Mitt Romney's foreign policy blunders, which will be broadcast from the appropriately named, "Mouth of the Rat:
"...Romney’s new “military advisory council” that comprises, in part, of decorated veterans that support Romney has a simply astonishing number of ex-military officials that work now as consultants and board members for large-scale weapons producers.
Think Progress quotes:
“While many of those on the Council are clearly decorated veterans,” boldprogressive.org’s Zaid Jilani observes, “one curious aspect of the list is how many of these military figures left the government only to become highly paid consultants and board members to major weapons makers.”
The point is, of course, that Romney plans on giving the military an additional two trillion dollars of unasked-for money, which would likely end up in the pockets of military contracting companies to build weapons or other tools of war. With a board of advisers made of up what practically amounts to representatives of those companies, the connection isn’t that difficult to see." --Addicting Information
Who’s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy?
"It's deja vu all over again!" Welcome to the new bosses, same as the old [warmongering] bosses:
"Romney keeps a large group of foreign-policy advisers, eight of whom participated in the early neoconservative group Project for a New American Century think tank, founded in 1997 and headed by William Kristol, the Nation’s Ari Berman reported in May. In the same month, The New York Times’ Magazine’s David Sanger reported on discontent within that big team, with some complaining that Romney only listens to John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador under president Bush.
Romney has long sought to distinguish himself from the president by drawing a contrast between weakness and strength, and his posture is reflected in the team he’s chosen, peppered with luminaries from the Bush administration. The “special advisers”–who do not comprise the entire foreign policy team–are listed on Romney’s campaign website:
Cofer BlackMichael Hayden served as CIA director under president Bush, who nominated him in 2006. Michael Chertoff served as Bush’s second Homeland Security secretary. Jim Talent and Norm Coleman are former Republican senators.
Christopher Burnham
Michael Chertoff
Eliot Cohen
Norm Coleman
John Danilovich
Paula J. Dobriansky
Eric Edelman
Michael Hayden
Kerry Healey
Kim Holmes
Robert Joseph
Robert Kagan
John Lehman
Andrew Natsios
Meghan O’Sullivan
Walid Phares
Pierre Prosper
Mitchell Reiss
Daniel Senor
Jim Talent
Vin Weber
Richard Williamson
Dov Zakheim
To President Obama: "In boca al lupo!"
8 comments:
Not on this topic but:
Shaw Stated:
"KP hasn't a racist bone in his body; and if you don't know this from coming here and reading his comments, you know NOTHING."
KP is the most central thinking person on this and other blogs. He is the Fox news of bloggers (fair and balanced) and sees both sides of an argument.
Sorry I used KP's response to point out the hypocrisy of the left but he is the only one on this blog that takes both sides and appears to be apolitical. Had JC and KP's statement been written by a conservative about a democrat black women or, God forbid someone doesn't like BHO, they have to be racist. Because it was written by JC and seconded by KP, it is fine. Actually I thought JC's comment was funny.
Guess I should have put a :<) after my comment so the leftist wouldn't freak out.
KP, mine was not meant to be an attack on you because you always have excellent posts. I need to remember liberals cannot tolerate criticism and only republicans can be racists.
This is what JC wrote:
"Elizabeth Warren may become our first female President in a few years. First a Black, then a Female. That ought to send the few remaining republicans right over the edge."
Only in your skewed and paranoid would, dmarks/skudrunner is that statement racist. You don't know the difference between racism and a correct adjective. You believe they are one and the same.
And the fact that you also believe FAUX NOOZ is "fair and balanced" is all we need to know about your level of critical thinking. And to call KP the "Fox news of bloggers" is a huge, huge further insult to KP.
Study after study has shown that people who watch FAUX cable NOOZ are LESS INFORMED than people who watch NO cable news.
IOW if you're getting your news just from FAUX, you're woefully uninformed.
Amusing at every level. No surprise the nation is so polarized.
Prepare for the worst.
I don't watch Fox news but their slogan is fair and balanced. I will have to assume you would prefer MSNBC because they present both sides and give a balanced approach. They have so many conservative commentators that I can't name one.
BTW that was a joke. :<)
As you know, this is the statement I was referring to
"So, there's your candidate: Mia Love! Sounds like a porn star and ought to have them right wingers jumping off a cliff." --KP
Don't know a dmarks and I don't hide behind anonymous but nice try.
skud: "I don't watch Fox news but their slogan is fair and balanced."
Better slogan for FAUX NOOZ: "We're not a news organization, but we play one on teevee."
skud: "I will have to assume you would prefer MSNBC because they present both sides and give a balanced approach. They have so many conservative commentators that I can't name one."
One of the most popular rated morning talk shows, "Morning Joe," is hosted by former GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough, and Michael Steele, former RNC chairman and Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager for McCain/Palin are regular political analyst contributors.
I prefer the PBS News Hour.
skud: "As you know, this is the statement I was referring to
"So, there's your candidate: Mia Love! Sounds like a porn star and ought to have them right wingers jumping off a cliff." --KP
skudrunner, you are seriously humor and satire challenged. You embarrassed yourself by claiming that statement was racist, when anyone who read the previous remarks by KP knew he was being ironic.
skud: "Don't know a dmarks and I don't hide behind anonymous but nice try."
Your writing style and "racist" claims are exactly the same as dmarks.
Of course you would state Morning Joe. He is on while the taxpayers are working.
PBS does have some great shows and I do watch them during the debates.
You know you have confused a liberal with the truth when their response is to accuse you of being a racist because you think BHO is incompetent.
skud: "Of course you would state Morning Joe. He is on while the taxpayers are working."
Republican Joe Scarborough's show starts at 6AM.
"You know you have confused a liberal with the truth when their response is to accuse you of being a racist because you think BHO is incompetent."
No one did that to you here. It appears confusion is what you suffer from.
If you don't have anything on topic to say, don't say it here.
Please go to your conservative blogger friends' blogs and waste their time.
Or better yet, start your own and call it "A Bottle of Skudrunner's Whine."
my favorite line of the debate.
"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s," Obama said to Romney.
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