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(45,788 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 02:18 AM Oct 2012

Howard Kurtz: President Obama Slams a Passive Mitt Romney

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/22/president-obama-slams-a-passive-mitt-romney-as-reckless-on-foreign-policy.html

President Obama Slams A Passive Mitt Romney as ‘Reckless’ on Foreign Policy
by Howard Kurtz Oct 22, 2012 10:35 PM EDT

President rips his rival for being “all over the map” while Romney barely fights back. Howard Kurtz on why the Republican played rope-a-dope.

President Obama accused Mitt Romney of “wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map” at their final debate Monday night, while Romney took a strikingly sober and subdued approach in response.

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) debates with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as moderator Bob Schieffer (C) of CBS looks on at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University on October 22, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The focus for the final presidential debate before Election Day on November 6 is foreign policy. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Uncorking a half-dozen attacks within minutes as his rival sat across the table in Boca Raton, the president tried to eviscerate Romney on foreign policy. He said the Republican wanted to leave 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, had sent mixed signals on withdrawing from Afghanistan and proclaimed America’s top enemy to be Russia.

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It was a rope-a-dope strategy in which Romney had his gloves up but left little substantive distance between himself and his rival.

By the half-hour mark, Romney was getting so little traction on foreign policy that he pivoted to the domestic economy and how America is heading on “the road to Greece.” Obama followed suit, talking about the need for smaller class sizes.

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