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Romney: Obama 'speaks loudly and carries a small stick'
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 06, 2011 06:00am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 6, 2011 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reporting from Wolfeboro, N.H.— Before setting off on a fundraising trip to London on Tuesday night, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made two last stops in New Hampshire where he belittled President Obama’s approach to foreign policy, accusing him of “speaking loudly and carrying a small stick.”
Fielding questions from voters at a town-hall-style meeting in his vacation hometown of Wolfeboro in the state’s Lakes Region, Romney was asked for his views on Obama’s approach to Iran by former Rep. Jeb Bradley, who cited a recent news report that Iran is supporting rebels in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Romney argued that Obama had been unable to deliver on his campaign promise to engage Iran’s leaders and had not heeded President Theodore Roosevelt’s motto for the United States to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
“I’m afraid too often the president speaks loudly and carries a small stick,” Romney said to applause at the Bayside Grill and Tavern in Wolfeboro. He said he favored “crippling sanctions” on Iran and suggested that the president had been too accommodating of Russia, which is more closely allied with Iran and permissive of its nuclear program.
Romney said as president he would let Iran “know the military option is on the table.”
“When you take your military option off the table, you take away the big stick and then all you have is big words, and words don’t always get bad people to do good things,” Romney said. |
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