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Posted: 9:15 AM Oct 24, 2007
Romney Confuses "Osama" And "Obama"
GOP candidate mistakenly accuses Barack Obama of calling on terrorists to come together in Iraq.
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Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney responds to questions during an appearance at a town hall forum in the law school building on the campus of the University of Denver in southeast Denver on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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(AP) In a slip of the tongue, Republican Mitt Romney accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of urging terrorists to congregate in Iraq.
In the midst of criticizing Obama and other Democrats on foreign and economic policy Tuesday, the GOP presidential hopeful said:
"Actually, just look at what Osam - Barack Obama - said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. ... It's almost as if the Democratic contenders for president are living in fantasyland. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat. And in my view, both efforts are wrongheaded."
Romney apparently was referring to an audiotape aired Monday in which a speaker believed to be terrorist Osama bin Laden called for insurgents in Iraq to unite and avoid divisions. The authenticity of the tape aired on Al-Jazeera television could not be immediately confirmed.
Romney also said: "It's my personal belief that having someone like John Edwards, a senator, who goes out and communicates that there is no global war on terror - that it's just a Bush bumper sticker - I think that is a position that is not consistent with the facts."
Romney was addressing a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Spokesman Kevin Madden said: "He misspoke. He was referring to the audiotape of Osama bin Laden and misspoke. It was just a mix-up."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "Apparently, Mitt Romney can switch names just as casually as he switches positions, but what's wrongheaded is continuing a misguided war in Iraq that has left America less safe."
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It just goes to show that this backward flip flopping, fake preaching, anything to get your vote candidate, is just as incompetent in pronunciation as George Puppet Bush. Mit Romney is the opitomy of a whore who will do and say anything to special right wing nutz and racist crazies that keep him in the 20% polls. America is tired of the divisionalism, too bad Mit, doesn't get it. We want change for the better, something this person of supposed peace, is not about evidently. It is disrespectful to mispronounce anyone's name repeatedly, Either Mit is just stupid or he just doesn't give a damn about people of African American decent. Bye bye Mit Romney.
This type of " misspeak" is so typical of the desperate Republican rhetoric of the politics of fear. Perhaps the Democrat candidates should stop talking issues, health care , education etc and start dropping lines in their speeches about Mitt Rommell's close association with Hitler' s army of the 3rd Reich and fascism. " Oh excuse me I misspoke". What a bunch of bull.
OBAMA '08!!!
