Romney Wins Second Debate - Obama Fails On Israel, Libya, Middle East


By Karen Levy
Israel News Agency

New York, New York --- October 17, 2012 ... Barack Obama entered his second Presidential debate with Governor Mitt Romney displaying more confidence but still lacking answers on Israel, Libya and the US economy.

Addressing US voters from Hofstra University on Long Island, Romney accused Obama of placing "daylight between us (United States) and Israel."

Obama told Jewish leaders in 2009 that he would preserve the policies of the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations of "no daylight" or keeping disagreements with Israel private. The President said that the practice of not making public differences with Israel did not advance the peace process.

Obama has the worst record of any US President with the tiny, Jewish democracy of Israel. He has treated Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu with utter contempt commenting on a hot mike how he is forced to work with him, wants Israel to withdraw to indefensible 1967 borders, will not name Jerusalem as Israel's capital and fails to give red lines to Iran on its development of a nuclear weapon.

Barack Obama did not address Israel at all during the debate. Perhaps because he knew he had nothing positive to say.

Romney criticized Obama's overall foreign policy record and asked Obama how it was that four US diplomats were murdered, that requests for security were rejected and why it took Obama more than a week to admit that it was a well organized Islamic terror attack and not a protest against a video.

"This calls into question the president’s whole policy in the Middle East," said Romney. "Look what’s happening in Syria, in Egypt, now in Libya. Consider the distance between ourselves and Israel, the president said that he was going to put daylight between us and Israel."

About a mile from where the Presidential debate was taking place in Uniondale, Long Island, about a hundred students from Hofstra were drinking beer, eating meatballs and staring at a dozen, color plasma TV screens at the Social Sports Kitchen bar. In a poll taken by the Israel News Agency, one third of the students said that they were going to vote for Romney, one third were for Obama and another third were undecided. But no one was in doubt that Romney had won the debate.

"I'm leaning towards Mitt Romney," said George Murphy, a graduate student at Hofstra. "He comes off more Presidential, he has the business experience to make the country work and was very articulate illustrating Obama's failures."

Joel Leyden, Director of Jews4MittRomney.com and operates the Facebook group with the same name, states that Obama has come up short not just in regard to Israel and the Middle East but on almost every domestic issue.

"Romney illustrated a failed Obama economic record with over 20 million Americans unemployed," said Leyden. "Romney spoke of China and how the US must regain control of counterfeit product trade and of Obama's investments in China. Romney spoke of Obama being anti-oil, coal, and gas. How can any American not feel the dramatic gas price increase at the pumps. How can any American want four more years of this?"

Leyden told the Israel News Agency that Jewish Democrats who have voted for Democratic presidents in the past four Presidential elections are now planning on voting for the economic and foreign policies advocated by US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"Obama ignores Jewish children carrying gas masks in Israel, children who must live in air raid shelters as Islamic terrorists fire rockets and missiles unprovoked from Gaza into Sderot, Ashdod and Ashkelon. I know that for American voters domestic issues take a priority and that Obama has failed to deliver on any of his campaign promises on the US economy. But when we see US diplomats being slaughtered in the Middle East and Iran being able to develop nuclear weapons, one must wonder what Obama thinks about when playing golf. It surely is not either US domestic financial security or stability and peace in the Middle East."


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