Mitt Romney Slams Obama and ‘Clueless’ Hillary Clinton on Russia and Jobs

‘How can Secretary Clinton provide opportunity for all if she doesn’t know where the jobs come from in the first place?’

“I'm thinking about how I can help the country. And following my campaign and in the years since, there are three concerns that stand up foremost in my mind. First, we need to make the world a safer place. The president's dismissal of real global threats in his State of the Union address was naive at best and deceptive at worst. (Applause)

We have just recently mourned with the people of France. Our hearts likewise go out to the people of Nigeria and Yemen. Hundreds and perhaps thousands were slaughtered by radical jihadists. ISIS represents a new level of threat given its oil revenues and the vast territory control, and its ability to recruit even in the West. I don't know how the President expects to defeat the jihadists if he won't even call them by the name that they are.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cluelessly pressed a reset button for Russia, which smiled and then invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation. The Middle East and much of North Africa is in chaos. China grows more assertive and builds a navy that will be larger than ours in five years. We shrink our nuclear capabilities as Russia upgrades theirs.

Doesn't the president understand that some of what we are seeing in the world is in part the result of his timid foreign policy, of walking away from his red line in Syria, of paring back our military budget, and of insulting friends like Israel and Poland? Strong American leadership is desperately needed for the world, and for America.(Applause)

Second, we need to restore opportunity, for the middle class particularly. And that will soon include you, graduates. You deserve a job that can repay all that you've spent and borrowed to go to college. Short term, the economy is looking up. But it is a lot better for the few, and pretty darn discouraging for the many. Incomes haven't gone up in decades. And I can't count how many recent college graduates I met during the campaign who expected a high paying job at graduation and instead were now waiting tables.

How can Secretary Clinton provide opportunity for all if she doesn't know where the jobs come from in the first place? And how does President Obama expect that America would be the best place in the world for businesses, as he promised in his State of the Union, if he persists in business taxation that is the highest in the developed world, regulations that favor the biggest banks and crush some of the smallest ones, a complex and burdensome healthcare plan, and a slanted playing field in favor of unions and trial lawyers.

We need a president who will do what it takes to bring more good paying jobs to the placement offices at colleges like this." (Applause)

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