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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoward Kurtz: President Obama Slams a Passive Mitt Romney
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/22/president-obama-slams-a-passive-mitt-romney-as-reckless-on-foreign-policy.htmlPresident Obama Slams A Passive Mitt Romney as Reckless on Foreign Policy
by Howard Kurtz Oct 22, 2012 10:35 PM EDT
President rips his rival for being all over the map while Romney barely fights back. Howard Kurtz on why the Republican played rope-a-dope.
President Obama accused Mitt Romney of wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map at their final debate Monday night, while Romney took a strikingly sober and subdued approach in response.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) debates with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as moderator Bob Schieffer (C) of CBS looks on at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University on October 22, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The focus for the final presidential debate before Election Day on November 6 is foreign policy. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Uncorking a half-dozen attacks within minutes as his rival sat across the table in Boca Raton, the president tried to eviscerate Romney on foreign policy. He said the Republican wanted to leave 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, had sent mixed signals on withdrawing from Afghanistan and proclaimed Americas top enemy to be Russia.
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It was a rope-a-dope strategy in which Romney had his gloves up but left little substantive distance between himself and his rival.
By the half-hour mark, Romney was getting so little traction on foreign policy that he pivoted to the domestic economy and how America is heading on the road to Greece. Obama followed suit, talking about the need for smaller class sizes.
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Howard Kurtz: President Obama Slams a Passive Mitt Romney (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Oct 2012
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Bozita
(26,955 posts)1. WOW! ... Howie's wife (Sheri Annis) is a GOP operative!
Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)2. "The president tried to eviscerate Romney on foreign policy."
He didn't just try.
He did it.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)3. Ah... the old "he was playing rope a dope".
Sounds familiar for some reason...