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Romney in Israel, but still dogged by U.K.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets Israeli leaders and says that a nuclear-armed Iran would be “unacceptable”. Courtesy Reuters.
Source: WSJ.com
4:04 am in aggressive posture, dan senor, diplomatic negotiations, Elections, military option, military strike, nuclear bomb, nuclear capability, policy adviser, republican presidential candidate, zero tolerance policy by PinkTeaPatriot
July 28, 2012: Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and wife Ann arrive in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP)
Posted: July 29th 2012
Mitt Romney would back an Israeli military strike against Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear capability, a top foreign policy adviser said early Sunday, outlining the aggressive posture the Republican presidential candidate will take toward Iran in a speech in Israel later in the day.
Romney has said he has a “zero tolerance” policy toward Iran obtaining the capability to build a nuclear weapon.
“If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing the capability, the governor would respect that decision,” foreign policy adviser Dan Senor told reporters ahead of the speech, planned for late Sunday near Jerusalem’s Old City.
Romney believes the option of a U.S. attack should also be “on the table.”
The Obama administration also hasn’t ruled out the military option, and President Barack Obama has so far been relying on sanctions and diplomatic negotiations to discourage Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
Source: FoxNews.com
1:24 pm in Bain Capital, business experience, campaign team, deputy campaign manager, Elections, foxnews com, Headlines, mitt romney, obama deputy campaign manager, outsourced jobs, republican presidential candidate, securities and exchange commission, stephanie cutter, The President, wavy tv by TPTsubmissions
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
President Obama says he will not apologize for his and his campaign’s messages saying the financial company Bain Capital outsourced jobs under Mitt Romney’s leadership, despite Romney saying that’s not true.
The president made the statement during an interview Saturday with WAVY-TV in Virginia. The station is scheduled to air the interview Sunday night, but it can be seen now on WAVY’s website
“We won’t be apologizing,” Obama said. “Mr. Romney claims he’s Mr.Fix-It for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience.”
The question did not directly address Romney’s call Friday for an apology after Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggested that in Securities and Exchange Commission filings Romney misrepresented his position at Bain Capital, particularly when he officially left, which she said would either be a “felony” or a misrepresentation to Americans.
The Republican presidential candidate Friday also challenged Obama to “rein in” his campaign team and called the comment “absurd” and “beneath the dignity of the presidency.”
by Toria
7:04 pm in Associated Press, Border/Immigration, Fox News, illegal immigrant children, illegal migration, press article, republican presidential candidate, Rick Perry, texas gov, unaccompanied children, unaccompanied minors by Toria
April 13, 2012: Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis. (AP)
Source: FoxNews.com
Posted: May 7th, 2012
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is accusing the Obama administration of “perpetuating” a recent “surge” in illegal immigrant children who are crossing into the U.S. from Mexico and Central America without their parents and often falling straight into government care.
In a letter obtained by Fox News,Perry wrote to President Obama on Friday citing stats that show more than 5,200 “unaccompanied minors” were taken into U.S. custody in the first six months of the fiscal year — a more than 90 percent increase compared with the same period a year ago.
Perry, a former Republican presidential candidate, claimed that a failure to immediately send them back is “perpetuating the problem” by encouraging other children and teenagers to make the trek. He said the journey is dangerous for the children, and their flow into the United States is a burden on his state and others. The governor urged the administration to eliminate the “temptation” to make “this tragic and illegal migration.”
“Every day of delay risks more lives,” Perry wrote. “Every child allowed to remain encourages hundreds more to attempt the journey. Our country can no longer provide the temptation for these unaccompanied minors to engage in this tragic and illegal migration. To end it, the federal government must stop new arrivals at the border, repatriate those already here and prevent and discourage others.”
It’s unclear exactly how many are being sent back. Perry claimed that an administration member “indicated” fewer than 10 percent are being deported. The children reportedly are coming into the U.S. for a range of reasons, looking for jobs as well as family members in the States.
“Every child allowed to remain encourages hundreds more to attempt the journey.”
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry
A recent Associated Press article on the surge reported that 1,390 unaccompanied children crossed over the border and into U.S. custody in March alone. Some have even been housed at Lackland Air Force Base on a temporary basis while they are being processed.
The children, after being initially detained by the Department of Homeland Security, are typically handed over to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement — a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
A Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to FoxNews.com that the number of unaccompanied minors going into HHS care has gone up. But the official stressed that “migration patterns, including those of groups such as unaccompanied children, differ during any given year based on a wide variety of factors.” The official noted that apprehensions were down 53 percent in fiscal 2011, compared with 2008, “an indication that less individuals are trying to cross the border as a result of a number of factors including increased border security.”
In addition, the official said that even as the number of minors going into HHS care rises, the number of actual Border Patrol apprehensions is “on par with past years.” And the official said the unaccompanied minors account for just 5 percent of total Border Patrol apprehensions.
Most of the minors are placed in a shelter after being sent to HHS care. They stay in those shelters an average of more than 60 days, according to a recent study by the Vera Institute of Justice. From there, at least 65 percent of the children are handed over to live with a sponsor inside the United States, the study said. The report described their processing as a “disjointed labyrinthine system.”
1:20 pm in AZ News, beth myers, Elections, franklin institute in philadelphia, governor of massachusetts, immigration law, kansas secretary of state, market manipulation, meg whitman, msnbc, republican presidential candidate, tim shaffer by PinkTeaPatriot
Source: FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com
By: By NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower
Posted: April 17th, 2012
Romney’s immigration challenge… What Beth Myers heading up Romney’s VP search means…. Three very different polls in the Obama-Romney race… Romney to Obama: “Start packing”… Buffett Rule, as expected, goes down to defeat… Obama to make statement about market manipulation of oil prices at 11:10 am ET… Lugar mailer hits Mourdock… And GOP primary for Giffords’ seat in AZ takes place today.
Tim Shaffer / Reuters Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney speaks during the Independence Hall Tea Party Association's Tax Day Tea Summit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 16, 2012.
*** Romney’s immigration challenge: Lost in the other statements Romney made at that Sunday fundraiser in Florida was his admission that he needs to move to the center to win over Latinos. “We have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party,” Romney said, observing that polls show Latinos breaking in huge percentages for President Obama “spells doom for us.” Romney even said the GOP should offer something like a “Republican DREAM Act” to help woo Latinos. But there’s a challenge here for Romney, and it’s the same one Meg Whitman faced in 2010: How do you move back to center on immigration after running so hard to the right during the primary? Indeed, unlike other issues where he simply adopted conservative/Tea Party rhetoric (on health care, taxes, the deficit), Romney often used immigration as a weapon, particularly against Rick Perry. In addition, Romney said he would veto the DREAM Act, called Arizona’s immigration law “a model”, and proudly accepted the endorsement of the man considered the architect of that Arizona law, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
*** Is fixing his female problem easier than his Latino problem? Romney has the potential to fix his problem with female voters; after all, it’s not really his problem but rather the GOP’s. And he does have a story to tell here (wife Ann, the women he appointed in Massachusetts). But when it comes to immigration, this is an issue where he’s been consistent over the past five years as a way to prove his conservative bona fides (first against McCain, then against Perry and Gingrich).
Read More: FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com
2:44 am in Announcements, Balanced Budget, federal interference, field of dreams, minded folks, official organization, perfect year, republican presidential candidate, style event, summit missouri, true grassroots by TPTsubmissions
Saturday, May 19th
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10:00 am – 6:00 pm
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Join us for this day-long family style event with two stages, nationally recognized speakers, top entertainers, patriot vendors, exhibitors and fun activities for the entire family. There will also be an adjacent campsite, evening activities and a Sunday morning outdoor church service, which brings this to a whole ‘nother level. Patriot Palooza!
7:04 am in al hekma, arab roots, blood ties, Foreign Affairs, Newt Gingrich, palestinian arabs, regional background, republican presidential candidate, thin veneer, us republican, western audience by PinkTeaPatriot
Source: IsraelToday.co.il
By: Ryan Jones
Posted: April 3rd, 2012
US Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has come under a lot of fire for saying that the “Palestinians” are an invented people. Most have ridiculed Gingrich by pointing out there are clearly millions of Arabs living in so-called “Palestine.”
But Gingrich wasn’t talking about the physical presence of those people today, but rather the national identity they have adopted and the fact that most immigrated to the land not so long ago.
In a televised address on Al-Hekma TV last week, Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad basically backed up Gingrich’s assessment, acknowledging that the roots of most “Palestinians” are elsewhere in the Middle East, and that the Palestinian label is only a thin veneer.
Those pushing for a Palestinian state try to paint the Palestinian Arabs as somehow distinct from the Arabs round-about, and therefore in need of their own state. Not so, said Hammad. “Every Palestinian, in Gaza and throughout Palestine, can prove his Arab roots – whether from Saudi Arabia, from Yemen, or anywhere. We have blood ties.”
More than that, Hammad stated that the true regional background of most “Palestinians” is not in “Palestine.”
“Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis,” exclaimed the Hamas minister.
Hammad’s remarks were undoubtedly never intended for a Western audience. Rather, he was pleading with Egypt and other neighboring states to supply Hamas-ruled Gaza with free fuel, which Hammad said Hamas would use “in order to continue to wage Jihad.”
Source: IsraelToday.co.il
11:47 pm in campaign strategies, Elections, elicia, louisiana primary, mitt romney, Newt Gingrich, port fourchon, republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, secret meeting by PinkTeaPatriot
Gingrich Romney
Source: ABCNews.com
By: Elicia Dover
Posted: March 30th, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney confirmed reports Thursday that he and Newt Gingrich met secretly in New Orleans the day before the Louisiana primary.
But Romney played down the importance of the meeting between the himself and Gingrich, who earlier this week scaled back his campaign and laid off staffers.
“We’re pretty much in regular communication between the different campaigns and I said hello to Newt,” Romney told Sean Hannity in a radio interview. “Nothing new, nothing exciting except we keep a friendly discourse open.”
A source close to the Gingrich campaign confirmed the meeting happened early on Friday morning at around 6:30 a.m. at Romney’s hotel in the French Quarter district of New Orleans. Gingrich was staying at a hotel about 30 minutes away from Romney’s hotel and met with him before heading to the southern part of Louisiana to campaign in Port Fourchon.
“We do meet from time to time and I’m sure that the Speaker meets with Rick Santorum as well but we don’t go off and report the discussions,” Romney said. “But they are friendly and we discuss the issues, we discuss the way forward but we don’t reveal our secret campaign strategies.”
Read More: ABCNews.com
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