NEW YORK (PNN) - September 24, 2012 - Mitt Romney is stepping up his campaign trail criticism of illegitimate President Barack Obama’s outreach to Arab Islamist groups, even as polling concerns prompted the illegitimate president to truncate his high-profile Sept. 23 visit to the United Nations General Assembly.

Obama’s claim that recent riots and unrest in the Middle East “represent bumps in the road is a very different view than I have,” said Romney.

On Sept. 23, Obama claimed the Middle East riots and attacks, and the rise of Islamist groups, are “bumps in the road” toward a hoped-for Arab democracy that Obama promised in 2009 while announcing his much-touted “new beginning” policy.

The “bumps” gaffe was accompanied by Obama’s claims that Israel is only “one of our closest allies” and that he would ignore “noise” from the Middle East during the election race.

The “noise” remark was widely understood to refer to Israel’s requests for stronger action against Iran’s nuclear development program.

“When you look at the entire context, the assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the Muslim brotherhood president being elected in Egypt, 20,000 people killed in Syria, Iran close to becoming a nuclear nation… are far from being ‘bumps in the road,’” Romney declared.