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Obama 'measured' on Mideast crisis: Top US official
 [Al Ahram] President Barack ObamaThe Cambridge police acted stupidly... has been "incredibly calm, incredibly steady, and incredibly measured" in his handling of the anti-US protests in the Mohammedan world, a top official said Sunday. The robust defense of the president from US ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Susan Rice follows criticism from Republican opponents that Obama's leadership is weak and has encouraged beturbanned goons to exploit the Arab Spring. "What we've seen is that the president has been incredibly calm, incredibly steady, and incredibly measured in his approach to this set of developments," Rice told ABC's "This Week" program. "His interventions, his leadership, has ensured that in Egypt, in Yemen, in Tunisia, in Libya, and many other parts of the world, that leaders have come out and made very plain that there's no excuse for this violence." Republican presidential nominee Willard MittRomney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O... urged a tough line Saturday on Egypt amid deadly anti-US violence in the region, as his election running mate Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... called for greater "moral clarity" in Obama's foreign policy. Romney toned down his rhetoric Thursday after several negative headlines and complaints from within his own party that he had made an ill-timed mischaracterization of Obama's handling of rapidly escalating events. But on Friday Romney's pick for vice president, Ryan, led a withering attack on Obama's foreign policy, accusing it of diminishing America's global standing and of emboldening bully boys. "Peace, freedom, and civilized values have enemies in this world, as we have been reminded by events in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen," Ryan told the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-17 |
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