Romney in Manchester

How will you pay for the Iraq War?
Answer: the same way we have been.

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Romney at Thomas More College

Edited to fix Thomas More College link.

So here is my encounter from an Ask Mitt Anything last night at Thomas More College. Romney actually received a lot of pretty tough, somewhat combative, questions.
So I asked a tough question….and Romney was textbook at dodging all parts of the question.
Erin: The Department of Energy and the [...]

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Peace Activist Asked to Leave Romney Event

Michelle Cunha of Hill, N.H. works for New Hampshire Peace Action, and she landed in the spotlight Monday when she was asked to leave Mitt Romney’s campaign event at Insight Technologies in Londonderry.
Cunha said she has been making the rounds of both Democratic and Republican contenders’ campaign stops, handing out list of questions for [...]

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Ray McGovern Questions Romney in Londonderry

Mitt Romney’s bad day yesterday just didn’t seem to end.
LONDONDERRY - A former CIA analyst turned critic of the U.S. tactics in the war on terror tried to “Ask Mitt Anything” yesterday and found the former Bay State governor knows how to sidestep a diplomatic incident.
Ray McGovern, who has gained national attention as a [...]

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More on Romney’s Bad Day at Insight Technologies

Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens as Insight Technology buyer, Dena Vaudrien, right, explains why she removed leaflets passed out by a forum participant prior to Romney’s entrance at the facility in Londonderry, N.H. Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. The person distributing the leaflets was removed from the event. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
Romney’s [...]

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Romney’s Tough Day on the Trail

Yesterday one of New Hampshire Peace Action’s staff members attended Romney’s Londonderry event. While there, she passed out flyers to audience members before Governor Romney arrived.
Two individuals, a man and a woman,* came up to the staff member and asked her to leave. The staff member left without further incident. She was never able to [...]

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Edwards All Over

Edwards in Bedford, October 28
At the debate at Dartmouth College at the end of September, candidates Clinton, Obama, and Edwards all said they might not have all troops out of Iraq by 2013. Like Chris Dodd, I was stunned to think that these candidates would ignore the mandate of the voters and extend the [...]

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Romney in Laconia

In his stump speech, Romney said:
…[W]e also have a threat of extraordinary nature…
…You know it’s unusual to have an asymmetric foe of the nature of this jihadist movement; this fundamentalist Islamic perspective that wants to cause the collapse of all moderate nations, Islamic and Western, and replace them with religious Caliphic. The people who pursue [...]

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Avoiding the Toughness Trap by Bill Hartung

There is a surreal quality to many of the foreign policy arguments being put forward in the 2008 presidential campaign, particularly among Republican presidential hopefuls. The Bush Administration’s fiasco in Iraq is a transformative event that calls for a fundamental re-thinking of US security strategy. The policies of “preventive” war, forward basing of US troops [...]

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Romney in Manchester

Governor Mitt Romney spoke at Elliot Hospital today.
Question: Governor Romney, 12 US Army Captains have published a nation-wide op-ed calling for the immediate withdrawal from Iraq, or for the reinstatement of the draft. Given the increasing number of similar articles, how can you continue to stay the course in Iraq?
Answer: Because it’s working, number one. [...]

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