Chestertonfan: he should not do it so soon after getting some momentum in the first debate. I would be delighted if he said something different than he has said during the past year, but I won't hold my breath.

Perhaps Romney can join previous first debate "winners" Walter Mondale and John Kerry for a party. He is also about to do something extremely foolish. Romney is reportedly planning to give a “significant” foreign policy address at VMI next Monday. Based on the fact that his campaign is loaded with neoconcservative Bushites, he will undoubtedly cause consternation for Conservatives and independents alike.

No matter what Romney says during these debates, he will contradict at least half of everything he's said in the past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-HWGk1Qjk&feature=player_embedded

Say if I use phrases like "emotionally retarded", can I be considered mature like you?

The D'Souza movie is a rehash of an earlier article and book by D'Souza. There is a good Conservative analysis of said article and book here: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/obama-anticolonial-hegemonist/ At some point, certain Republicans need to understand that when you make silly infantile fantasy-land criticisms of someone, you provide cover for that person.

Brent Bozell, helping Democrats get elected for over 30 years.

Nice picture Bibi. Did you draw that yourself? Here in the real world, US intelligence has concluded that it would take Iran at least four years to build a deliverable bomb. Four years, that is, from the point at which the decision to develop nuclear weapons was made, which Iran has not yet done. Then one has to make the delusional step that this has some comparison to the Soviet Union, of which it has none as we can turn that whole outfit into a parking lot within 24 hours whenever we feel like it. Nothing to see here folks. Next.

The proper response to 9/11 was delivered in a matter of months -- in very impressive fashion. The enemy was obliterated paying a price many times over the one they inflicted. At that point you make sure that the various Afghan warlords, Taliban or otherwise, understand that their village will be flattened if they allow Al Qaeda training camps. That was it. It was over. At some point, certain Republicans need to understand the difference between teaching somebody a lesson and using our troops for social engineering projects. In order to repudiate Obama effectively, George W. Bush must also be repudiated. And until Republicans are willing to do that, you're going to get convoluted foreign policy statements.

No offense, but it was a terrorist attack by definition right when it happened. But that doesn't really tell us how much planning went into it, and it ignores a basic problem that Obama and neoconservative Republicans don't want to discuss. Neocon mouthpiece Senator McCain asked a pretty silly question: "Who brings rocket propelled grenades to a protest?" In Libya? Anybody. Libya has been turned into the Somalia of the Mediterranean thanks to the Obama administration and Republican neocon howlers. Weapons caches were raided, and the country is overrun with well-armed militias who roam the streets looking for mischief. The Libyan government doesn't want to admit it has no control so you can't believe anything they say.

There was a holocaust conference in Tehran some time ago. The conference was peaceful and people were merely expressing their views. Do you disagree with the state department calling it "yet another disgraceful act on this particular subject". I do not. People who attended the conference in Tehran, (many were not Iranians) are free to come to the United States and do the same thing here. Does the future belong to them? Certainly not.

This is nonsense. Romney has loaded his campaign with Bush foreign policy advisers, and gives every indication of being a neocon mouthpiece. Conservatives might be forgiven if they were taken in by George W. Bush’s seemingly more realist foreign policy views expressed during the 2000 campaign, but they have no excuse for pretending that Romney’s foreign policy would not be just as misguided, imprudent, and harmful to U.S. interests as Bush’s was.