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Romney: Obama Has Failed So Far
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:02AM
By Travis Martinez
University of New Mexico- Talk Radio News Service
Mitt Romney doesn’t think the last eight months of Barack Obama’s presidency have been successful. In an hour-long speech to hundreds of Republicans last Saturday, Romney said that Obama has failed with healthcare reform, economic redevelopment, stimulus funding and foreign relations.
What President Obama has done these past eight months [stimulus and bailout packages]... has not strengthened America,” said Romney at the 2009 Family Research Council Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. “To strengthen the economy and create jobs the President has to stop trying to borrow the country out of a debt problem... don’t repeat the stimulus, repair the stimulus.”
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate, criticized Obama's approach to foreign policy. Last week, the Obama Administration made headlines when it was announced that the U.S. will scrap the 2007 European missile defense program. Romney called the decision “alarming, and dangerous... We should never cut corners in our military and intelligence agencies,” he said.
With healthcare, Romney said that reform would make a healthier and a stronger nation, but without a public option and less government control. He cited successful reform in Massachusetts that was implemented without a public option. “The right answer for health care is not more government, it’s less government,” said Romney. “As a Republican, I worked very hard to reform health care in my own state... It does teach an important lesson that you can get everyone insured without a public option.”
Romney did not talk about his future career in politics, but said: “The voters are going to make their intentions clear in the 2010 elections.”
University of New Mexico- Talk Radio News Service
Mitt Romney doesn’t think the last eight months of Barack Obama’s presidency have been successful. In an hour-long speech to hundreds of Republicans last Saturday, Romney said that Obama has failed with healthcare reform, economic redevelopment, stimulus funding and foreign relations.
What President Obama has done these past eight months [stimulus and bailout packages]... has not strengthened America,” said Romney at the 2009 Family Research Council Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. “To strengthen the economy and create jobs the President has to stop trying to borrow the country out of a debt problem... don’t repeat the stimulus, repair the stimulus.”
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate, criticized Obama's approach to foreign policy. Last week, the Obama Administration made headlines when it was announced that the U.S. will scrap the 2007 European missile defense program. Romney called the decision “alarming, and dangerous... We should never cut corners in our military and intelligence agencies,” he said.
With healthcare, Romney said that reform would make a healthier and a stronger nation, but without a public option and less government control. He cited successful reform in Massachusetts that was implemented without a public option. “The right answer for health care is not more government, it’s less government,” said Romney. “As a Republican, I worked very hard to reform health care in my own state... It does teach an important lesson that you can get everyone insured without a public option.”
Romney did not talk about his future career in politics, but said: “The voters are going to make their intentions clear in the 2010 elections.”
Southern Poverty Law Center Urges Lawmakers To Boycott Values Voter Summit
By Janie Amaya
Mark Potok, the Director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, gave a news conference Friday urging public figures to boycott this weekends Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., saying sponsors of the event continue to disgrace the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
“What we’re trying to do is bring attention to the fact that both the host of this Values Voter Summit of the Family Research Council, and one of it’s major co-sponsors, an organization called the American Family Association, regularly lie about (LGBT) people in this country,” Potok told TRNS.
He said these organization don’t simply disagree with homosexuality but rather say things, that he explained, are entirely wrong according to researchers at the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association.
“Probably the best single example of that is the claim, which these groups repeatedly make, that gay men molest children at rates vastly higher than their heterosexual counterparts,” Potok said.
Potok added that this kind of rhetoric creates an atmosphere in which violence is inevitable in the LGBT community making it the most targeted group for hate violence.
“Public officials ought not to legitimize these groups,” Potok said.