There is a tendency among many observers to think that foreign policy is not an important campaign issue this year, but they are wrong.
Foreign policy affects the American economy and its future, as it often adds massively to the national debt.
Foreign policy affects civil liberties, much more than we realize, as our rights are being chipped away in the name of “national security”.
Foreign policy affects the military, and the likelihood of more military engagements and military spending, in a nation which already spends more on the military than the next 10 nations combined.
Foreign policy under Mitt Romney is more likely to bring about a revival of the “neoconservative” influence, and intervention in Iran, Syria and elsewhere, which only benefits the war industries and wealthy people, who are too willing to send poor, unemployed men and women in as cannon fodder for economic gains that make the plutocracy ever more powerful.
What we need is a measured and rational hand on foreign policy, and the record of Barack Obama makes him far better qualified to be our Commander in Chief and our Chief Diplomat.
Mitt Romney would be a massive gamble, a man who knows little about foreign policy, leans on George W. Bush advisers too heavily, and loves to shoot at the hip with his rhetoric, antagonizing even our friends, as well as our rivals. He does not deserve to be in charge of America’s role with the outside world!
I think it would be one thing if he was at least around intelligent people that knew what to do in certain situations but I think he has more than proven he doesn’t associate with such people. Professor I heard that Mitt Romney has a 0 percent approval rating amount African Americans and about 12 percent among Hispanics. Do you think that will play any role in how the Florida vote goes?
I think the Florida vote will be very close, and that IF African Americans and Hispanics vote in large numbers, that it COULD affect the final result, but realize the Florida GOP is trying to make it difficult for minorities to vote, and is infamous for blocking African American motorists from voting in Miami and Tallahassee in 2000.