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Ronald Reagan's Ambassador to Moscow Endorses Obama
Jack Matlock's endorsement:
He also says Obama's policies have been consistent and that the things that haven't been accomplished required the cooperation of Congress. He cites repub's opposition to Obama's jobs leadership and deciding to not cooperate with Obama so he'd fail.
More at link.
Ronald Reagans Ambassador to Moscow, Jack Matlock, just wrote: It should be crystal clear that any vote for Romney and most of the Republicans now running for national office is a vote against the future of America. To see why a Reagan confidante would say that, read the whole post. Even if you support Romney, Matlock makes some important points that deserve greater attention, but get hidden in the fluff surrounding the election. His blog is well worth adding to your RSS subscriptions.
Jack Matlock's endorsement:
Observing the recent gridlock in Congress, thoughtful foreigners have begun to wonder about the intelligence, or even sanity, of the American voters who send the uncompromising ideologues to Congress. Their habit of standing firm on utterly discredited theories, refusing compromise, willfully ignoring what happened in the recent past, andwhen push comes to shovesimply lying in order to make a president Americans elected fail would not seem to be a winning electoral platform to a rational electorate. Nevertheless, despite the appearance to foreigners, the American people, including those who support Tea Party candidates, are not stupid. We need to seek other reasons for what appears to be the willingness of many patriotic Americans to vote against what reasonable, well-informed people would consider the best interests of their country. This is an important topic, but not the one I have set for myself today. (I may write about it later.) Today I want to explain why I think it is important for the nations future to re-elect President Obama.
First, his policies have saved us from what could have been the worst disaster since the Great Depression. (So far as one can determine from Romneys vague, general and often contradictory statements, his policies would repeat the mistakes of the Bush-Cheney Administration and risk turning a slow recovery into a second recession, or worse.)
Second, his foreign policies have repaired much (but not all) of the damage inflicted by the Bush-Cheney Administration. Romney has been talking out of both sides of his mouth on foreign policy, but some of his closest advisors would advocate a course that Bush-Cheney proved to be disastrous.
He also says Obama's policies have been consistent and that the things that haven't been accomplished required the cooperation of Congress. He cites repub's opposition to Obama's jobs leadership and deciding to not cooperate with Obama so he'd fail.
More at link.