Barack Obama Accused of Campaigning in Swing State of Afghanistan

Some political analysts argue the 2012 election will be settled by Angry White Men, the non-college educated, economically vulnerable males who have been voting for the Republican Party in increasing numbers. Others contend that Soccer Moms hold the key to either enlarging or mitigating the all important gender gap.

But Senator James Inhofe knows the decisive slice of the electorate isn't Security Moms, Waitress Moms, Joe-Six Packs, or Left Handed Vegan Family Farmers, but Pashtun Dads…

"Clearly this trip is campaign-related," he said. "We've seen recently that President Obama has visited college campuses in an attempt to win back the support of that age group since he has lost it over the last three years. Similarly, this trip to Afghanistan is an attempt to shore up his national security credentials, because he has spent the past three years gutting our military."

Okay, Inhofe's point isn't quite as daft as I made it out to be. Indeed, Barack Obama's Afghanistan speech, delivered from Bagram Airfield last night, was the first time a sitting U.S. President had addressed the American people from inside a war zone, and with the trip coming on the one year of anniversary of bin Laden's killing, it was difficult not to notice campaign overtones.

But even though not quite as crass in politicizing national security as the Bush administration should be an easy threshold for Obama to clear, we shouldn't blame the president for taking his campaign to Bagram. After 9/11, we took a detour to Iraq. And after finding Osama in Pakistan, we're still roaming around Afghanistan. With this being emblematic of the state of American geography learning, do we really expect our leaders to find their way to swing states in the Midwest without getting lost in Central Asian and the Middle East?

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Guy Forced to Quit Because of Gay

Oh man, don't you just hate it when people try to tell you that being gay and being Republican somehow doesn't make a whole lot of sense? I mean, okay, sure, the party is currently being driven by a hardcore base of people who publicly despise your way of life and want to keep you from having the same rights as anyone else, but that doesn't mean you have to set yourself apart from those people, does it? No! Totally not!

Like, what's to stop a homosexual fellow from advising a Republican presidential candidate on foreign policy matters completely unrelated to LGBT issues? Nothing! Case closed.

In completely unrelated news, a foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney was forced to resign because he is gay…

Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.

In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says: "I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign."

Now, some people may say that the first half of this post doesn't really fit in with the second half. But I say that's just a bunch of divisive liberal spin.

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Joe Biden Out-Bidens Himself with "Big Stick" Remark

While some New York University students were disappointed to see Joe Biden speak at their school sans rat-tail and Trans Am, the Vice President definitely didn't disappoint in the gaffe department…

Speaking at a campaign event in New York on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden attacked Mitt Romney over his foreign policy, and praised President Obama for his handling of foreign relations.

"I promise you, the president has a big stick," Biden said, "I promise you."

Biden was citing Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Upon hearing Biden's suggestive "big stick" comment, the Internet promptly exploded. Daily Intel even compiled a photo gallery of President Obama holding actual big sticks.

Strangely, there are no photos of Mitt Romney with a big stick. Well, except the one firmly planted up his ass.

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Marco Rubio Pulls a Biden During Foreign Policy Speech [VIDEO]

Maybe Marco Rubio is vice president material after all. While speaking to the Brookings Institution today in what was billed as a major speech for the up-and-coming political star, Rubio abruptly stopped when he discovered he was missing the last page of his speech.

Watch…

Speaking to influential conservative think tanks, bolstering his foreign policy credentials, making embarrassing public errors — Rubio is really pushing hard for this VP slot. It's not quite a Joe Biden-level gaffe, but it's up there.

Fortunately, Sen. Joe Lieberman was there to hand off the missing page (and teach Rubio what it's like to be an unsuccessful vice presidential candidate).

Ironically, Rubio once insulted President Obama by calling him "the most articulate and talented teleprompter reader in America." Maybe Rubio should just learn to stop worrying and love the teleprompter.

If nothing else, this whole incident is another reminder that we still don't know much about Marco Rubio. Not only is he a blank page, but he also tries to read off them.

Barack Obama Channels the George W. Bush School of Geography

At least when George W. Bush confused Slovenia and Slovakia, we were comforted by that fact that he committed the flub because he didn't give a damn. Barack Obama, on the other hand, is the precocious and deeply annoying study abroad student who tries to pepper his speech with local pronunciations.

Nobody likes that guy, especially when his diction puts him off by 8,000 miles or so…

President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed [Falklands] archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India…

Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, has renewed her country's sovereignty claim to the Falklands in the build-up to the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the islands, which triggered the Falklands War, on April 2. She has accused David Cameron of maintaining a "colonial enclave" in the South Atlantic and taken Argentina's claim to the UN.

Man, if Obama's not going to use a Teleprompter, we may as well let drunk Hillary Clinton do all the talking.

Maybe this is why we need Mitt Romney as our president. Obama has a team of foreign policy advisers and can't keep his islands straight. If Romney gets confused, he could just ask his accountant.

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