Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, addressed the Virginia Military Institute on his foreign policy plan. Mr. Romney attested that President Barack Obama never signed a free-trade agreement while he has been in office.
“The president has not signed one new free trade agreement, in the past four years,” Mr. Romney said.
USA Today reported on October 21, 2011, that President Obama signed free-trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama.
Mr. Romney also accused President Obama of solely hoping for better relations with the Middle East. During leaked video footage of a private fundraiser in Florida, Mr. Romney stated that conflicts among Palestinians and Israelis are impossible to solve; and he claimed that all he could do was hope and see how these tensions eased without his involvement.
And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there’s just no way. And so what you do is you say you move things along the best way you can. You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that it’s going to remain an unsolved problem. I mean, we look at that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation, but we sort of live with it. And we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don’t go to war to try and resolve it imminently.
‘Passed’ four years? Really?
thanks for the catch :)
“The president has not signed one new free trade agreement, in the passed four years,” Mr. Romney said.”
Passed? Really, Mamiverse? Passed?
Listening comprehension fail?
You say: Mr. Romney attested that President Barack Obama never signed a free-trade agreement while he has been in office.
Romney says: “The president has not signed one new free trade agreement, in the past four years,” Mr. Romney said.
And I fixed the passed… to past for you. I hope nobody pays you to write.
Are you people really that lacking in a life of your own that you troll countless website just to pick on a small grammar mistake that really does not change what is written because you clearly know what he meant. People like you are what is wrong with this country.
Romney is such a liar!
I am certainly not a Romney fan, but he did say that the President has not signed any “new trade agreements.” This is a sad and true fact. Yes, President Obama has sign three continuing trade agreements, but his administration has not seen it necessary to reach out and sign new agreements with new markets.
All three of these trade agreements were initiated under president bush.
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/panama-tpa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/korus-fta
All three were also SIGNED under Bush. Obama signed ratified versions under pressure from the 112th Republican dominated congress and the governments of South Korea, Panama, and Columbia.
Get ALL the facts before forming a lynch mob. Or simply carry on as lemmings believing everything the media says because you are too lazy to research the matter yourself. Not like that’s ever happened before (cough Nazi Germany) Your call.
Thank you SA Fr!
At least someone here can listen to what Romney actually said.
The key word in his statment was NEW!!
The free trade agreements for Korea, Columbia, and Panama were proposed by the Bush Administration
“The president has not signed one new free trade agreement, in the past four years.”
This is factually correct. Three is more than one.
Just thought I’d point out that Romney wasn’t lying (this time).
What a dishonest piece of work. I love how you mince words here. The President did indeed sign agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama…. but I’m at a loss to explain how you qualify any of that as “NEW” trade agreements.
Or did you miss the qualifying word “NEW trade agreement” in Romney’s statement? Personally, I thought he made himself quite clear…
You guys do understand that FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS are bad for the jobs market. Why should a corporation pay some one in this country a decent salary or hourly wage if they can move overseas and pay somebody else pennies to the dollar.
Tariffs will create jobs, but Wall Street will throw a hissy fit.