While Attacking Obama, Mr. Breck Forgets That Bush Met With Putin ‘In His First Year Of Office’

Thinkprogress:

On Fox & Friends yesterday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney added to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) and President Bush’s attacks against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) over his openness to engaging with the leaders of rogue states like Iran. Romney said that “without precondition, in his first year of office,” no president should “sit down” with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or former Russian President Vladimir Putin:

The question is should the president of the United States, without precondition, in his first year of office, sit down with Ahmadinejad, with Putin, Chavez, Kim Jong Il, with Assad, with the world’s worst actors, and the answer is, obviously, no. No president would suggest such a thing.
I think the only president that might be open to such an idea would be Jimmy Carter…