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WHAT ROMNEY SHOULD HAVE SAID AT LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE by Amy Proctor
The first portion of this blog post is a guest post from former blogger extraordinaire, Amy Proctor. During her days as the Bottom Line Up Front blogger, she had a big audience and was interviewed on radio and television. But she is also the wife of a Master Sergeant in the Army and has a quiver full of children to raise and she loves photography. So now she concentrates on taking awesome pictures.
I am pleased to have a cd of her husband, Johnny, playing his upbeat Beach Boys-style music and it is excellent and music I play to make me smile. Come Christmas I shall be purchasing an Amy Proctor photo book. For now, I am giving her a platform to speak:
WHAT ROMNEY SHOULD HAVE SAID AT LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE by Amy Proctor
I am very disappointed in Mitt Romney’s performance last night at the
final presidential debate against Barack Obama. Obama’s record on
foreign policy is weaker than is record on the economy, and that’s
really saying something. I found it excruciatingly painful to watch
Obama sit there and paint himself as this great foreign policy leader
with great instincts and some kind of a good record, somehow. The worst
part was that Romney just sat there and let him do it.
Pure agony.
I’m going to lay out a handful of examples of what Mitt Romney should have said to Obama last night, in no particular order.
- When the topic of Benghazi, Libya came up, Romney should have said,
“Mr. Obama, you may think I responded too quickly but the fact is that I
WAS RIGHT while you are STILL trying to figure out what happened in
Benghazi. I understood this was a terrorist attack before all the
details were in, as did most of the American people, while you spent
weeks blaming it on an anti-Islam You Tube video. Not only that, your
administration from US Embassy in Egypt immediately apologized for the
video and Hillary Clinton made a video that was shown in Pakistan
apologizing for the video, which cost American taxpayers tens of
millions of dollars."
"So Mr. President, after all this time,
you still haven’t gotten it right and I was right from the beginning.
This is an example of the innate instincts a real leader must have, and
you do not have them.”
- In 2009, the Iranian people rose up in
protest against the fixed election which called Mahmoud Ahmadenijad the
leader and the Iranian people courageously stood up against the bogus
results and took to the streets in protest as Iranian police killed many
protesters. Obama’s reaction? “"We are excited to see what appears to
be a robust debate taking place in Iran". While Obama did not
congratulate Ahmadenijad, he legitimized the results of the election
with his comments and did not offer support to the pro-Democracy
movement in Iran as they protested in the streets.
So when Obama denied that he didn’t stand with the Iranian people, all Mitt Romney had to say was,
“The American people don’t need to take my word for it. Just go to You
Tube and search ‘2009 iran obama are you with us’ to see video of the
Iranian pro-Democracy demonstrators crying, ‘OBAMA, ARE YOU WITH US OR
WITH THEM?’ The people of Iran certainly believed they were abandoned
by the President.”
- When Barack Obama ridiculed Romney for
making a negative comment in London about how the 2012 Olympics were
being organized, saying he alienated our best ally, Romney should have
replied,
“Mr. President, if you want to talk about alienating
our allies, you have done an outstanding job of alienating Afghan, Iraqi
and Israeli allies. In 2008 you said publicly on 60 Minutes that Hamid
Karzai had a ‘bunker mentality’ and wasn’t leading the fight in his
country against the terrorists while in 2009 your administration
publicly accused Karzai, the elected leader of Afghanistan and partner
in a war, of being unhinged and mentally unstable. In 2008 your
secretary of state to be Hillary Clinton publicly called for Iraqi Prime
Minster Nouri al-Maliki to be replaced calling him incompetent, while
your constant opposition to the war as a ‘mistake’ even after taking
office has placed a wedge between the leadership of Iraq and the U.S.
So Mr. President it is no wonder they could not reach a Status of Forces
Agreement with you after such humiliating comments and its no wonder
that Karzai is increasingly resistant to U.S. intervention in his
country for the same reason.”
“Finally, when it comes to
alienating our allies, what is your explanation for your administration
exposing the Pakistani doctor who led us to bin Laden who now sits in a
Pakistani prison for 30 years? How can any country ever cooperate with
the United States again in a covert operation to track down terrorists
if that is how you treat your friendly sources?”
- When Obama praised himself for ending the war in Iraq, Mitt Romney should have responded,
“Mr. President, you did not end the war in Iraq, you simply ended U.S.
presence in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is making a big comeback in Iraq now and
much of our gains are being unraveled so that you could keep a political
promise to your base to end the war, but you’ve done no such thing.
The war is still alive in Iraq and the sacrifices of our troops are
being reversed.”
“And in Afghanistan, more troops have died in
your first 2 years as Commander in Chief than under the previous 8 years
combined.”
“And speaking of keeping promises to your base, Mr.
President, didn’t you promise that the detainee facility at Guantanamo
Bay would be closed within one year of you taking office, yet it is
still up and running? If you cannot keep your promises to the American
people, why should they trust you with another 4 years?”
- When Obama praised himself or the killing of Osama bin Laden, why didn’t Mitt Romney say,
“Mr. President, if you had your way with your opposition to President
Bush’s terrorist surveillance program, to CIA prisons abroad and
enhanced interrogation programs of terrorists, Osama bin Laden would not
have been killed. It is thanks to the Bush policies that bin Laden was
tracked down and killed. And George W. Bush would have credited the
Navy SEALS for killing bin Laden, he wouldn’t have taken the credit
himself.”
- When Obama accused Romney of being Bush 2.0 on foreign policy, Mitt Romney should have said,
“Mr. Obama, the Middle East is going up in flames. When you took
0ffice, the Bush administration foreign policy created a wave of
pro-Democracy movements across the area. With the deposing of Saddam
Hussein, now deceased Libyan leader Momar Kaddafi voluntarily gave up
its WMD program and urged other Arab nations to do the same, saying,
‘Have you learned nothing from Iraq? You could be next!’ The Syrian
occupation of Lebanon was ended as Lebanese forced the occupiers out of
their country. Egypt experienced its first ever democratic election in
its history. Syria and Iran were becoming increasingly isolated.
Millions of Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq had been freed."
“Now, terrorism is spreading in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and a once long
standing ally in Egypt has been overthrown with your encouraging. An
imperfect leader, who worked to suppress the uprisings of radical groups
in Egypt and who maintained a peace treaty for several decades with
Israel has been overthrown because of your prompting, and has been
replaced by the radical Muslim Brotherhood, who wish to institute the
oppressive Shariah Law and whose stated objective is to crush Israel.
This is not a democracy movement; this is the spread of terrorism. And
this is how we treat our ally in Egypt?”
“In the years prior to
your presidency, American citizens lived freely and openly in Egypt.
Military families and diplomats and their families lived in safety as if
they were living in South Korea or Germany. Can U.S. citizens live
safely in Egypt today, Mr. President?”
- When Obama denied he
apologized for America in his 2009 tour of Europe and the Middle East,
saying he visited Israel in 2008 as a candidate, Mitt Romney should have
said,
"Mr. President, I think it's great that you visited
Israel... as a candidate. But as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, you
have NOT visited Israel when you toured the Middle East in 2009, you
said, and I quote, that 'America has shown arrogance, been divisive and
even derisive'..... but the American people don't have to take my word
for it, they can search You Tube for '2009 obama apology tour' and watch
you say it for themselves."
Now folks, this is just a handful
of examples. Why Romney didn't refute any of these lies posed by Obama
is a devastating mystery to me. Obama is low hanging fruit ripe for the
picking.
But ultimately if this has no bearing on the elections, then I don't care. But if it does, this hurts.
I refuted every one of Obama's lies as the debate was going on and it was easy..... didn't you?
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