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Russian president smacks down Romney

SypherAL said:
Well, only with someone who thinks at your intelligence level would create a delusional assumption after only hearing Obama speak one sentence.
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"Intelligence level"? Don't Liberals claim that there is no way to measure intelligence?
 
Mycroft said:
Except that ultimately, they won't love you...they'll despise you.
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And become predatory after a sign of weakness or fear, just like the Arabs went on their rampage of price-gouging and financing terrorism after Nixon backed down from using military force to stop the 1973 OPEC embargo.
 
Mycroft said:
Okay. I'm going to group some of your questions together because the answer is the same for all of them:

Was he wrong to ramp up drone attacks in Pakistan which allowed us to eliminate much of al Qaeda's leadership?
Was he wrong in ordering the execution of Osama bin Laden?
Was he wrong to remove combat troops from Iraq?

He was not wrong. He was not particularly innovative or creative either. These actions were already initiated by Bush. The only good thing Obama did was not screw these things up.


Was he wrong to help take out Gaddafi?

Yes. He forced our country into a situation we had no business being in. We will yet see how mistaken he was.


Hasn't he had far more success than his predecessor in obtaining international cooperation on sanctions against Iran?

A useless course of action. A sure indication that Obama hasn't the ability to handle the situation.


Did he not negotiate a productive trade pact with South Korea?

A child could have negotiated that trade pact...seeing how willing the Koreans were.


Has he not improved relations with our European allies?

Has he? I don't see any indication that he has.


Did he not diffuse tensions with Russia over the ballistic missile stations?

By backing down. Good work there, don't you think?


If the course wasn't already laid out for him, Obama has ranged from being ineffective to being a loser.
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"Not since the days of the Roman emperors—and never in the history of the United States Presidency—has an astrologer played such a significant role in the nation's affairs of State."

- Joan Quigley, "What Does Joan Say?" (astrologer to the Reagans)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
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Let's not be too critical of President Obama, he doesn't have the advantage of having an astrologer, like Joan Quigley, to advise him on foreign policy!
 
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jgarden47 said:
Let's not be too critical of President Obama, he doesn't have the advantage of having an astrologer, like Joan Quigley, to advise him on foreign policy!
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Maybe he should try to find one...it would certainly be an improvement.
 
SypherAL said:
Is it REALLY a surprise that Romney made such an unprepared, mentally incompetent statement? This man is so undisciplined, he is a joke. This election could be one of the largest landslides in American history, I don't think he is even within 5 points of Obama in any recent swing state polling.... Nationally....yes....he matches up pretty good, but we all know the national vote doesn't mean jack, ask Al Gore.
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In most swing states Romney is within the margin of error with Obama. That is before he even has the nomination, and full support of the anti-Obama crowd. Right now if I were Obama I would be worried that a guy campaigning against Santorum, Paul, Gingrich, Obama, and Biden by his lonesome is still so close to him in the polls... Watch what happens when its just Obama and Biden verse Romney and future running mate...

As to the point about the comment, it makes a sharp contrast between the two. Romney, who rightly associates Obama with the fear of his socialist leanings, and doesn't fully trust Russia, a Russia that just elected Putin to office. Also, a Russia that has a country full of natural resources, and corrupt mobs controlling them which can be a dangerous threat. Russia's potential support of China, Iran, Syria, etc. would be the major roadblock toward any geopolitical move that the US would make in regards to most foreign policy issues at the moment.
 
Why should I give a airborne fornication about what the Russian President thinks? The way Russia has been acting lately, the Russian president putting him down is a positive for Romney. Russia is afraid we will elect a president that will stand up instead of suck up.
 
IndepCentristMA said:
In most swing states Romney is within the margin of error with Obama.
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RCP poll averages have Obama winning outside of the margin of error in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, and Virginia. Mitt Romney is within the margin of error in Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Iowa, and Florida. He leads in none of them.

Being from the midwest I can say with confidence that there is no way Pennsylvania goes Republican if Ohio goes Democrat. History and voting patterns back me up.
 
GoTim1985 said:
RCP poll averages have Obama winning outside of the margin of error in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, and Virginia. Mitt Romney is within the margin of error in Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Iowa, and Florida. He leads in none of them.

Being from the midwest I can say with confidence that there is no way Pennsylvania goes Republican if Ohio goes Democrat. History and voting patterns back me up.
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And how many times to I have to show the real problem with RCP poll averages? RCP is a flawed polling agency. RCP had Newt winning AL and MS, correct? How'd that work out? RCP had Santorum with double digit leads in MI and OH, days before each primary was held... how'd that work out? RCP = off
 
Top Cat said:
Still has to be embarrassing for Mittens. Getting a big can of STFU opened on his ass by the President of Russia.
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IndepCentristMA said:
And how many times to I have to show the real problem with RCP poll averages? RCP is a flawed polling agency. RCP had Newt winning AL and MS, correct? How'd that work out? RCP had Santorum with double digit leads in MI and OH, days before each primary was held... how'd that work out? RCP = off
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Should I point out again that we are only citing RCP's composite polls? In other words, RCP isn't a "polling firm". They're just averaging a bunch of other pollsters' results, which is the most reliable way to do it.
 
IndepCentristMA said:
And how many times to I have to show the real problem with RCP poll averages? RCP is a flawed polling agency. RCP had Newt winning AL and MS, correct? How'd that work out? RCP had Santorum with double digit leads in MI and OH, days before each primary was held... how'd that work out? RCP = off
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Can you cite the polling firms that had Santorum winning AL and MS?

Can you cite any polling firm that has never been wrong?
 
Matt Foley said:
So Russia is the number one geopolitical foe?
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???

I have no idea.

But what, in my post, would prompt such a question in your mind?
 
IndepCentristMA said:
And how many times to I have to show the real problem with RCP poll averages? RCP is a flawed polling agency. RCP had Newt winning AL and MS, correct? How'd that work out? RCP had Santorum with double digit leads in MI and OH, days before each primary was held... how'd that work out? RCP = off
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RCP is a flawed system because statistics is a flawed mathematical science. Therefore, ALL polling is flawed. But unless you know of some better way of gathering public opinion...

You're attempting to show a problem that admittedly exists for RCP but not nearly on the scale that it does for pollsters that actually poll.

In order for you to understand how there isn't a problem you need a basic grasp of the process of conducting a poll, what RCP actually is, a concept of remedial statistics, and knowledge of what the actual meaning of 'bias' is in relation to polling. You've shown nothing but the exact opposite of each thing in our numerous exchanges tonight.
 
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Apparently Romney's major contribution to American foreign policy is an attempt to bring back the Cold War?
 
johnny_rebson said:
Looks like we missed the chance to elect a modern day version of Benjamin Franklin.

Gingrich has the experience we are looking for. He just wasn't as pure as some would like. Well, Benjamin Franklin wasn't pure either.
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So, you think Gingrich is comparable to Benjamin Franklin? Thanks for the laugh. :lamo
 
AdamT said:
When your foreign policy resume is a blank sheet of notebook paper, you probably don't want a foreign head of state calling you an idiot in the middle of the presidential campaign.
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So what was President Obama's foreign policy strong suit when he was a presidential candidate?
 
Billy the Kid said:
So what was President Obama's foreign policy strong suit when he was a presidential candidate?
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Well... technically Obama doesn't have a foreign policy... he has adopted G.W. Bush's foreign policy.
 
Ockham said:
Well... technically Obama doesn't have a foreign policy... he has adopted G.W. Bush's foreign policy.
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:) And done a fine job carrying it on, don't you think?
 
AdamT said:
Obama didn't have loads of foreign policy experience, but two years on the Senate Foreign Relations committee is a lot more than nothing.
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What he done in this policy see the how Obama is elected for the next President. Now it's time for change Romney is going to elect
 
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