{"id":1260,"date":"2012-09-12T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2012-09-12T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:52:17","slug":"amid-foreign-policy-crisis-romney-picks-a-big-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/12\/amid-foreign-policy-crisis-romney-picks-a-big-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Foreign Policy Crisis, Romney Picks a Big Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=21963&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney has picked a big fight fraught with political risks amid an ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-mobile-christopher-stevens-killed-m,0,2291982.story?track=rss\">foreign policy crisis<\/a> with heartbreaking and murderous consequences for the U.S. diplomatic corps.<\/p>\n<p>And by the end of the day on Wednesday he walked straight into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/It's%20a%20football%20move%20when%20you%20carry%20the%20ball%20and%20you%20repel%20a%20would-be%20tackler%20with%20your%20forearm,%20doing%20so%20with%20such%20force%20he%20shivers%20in%20pain.\">forearm shiver<\/a> from the commander-in-chief \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one that may leave a mark and intensify scrutiny of Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foreign policy qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first, aim later,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d President Obama told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57511601-503544\/obama-romney-shoots-first-aims-later\/\">CBS in an interview<\/a> conducted by correspondent Steve Kroft. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And as president one of the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned is you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/whitehouse\/amid-foreign-policy-crisis-romney-picks-a-big-fight-20120912\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/whitehouse\/amid-foreign-policy-crisis-romney-picks-a-big-fight-20120912<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has picked a big fight fraught with political risks amid an ongoing foreign policy crisis with heartbreaking and murderous consequences for the U.S. diplomatic corps. And by the end of the day on Wednesday he walked straight into a forearm shiver from the commander-in-chief \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one that may leave a mark and intensify &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/12\/amid-foreign-policy-crisis-romney-picks-a-big-fight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amid Foreign Policy Crisis, Romney Picks a Big Fight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,588],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-major-garrett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-kk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}