We have heard over and over from Mitt Romney that President Barrack Obama goes around apologizing for America. I will let the other diaries published destroy his argument from today's Romney press conference.
However, we need to go back in history a little for a little context.
Back in January 2012- Buzzfeed and Andrew Kaczynski published the 2008 John McCain briefing book on Mitt Romney.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Among the most prominent gems:
Mitt Romney has no foreign policy experience
Regarding today's press conference where Romney accused Obama of apologizing for America multiple times. For a video link:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/...
I found this notation regarding Mitt Romney's 2006 trip to China.
In December 2006, Romney Visited Tsinghua University, Audience “Snickered” At His Remarks.
“Governor Mitt Romney’s weeklong trip to Asia took him to the renowned Tsinghua University here yesterday, where he fielded questions from a sometimes skeptical audience of students and sketched out his views on China’s emergence as a world power. … ‘The question is, for China, how will you use that power? And it is our hope that that power will be used to encourage peace and stability in the world,’ Romney told a small group of mostlybusiness school students. ‘And ... my experience with my own country is this: We make mistakes as a country; every country does. Mistakes in information, mistakes in judgment. But never mistakes in purpose. America’s purpose, I believe, has always been to help people, to expand their freedom, and to expand their prosperity and their hope.’ But the audience snickered.”
(Jehangir S. Pocha, “Romney Tries Political Hand In China,”The Boston Globe , 12/9/06)
Isn't this another case of Romney displacing his own views upon his political opponent?
Is this the real Mitt Romney? This looks like an apology about this country to me.
In all fairness, if you read the next line after the highlighted portion, (about not making mistakes in purpose), the entire quote comes more into context. However, if Obama were to say the exact thing, would Fox News and the Romney campaign take time to repeat the next line? I don't think so. This quote was interesting enough that John McCain's camp decided to add this to their opposition file.
Note: Here is a link to the original article in the Boston Globe. It is archived and requires a subscription to unlock it.
http://www.boston.com/...