Romney Blasts Obama: ’180 Degree’ Flip on Iran Nukes

It should come as no surprise that Mr. Romney used the old political trick of quoting accurately-but-out-of-context. What the President actually said in Cairo was, “No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.” Exactly the opposite of what Mr. Romney implied, which was that an apologetic Obama was all for a nuclear-armed Iran. It constantly amazes me that supposedly patriotic public figures like Mr. Romney show such a lack of respect for their President and Commander-in-Chief.

This mornings interview with Mitt Romney was an embarrassment to Mr. Romney but also to 75% of Americans. I used to have so much respect for him and admired his approach to our problems in America but now he is just an embarrassment!!!

These comments by Gov. Romney make me think that he has been getting his foreign policy briefings from Sarah Palin.

Who’s Mitt Romney again?
Seriously, why does anyone care about what some marginalized republican non-entity like Mitt thinks?
Maybe if he keeps this level of rhetoric up, he can be the next John McCain.

Palin can see Russia from her house and I guess Romney can see Iran from his. They must have either great eyesight or vivid imaginations. I vote for the latter and call it delusion.

He flip flopped pure and simple. Just as he has done on so many other issues. He has kept Bush’s wiretapping policies when he said he would ditch them. Five day period to review legislation and he pushed the stimulus bill thru in less than that. Transparency, what a joke that has become. The energy bill is a tax bill on the middle class. He has stated that taxing health benefits is now a viable option which again will be a tax on everybody.The list goes on and on

I liked the question about demographics. He has underestimated just how much trouble this party of hate is in. The republican party is a very narrow spectrum of people in this country and to not acknowledge it shows they don’t think there is a problem.

Romney is a loser and no amount of Obama bashing is going to make the crazy fringe of his Party like him any better. Limbaugh is in control and he loves, Sarah, the clowns on Fox and Chaney. Sorry Mitt but you need to keep your mitts off the President. Nobody cares what you think.

“He flip flopped pure and simple” – Romney fliped on some very fundamental issues, such as abortion, in order to try to win the presidential nomination. For him to go on national TV to accuse Obama of flip flopping is hilarious. I am not a Democrat, but the Republicans are starting to become a laugh riot. Do they even take themselves seriously any more?

Mitt Romney’s bold-face lie misstating Obama’s speech, stating what he said was 180 degrees from what he’d agree to, which by the way means he should be there supporting the president since he did in fact say what Romney stated he would agree to, but when given the opportunity to clarify he instead reinforced the lie a second time. Apart from a mild rebuke, George should have called Romney out on why he would purposely lie twice on national TV since he’s clearly misstating the president. Is that to be expected from a potential leader of the republican party? Shame on you Mitt. Shame on George for not pursuing him further on his lying.

I was disappointed @ Romney response to George today all he did was criticizing the president he didn’t have any ideas or solutions. I hope he get to watch himself & start to adjust his attitude & start making suggestions that people can be interested in.

Interesting way to twist Obama’s speech. Who knows if this will be echoed around talk shows tomorrow or not? To me, Mitt Romney represents some intelligent leadership in the GOP, unlike much of what we’ve seen recently. Unfortunately, if he’s perceived as a liar, then he will step back and run with the pack, along with Limbaugh, Cheney, and Gingrich. It will be interesting to see if Mitt can find a way to distinguish himself.

What a clown! Hey Mitt, selling 2 of your many homes still won’t get us to support you. You look like a gameshow host with that Brill Cream Hair and those teeth sponsored by Colgate. In the end you’re another Republican empty suit and we Dems and Independants. The Republican party has a lot more in common with Ronald Regan than they know. See like Regan, the Republican party is also DEAD and will stay that way for generations to come!

Posted by Madame Defarge:
“Obama did not say that every country is entitled to a nuclear weapon. It’s a flat out lie.”
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A flat out lie? Hardly. Not precisely quoted? Perhaps, but the point is accurate. What Obama did say is that no ONE country[emphasis mine]should determine who has nuclear weapons. This is a far cry from what he said during the campaign and in fact a 180 degree “flip flop”. What GROUP of nations is going to stop nuclear Iran?? The UN…..a joke for the last 50+ years. NATO??? The Europeans??? …they don’t have the stomach for it?
Who Madame? Under Obama, I guess Israel goes it alone.

Mitt is always trying to figure out how to get relevant again. Looks like he’s decided on the attack mode for now. It might be the right tactic, but he’s the wrong guy. Give it up Mitt – you’re just not a very good politician.

has anyone forgotten the real issue here…how about it being a country that blatantly sells weapons to terrorist coming in control of nuclear weapons. And its not taking it out of context when Obama did say no country has the right to tell another country if they can have nuclear weapons. If Obama really wants to set an example of america have him disarm us for nuclear weapons…oh wait he won’t for the simple fact we need them just in case. Quit bashing Romney b/c the only reason Obama won was b/c 98% of the african-american population voted for the race and not for the politics…even young african-american males in harlem when asked by Howard Stern who they were voting for they said Obama and he asked if it was b/c of his stance on pro-life, keeping our troops in Iraq, and not taxing businesses more and they said yeah that was it…come on this was political election in our country that was won on race and not politics so don’t bash and say obama won b/c their is a narrow amount of republicans in the country b/c there are quite a few just this election was won on race not politics.

Seriously, why didn’t George call Mitt out for lying? George allowed Mitt to repeat the lie about nuclear weapons and didn’t respond. Read Obama’s entire speech and know the truth not Mitt’s lies. I hope other news agencies wlll call Mitt out on his lies since George was obviously afraid to do it.

It may be true that Obama apologized for all the wrong moves by America during the Bush years. The strategy that was employed by Reagan against the Soviets do NOT work for multiple nations that aren’t truly challenging the military might of America. They are fighting America as rebel states and they are able to recruit allies based on their appeal to their plight. Obama is employing a different strategy that is worth trying. The logical conclusion to all the threats is indeed use of force. And the more the US use force against an obvious underdog makes America looks like a big bad bully. Have you heard Obama say ‘we’ as strong nation should have more confidence in ourselves when we act against these rogue nations. Iran and North Korea are from threat to the US. It’s true that terrorism can probably penetrate our society and attack us like 9/11. I’m not sure we can stop that 100% of the time but here’s one thing we can do, if that happens we will have the moral authority to respond. We will have more justification than guessing wrong on motivation of other countries.
Clearly Iraq was a bad move because there was not evidence to show that they threatened America. I don’t know the motivation by Bush and Cheney but it seemed they had already planned on attacking Iraq even before 9/11 event. It bothers me and I hope those that love this country that perhaps there was misuse of power to use the 9/11 tragedy to pursue personal goals. To avoid miscalculations and falsely accusing these men, I will defer all that to One who knows our hearts.
Love this country, it is the only one you’ve got.

Mitt you are so wrong, it was Bush who flipped on Iran and North Korea the very ones he called the Axis of Evil, Bush gave them free pass to make nukes, his only concern was Iraq need I say more? !!

Ironic how the majority of people that bob their head up and down and mutter yes,yes,Mit, haven’t even heard Obama’s speech. Maybe bits and pieces, the bits they want to stretch into bytes. And I’m always amazed at how critical and full of doom they are at the “the way the country is heading” It took George Bush 8 years to rip this country to shreds, ruin our relationships with our allies, and destroy jobs, lives, the constitution, and 401k’s. Thank God we didn’t give him social security to “invest”. Yet Obama is expected to stop the downward progression brought on by the abismal acts of the last administration, and fix everything in 5 months. Romney needs to realize people will call him out on his slanted versions of the truth. At least those of us that are paying attention.

Very interesting -
All I hear is complain, complain and complain about Obama’s policy and attacks of his policies without proposing a solution and as a True Republican, this troubles me about the future of the party. Please we want solutions, not unfounded attacks and lies.
George Stephanopoulos asked “But what would you do now then? If you were president…?” Instead of proposing a solution or answering the question, Romney again went on a rant of criticism and attack on Obama’s Policy. This again goes a long way to cement the fact that the Republican Party don’t have a solution to any problem or perhaps are devoid of ideas. All they do is complain, accuse, criticize and incite people to violence – But no solution and that is pathetic. Nonetheless, I must give Romney, some credit, in that unlike others, he only criticizes the President’s policy (although wrongly), not the President himself and that is a smart thing to do…

Honestly at least they aren’t shooting them off daily like North Korea. But know the danger of them having those weapons. We will see. I think President Obama has had to make alot of tough choices and so far with me as a political science major I agree with him.

Watching Romney this morning confirmed to me that he is the same as Palin and Newt. He misquoted President Obama intentionally. Is this all these people have to do to get on national T.V.?

Romney will be a great leader in 2012. Of course liberals slam him…that’s how they roll when they see something they “fear”. lol.

“No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.” Exact quote from the speech

QUESTION : WITH THE VAST AMOUNT OF OIL RESOURCES IRAN WHAT IS THE PURPOSE TO HAVE NUCLEAR POWER ???

Well, if you subscribe to the “takes one to know one” theory, then I guess Mitt-Flop is qualified to make such an assessment. Just as a reminder, this critique comes from a guy who said he had been a lifelong hunter. Then, when he was challenged on the fact, he admitted he’d been hunting twice. Then, it turned out he had gone on a business trip hunting wabbits (or “small vermin” as he called them).

What the voters of America seem to be missing is that there is no Dem or Repub party. There are only political opportunists and real people. The opportunists have sold you all a bill of goods and you have bought it. We are all going to suffer greatly as a result. America has no leader, only a fool who was in the right place at the right time to become the patsy of the other opportunists who want full government control over everything – Auto industry, banking, healthcare, etc. As long as they have their “shining star Obama” in front of the cameras, the dirty work can be done behind the scenes. It won’t be long before Iran, N. Korea, Russia, and others unite against us. If you thing the Big O can stop it, you deserve what you get.

Ex-president Bush flip-flopped quite a bit. I remember his post 9/11 speech where he stated that we weren’t into the business of nation building…and then what did he do? He invaded Iraq and rebuilt the nation. That’s just one example of many. It really makes little sense to accuse others of what you do yourself. And guess what? There’s a word for it, hypocritical.

George let Mitt flat out lie. about nuclear weapons. They should just change the title of the show to This Weak with George Stepanopalis. Weak!!!

George, I wished you would have pusued Mr. Romney a little harder. That was a big misquote. Mr. Romney’s intentional misquoting of the Obama speak in Cairo is the same old politics of the Republican Party. If you say it over an over, the weak minded will be brainwashed into believing it. Either that or he did not do his homework like during the election. Someone like this with the ‘Red Button’ in their hand. No thanks.

Bob Neale Your comment is a perfect example of how easily swayed people are by the main stream media. It was not Sarah Palin that said she could see Russia from her house, it was Tina Fey AS Sarah Palin. What Sarah had said is that there is an island in Alaska that you can see Russia from. It is called Little Diomede. Look at a globe, you’ll see that there is only 55 miles between this island and Russia.

facts are facts. . .for those who say he didn’t say it, go to
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“I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.”

Bob Neale- Palin never said she could see Russia from her house- Tina Fey did- Palin said that as Governor, with Russia on her border she had dealings with them on trade and other similar issues. News Flash TINA FEY IS NOT SARA PALIN- it was a satire- Obama- did speak of nuclear weapons in Cairo- please watch it again on you tube. e is selling Israel down the river while pandering to the Arabs, A foolish man with no real experience does this- go ask Jimmy Carter

Just keep on paying your taxes and worrying about that mild flu, North Korea and Iran, and partisan politics.
Meanwhile in Italy, two Japanese men were caught smuggling $134 BILLION in U.S. Treasury Bonds, headed to the Swiss Bank.
Let’s just hope THAT story never makes it to mainstream news (wink, wink).

You liberals crack me up. “Give him more time”, each time he opens his mouth it is to take more away from the working class and give it away to those who havent’ earned it. Our enemies see him as weak and sniveling as do nearly half of Americans. Do you forget that Obama only won the popular election by about 4 million votes? He’ll have more time and I hope there are enough of you still out there that are contacting your representatives to stop the bleeding of the Middle class. Good luck on your “Change” I truly hope you don’t live to regret it.

Mr. Romney….most of the people who know better feel that Obama has done the right thing to say just a few things and wait. Even Mr. Kissinger said on the Van Sustern show that while he voted for Mc Cain…he disagrees with him on this Iran problem. He feels he is doing the right thing to sit and wait. He should know…he lived through this so I think I will take his opinion over yours anyday. I think you republicans stay up nights to think of one more thing to bash our President about. How about some good old American loyalty? I stood up for Bush when 9/11 came and I did not say it was his fault but if the shoe was on the othr foot….could you say the same?

I wish Romney were President.

Mr. Romney you and yours continue to mis-quote our president. He said no one should pick and choose who should have neuclear weapons. I really think you and yours believe the rest of the world is stupid. We pay attention to his speeches and know when you are picking them apart. All of this, however, has not hurt his ratings but your continue to drop. What does that tell you?