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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 Lies And Blunders That Say A LOT About Whether Mitt Romney Is Fit To Be President
Read them and weep. And talk to some friends who dont usually vote. Make bargains with he deity of your choice. Just dont let this man win on November 6th.1) Syria is Irans only ally in the Arab world. Its their route to the sea. Romney has his geography wrong. Syria doesnt share a border with Iran and Iran has 1,500 miles of coastline leading to the Arabian Sea. It is also able to reach the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.
2) Former chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that Admiral Mullen said that our debt is the biggest national security threat we face. This we have weakened our economy. We need a strong economy. We need to have as well a strong military. If Romney is worried about the national debt, why does he want to increase military spending from 3.5 percent of GDP to 4 percent? This amounts to a $2.1 trillion increase over a ten year period that the military says it does not need and Romney has no plan to pay for it.
3) When when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, the Green Revolution occurred, for the president to be silent I thought was an enormous mistake. Obama spoke out about the Revolution on June 15, 2009, just two days after post-election demonstrations began in Iran, condemning the Iranian governments hard-handed crackdown on Iranian activists. He then reiterated his comments a day later in another press conference. Iranian activists have agreed with Obamas approach.
4) And when it comes to our economy here at home, I know what it takes to create 12 million new jobs and rising take-home pay. The Washington Posts in-house fact checker tore Romneys claim that he will create 12 million jobs to shreds. The Post wrote that the new math in Romneys plan doesnt add up. In awarding the claim four Pinocchios the most untrue possible rating, the Post expressed incredulity at the fact Romney would personally stand behind such a flawed, baseless claim.
5) I would tighten those sanctions. I would say that ships that carry Iranian oil, cant come into our ports. I imagine the E.U. would agree with us as well. Almost no Iranian oil has come into the United States since Ronald Reagan signed an executive order in 1987 banning all U.S. imports from Iran. The nation received a small amount of oil from Iran after the first Gulf War, in 1991.
6) I see jihadists continuing to spread, whether theyre rising or just about the same level, hard to precisely measure, but its clear theyre there. Theyre very strong. Obamas policies appear to have gravely weakened al Qaeda Central, the lead arm of the organization in Pakistan and Afghanistan principally responsible for 9/11.
7) Its not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people. The Romney campaign routinely touts government military spending as a way to create jobs and boost businesses.
8) My plan to get the [auto] industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks. It was President Bush that wrote the first checks. I disagree with that. I said they need these [auto] companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy.Romneys plan for the auto bailout would have ensured the collapse of the auto industry. In his editorial titled Let Detroit Go Bankrupt, Romney advocated for letting the private sector finance the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler. Auto insiders, however, have said that plan was reckless and pure fantasy.
9) Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not. Ryans plan, which Romney has endorsed, couldcut spending on non-defence-related research and development by 5%, or $3.2 billion, below the fiscal-year 2012 budget, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the long term, Ryans small-government approach would shrink funding for research and development to historically small sizes.
10) I was in a state where my legislature was 87 percent Democrat. I learned how to get along on the other side of the aisle. Given Romneys 844 vetoes as governor, Massachusetts legislators dispute this claim. As the New York Times has noted, The big-ticket items that Mr. Romney proposed when he entered office in January 2003 went largely unrealized, and some that were achieved turned out to have a comparatively minor impact.
Horrified? See all 24 of them at ThinkProgress.org.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/23/1070781/at-the-last-presidential-debate-romney-told-24-myths-in-41-minutes/?rc=moveon
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