{"id":8277,"date":"2012-10-23T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2012-10-23T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:41:01","slug":"failing-to-score-points-by-criticizing-obama-romney-flips-to-agreeing-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8277","title":{"rendered":"Failing To Score Points By Criticizing Obama, Romney Flips To Agreeing With Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching last night&#8217;s debate I was struck by how often Mitt Romney agreed with President Obama on a string of the most significant foreign policy issues. It&#8217;s hard to fathom how Romney can go out on the campaign trail and lambaste the President for a foreign policy that he asserts is falling apart, when he seems to concur nearly across the board with what Obama is doing and has done.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the fact that Romney has also blasted Obama for these very same policies, here is a short list of examples of his Etch-a-Sketchy new positions that he has cribbed from the President:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe, as the president indicated, and said at the time that I supported his action [in Libya].<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t blame the administration for the fact that the relationship with Pakistan is strained.<\/li>\n<li>I support that and entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of [drones], and believe that we should continue to use it,<\/li>\n<li>I congratulate him on taking out Osama bin Laden and going after the leadership in al-Qaeda.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s absolutely the right thing to do, to have crippling sanctions [on Iran].<\/li>\n<li>The surge [in Afghanistan] has been successful and the training program is proceeding apace [&#8230;] and we\u2019re going to be able to make that transition by the end of 2014.<\/li>\n<li>We can be a partner with China. We don\u2019t have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form.<\/li>\n<li>First of all, I want to underscore the same point the president made which is that if I&#8217;m President of the United States, when I&#8217;m President of the United States, we will stand with Israel.<\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t agree more about going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That kind of acquiescence makes for a pretty one-sided debate &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8274\">which is what it was<\/a>. On a question regarding Syria, Obama responded to Romney&#8217;s answer by saying <em>&#8220;What you just heard Governor Romney said is he doesn&#8217;t have different ideas. And that&#8217;s because we&#8217;re doing exactly what we should be doing.&#8221;<\/em> That might just as well have been the answer almost everything Romney said. Romney obviously doesn&#8217;t have an original thought to contribute to the discussion so he pathetically mimics the President.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post helpfully put together a video that features just how deferential Romney was to Obama last night.<\/p>\n<p><center><object id=\"FiveminPlayer\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" height=\"260\" width=\"400\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517514639\/\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching last night&#8217;s debate I was struck by how often Mitt Romney agreed with President Obama on a string of the most significant foreign policy issues. It&#8217;s hard to fathom how Romney can go out on the campaign trail and lambaste the President for a foreign policy that he asserts is falling apart, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[183,260],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-29v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7395,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7395","url_meta":{"origin":8277,"position":0},"title":"When Will The Media Report That Mitt Romney Is A Pathological Liar?","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/22\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve Benen, writing for the Maddow Blog, has compiled a list of 30 flagrant lies told by Mitt Romney this week alone. 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