BOSTON — Once and possibly future Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney says in a new book that President Barack Obama’s international outreach efforts during his first year in office have been “kindling” to the “anti-American fires burning all across the globe.”
In a wide-ranging policy book none-too-subtly titled “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness,” Romney says the Democrat’s efforts to reconcile with foreign powers, Muslims and others angered by President George W. Bush’s administration have weakened the country’s stature instead of enhancing it.
Romney kicked off his book’s marketing campaign Tuesday with a blitz across the TV dial, starting with NBC’s “Today” show, where he gave Obama an “F” for his first year rather than the B-plus the president recently gave himself.
The former Massachusetts governor then moved to ABC’s “The View” and Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” before concluding on CBS’s “Late Show With David Letterman.”
During the next two months, Romney’s book tour will take him to 19 states, the District of Columbia and across the border to Toronto.
His itinerary reads like a presidential primary schedule, with stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri and Nevada.
Among the challenges Romney wants to confront is national health care, though not with the same plan outlined by the president.
