October 8, 2012

How Different Are Romney's & Obama's Policies?

Fareed Zakaria, CNN

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If you were to have listed to that speech, you would assume, atmospherically, that Romney had very strong disagreements with the Obama administration, but his problem is that Obama has run a foreign policy almost like a moderate Republican. It's been internationalist. It's not been too liberal in the sense of human rights oriented. It's been tough. So the Syrian issue is the one place Romney can find to make a distinction.

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