Romney: Obama Timid Defender of Freedom

By Leah Valencia
University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

Mitt Romney doesn’t like the way President Obama is doing business. The former Massachusetts governor and 2008 U.S. Presidential candidate, said that Obama’s mild approach to foreign affairs will create a rift between America and it’s allies.

“I think the President is indicating that he is a reluctant and timid defender of freedom,” Romney said Monday to hundreds at a forum hosted by the Foreign Policy Initiative and held at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Romney serves as the Honorary Chairman of the Free and Strong America PAC. He said the Obama administration is leading America toward a position of neutrality where it will no longer be the the world’s leading “defender of Democracy”. The forum comes in the wake of Obama’s decision to cancel the European Missile Defense System.

“Not surprisingly, this has come to the dismay of our allies who believe they can no longer depend on the U.S.,” Romney said. “The American image should be represented by it’s ability to have substantial military might… and Obama is jeopardizing that power.”

Romney, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, recently finished second among conservative voters in a straw poll ballot in the 2009 Values Voters Summit held on Sept. 19. The former governor did not say whether he will run, but said voters will decide the direction the country will take in the 2010 Congressional elections.