To add to this a little.

The “flexibility” hot mic thing is one of the more overblown things to be leveled against him.

When one actually understands what the conversation was about and the result of said conversation, one would actually feel silly continuing to repeat it.

Obama’s great foreign policy mistake pertaining to Europe. was miscalculating the brazenness of Putin and what he was willing to do to reestablish Russian dominance of the Near Abroad and push back against NATO encroachment into his backyard.

So yes… during the Presidential debate, Romney was correct and Obama was as wrong.

History has 20/20 hindsight that way.