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Albright: Romney would
get a C on foreign policy

Politico, by Byron Tau

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Posted By:KarenJ1, 10/8/2012 1:43:32 PM

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that, in her role as a Georgetown professor, she would give Mitt Romney a C on a recent foreign policy op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. "I'm a professor," Albright said on a Monday conference call organized by the Obama campaign. "If one of my students turned it in, they'd get a C." "I just find him very shallow," she said. Romney expanded on the ideas in his op-ed in a Monday foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute — where he laid out the case against President Obama's

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And we always value her outstanding views on foreign policy. s/o Good. Grief. I think she was confused and was really talking about 0bama because everything she says sure applies to him and not Romney.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Raydog, 10/8/2012 1:45:44 PM     (No. 8918302)

I smell panic.


Reply 2 - Posted by: vrb8m, 10/8/2012 1:49:27 PM     (No. 8918307)

The enduring picture of this particular SOS is of her running after Yasser Arafat to apologize.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: surgedr, 10/8/2012 1:49:36 PM     (No. 8918308)

Let's see Mr. Clinton's foreign policy that led to 911 or his ignoring the opportunity to get Bin Laden before 911. I think I'd give Madeline a great big F for her job as Secretary of State...so why is she such an expert on foreign policy?


Reply 4 - Posted by: cactus, 10/8/2012 1:50:34 PM     (No. 8918309)

I would have given the former Secretary of State a D- on her foreign policy. I only give her a grade that high as I wanted to save the F- for Hilary Clinton.


Reply 5 - Posted by: RidgePole, 10/8/2012 1:50:39 PM     (No. 8918310)

Relative to Sec. Halfbright's 'F' grade on foreign policy, Romney's grade looks pretty good.


Reply 6 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 10/8/2012 1:53:04 PM     (No. 8918315)

In the meantime she falls to her knees over ''Leading from Behind'' and ''I will stand with the Muslims''.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Judith, 10/8/2012 1:53:24 PM     (No. 8918317)

Geez! Just 'cause Mormons don't dance?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: horacer, 10/8/2012 1:53:29 PM     (No. 8918318)

D'oh! Mrs Not so Bright you're supposed to give the opposition an F no matter what. I have no problem with someone who's not standfast pro democracy or realist. As long as he's pro America.


Reply 9 - Posted by: leonardo, 10/8/2012 1:53:36 PM     (No. 8918320)

Oh, a Professor? Like Obama? This is where a loser takes an opportunity to slap a winner so that she stays on the cocktail party list (for now).


Reply 10 - Posted by: snapper451, 10/8/2012 1:54:52 PM     (No. 8918323)

This from Professor "HalfBright".


Reply 11 - Posted by: Not your typical New Yorker, 10/8/2012 1:55:00 PM     (No. 8918324)

This coming from Sec.of State that gives basketballs to vicious dictators as gifts.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Four_Leaf resident, 10/8/2012 1:55:54 PM     (No. 8918326)

Beats Not-so-bright's "F."


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Mobyclik, 10/8/2012 1:57:12 PM     (No. 8918329)

Oh yeah, drag out one of the most ignorant SoS's this country has ever endured and take her seriously. How long before we get an endless parade of the leftwing morons like Kerry (who served in Nam), Cartah, any Kennedy, Mondull (is he dead? Who could tell). And dozens of other failures. BTW, where have they stashed Debbie Wasser-Whatever? Her idiosy is priceless.


Reply 14 - Posted by: michellewsc2, 10/8/2012 1:57:58 PM     (No. 8918332)

would that by chance be the same "C" Albright got herself? Outside of Eric Holder, Albright was the biggest joke as SOS in US history.


Reply 15 - Posted by: michellewsc2, 10/8/2012 1:59:07 PM     (No. 8918335)

Oops!! Didn't mean to imply Holder was SOS


Reply 16 - Posted by: Tucker, 10/8/2012 2:01:27 PM     (No. 8918344)

Albright was an embarrassment to us all. Only worse SOS is Clinton. What a sham these people are.


Reply 17 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 10/8/2012 2:02:24 PM     (No. 8918346)

Assuming that were true it is far better than the `F` Obama has gotten after 4 years of misery at home and abroad.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 10/8/2012 2:03:31 PM     (No. 8918349)

I'll give him a D or an F if he hauls his hulk back into the news every time the wind changes, having ceased all relevance to reality like Clinton's favorite drummer.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Hybernicus, 10/8/2012 2:05:26 PM     (No. 8918354)

This is from the SoS who begged Arafat to accepted a negotiated deal on the division of Israel and Jerusalem and who begged the Korean dictator to be nice! Who's side is she on?


Reply 20 - Posted by: thelmalou, 10/8/2012 2:08:30 PM     (No. 8918361)

As if, honey...as if.


Reply 21 - Posted by: bighambone, 10/8/2012 2:09:33 PM     (No. 8918362)

What do you expect this lady to say. If she would to come out and talk honestly about Romney she would no longer be invited to all the liberals dinner parties in Washington, DC.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Penney, 10/8/2012 2:11:06 PM     (No. 8918366)

The lefty dem politico's comments are no longer just silly & funny. They have become downright vile. ...And apparently LOTS of them actually are, er, ...professors!?!! -YIKES!!!!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: hicokid, 10/8/2012 2:11:09 PM     (No. 8918367)

Watch it. She says that she can leg press more than 300lbs.


Reply 24 - Posted by: retCPO, 10/8/2012 2:14:43 PM     (No. 8918373)

Why is the world can't the US find A Magaret Thatcher?


Reply 25 - Posted by: gem1400, 10/8/2012 2:18:20 PM     (No. 8918377)

Odd statement coming from a woman who got an "F" when she was actually running it.


Reply 26 - Posted by: JAN, 10/8/2012 2:18:59 PM     (No. 8918381)

The cleaning lady speaks.


Reply 27 - Posted by: rpool, 10/8/2012 2:21:36 PM     (No. 8918387)

Uh, professor, let me explain. The potential influence your pronouncement of a grade for Mr. Romney's foreign policy accumen, in your professorial capacity,depends solely upon your reputation in said area. Let me break it to you gently - outside of the beltway, little darling, you don't have any.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Merlin251, 10/8/2012 2:22:27 PM     (No. 8918391)

I was wondering when that clueless petulant troll would open here pie hole!!!


Reply 29 - Posted by: bob913, 10/8/2012 2:22:55 PM     (No. 8918395)

Didn't she dance with the mass murderer of North Korea?


Reply 30 - Posted by: pixie1942, 10/8/2012 2:24:38 PM     (No. 8918401)

many thanks to miss piggy for her wake up call to me in the middle 90's. On cspan she was giving a speach and said that the most dangerous people in this country were the Christians and we needed to be controlled. As a free American and a Christian I have not and will not vote for the democrat [socialist] party---even for dogcatcher!!!!!. I had been a registered democrat and a union member since the age of 21[over 30 yrs] you CAN teach an old dog new tricks---arf arf lol


Reply 31 - Posted by: pgvoisin, 10/8/2012 2:24:53 PM     (No. 8918398)

And her grade was better?
And Obama's grade was better?

Really?


Reply 32 - Posted by: JimS, 10/8/2012 2:25:11 PM     (No. 8918400)

Yeah, Madeline, and for your lousy performance as SOS under Clinton, we'd give you an F.
Good job there on that Bosnia thing. Great job on disarming N. Korea nukes. Glad to woke Americans up to the muslim threat so we could prevent 9/11.

And don't try to act like the learned professor with the totally objective, detached evaluation. You got that cushy spot on the Georgetown staff because you once were SOS, not because you have any ability to do the job.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Hard Nard, 10/8/2012 2:37:35 PM     (No. 8918432)

Who asked her for her opinion? It isn't worth the oxygen she wasted to give it.


Reply 34 - Posted by: jalo1951, 10/8/2012 2:39:01 PM     (No. 8918436)

God knows that when I need guidance on foreign policy I go straight to albright. s/o What a joker. She might be a professor but she is also an idiot.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 10/8/2012 2:50:54 PM     (No. 8918467)

These people -Albright, Warren, Obama et al.- are giving professors a worse name than they deserve, just as journalists are giving their profession(?) a worse name than it used to deserve. The Leftist Establishment seems to have reached its limit. It is beginning to implode under its own weight. One manifestation of the impending implosion is a massive credibility and legitimacy crisis in all venues controlled by Leftists, i.e. the entire public space. Fewer and fewer people are listening and believing anything the Leftists say. Even worse -for the Leftists- they are beginning to look ridiculous - like Professor Madeline Albright and Professor Elizabeth Warren.


Reply 36 - Posted by: melman, 10/8/2012 2:52:06 PM     (No. 8918469)

My conclusion is most liberal professors are idiots.


Reply 37 - Posted by: zbogwan2, 10/8/2012 2:52:52 PM     (No. 8918472)

I'll bet if Obama was in her class and turned in his paper on his Foreign Policy, his paper would have typed in big bold letters "I Vote Present" on it. Old crone Albright would then give the paper an A+ grade and hang it up for all her students to admire it?


Reply 38 - Posted by: secondtimelucky, 10/8/2012 2:55:21 PM     (No. 8918480)

Madeleine - please just go sort your pins and leave the rest of us alone. You're irrelevant...


Reply 39 - Posted by: DaddyO, 10/8/2012 2:56:13 PM     (No. 8918485)

"The nadir of this obsession with "engagement" was reached the day Madeleine Albright ran through the courtyard of a Paris chateau begging Arafat to return to a negotiation he had just walked out of. We know what that debased and delusional policy yielded: the bloodiest bout of Palestinian-Israeli violence in history."

Charles Krauthammer, May 2003.


Reply 40 - Posted by: Flipper3, 10/8/2012 3:01:54 PM     (No. 8918509)

This, coming from a D student.


Reply 41 - Posted by: SouthSanAntonio, 10/8/2012 3:04:28 PM     (No. 8918518)

Coming from the woman who danced cheek to cheek with the muderous dictator of North Korea, I'm pretty sure that Romney will take that for ALL it's worth!

Of course, given that he was the only man who has ever asked that cow to dance...


Reply 42 - Posted by: Bjnealeigh@aol.com, 10/8/2012 3:08:55 PM     (No. 8918530)

Well. Mrs. All Dumb, you're not so bright. You didn't have a clue when u were in office, and now Pillary doesn't either. Get off the stage!


Reply 43 - Posted by: caddyjak, 10/8/2012 3:26:50 PM     (No. 8918575)

The basketball gift to that little dwarf wasn't so bad, it was the four tons of fissionable material and 400 Million that pxssed me off.


Reply 44 - Posted by: janjan, 10/8/2012 3:44:21 PM     (No. 8918606)

Albright was probably the most embarrassing Sec of State we ever had. Chasing dictators up the street like he was her truant son or something. Wow. And she feels qualified to judge Mitt Rommey? Just wow.


Reply 45 - Posted by: paral04, 10/8/2012 3:55:05 PM     (No. 8918631)

Albright along with her successor Clinton are disgraces to the country and womanhood. Their drinking and poor grooming and dressing are an embarrassment. I recall Albright sitting in a short skirt with her fat ugly legs spayed talking to a Muslim sheik. Good Grief! Aside from their demeanor they did nothing but destroy our positions in the Arab countries and Eastern Europe.


Reply 46 - Posted by: Whamdbambam, 10/8/2012 4:09:29 PM     (No. 8918661)

Somewhere a troll bridge is missing its cleaning lady.


Reply 47 - Posted by: Philipsonh, 10/8/2012 4:22:49 PM     (No. 8918688)

If Romney's speech would be graded as "c" then
Obama's policies for 4 years would be unworthy of grading. Lies and mistakes. He would have been dismissed from the class. He should have cheated and had President's Reagan's notes written on his sleeve. He has caused untold damage to our foreign policy and to the World


Reply 48 - Posted by: TexaTucky, 10/8/2012 4:28:59 PM     (No. 8918710)

Aunt Clara?


Reply 49 - Posted by: oriton, 10/8/2012 4:32:14 PM     (No. 8918714)

Any parent with a child at Georgetown should insist that their child not take this woman's class. She deserves to be fired if she would give Romney a C. It's not like she put her "head knowledge" to good use when she was SOS. She obviously is one of those leftists who believes that she's actually smart and qualified for anything above water girl on a middle school volleyball team.


Reply 50 - Posted by: lhlande, 10/8/2012 4:50:47 PM     (No. 8918758)

Have to write down an incomplete!


Reply 51 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 10/8/2012 5:27:28 PM     (No. 8918827)

And what were the highlights of your foreign policy work, madam? I seem to have forgotten...


Reply 52 - Posted by: vesicant, 10/8/2012 5:33:34 PM     (No. 8918842)

Albright is still around? Wow, who knew? Who cares?


Reply 53 - Posted by: stonepony, 10/8/2012 6:20:10 PM     (No. 8918908)

you have to give it to these demo POTUS they sure know how to pick losers and weakling to be SecState. Started with jimmmmmmmmy and continues to this day...


Reply 54 - Posted by: stanley, 10/8/2012 7:11:29 PM     (No. 8918973)

Madeleine Notatallbright


Reply 55 - Posted by: NYbob, 10/8/2012 7:23:10 PM     (No. 8918991)

Another gift of the liberal media. If they went after her failures like they would if she were a Republican, we would be spared this kind of nonsense. Hope you press people are proud.


Reply 56 - Posted by: Italiano, 10/8/2012 7:33:56 PM     (No. 8919008)

It's hilarious to think of what Albright in high heels must have looked like trying to chase down Arafat. Picture a stampeding hippo skidding across a frozen lake.

Great Moments in American Diplomacy.


Reply 57 - Posted by: TexasRed, 10/8/2012 7:54:19 PM     (No. 8919044)

Half-bright ain't got enough sense to grade anyone. She was a complete disgrace as a Secretary of State - worse than Hildebeest!


Reply 58 - Posted by: 4Justice, 10/8/2012 8:14:54 PM     (No. 8919074)

Oh go home and make some brisket. You were the worst SOS we ever had. Remember when they thought you were the cleaning lady? There was a good reason for that!


Reply 59 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 10/8/2012 8:27:43 PM     (No. 8919095)

As for Maddie Not-so-Bright, would struggle to grade her previous performance as a "C" and that's grading on a curve.



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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an

Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns

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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.

Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial

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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM     Post Reply
The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....

Why Is White House
Stonewalling on Benghazi

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Investor´s Business Daily, by Rep, Dana Rohrbacher    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 7:13:10 PM     Post Reply
More than six months since Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated by terrorists in Benghazi, the Obama administration is still trying to keep a lid on information about the attack. Congress and the American people need to know what happened the night of Sept. 11, 2012. Who did the killing and what was their motive? Why wasn´t help sent? And why did the administration lie about who was responsible? Members of Congress have asked hundreds of questions at hearings conducted by several investigative committees, but many of the most significant have been left unanswered. Information detailing what happened before, during and
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