Won Romney net de verkiezingen?

[reinaert68]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Karel Martel B

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2507676

Ik denk het wel.

[Wiley E Coyote]

Ik denk het niet want ondertussen ligt Romney langs alle kanten onder vuur aangezien hij blijkbaar heel economisch met de waarheid was. Zijn eigen opmerking is in feite in Romney's geziocht ontploft.

[reinaert68]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Wiley E Coyote

Ik denk het niet want ondertussen ligt Romney langs alle kanten onder vuur aangezien hij blijkbaar heel economisch met de waarheid was. Zijn eigen opmerking is in feite in Romney's geziocht ontploft.

Pun intended

[Karel Martel B]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Wiley E Coyote

Ik denk het niet want ondertussen ligt Romney langs alle kanten onder vuur aangezien hij blijkbaar heel economisch met de waarheid was. Zijn eigen opmerking is in feite in Romney's geziocht ontploft.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...DDLETopOpinion

In his weekly address Saturday, President Obama observed yesterday's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and declared that "our country is stronger, safer and more respected in the world." In our Friday column, after the president's Democratic National Convention speech, we observed: "Conservatives tend to argue that the Obama foreign policy has been feckless and will lead to disaster. They may turn out to be right, but it's no easier an argument to make than the Democratic economic case that Obama's policies will produce prosperity real soon now."

After the events of Sept. 11, 2012, the argument is easier to make.

[Wiley E Coyote]

WSJ is een beruchtte rechtse publicatie.

Andere kranten en media laten iets anders horen... de algemene teneur in de media is dan ook totaal anders: eerder dat Romney zichzelf in de voet heeft geschoten; een beperkt aantal voorbeelden:

Washington Post:

Mitt Romney’s response to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya has gotten a negative reception from numerous Republicans — some anonymous, some not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...w-republicans/

WaPo editorial board:
His statements on the embassy attacks are a discredit to his campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...4e1_story.html


Real Clear Politics

I understand the Romney campaign is under pressure from some Republicans to toughen its attacks on the president. Four years ago, the McCain campaign was regularly urged to do the same, while at the same time we were unfairly accused by more than a few Democrats and many in the press of inflaming race-based opposition to our opponent. I’m sympathetic to Romney’s predicament.
But this is hardly the issue or the moment to demonstrate a greater resolve to take the fight to the president. Four good Americans, brave and true, have just died in service to their country. They were killed because some of the Libyans who fought a civil war for freedom, or cynically pretended freedom was their cause, do not really approve or understand freedom’s values. Nothing said or done by the president or anyone in the U.S. government is responsible for the violence that led to their deaths.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...ks_115416.html


NYT:

Mitt’s Major Meltdown
It didn’t seem to be a lot to ask, but when the crisis in the Middle East flared up, Romney turned out to have no restraining inner core. All the uneasy feelings you got when he went to London and dissed the Olympic organizers can now come into full bloom. Feel free to worry about anything. That he’d declare war on Malta. Lock himself in a nuclear missile silo and refuse to come out until there’s a tax cut. Hand the country over to space aliens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/op...l?_r=1&src=twr

Forbes Magazine

Is this really how leadership works?
A leader waits until all the facts are available and the impact of one’s words can be more fully assessed. In speaking out before he was fully aware of the situation on the ground, Governor Romney chose the path of the impulsive politician rather that the road taken by a measured leader—and all in the quest of political gain.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickunga...f-mitt-romney/

CBS

Steve Schmidt, senior campaign strategist to Sen. John McCain in McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, told CBS News Wednesday that Romney's "comments were a big mistake, and the decision to double down on them was an even bigger mistake."
"There are legitimate criticisms to be made but you foreclose on your ability to make them when you try to score easy political points," he said. "And the American people, when the country is attacked, whether they're a Republican or Democrat or independent, want to see leaders who have measured responses, not leaders whose first instinct is to try to score political points."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...st-aims-later/


HuffPost

The Romney campaign drew fire on Wednesday morning for issuing a blistering statement condemning the American embassy in Egypt for speaking against an incendiary anti-Muslim film, even though the embassy made the statement before any attacks had taken place. NBC's Chuck Todd, for instance, called the statement "irresponsible" and a "bad mistake." ABC's Jake Tapper said that Romney's attack "does not stand up to simple chronology."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...03&ir=Politics

[Kasumi]

Oorlogsschepen zijn onderweg naar Libië om de jihadis op te sporen en neer te kogelen of te dronen.

Dus Obama zal eer opstrijken om zijn rol als president op te nemen. En Romney blijft met een schot in eigen been achter.

[Boduo]

Iets anders: Voor de 1ste X heeft een gemiddeld Canadees gezin een groter inkomen dan een Amerikaans: 363 $ tegenover 319 $ (Time magazine)