Friday, October 7, 2011

Romney Calls for an ‘American Century’: “If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president,”



“If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president”



Standing before an audience of crisply-clad, closely-shorn cadets, Mitt Romney delivered his foreign policy vision at The Citadel on Friday, calling for a strengthened military and economy to lead the country into what he called “an American Century,” while also accusing President Obama of weakening the nation’s image around the world.“This is America’s moment,” said Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. “We should embrace the challenge, not shrink from it, not crawl into an isolationist shell, not wave the white flag of surrender, nor give in to those who assert America’s time has passed.”

“An eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender.”

“If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president,” he said, as a murmur rippled through the applause-filled room. “You have that president today."

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