As Obama speaks at AIPAC, Romney serves pancakes and hits him on Iran

SNELLVILLE, GA - MARCH 04: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (2R) and his wife Ann Romney (R) serve pancakes during the Snellville pancake brunch at Brookwood High School.

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Taking questions before a crowd of nearly 2,000 at a high school in Snellville after serving flapjacks, Romney took hard aim at President Obama's foreign policy tactics, calling his dealings with Iran and Syria dangerous failures.

"The president has failed the Arab Spring, it's become the Arab Winter in too many respects," Romney said. "It's pretty straight forward in my view. If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change if that's the case."

President Obama addressed the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee at a conference in Washington today, where he told the pro-Israel coalition that "Now is not the time for bluster; now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in, and to sustain the broad international coalition that we have built."

Romney, who will be addressing the group by satellite from Ohio on Tuesday morning, saw fit to call tear into this message. "This president has failed. I understand he just gave an address today talking about all the great things he's done to provide greater peace and reduce the threat from Iran, that hasn't happened."

He also used particularly strong language when referring to Syria, elaborating more than usual on his positions with regard to the Assad dictatorship and linking the country's violent regime to Iran. "Syria is Iran's only Arab ally. It's also their route to the sea. It is also their route to arming Hezbollah in Lebanon, which is just going to attack Israel from Lebanon."

Romney said he was not in favor of direct military intervention in Syria, "but we'll keep our options open." He said he would be in favor of working with leaders in the dissident community in the hopes it would get Syria into a more representative government.

This marks Romney's only trip to Georgia in the run-up to Super Tuesday, though one of his Republican rivals, Newt Gingrich, has dedicated the majority of his campaigning this week to the state. While Romney did not mention any of the other candidates by name, he took one sideswipe at Gingrich, when Romney said that he would not "pander" by over-promising low gas prices.

A major theme of Gingrich's campaign has been his intention to bring gas prices down to $2.50 a gallon by encouraging more offshore drilling and tapping into resources in Alaska.

[erpicferl]

go flip yourself mitt

[nearl451]

Imagine that.... Pancakes topped with direspect syrup.

[ladyang]

He better keep those flipping skills sharp because he does a lot of it!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012! we got it straight in 08

[RobAla]

Wow! I am amazed at supporters of President Obama who still think the nation got it right in 2008. Let's look at the list of achievements during the first 3 years of President Obama and fellow progressives:
1) He lied 8 times in promises to televise the health care discussions openly on CSPAN.
2) He made deals giving one premium health care plan to union members (supporters) and another to the rest of the country.
3) He stood by and allowed the House and Senate to buy health care votes using taxpayer money.
4) He allowed the health care bills to be fashioned behind closed doors and be filled with political favors. This disaster of a health care law increases the cost of health care by imposing fees on medical devices (like pacemakers). He and they took over the nations health care by the federal government - most Americans did not want this extreme action - and still do not. This horrible law will cause the majority of Americans to have higher health care cost in rising premiums. We already can not afford the size federal government that we currently have, with a $16 trillion national debt. It imposes $billions of unfunded mandates on struggling states to provide greater Medicaid coverage. 27 states are suing the federal government over this nonsense, as they don't have the money to pay for this. Businesses are not hiring because of the additional cost PER EMPLOYEE that is caused by this law.
5) President Obama has continued at least a 8% unemployment rate for three years.
6) He irresponsibly overspent 100s of billions of dollars the US didn't have on bailouts (President Bush started it and President Obama accelerated it) and bogus stimulus packages. Progressives in Congress have refused to do their jobs to allow a national budget be established since 2009.
7) President Obama has behaved in the most partisan manner of any recent President, after promising bipartisanship. He has arrogantly trashed everyone who has not agreed with his socialist agenda - even the Supreme Court.
8) Instead of securing the border and enforcing federal immigration laws, the President has made war on Arizona Americans as they attempt to protect themselves from an invasion of illegal immigrants.
9) The President's man, AG Holder, dropped his case against the Black Panthers who blatantly intimidated voters at the polls. Now, Holder may finally be kicked out over "Fast and Furious" - the program that sold guns to Mexican cartels, guns used to kill a US border agent.
10) This President has focused on an extremist agenda of "fundamentally transforming" the US from a democratic republic into a socialist democracy, instead of the millions without jobs. We are all witnessing the collapse of European socialist democracies, yet this does nothing to stop this President from pushing us down that road of disaster.
11) President Obama imposed a moratorium on drilling in the gulf, throwing thousands more out of work. One foreign oil company screwed up, and the President decided to punish other oil companies that have drilled responsibly for decades.
12) President Obama wanted the President Bush tax cuts to expire, which would have resulted in redirecting money away from the economy and pushing it into Washington. The President held on to this until he was forced to change by the pounding the Democrats took in the 2010 election. Still, he promises to increase taxes next year.
13) The President and other progressives in Congress have imposed oppressive additional expenses and regulations on private sector businesses that are crippling the private sector jobs market, while expanding the federal government and public sector jobs. Anyone with any economic sense knows that you need tax revenues from a healthy private sector jobs market to fund public sector expansions, and the money is just not there.
14) With gas prices rising and projected to hit record levels by summer 2012, President Obama stops the Canadian pipeline deal that would reduce the US dependence on middle- eastern oil. His entire energy policy is idiotic, and leaves the US damaged. His impractical policies have included pumping public funds into "green energy" companies that have gone bankrupt, and even GM recently announced it will discontinue the manufacturing of the Volt electric car - they are unable to sell them.
15) In President Obama's 2012 budget, he never addressed serious issues threatening the future of the nation (like the fact that if Medicare and Social Security are not restructured, they both are projected to collapse by 2037). In fact, in the face of a staggering $16 trillion national debt - he proposed that we add another $trillion to it.

Just to name a few. The perfect word for President Obama is "irresponsible".

[shurch4truth]

A good question to ask is "How the Republicans turned their back on the middle class and made the rich richer?"

...the simplest answer is Republicans get their campaign contributions from the rich so they support them, and not the middle class. Or, the rich look out for each other as in Romney.

Saying cutting taxes to the rich creates jobs is bunk. We had 8 years of that under George W. Bush and look what it did to our economy. Did you see millions of jobs created? I saw millions of jobs lost. Do you want to let them do it to us again?