Romney Criticizes Obama's Foreign Policy at the Citadel!

The Weekly Standard:

This morning, Mitt Romney used his foreign policy address at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to criticize what he called the Obama administration's "feckless policies of the last three years."

"I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world," Romney said, with an audience of cadets sitting behind him. "Not exceptional, as the president has derisively said, in the way that the British think Great Britain is exceptional or the Greeks think Greece is exceptional. In Barack Obama’s profoundly mistaken view, there is nothing unique about the United States."

Romney criticized the president on cutting the defense budget, as well. "I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts," he said. "I will begin reversing Obama-era cuts to national missile defense and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic missile defense system."

In his closing argument, Romney contrasted his vision of America's role in the world with that of Obama. "I will not surrender America’s role in the world," he said. "This is very simple. If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today." The cadets appluaded.

This is not the first time a Republican candidate for president has spoken at the Citadel, a public college that serves as one of the six senior military colleges in the United States. In September 1999, Texas governor George W. Bush gave an address, titled "A Period of Consequences," to cadets at the college. Bush did not mention President Bill Clinton nor Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic front-runner, in his speech.

Today's Conservative Quote

"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good', but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."


Ayn Rand

Matthews Compares Obama to a Clunker: Would You Buy This 'Lousy' Car Again Next Year?

Matthews Compares Obama to a Clunker: Would You Buy This 'Lousy' Car Again Next Year?

MSNBC's Chris Matthews used to get a thrill up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak.

After Thursday's pathetic presidential press conference, the "Hardball" host compared Obama to a "lousy" new car that ended up being  a "clunker," and then asked the Huffington Post's Jennifer Donahue, "Are you going to buy one next year?"

I guess the thrill is gone!

More BS from POTUS!

President Barack Obama on Thursday used his first news conference in more than two months to argue forcefully for his jobs bill, saying he is "comfortable" with a proposal by Senate Democrats to add a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires if that's what it takes to get his bill through Congress.

Obama challenged Republicans to explain why they oppose his American Jobs Act or propose an alternative that will put people back to work.

"I would want nothing more to see a Congress act so aggressively that I can't campaign against them as a do-nothing Congress," he said.

WHAT A CROCK!!!!

Conservative Fact of the Day!

The Federal government's fiscal year started on October 1, 2011; they expect taxes of $2.6 Trillion and will spend $3.6 Trillion. The $973 Billion deficit equates to $3,243 per every American man, woman and child.

A formal budget has not been passed in two years!

Americans Can Be Put On "Kill" List!

Americans Can Be Put On "Kill" List!

By Mark Hosenball
Reuters

WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 5, 2011 7:59pm EDT

(Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

Current and former officials said that to the best of their knowledge, Awlaki, who the White House said was a key figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, had been the only American put on a government list targeting people for capture or death due to their alleged involvement with militants.

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