Articles tagged with: Romney
As an American expat, America’s role and reputation in the international arena is of crucial importance to me. Like my president, I believe in America’s ability to lead, and I value a multilateral foreign policy that seeks to build international consensus. International law and human rights, in my opinion, ought to inform that policy. Only in this way can the United States succeed as a leader, one that leads by setting a good example and by deferring to other leaders when the time calls ...
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Wednesday, 7 Nov, 2012
President Barack Obama has won a second term in the White House, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Obama won comfortably, with 303 of the Electoral College votes to Romney’s 206. The president needed to secure 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the race. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia have declared votes, with only Florida’s 29 electoral votes remaining undecided. Obama narrowly took the crucial swing state of Ohio, securing him the presidency. Other batt...
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The US election campaign is entering its final 24 hours with the battle for the presidency set to be one of the closest in American history. On their last day of campaigning bo...
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Thursday, 13 Sep, 2012
Imagine telling a child in his most formative years that he is superior in every way. He is, you assure him, a child of destiny, invested by God with skills and resources denied al...
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Tuesday, 11 Sep, 2012
Watching Mitt Romney address the Republican National Convention this August, it is easy to see that he is comfortable being the center of attention and that he has been there many ...
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Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2012
It’s hard to feel sorry for China’s leadership, populated as it is by autocrats and oligarchs with little regard for the liberal yearnings of its people. And while China’s ec...
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Thursday, 9 Aug, 2012
If history is indeed written by the winners, Mitt Romney is getting ahead of himself.
In Israel last week, the Republican Party presidential nominee declared that the Arab worl...
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
In late 1999 I spent a day reporting in the West Bank from a delivery truck operated by Al-Haya Food Industries, a venerable Palestinian meat company. My escorts were Halil Masaud ...
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Friday, 27 Jul, 2012
Mitt Romney’s parachute drop into Israel this week is proof, as if it was needed, that America’s Middle East policy is in fact domestic policy masquerading as statecraft.
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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012
The Franco-American argument about which country deserves to lecture the other on everything from liberty to multilateralism—has raged for centuries, but France just won the ...
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