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    Romney's Jaw-Dropping Incoherence by Robert Parry   
      
    For all his supposed business competence, Republican   
    presidential nominee Mitt Romney is running a campaign of   
    jaw-dropping incoherence, mixing some of the most dishonest   
    rants from right-wing talk radio with focus-group worries about   
      
    ...   
      
    Now, Romney has pounced on a well-meaning, though ultimately   
    unsuccessful, effort by the U.S. embassy staff in Cairo to   
    tamp down anger caused by an incendiary anti-Muslim video that   
    appeared designed to elicit the kind of violent rage that is now   
    sweeping the Middle East.   
      
    Seemingly without regard for the delicate circumstances, Romney   
    issued a statement that transformed the embassy's criticism   
    of the video into an expression of sympathy by the Obama   
    administration for the protesters who attacked U.S. diplomatic   
    outposts in Egypt and, fatally, in Libya. However, to make his   
    point stick, Romney had to reverse the actual chronology of   
    events.   
    ...   
      
    However, Romney saw an opening to hammer home his beloved theme   
    that President Obama "apologizes for America." Disregarding   
    the actual chronology, i.e. that the message by the U.S. Embassy   
    in Cairo /preceded/ the mob attacks, Romney put out a statement   
    at 10:24 p.m., which declared: "It's disgraceful that the   
    Obama administration's first response was not to condemn   
    attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those   
    who waged the attacks."   
      
    ...   
      
    While it's common for politicians of all stripes to stretch   
    the truth now and then, Romney has taken that behavior to a new   
    level. He lies, distorts and misrepresents in a wholesale   
    ...   
    Earlier in Campaign 2012, Romney even won some grudging respect   
    for his skill as a liar. On April 16, Washington Post columnist   
    ...   
    dishonest attack ads. Romney claimed that he hadn't seen the   
    ads but then described, and defended, the content of one.   
      
    ...   
      
    last April, Romney staged a campaign event in Ohio at a   
    shuttered drywall factory that closed in 2008,   
      
    ...   
    Krugman wrote: "Mr. Romney constantly talks about job losses   
    under Mr. Obama. Yet all of the net job loss took place in the   
    first few months of 2009, that is, before any of the new   
      
    ...   
      
    Krugman added that the amnesia factor was relevant, too,   
    ...   
    Romney's campaign is based on the fundamental lie that the   
    cure for Bush's economic collapse is a larger dose of Bush's   
    economic policies.   
    ...   
      
    Romney's behavior, particularly since his poll numbers have   
    ...   
    accomplished liar but that he may be mentally unstable,   
    incapable of differentiating between fact and fiction.   
      
    ...   
      
    "Here is the Republican candidate for president of the United   
    ...   
    "'They clearly, they clearly sent mixed messages to the   
    world. And, and the statement came from the administration   
   , and the embassy is the administration, the statement that   
    came from the administration was a, was a statement which is   
    akin to apology and I think was a, a, a severe   
    miscalculation."   
      
    ...   
      
    © 2012 Consortium News Robert Parry    
      
    *Source URL:* http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/14-8   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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