Medvedev to Romney: Use your head

“Regarding ideological clichés, every time this or that side uses phrases like “enemy number one,” this always alarms me, this smells of Hollywood and certain times (of the past),” Reuters quoted Medvedev as saying at the end of a nuclear security summit in South Korea on Tuesday.

“I would recommend all US presidential candidates … do two things. First, when phrasing their position one needs to use one’s head, one’s good reason, which would not do harm to a presidential candidate,” the Russian president added.

“Also, (one needs to) look at his watch: we are in 2012 and not the mid-1970s,” he went on to say.

Romney made the comments while criticizing President Barack Obama for his caught-on-tape remarks to Medvedev that he needed more “space” to negotiate on the issue of missile defense in Europe.

Obama made the remarks in a Monday meeting on the sidelines of the summit in Seoul.

“This is my last election,” Obama was heard telling the Russian president. “After my election, I have more flexibility.”

In an interview with CNN on Monday, Romney called Obama’s comments “alarming and troubling.”

“If he (Obama) is planning on doing more and suggests to Russia that he has things he’s willing to do with them, he’s not willing to tell the American people – this is to Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe,” Romney said in response to the conversation in Seoul on missile defense between the two presidents.

Moscow has long opposed US plans for a missile defense system in Europe, perceiving the shield as a threat to Russia’s national security.

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