By Steve Benen
I didn’t intend to return to the subject, but so long as Mitt Romney keeps repeating an offensive lie, I figure there’s some value in repeating the truth.
The Republican presidential hopeful delivered a “major” foreign policy speech this morning — the latest in a series of “major” foreign policy speeches, since the first few didn’t go well — and returned to
one of his favorite arguments.
“As President of the United States, I will devote myself to an American Century. And I will never, ever apologize for America…. I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world. Not exceptional, as the President has derisively said, in the way that the British think Great Britain is exceptional or the Greeks think Greece is exceptional. In Barack Obama’s profoundly mistaken view, there is nothing unique about the United States.”
The condemnation of President Obama’s stated support for American exceptionalism is pretty
foolish on its face, but it’s worth appreciating the point behind Romney’s lie.
Central to Romney’s entire campaign is the notion that the president “apologized for America.” It’s a line that the former governor uses in every speech; he’s mentioned it in every debate; and it’s even in the title of his book. It’s been fact-checked repeatedly, and it’s always been
proven false.
moreGreg Sargent:
News orgs help Mitt Romney mislead AmericaInteresing! After announcing his foreign policy team yesterday (
Key Romney Advisers Advocate War With Iran), Multiple Choice Mitt gives a foreign policy speech hyping the "Obama apologized for America" lie, and some media outlets are helping him to push it.
Have Republicans decided that Romney is the best of their lot?
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