Mitt Romney prepares to challenge Obama on foreign policy

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Source: Washington Post

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is preparing to broaden his challenge to President Obama’s management of foreign affairs, sensing political vulnerability in an area in which the incumbent has received his strongest public support.

With the nation facing a high unemployment rate and uncertain economic growth, foreign policy as a political issue has remained on the periphery of the presidential race. Republicans seeking their party nomination have trained their sharpest criticism of Obama on his economic record, where they perceive him to be weakest.

That is changing, particularly in the Romney campaign, as the former Massachusetts governor begins to set his sights on the general election. Advisers say Romney, cast by the Obama campaign as a foreign policy novice, is unwilling to concede the issue in what both sides say would be a close race.

The emergence of foreign policy in the campaign comes during a particularly difficult period in Afghanistan and at a time when fears are rising about Iran’s nuclear program.

Romney's one of the guys who thinks we should get involved in another war in central Asia. He has no credibility with regard to international affairs.

Romney's also wanting to incease taxation on the poor which is illogical we ccan barely get by as it is much less afford to pay those taxe increases. On us I say if that he want's to increase taxes on the lower and middle class. He must give us all a job so we can work for the richest man to even run for president.

But back to his take on forigen policy taking America to war with Asia would be a end to our country economically.

This is how messed up this country is. Obama is going to get attacked because he wasn't a big enough sociopath when it comes to foreign policy instead of him being exactly the same as Bush and even worse when it comes to civil liberties. Neoconservatism is a disease and it effects both sides. The only reason Obama hasn't attacked Iran already is because he's waiting until after the election.

Bush left a lot in the hands of Obama so it's not all his fault but he could do a better job when it comes to handeling the middel east.

Yea, he could get us the hell out of there and adhere to constitution like he promised.

As far as Obama's kill count and willingness to intervene, he is just as bloodthirsty as your typical neocon. He's no Ayatollah Santorum I guess who wants to wage a holy war on the entire Middle East and beyond. I don't understand how any of these psychos could say he's "weak" on foreign policy.

He has to try but it's not his best card.

Im not sure about Obama waging a holy war but I know for a fact that if Santorum becomes our next president he will start a holy war cleary he is the most radical running for the GOP nomination he is the best chance the GOP has for getting a republican as our next president.

So why are Christians such warlocks?

How long do you intend to keep trolling before I report you to the moderators?

Hmm christian and warlocks don't do together plus a warlock is a male witch and that statment is a fallacy.

No kidding, but I don't believe his aim was logic.

It was just another attack against a religion and people who follow it like me im a Methodist but I find it funny when a christian demonzies a atheist and when a atheist who believes has better moral reasoning skills does the same thing to religious people talk about irony.

Be that as it may, you're proving my point that his statement was nothing more than a troll intended to derail the current topic of this thread.

Case in point: Don't feed the trolls.

Yes that is a good statement feeding them is like feeding a grimlin after midnight not a good idea.

If Romney is elected he'll say things to appeal to the right while essentially doing the same things that Obama would, and if Obama is re-elected he'll say things to appeal to the left while essentially doing the same things that Romney would. Obama continued all of Bush's policies that he railed against during his campaign and pushed through a healthcare plan based on Romney's Massachusetts plan. It won't matter to us in our daily lives one iota who wins.