Obama: Romney Foreign Policy Attacks Are Weak

by National Confidential Staff | 18 January 2012 | 5:01 pm EST

Topics 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Mitt Romney, National Security, Osama Bin Laden, toprow

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President Obama derided attacks on foreign policy from Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican field in an interview with Time Magazine.

Obama, who gave the order to kill Bin Laden and presided over the succesful removal of Libya’s Qaddafi, told the magazine that “Overall, I think it’s going to be pretty hard to argue that we have not executed a strategy over the last three years that has put America in a stronger position than it was than when I came into office” and that “I think Mr. Romney and the rest of the Republican field are going to be playing to their base until the primary season is over.”

Several weeks ago President Obama told the press corps to “ask Osama Bin Laden” if his foreign policy and national security policy had been one of “appeasement,” based on attacks from Romney and others in the running for the Republican nomination. [Time]

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