Boston walks back an anonymous adviser's border-line racist comments on foreign policy to the British press. There is a case for Romney to make. It's true that Poland, Britain and Israel have felt a little less special as allies under Obama's broad attempt to undo some of the damage of the Bush-Cheney years. But only Poland, I believe, has any right to real protest. I was at the State Dinner for Cameron earlier this year and keep in touch with the British foreign secretary. The idea that Obama and Cameron are not sympatico is ludicrous. As for Israel, well, let's not go there now, ok?
Yes, you'd expect a presidential challenger to make those criticisms. But why add the racial-cultural tinge? Why accuse the president of being a total failure in foreign policy, when a majority of Americans obviously differ? Why accuse of him of borderline treason and of apologizing for America, when he was only acknowledging the deep scars that presidentially-authorized torture did to America's image abroad? Why the contempt?
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