Oh Sarah... Seriously??

When is this crackpot going to just go away???
I may not be a political genius and have admitted that I'm not extraordinary in much of anything. One thing I DO know is yoga. I took my first class 10 years ago and worked so hard on the perfecting of the poses, I can tell you the name of every pose in English AND Sanskrit. My strength and flexibility was outstanding, but I had to practice very hard to improve my weakness and that was balance. I taught for a few years and substitute taught advanced Ashtanga for the local yoga studio a few times. My teacher is well known for her workshops all over the world and has studied with the foremost yoga masters in the world. This is NOT yoga:



I'm not going to list everything that screams "poser", but she's a poser in most areas of her life. I'm pretty certain that our President would so leave her in the dust she'd think that the butt whoopin' she took as a VP candidate was a walk in the park. Maybe when he has nothing better to do like being President she can fly out at tax payers expense, ignoring the needs of her state, to have another pointless "look at me" moment. I betcha McCain would take you on, Sarah. But as big of a pain in the butt his is, even HE has better things to do. Now get over yourself and try to NOT destroy your state.


See Sarah run. Run, Sarah, run.

WOOHOO!!! NEW OBAMA SHIRT!!!

$3.00 at the mall! It says "Im a Barack Star"

I dearly hope karma is NOT kind...

Michael Jackson had serious issues. I think the fact that Michael Jackson wasn't a basket case by the 70's is pure miracle. I don't know what he was absolutely guilty of and what was the work of gold digging liars. But that is in God's hands now. He had problems but he gave us nothing??? Seriously??? He made an impact for good and his insecurities and shyness was a product of HIS history of abuse. So first the nanny who so LOVED his children is singing like a bird. No one who cares for children do that. They loved him and she's trashing him. Now the stupid chick that gave birth to them is saying that they aren't his?? What a complete and selfish 8!tc#. Comparing it to impregnating her horses. She sold him her womb. His long time nanny who "loved" those kids is selling him out before he's even been buried. You people love yourself. You could careless about those children.

Pond scum.
Let this family grieve. He has problems and we all new that. We feel so bad that those children who loved him have lost him. Quit making it all about you

Filipino Prisoners Michael Jackson tribute..

I LOVE the Filipino prisoners and I think their first online hit was Thriller but I could be wrong. Here's their tribute.

Okay I have to Sarah Palin credit...

THIS is pretty funny:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a shot at John Kerry when speaking to troops in Kosovo.

The Massachusetts Democrat had joked that he wished Palin had gone missing instead of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

"He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad," Palin responded. "I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, 'John Kerry, why the long face?'"

Wishing Palin had gone missing isn't funny.

Link with video

This is what I've been waiting for...

President Obama is tired of stupid people too!!! I made my favorite parts in bold:


Obama to GOP: "Iranians can speak for themselves"

By Mike Madden

President Obama answers a question during a news conference at the White House Tuesday.

June 23, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- Live from the White House on Tuesday, the world got a lesson in what happens when an unstoppable force -- in this case, the 24-hour news cycle -- meets an immovable object -- the elaborate conventions of international diplomacy, and 30 years of poisoned Iran-U.S. relations. The results weren't always pretty.

"You seemed to hint that there are human rights violations taking place [in Iran]," NBC's Chuck Todd asked President Obama, though it was more a statement than a question. Since the demonstrations began, the White House has been trying to walk a fine line between speaking out against the gruesome ways the Iranian government has cracked down and inserting the United States blindly into the situation. Obama had opened his Tuesday press conference with the strongest language he's used yet to express U.S. outrage. But the press corps spent the better part of the next hour asking questions that seemed designed to suck any remaining nuance out of the White House stance. So Obama didn't bother extending reporters the same diplomatic niceties he's trying to use with Iran.

"I'm not hinting," he told Todd, referring -- for the second time -- to the videos of Neda Agha Soltan being killed on Saturday. "I think that when a young woman gets shot on the street when she gets out of her car, that's a problem." Todd tried to follow up, asking why Obama wouldn't lay out specific consequences for Iran if the crackdown continued. "Because I think that we don't know yet how this thing is going to play out," Obama snapped. "I know everybody here is on a 24-hour news cycle. I'm not. OK?"

That was how things went Tuesday, in Obama's fourth formal news conference since taking office (and the first one held in the middle of the day, instead of during prime time). No one watching could have had any doubts about whose side the president is on in the ongoing clashes between the militias and paramilitaries backing Iran's hard-line clerics and the thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets since last Friday's election.

"The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings and imprisonments of the last few days," Obama said, to open the press conference. "I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost."

But the angrier tone didn't mean the White House wanted to get drawn into a debate with Iran's ruling cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been trying to blame the country's unrest on the U.S., the United Kingdom, Zionists, the Appalachian Trail -- pretty much anyone except himself. Though GOP critics have been pushing for a harder line from Washington since the crisis started, Obama wouldn't budge. The White House is still playing a high-stakes game, trying to show support for the protesters, couched in terms of universal human rights, without making the demonstrations about the U.S.

"This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran," Obama said. "This is not about the United States or the West; this is about the people of Iran and the future that they -- and only they -- will choose."

"The Iranian people can speak for themselves. That's precisely what's happened in the last few days."

What hasn't been clear, listening to Republicans evoke gauzy, soft-focus memories of Ronald Reagan standing up to various dictators (never mind that his administration also sold Iran weapons during its bloody war with Iraq), is exactly what the point of intervening in the civil unrest would be. "The pope and Ronald Reagan inspired people," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told Fox News Monday night, hearkening back to the Cold War. "And this president, to his credit, is one of the great orators of our time. I'd like to see him go to a place like the Statue of Liberty and speak boldly for this young lady who died." That seems like it would mostly serve to pump up American patriotism, though. The protesters -- who go to their roofs every night to shout, "Allah-o akbar," or "God is great," in Farsi, echoing Iran's 1979 revolution that put the mullahs in power -- don't seem to be identifying themselves with the U.S., directly or indirectly.

Iranian-American activists have been making that point to anyone in Washington whom they can reach lately. "If our intention is to help, we have to first listen to the people in Iran rather than to pretend to speak for them without ever having had consulted with them," said Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, in a statement after Obama's remarks. It's not clear whether a recent round of public appearances by Reza Pahlavi -- the son of the U.S.-backed shah, deposed in 1979 -- have been doing much to help the cause in Tehran, either.

Obama made fairly clear what he thought of the input from Graham, and, for that matter, Sen. John McCain, his opponent last year -- who has also urged him to speak more firmly. CBS's Chip Reid asked the president whether the GOP pressure had changed policy. "What do you think?" Obama asked him, with a withering stare. "I think that all of us share a belief that we want justice to prevail."

"But only I'm the president of the United States," he continued. "And I've got responsibilities in making certain that we are continually advancing our national security interests and that we are not used as a tool to be exploited by other countries."

There were, of course, other topics that came up at the press conference. Obama defended his healthcare plan, which is showing signs of not being as dead as pundits declared it to be. He took a question on Latin America policy, in a nod to the visit, later in the afternoon, by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. He said the economy was lurching toward recovery, and wouldn't need a second stimulus plan yet.

And he also admitted, after mocking the question, that he still has a vice or two that he hides from the public. "Look, I've said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it," Obama said, in one of the press conference's strangest detours (prompted by the news that the president had signed into law on Monday new legislation giving the federal government authority to regulate cigarettes). "Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No. I don't do it in front of my kids. I don't do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95 percent cured. But there are times where ... There are times where I mess up." For any president, it was a rare confession. Don't expect to hear him say that about his Iran policy any time soon. Listening to Obama on Tuesday, it was pretty clear he thinks he's got that right. For now.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/23/obama/index.html

Suck on THAT JohnMcLindseyGrahamCain. Don't you two have better things to do?? Like keeping your state's governor's pants on and in the country?? Yeah stimulus money doesn't mean Argentinian booty call at the taxpayers expense.
And remember what Joe Klein told you, McCain??
"Be quiet,"You don't need to do this. You know? You know what you're doing is a self-indulgent at this point. Sen. McCain, if he's going to talk about this, should also talk about the fact that the United States supported Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq war for eight years. Every one of those protesters out in the streets, every last one of them believes the United States supplied Saddam Hussein with the poison gas that has debilitated tens of thousands of Iranian men."

How disappointing is this???

So my daughters and I stopped at fireworks stand to buy some firecrackers. We had a grand scheme to light them right outside my bedroom window after my husband went to bed. Firecrackers are illegal in Utah these days. I know that they probably blew off a few digits when I was young, but I didn't lose MY thumb when I had a premature explosion. I lost feeling in it for a while, but I was careful to choose the ones with longer fuses if I needed to toss it. This could explain the problems with young people these days. Safety is forced upon them. So we asked for something loud. There's a scale of one to four, four being the loudest and we bought some. He went to bed at 10:30 so we tiptoed outside and set one on the ground, lit it and attempted to run. I lit and jumped up and tried to run sideways fell and rolled a while. The firework was a high pitched screech and it sent the outdoor cats running and we were trying to get inside to act totally innocent. Unfortunately the indoor cats were gathered at the backdoor curious and we had a small tangle. We all were back in place on the couch but laughing hysterically at the whole incident and waited for him to come out. Nothing.. We went back out, this time we wedged it in the gate right next to the window. I lit, we ran, nothing. It was a dud. We tried again and this time it was all perfect. We were all in place although we were still laughing. The man is totally deaf. We went in to ask him what the heck is wrong with him. He heard nothing. So basically our house could be robbed and we could be dragged from the house screaming and my husband would have no freaking clue.
AND the scale should go up to a 10. We could have been arrested. Hauled off to the clink. He wouldn't even know until he read the article in the newspaper about who has been arrested in the past 24 hours.
Total bummer. I have grass stains on my PJs, a bruise on my butt, traumatized cats, and a rash from the grass. But it WAS pretty freaking funny!

RIP Michael Jackson

I remember when I first heard the 80's Michael Jackson. I hated him. Then I loved him. I loved everything he did, I loved how cheesy the whole Beat It gang fight was. Hated the gloves, hated the floods, hated the military jackets and the red ones. Loved the videos, loved the music. I've never understood the plastic surgery, because he was so cute. It was a sad and strange obsession. I also think he had a sad and horrifying childhood. A freaky ambitious father that heaped on all sorts of abuse. I can't imagine what his childhood was like, but I watched him destroy himself and fight off one child molestation case after another. I can't believe that it's all misunderstandings and to acquit time after time was frightening. I tend to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. I've been heartbroken about all of the victims that came of this. I hope his children will be okay. I hope they can find a way to deal with the tragedy in their lives. Heal and find some normalcy.
I am sadden by the loss of Michael Jackson. I felt he was slipping away long ago, but his death at such a young age is very, very, sad. I hope he's found peace.

Reza Aslan on The Daily Show.

I love love LOVED this interview! Def worth the watch:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Reza Aslan
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Something I would blog about...

But chose to actually have a conversation about:

Homophobic Perez Hilton.. The new face of Gay rights.

Don't cry for me Argentina...

The GOP is dropping like flies. So the whole Gov. Mark Sanford missing in action and his people lied to the state of South Carolina to cover for him. It was shady from the get go, but I think we all knew there was another man, woman or llama. After several versions of the story, he's finally admitted to having another woman and has withdrawn. I'd like to see the numbers of dems vs. repubs and their shady dramas lately.

All of the thorns seem to have disappeared from the Paradox Patch..

I haven't been as vocal in my political feelings lately. I'm oddly calm lately or maybe it's the turmoil in my little corner of the world.
The Iranian reformists have not taken the rigged election lightly. People with green bands around their arms are endangering their lives to fight the corrupt regime that has violated the rights of their citizens. Peaceful protestors have been gunned down for exercising their right to oppose unfair treatment. Back in the good ol' US of A a good many people are criticizing President Obama's handling of the situation. He's not forceful enough for the fat lazy Americans (mostly the GOP) who kick back watching people who are more courageous than they will ever be. These protesters are exposing the corrupt regime more and more everyday. They are taking their country back. You think they don't know that they may die for that? Once upon a time we did the exact same thing. President Obama is watching the situation and taking it very seriously, but his interference would only serve to bring more violence and death to these brave people. Let them take their country back. We support that. We did it ourselves. So McCain, reacquaint yourself with our fore fathers and what advice they gave us. Foreign entanglements is not always wise or safe. For them and for us. President Reagan was a perfect example that the spoken word was often mightier than the famous Beach Boys/ McCain hit "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran". Also there is an stand that Prez Bush Sr. took that was just like this and it turned out to be correct. I am sure I'm not alone in my admiration of the strength and determination of the reformists of Iran. I think some Americans have forgotten what it is to fight to the death for what they believe in. RIP Neda.

Mad cow or multiple personalities??

Okay here's an update on the tentatively named Charlie feline from hell:

Charlie and Boo. This is rare together moment because Charlie is usually in hiding so he can jump on Boo's back and try to stay on for 8 seconds.

Charlie and Sasha. Sasha has a lot more patience than Boo does, but she gets tormented more often.

This is the saloon girl who has had one too many, look.

This needs no explanation. How do you name a cat like this???

A shout out to my sister.

I had a lively discussion about politics and global events and even though we disagreed upon occasion, it was intelligent and respectful. I enjoyed it.

Woohoo!!!! Wonderland is coming!!

I'm so excited for Public Enemies on July 1st that I can barely contain myself. But NOW they've released some pic's from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Check it out:

Happy Father's Day to all the Father's I love.

When I was a junior in High School, I tried out for Homecoming Queen. Anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I have no musical talent, I'm totally uncoordinated, and lacking all stageworthy talents. I memorized a poem and dressed up like a grubby little kid. The poem was all about the scary things that go bump in the night and how I wasn't scared because I could always climb in bed with dad. I looked for it and I can't find it. I didn't even place, but my dad was in the audience cheering for me and that was enough. I wore my prom dress for the formal part of the contest. It was before my prom so I was a little bummed out to have to debut my prom dress early but my dad died before my prom. I chose to sit out the traditional father/daughter dance. Sometimes I think back at the courage it took for me to try out for homecoming queen when I was certain I didn't stand a snowball's chance in Hades. I searched my dad's eyes for some sign of disappointment that I'd lost but I never saw it. I think he was truly proud of me that I tried. I remember little things like that about him. I remember what he smelled like and what his hands looked like. I think how hard it was to lose him when I hadn't really had a chance to know him yet. But there came a time that I watched people age and suffer to various degrees and I am grateful I never saw him like that. In my mind and my heart he looks just like he does in that picture. I have learned to treasure the moments I had and not resent the ones I never did. I miss you, dad. You'd love the girls so much. And they would love you. I wonder what horrendous nickname they'd each be called by. Happy Father's Day Hockenshnocker! I love you.

Oh, this could be so horrific!!!!

The initial report was that Evanescence replaced lead singer Amy Lee, which would totally suck!!! But it is apparently 3 former band members including Ben Moody who formed the band with Amy. He's an awesome songwriter but they were in a relationship and as that went bad Ben left the band. The guitar player was fired and the drummer quit. They have all reunited to form a band called The Fallen. One of our very favorite Idol finalists from last season (I think), Carly Smithson will be the new lead singer. I look forward to that, but not at the expense of Amy Lee. I can't find any definite answers as to what will become of Amy, but so far it looks like she will go forward and keep Evanescence together. I truly hope so, because she can't be replaced. Ever. Ever, ever.

The search for a name for the weirdest cat ever...

The naming of the cat that was dropped on me to foster until he was weaned and then I paid $40 to keep him has been a hard thing. Most everyone has seen the Youtube video of the two little English boys where the bigger boy sticks his finger in the baby's mouth. The older boy starts out pretty brave, but he starts panicking when "Charlie" doesn't let go. So I heard my daughter mimicking the little boy while this baby kitty was gnawing on her. "Ouch Charlie, OOOOOOUCH! Charlie bit me at it really hurt!"

So the name is Charlie and here are some baby pics. He's grown a lot since but he's even more insane.

This is a serious question...

And I doubt anyone will answer me, but if a gay couple live in a state that denies them the right to a same sex union, what if one of them get's a sex change? Is it legal then?

I just read that Chastity Bono is getting a sex change, it made me wonder. Do they consider it acceptable as long as the plumbing is right at the time the couple applies for the marriage it's cool beans?

Happy Birthday Hottie McHotness!!!

The Titanic Exhibit

When I was first married there was an exhibit that had come to northern Utah of Tutankhamen and various things that had been unearthed in his tomb. I wanted to go so bad, but I didn't take a stand to make my husband see how important it was to me. I've always wanted a career in Science, but I realize I lack patience and intelligence to be an archeologist. I did apply to Scripps because most of all I wanted to be a marine biologist. The finding of the Titanic was like the best of both. I am so interested in every aspect of it's sinking (actually other ships as well but mostly the Titanic). So while we were in Vegas I insisted we go to the Titanic exhibit. As we went in we were given tickets with the info of a specific passenger. Mine was in first class and recovering from a divorce. One of my daughters was given a name that was also a first class passenger. She was 19 and expecting. My oldest was given a second class passenger and not as much was known about her. My husband was given a first class man who is actually mentioned in the movie, Cosmo something or other. The display items were recovered from the debris field. Nothing from the ship itself. The preservation is astounding and like all things I do like this I feel an overwhelming sadness and sickness of the waste.

We were near the end and there was a tour guide in there that came to talk to us and as my kids love to point out, I can strike up a conversation with anyone and immediately feel that I've made a valuable friend. We were looking at a bottle of champagne still corked and mostly full. I talked to him about it and he said many bottles of champagne were intact but no wine or other bottled beverage. I speculated that it could be the pressure of the bubbles in the champagne. He told us that things that were packed in crates were often found intact because they gradually adjusted to the pressure. Theoretically because the wood was gradually eaten away and so the water got in slowly. I personally think the pressure inside the champagne helped but I don't really know. It had to be brought up so slowly to stay intact. In one room they had an actual iceberg and we were encouraged to touch it. We were told that saltwater freezes at a much colder temperature (which makes sense to me) but icebergs are generally freshwater which I did NOT know. In the last room they have the largest piece of the Titanic that has been brought up. It's huge, but tiny in comparison to the size of the ship. There were lists of survivors and of the lives that were lost. All of the people whose names we brought through survived. It amazes me how many men survived, even second class, and of course Bruce Ismay. We told my husband we weren't speaking to him for the rest of the trip because he took the seat of a woman or child on a life boat. We were teasing, of course, but sometimes I wonder how that must have felt, surviving.

In the end the guide we'd talked to pointed out a picture of a woman in a collage of pictures. Her name was Violet Jessop. I had just watched a documentary about the Brittanic. It was a sister ship to the Titanic and was built improving on the areas they felt the Titanic lacked. The question in the documentary was what had been the cause? It was believed to be hit by a torpedo from a submarine. They found the wreckage and evidence it was an underwater mine. Violet survived tragedy of the three sister ships: The Olympic, Titanic, and the Brittanic. The Olympic had several bad collisions that proved fatal for passengers of the other ships and the Titanic and Brittanic both sunk. She was onboard all three during these tragedies and survived. I also had read the news of the passing of the last Titanic survivor on May 31st. Elizabeth (Millvina)Gladys Dean was about 9 months old, the youngest passenger, when the Titanic sunk. Her mother and brother survived as well, but her father was among the lost. She died in a nursing home at age 97.

Partial Birth or Late Term Abortion

Nothing is ever black or white, so to make a general judgment with no education on the matter is ignorant and pointless. I didn't vote for President Clinton one of his terms BECAUSE of his support of late term abortion. I am ashamed of that vote.
When I was 16, I worked in the hospital lab for my 6 weeks of UB that summer. I saw a woman who had given birth far too soon to a baby that was the length of a dollar bill. She had made the decision (pro-choice, technically) to keep the baby on life support. If this child lived it would be blind and deaf. It's lungs and kidneys would never function without machines. It would be mentally handicapped as well. They had gone through all the insurance they had and could get. They had put themselves in major debt and even family members and the community had donated money on a child that needed to be released from this forced prison. It eventually died despite the monumental efforts. The family will never recover financially and this would affect any children that they had or would have. I also have watched families grow so large that they have been neglected medically.
I don't know what the circumstances are for late term abortion and I've sadly stayed in the dark far too long, but I am intelligent enough to realize that there are times it's necessary. People who decide these things, be they the doctor, or the mother have a heartbreaking choice. I knew that had to be true. I was correct. Read the stories here:
Kansas

Temp post because we've exceeded posting limits..

Move to the one lower shoutbox on the blog for now if you wish to carry one, but I have to say this: I am shocked at the lack of research on what you are up against Matt. It seems completely unprofessional given your public service. I would think you know the process very well and you've used the BDS as a springboard.
I am also a bit lost on your reason for leaving your public service. You were injured? You mention the cancer often, was that something that occurred during that time?
The photobooth picture I am talking about is the one you and Jack claim to be Ed Burns and I call Indiana Jones. One of those photobooth pictures isn't even Beth.
Here's the thing that EdBurnophiles don't seem to comprehend. Indiana Jones was cleared then and now by the LAPD. Steve has met the man and reaffirmed the fact by actually speaking to the man. Carr dislikes Steve so he'd have no reason to confirm that fact unless it IS a fact. Larry confirms that there is no question. It's NOT Ed Burns. Larry and Carr are on good terms. You alienated EVERYONE immediately and when you realized that I am actually on good terms with Larry you wanted me to help you. No one is going to take your theory serious no matter HOW good your map is. Your suspect was totally disproven right from the start.
The suicide note wasn't even worthy of the front page news. It was obviously another lame attention seeking ploy and not even a good one. It wasn't signed by a confessing sam it was signed by melodramatic mary. It lacked the taunting tone of the Avenger letters. It was bogus.
I think you need to learn about Beth and the other suspects. You can't have a legitimate debate without knowing what you are up against.
I suggest reading Avenger, anything you can find that Larry has online, Mary's site and Childhood Shadows. You can't even have an educated debate.

King of the World

How many rulers and dictators have committed mass murder in an attempt to rule the world?

No seriously, I don't know the answer to that, but like, Napolean, Hitler, Mussolini?? Not good people. I saw an interesting picture today:




Obama is visiting the Middle East. I'm sure this has the GOP and Faux News in ecstasy over every hand he shakes and bite he takes, but it kinda looks to me like everywhere he goes he's well respected. Well except for the United States.
Egypt calling him the New Tutankhamun . The have Pyramids, we have Mount Rushmore, they have the Sphinx, we have Rush Limbaugh.

World polls show that he's inspired more confidence than any other world leader. If you watch the news here you can find out where he and Michelle went on date night and listen to idiots say they don't like that restaurant, and how much it's costing the taxpayers. It's not news that the President of the US IS a salary paying job, IS it??? Can we ammend the "freedom of speech" part for stupid people?

Ack! When I have to clear up these Mormon misconceptions it freaks me out.

Mostly because I'm no model example. Quite frankly the opposite. But I don't lie about it. So today I am going to explain the steps of repentance that are always taught early in LDS life, again it starts as children:
1.Feel sorry
2.Ask forgiveness
3 Right the wrong
4.Don’t repeat the wrong

Uhhh Mittster. We were wrong in what we did. So our President is on step two and going after step three. The only way to not achieve step four is if you are the next President. Because the LAST administration thinks like you do, Romney. Do you kiss you wife with that lying mouth? Do you shake your Bishop's hand and look him in the eyes and pretend you know the gospel and live it. Find a new religion Mitt. And Heaven help us if you are our next President. A dishonest pretty boy. We are doomed. However I think that President Obama saw the next real Republican threat for 2012. That would be Mister Huntsman, ambassador to China.

In a speech at the Heritage Foundation Monday, Mitt Romney attempted to define himself as a forceful opponent of President Obama. The former governor of Massachusetts plans to attack the president for his "recent tour of apology" and to call for more defense spending.

Romney claimed Obama has apologized to America's enemies:

I take issue with President Obama's recent tour of apology. It's not because America hasn't made mistakes -- we have -- but because America's mistakes are overwhelmed by what America has meant to the hopes and aspirations of people throughout the world.


The President also claimed on Arabic TV that America has dictated to other nations. No, America has sacrificed to free other nations from dictators. Britain's Guardian newspaper noted that Mr. Obama has been more critical of his own country, while on foreign soil, than any other president in American history. That would be a most unfortunate distinction at any time. But it is particularly so today: with all that is transpiring in the world, in Iran, North Korea, Georgia, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, this is the time for strength and confidence, not for apologizing to America's critics.

Romney concluded by saying that budget cuts put the country in danger. (In reality, Obama has increased defense spending.)

We cannot allow the economic crisis to conceal the very real threats to our nation's security. We cannot ignore the intentions of competitors who would replace America's leadership with their own, and set back the cause of freedom. Providence has blessed us and trusted us to safeguard liberty; in a time of confusion at home and challenge abroad, let ours be the voice of clarity and good sense--confident in our cause, and faithful in the care of freedom.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/big-romney-speech-obama-a_n_209830.html