Romney Blunders With Obama Jab

[EV_Ares]

Unaltered image from the Mitt Romney campaign web site page, “Defeating the Jihadists”


New entry to the Mitt Romney is Possibly Even Less Intelligent than the Current Occupant file: Romney, in his mindless rhetoric, again misused a word that arouses strong emotion among followers of Islam.

DOD experts: American leaders misuse language to such a degree that they unintentionally wind up promoting the ideology of the groups the United States is fighting“In my view, the most crucial objective we have in Iraq is to make sure it does not become a safe haven for al-Qaida and other Jihad terrorists,” Romney said.

“Of course, if Barack Obama had had his way and pulled our troops out months ago, that’s exactly what would have happened.”

Let’s ignore for the moment Romney’s idiotic mischaracterization of Obama’s position and focus on his equally dillheaded use of “Jihad.”

As Buck pointed out, even the Department of Defense goes, “Doh!” when American opinion leaders misuse that term.

The two believe the right words can help fight the global war on terror. “American leaders misuse language to such a degree that they unintentionally wind up promoting the ideology of the groups the United States is fighting,” the men wrote in an article titled “Choosing Words Carefully: Language to Help Fight Islamic Terrorism.”

Buck went on address usage for “jihad” specifically.

An example is jihadist. Most of us take jihadist or jihadi to mean an Islamic extremist who is fighting a holy war. But Steusand and Tunnell maintain that in Arabic jihad “literally means striving and generally occurs as part of the expression, Jihad fi sabil illah, striving in the path of God.” Which is considered a good thing for Muslims to do.

(rest the article @ following link)

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/14/romney-blunders-with-obama-jab/

[zanne]

1. He had to "dumb down" to run for president.

He's trying to appeal to the conservative masses. He didn't sound this dumb when he was governor.

[bluerum]

2. IMO - yes. He did sound that dumb when he was governor.

[zanne]

3. I guess I just don't want to think that...

There are that many dumb people in Massachusetts.

[bluerum]

4. Well,, he just looked better up against Shannon O'Brien. Robert Reich

would have wiped up the floor with him.

I guess that is an argument for the dems to nominate a candidate for president who can actually win.

[simmonsj811]

5. HE IS AN

REAL IDIOT IMO