According to Mitt Romney foreign policy advisor Robert O'Brien, when President Obama's campaign raises foreign policy, they're just bringing up a "shiny object" to serve as "another distraction" from the important issues in the campaign:
Romney foreign policy advisor Robert O’Brien called the Obama campaign's tactic a transparent ploy to distract from the sagging economy, including a recent jobs report that was "a disaster for them."
"It doesn't surprise me that they're raising foreign policy because it's another distraction from the Administration’s terrible economic record,” O’Brien told BuzzFeed. “They're going from one shiny object to the next."
So I guess that explains why Mitt Romney didn't mention the Afghanistan war nor thank our troops during his acceptance speech. Why waste time on shiny objects and distractions, right? Except issues of war and peace are not shiny objects nor are they distractions. One of the most important responsibilities of the presidency is being commander in chief, a fact with which Romney is apparently finally coming to grips:
Romney, who aides say has downplayed national security in speeches and in the campaign to focus on the economy, will seek to repair any damage on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, when he speaks to a crowd of 4,000 at the annual conference of the National Guard Association in Reno, Nev. What might have been a standard patriotic speech has become a more urgent mission to reset the national security debate for the last nine weeks of the campaign, aides said.
It's really extraordinary that with less than two months to go before the election, Romney is just figuring out that national security is an important issue, especially for a country still fighting a war in Afghanistan. But even as he belatedly seeks to plug this enormous campaign leak, his advisors are still calling foreign policy a distraction.
The situation is so bad for Romney that he's facing criticism from his own political allies:
Romney’s oversight might seem minor, a sin of omission for failing to the mention the troops in a speech that’s meant to be sweeping by design. But several GOP strategists told POLITICO they considered it, in the words of one, “felony stupid,” raising “a leadership issue, a spine issue” for Romney.
Some officials close to the Romney campaign said it’s especially exasperating because of advice Romney received from some advisers, both internally and externally, to visit Afghanistan and talk to commanders during his foreign swing that began at the Olympics. “Obama is the master of details, and he will try to destroy Mitt on this in debates,” one hawkish Republican said.
Chris LaCivita, a Republican consultant who was an adviser to the Swift Boat campaign against Kerry, said: “You’re not just running for president — you’re running for commander in chief. What he needs to do now is show members of the military, their families and voters in general that he is capable of leading the country on issues other than the ones he is most comfortable talking about.”
So not only are Mitt Romney's foreign policy advisors making arguments (that foreign policy is a distraction) that are directly contradicted by the campaign's behavior (giving speeches on foreign policy), but his fellow Republicans are starting to throw him under the bus. In other words, complete disarray is descending on Mitt Romney. It's the portrait of a losing campaign.
Obama ignores our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, thumbs his nose at our European allies, supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring, and tells Medvedev, "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him [Putin] to give me space... After my election, I have more flexibility.” Obama bows to foreign dictators, and keeps apologizing for America because he does not value American greatness.
Why don't you libs try explaining to the rest of us why Obama is such a foreign policy expert?
Originally posted by Kegler300: Obama ignores our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, thumbs his nose at our European allies, supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring, and tells Medvedev, "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him [Putin] to give me space... After my election, I have more flexibility.” Obama bows to foreign dictators, and keeps apologizing for America because he does not value American greatness.
Why don't you libs try explaining to the rest of us why Obama is such a foreign policy expert?
A. Obama has not been traveling the world apologizing for America. Just because Romney says it doesn't make it so. If you have facts let's see them.
B. It's funny you say this after most of the world didn't want us in Iraq but we did it anyway. If anyone thumbed their nose at our allies and the UN it was Bush by even appointing Bolton.
C. How exactly has Israel been ignored? Didn't the story come out that it was us who destroyed Iran's centrifuges? Apparently we have been doing things to support Israel. Now do I believe we should follow them to the gates of hell and promise to support whatever actions they take? No. That would just invite them to do something dumb.
Yeah, we have two US embassies under attack, the Middle East on the verge of explosion, and Obama is going on Letterman tonight...it's a shame he can't play the sax...
Originally posted by Kegler300: Yeah, we have two US embassies under attack, the Middle East on the verge of explosion, and Obama is going on Letterman tonight...it's a shame he can't play the sax...
Right, so foreign policy is a shiny object to distract from the economy, you agree?
Originally posted by Kegler300: Yeah, we have two US embassies under attack, the Middle East on the verge of explosion, and Obama is going on Letterman tonight...it's a shame he can't play the sax...
Right, so foreign policy is a shiny object to distract from the economy, you agree?
Not exactly...the obamamedia is ignoring Obama's foreign policy, and assailing Romney instead, to distract from the economy. Romney needs to get back on track and focus on the failed economic policies of the Obama Administration.
Originally posted by Kegler300: Yeah, we have two US embassies under attack, the Middle East on the verge of explosion, and Obama is going on Letterman tonight...it's a shame he can't play the sax...
Right, so foreign policy is a shiny object to distract from the economy, you agree?
Not exactly...the obamamedia is ignoring Obama's foreign policy, and assailing Romney instead, to distract from the economy. Romney needs to get back on track and focus on the failed economic policies of the Obama Administration.
Romney put himself in the middle of it while the situation was still unfolding and the reports were still unconfirmed. So he definitely is the one who stepped in it. No wonder his campaign doesn't want to talk foreign policy.
Originally posted by Kegler300: Yeah, we have two US embassies under attack, the Middle East on the verge of explosion, and Obama is going on Letterman tonight...it's a shame he can't play the sax...
Right, so foreign policy is a shiny object to distract from the economy, you agree?
Not exactly...the obamamedia is ignoring Obama's foreign policy, and assailing Romney instead, to distract from the economy. Romney needs to get back on track and focus on the failed economic policies of the Obama Administration.
Romney put himself in the middle of it while the situation was still unfolding and the reports were still unconfirmed. So he definitely is the one who stepped in it. No wonder his campaign doesn't want to talk foreign policy.
To Romney, foreign countries, especially those in Asia, are only good for exporting American manufacturing and call center operations.
That's his "foreign policy" program.
Willard Romney is a sheep in a wolf's clothing - a socialist liberal clothed as a "conservative." In other words, a Republican In Name Only.
If Romney really wants to do well in this election, he needs to start leveling with the American public. Thus far, he still is keeping secretive. "We'll announce our policy positions after the election" he tells the press. He offers much in the way of criticism of the present administration but precious little by way of solutions to this nation's problems.
What the hell was the GOP thinking when nominating a RINO as its candidate for President?
"The World's Finest" 
As usual, a day late and a dollar short.
