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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heaven05
(18,124 posts)even a right winger is dismissing that rethug puke.
Zorro
(15,724 posts)It shows where his sympathies lie.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)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
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)so wrong so many times still have a job, I never listen to this man.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)two sets of facts are both treated as valid when only one side is correct.
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)room in the so-called liberal media for an apologist and propagandist for the elites and their empire. See "Limbaugh, Rush".
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)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)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)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. :> Only his brain is developed. So he has no concept that feelings and instincts are also 'brains.'
Whew, that was...interesting. Go Batavia Muckdogs !!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)LiveNudePolitics
(285 posts)other "conservatives" to start speaking honestly, and come back from crazy town.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)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)gets a seat at the table is waaaaaaaaaaay beyond me. What are her credentials?
Uh....<NONE> <PERIOD>
MADem
(135,425 posts)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!
SayitAintSo
(2,207 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)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.
SayitAintSo
(2,207 posts)Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)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)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.
MADem
(135,425 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)to change his soiled pants first.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)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???
MADem
(135,425 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)It's dark to the world.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)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)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.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,041 posts)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)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.