Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 |
Posted by Jennifer Mullnix
Romney “Peacetime” Gaffe Earns Criticism
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney attacked President Obama Sunday in an editorial written for the Union Leader, a New Hampshire publication, blaming him for the Standard and Poor’s change of the national credit rating from “stable” to negative, but Romney may have earned more backlash himself. A sentence about halfway through the article claimed that Obama’s stimulus package, increased funding to social programs, a penchant for more taxes and government influence contributed to the “biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.”
While Romney’s opinion of the Obama administration are his own, his concept of war and peace may be at fault, as the US is currently involved in three wars overseas, and Obama’s term has not been even close to “peacetime”. America has not been at peace since March of 2003, when the first attacks in Iraq began, and we have not likely “felt” at peace since September 11th, 2001. The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as the plan for American troops overseas over the next decade, are likely to be a major presence in the debates of the 2012 Presidential Election. Romney announced the creation of his 2012 exploratory committee last Monday.
Romney’s aides quickly published a statement Monday correcting his “peacetime” gaffe, saying that he meant the timeframe since World War II in the article.
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