sep 2012 #1
+1 tawadi Sep 2012 #14
K and R goclark Sep 2012 #30
I believe George Will's wife was working for the Rick Perry campaign Zorro Sep 2012 #2
Right! And by now everyone has heard Unsatorium's own words...... left on green only Sep 2012 #28
How can someone who has been nineteen50 Sep 2012 #3
Because in America's media, Jamaal510 Sep 2012 #7
Agreed, however he has a high paying job because there is always Bainbridge Bear Sep 2012 #17
He has good hair aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #18
It's remarkable he's in so many papers Alcibiades Sep 2012 #24
Once in awhile that tiresome stuffed shirt is right about something. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2012 #4
Baseball pangaia Sep 2012 #9
George Will has never said anything more true, or brilliant. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #5
Maybe this will embolden LiveNudePolitics Sep 2012 #6
Good. Of all the rhetoric, I found that claim to be the MOST offensive. n/t progressivebydesign Sep 2012 #8
Stopped clock...I see George Will and I think "Stolen Carter Debate Briefing Books." MADem Sep 2012 #10
Why Liz 'Spawn of Satan' Cheney even SayitAintSo Sep 2012 #11
Patronage job at State Department x 2! Related to the Biggest Asshole in the Universe! On the Faux MADem Sep 2012 #12
Is she still at the State Dept? n/t SayitAintSo Sep 2012 #20
No--it was an appointed, patronage position under BushCo. Her paw made Colin Powell MADem Sep 2012 #22
Interesting - glad she's gone -Thanks n/t SayitAintSo Sep 2012 #31
I have never used the word unconscionable Cosmocat Sep 2012 #29
I think actually saw some sparks coming out of her eyes when she was trying to get sad sally Sep 2012 #32
Wesley's been to hell and back--the Spawn of Satan won't frighten him!!! nt MADem Sep 2012 #33
No, but a president Rmoney WOULD have nuked Tripoli in response, IMHO. kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #13
President Romney would have had cosmicone Sep 2012 #16
Nice to hear but.... Hulk Sep 2012 #15
We need Jon Stewart to rip them a new asshole, like he did on CROSSFIRE... nt MADem Sep 2012 #23
A broken digital led clock is never right itsrobert Sep 2012 #19
On the other hand WHY DO WE CARE AT ALL WHAT GEORGE WILL THINKS??? jimlup Sep 2012 #21
Not every one is aware of Will's sordid past DonViejo Sep 2012 #35
Unfortunately, most wingnuts will ignore this rather than admit they can't understand his vocab. Indpndnt Sep 2012 #25
Geez, this is the second time in a year that I've agreed with George Will. no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #26
Really George? PossumSqueezins Sep 2012 #27
K&R nt avebury Sep 2012 #34
George Will is still a dipshit davidpdx Sep 2012 #36

Zorro

(15,724 posts)
2. I believe George Will's wife was working for the Rick Perry campaign
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:01 PM
Sep 2012

It shows where his sympathies lie.

left on green only

(1,484 posts)
28. Right! And by now everyone has heard Unsatorium's own words......
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:05 PM
Sep 2012

that smart people will never vote republican, so where does that leave George Will? And what is even more, where does that leave Rit Momney now that the not so smart republicans are on to him?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/rick-santorum-smart-peopl_n_1886684.html?utm_hp_ref=politics


Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
7. Because in America's media,
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:17 PM
Sep 2012

two sets of facts are both treated as valid when only one side is correct.

 

Bainbridge Bear

(155 posts)
17. Agreed, however he has a high paying job because there is always
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:17 PM
Sep 2012

room in the so-called liberal media for an apologist and propagandist for the elites and their empire. See "Limbaugh, Rush".

Alcibiades

(5,061 posts)
24. It's remarkable he's in so many papers
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:19 PM
Sep 2012

I don't know why anyone reads him. He's been spouting oiff his opinions for my entire life, and I think anyone who reads him knows what he is going to write and think on any given issue.

Every now and again, as in this instance, he may say something true, but this is the mere appearance of objectivity: he exists only to disseminate the party line.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,615 posts)
4. Once in awhile that tiresome stuffed shirt is right about something.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:06 PM
Sep 2012

Usually it's baseball. In this case he is also correct in pointing out that not everything is about us and that most of the time President of the United States does not either cause or control events outside the country.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
9. Baseball
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:22 PM
Sep 2012

Hum, yes I tend to agree. He writes very well about baseball. BUT, I also think he is often wrong about baseball as he always has trouble keeping his narrowmindidness(is that a word) out of it. I read Men At Work years ago, and have read many of his columns published in BUNTS. He is a very unbalanced, one dimensional man-- Just look at him. :&gt Only his brain is developed. So he has no concept that feelings and instincts are also 'brains.'
Whew, that was...interesting. Go Batavia Muckdogs !!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. Stopped clock...I see George Will and I think "Stolen Carter Debate Briefing Books."
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:31 PM
Sep 2012

He has zero integrity.

Liz "Spawn of Satan" Cheney is at the table, too--I'm surprised she doesn't pull out her gun and shoot anyone she disagrees with...after all, she's been known to "pack" at work, and the apple doesn't fall far...

Wes Clark is the guy with the most gravitas and intellectual capacity at that gabfest. Gwen Ifil is the lady with the same chops.

 

SayitAintSo

(2,207 posts)
11. Why Liz 'Spawn of Satan' Cheney even
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:39 PM
Sep 2012

gets a seat at the table is waaaaaaaaaaay beyond me. What are her credentials?
Uh....<NONE> <PERIOD>

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. Patronage job at State Department x 2! Related to the Biggest Asshole in the Universe! On the Faux
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:58 PM
Sep 2012

Roster as one of their "Duty Assholes!"

Those "credentials" notwithstanding, i can't see why she was there, either, unless they have a designated "Moran" seat!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
22. No--it was an appointed, patronage position under BushCo. Her paw made Colin Powell
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:14 PM
Sep 2012

put her forward for it. It was like that bullshit job that Karen Whatserface got--no real portfolio, pure patronage, blatantly political.

She's at Faux now. She's nuts.

Cosmocat

(14,559 posts)
29. I have never used the word unconscionable
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 03:28 PM
Sep 2012

in my life until this morning when I put myself through the pain of watching his mean spirited autobot spew her nonsense.

How in the world someone with no real life experience gets equal status as a foreign policy expert to Wes Clark - A US general who was in charge of NATO, is beyond any comprehension. AND, she is so mean and entitles, her visceral disdain for the Wes Clark was palpable.

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
32. I think actually saw some sparks coming out of her eyes when she was trying to get
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 04:40 PM
Sep 2012

Wesley Clark to stop talking by leaning over the table toward him, or maybe she was trying to get her pistola pointed at him under the table. She's a mean angry woman.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
15. Nice to hear but....
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:10 PM
Sep 2012

George Will is still an idiot. I honestly believe this clown is on the panel for laughs. It's like he has his diapers full when he speaks. He's pissed and ugly, and if he EVER has anything positive to say about anything, I'd like to watch the video....it would be a keeper.

Why some of these idiots get respect to plop their disgruntled asses in a chair in front of the camera each week is way beyond me. Could we maybe replace these losers with people that actually have some expertise in the field of finance, politics, science, etc??? WHY must we watch Sarah-Palin-clowns each and every week to spoon feed their nonsense to the public ears???

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
21. On the other hand WHY DO WE CARE AT ALL WHAT GEORGE WILL THINKS???
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:09 PM
Sep 2012

Sorry I just have a hard time when we somehow take a point MORE seriously just because a time tested conservative IDIOT says so.

Even a broken clock ...

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
35. Not every one is aware of Will's sordid past
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:03 PM
Sep 2012

afford him respect and read him faithfully. I post him when he makes comments such as he did today. File it under opposition research. His words can be quoted.

no_hypocrisy

(46,041 posts)
26. Geez, this is the second time in a year that I've agreed with George Will.
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:48 PM
Sep 2012

First, with Don Siegelman becoming a political prisoner by being railroaded by a corrupt justice system, and now this.

Whither cometh the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

PossumSqueezins

(184 posts)
27. Really George?
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 02:52 PM
Sep 2012

You don't think a President Romney could have the entire Middle east holding hands and singing Kumbaya on Day One?

I guess George is not a complete idiot after all. He still has one functioning synapse.

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