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bigtree

(86,024 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 01:36 PM Jun 2012

President Obama To Romney: "One President At A Time"

"I would point out that we have one president at a time, and one administration at a time," President Obama said as he wrapped up a trip to Mexico centered on a summit of the Group of 20 nations.

"And I think traditionally the notion has been America's political differences end at the water's edge," the president told reporters, echoing a message from Republican Sen. Arthur Vandenberg in the 1940s.

(Vandenberg had urged Americans "to unite our official voice at the water's edge" to achieve "maximum authority" against the country's enemies. However, the senator had also affirmed that foreign policy "must be totally debated," though not for partisan gain, but to forge a consensus.)

Top Obama aides bristled recently when an adviser to Romney, Columbia Business School Dean R. Glenn Hubbard, assailed the president's handling of the European financial crisis in the pages of the German business journal Handelsblatt.Asked about Hubbard's piece, which described Obama's policies as "unwise" and charged they "reveal ignorance" of how Europe got into the mess it's in, Obama replied: "With respect to Mr. Romney's advisers, I suggest you go talk to Mr. Romney about his advisers."

"I'd also suggest that he may not be familiar with what our suggestions to the Germans have been. And I think sometimes back home there's a desire to superimpose whatever ideological arguments are taking place back home onto a very complicated situation in Europe," Obama said.

read: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-romney-one-president-time-014926297.html

watch/listen: http://www.videosurf.com/video/obama-to-romney-one-president-at-a-time-1361171204?vlt=daylife

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President Obama To Romney: "One President At A Time" (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2012 OP

I'm glad he said this; haven't heard it in a long time. elleng Jun 2012 #1

I think that any Republicans who try to go behind the president's back JDPriestly Jun 2012 #4

Sure should. elleng Jun 2012 #8

LOL. I remember the apoplectic fits the GOP had whenever anybody catbyte Jun 2012 #2

Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division... "Dogs Aren't Luggage-- HISS" nenagh Jun 2012 #6

This makes me think about the Republican illegal actions at the close JDPriestly Jun 2012 #3

re This makes me think about the Republican illegal actions at the close clang1 Jun 2012 #7

Precisely. Nixon's real crime was that he was a traitor. JDPriestly Jun 2012 #9

When will the American people wake up & realize that repubs do not want a democracy? CrispyQ Jun 2012 #10

What the hell was Romney's guy doing writing a EC Jun 2012 #5

elleng

(131,457 posts)

1. I'm glad he said this; haven't heard it in a long time.

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 01:39 PM

Jun 2012

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

4. I think that any Republicans who try to go behind the president's back

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:27 PM

Jun 2012

on this should get into big trouble.

elleng

(131,457 posts)

8. Sure should.

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:59 PM

Jun 2012

catbyte

(34,556 posts)

2. LOL. I remember the apoplectic fits the GOP had whenever anybody

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:07 PM

Jun 2012

criticized Bush. Well, fuck you and deal with it.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

nenagh

(1,925 posts)

6. Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division... "Dogs Aren't Luggage-- HISS"

Reply to catbyte (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:58 PM

Jun 2012

always makes me smile... Hope they are well...

Many thanks

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

3. This makes me think about the Republican illegal actions at the close

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:27 PM

Jun 2012

of the Johnson administration when, if what I have heard and read are correct, the Republicans offered the North Vietnamese a better deal if they waited to agree to peace until Nixon was in office. It also reminds me of our suspicion that the Republicans acted to illegally deal with foreign powers (Iran) during the Reagan/Carter election.

Republicans have a pattern here.

clang1

(884 posts)

7. re This makes me think about the Republican illegal actions at the close

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 03:06 PM

Jun 2012

Ding ding ding. Like this? Yeah.

http://archive.truthout.org/article/how-republicans-win

Secret Cables

Reporter Daniel Schorr added more details in a Washington Post article on May 28, 1995, citing decoded cables that U.S. intelligence had intercepted from the South Vietnamese embassy in Washington.

On Oct. 23, 1968, Ambassador Bui Dhien cabled Saigon with the message that "many Republican friends have contacted me and encouraged me to stand firm." On Oct. 27, he wrote, "The longer the present situation continues, the more favorable for us. … I am regularly in touch with the Nixon entourage."

On Nov. 2, 1968, Thieu withdrew from his tentative agreement to sit down with the Viet Cong at the Paris peace talks, destroying Johnson's last hope for a settlement and clearing the way for Nixon's narrow victory.

Though Johnson and his top advisers knew of Nixon's gambit, they kept it secret apparently out of concern that it could further divide the country.

Anthony Summers's 2000 book, The Arrogance of Power, provides the fullest examination of the Nixon-Thieu gambit, including the debate within Democratic circles about what to do with the evidence.

Half the time I don't know what to call the GOP. American? Not American? Traitors? Which is it????? I guess it just depends the agenda of the week.

So, although a half million American soldiers were in the battle zone and the war was tearing the United States apart, Nixon's campaign made secret contacts with South Vietnamese leaders, allegedly offering the assurance that if they refused to cooperate with the Paris peace talks, they could expect a better deal from Nixon.