This is all overblown horseshit and will be forgotten the minute the Olympics end.
Of course, no one in MSM will readdress Obama’s return of the Churchill Bust, nor the chintzy DVD gift of his ‘speeches/whatever’ to the Queen. Idiots couldn’t even get the ITU zone right. Nor will they forget the hoopla and kabuki theater on Obama and Michelle’s attempts to bring the Olympics to the US.
This is “so-five-minutes-ago.”
You know most of the public is unaware that the IOC is a closely held corporation and the Olympics are their product. They’ve got a pretty good situation where they award the games, and then governments and taxpayers of the winning city foot the costs of the venues, security, transportation, etc. Sure, it provides exposure for the city and brings in a lot of people during the events, but the result is that the IOC has only minimal costs compared to the enormous outlays of the host city.
This is only a problem for the British press and the left. I like a business like attitude that calls it the way he sees it. A little truth telling is a refreshing change from the Liar-in-Chief.
The very word "disconcerting" is prim enough to suit the diplomats who know which finger to crook over the a teacup, but not David Cameron, the prime minister who scolded Mr Romney for his blunt language. (continued)
.....suited up in their goggles and flying suits for duty in the dreaded Gaffe Patrol. But a true gaffe is when a politician unexpected tells it like it really is.
What we are really witnessing is the ultimate (almost) in thought control, thank you George Orwell for your 1984. The fine art in this obscene tactic is to frighten people. Make a mountain out of a molehill. Again and again it works. Consider the affair of the mere statement of support for traditional marriage by a business owner. The homosexual uses this tactic with devastating effect. Yet what really is wrong to say one believes in the biblical interpretation of One man, one woman and one God?.
There are no better exponents of this obscenity than that certain of the adherents to militant Islam. One should remember the furore over the ice cream inscription that was construed as arabic signs. The incident in Minnesota on the flight with clerics deliberately provoking concern.
Yes, it will all blow over. Already one athlete was denied entry to the Games for a chance remark construed as "racist". Imagine, after all the years of preparation what a cruel overkill!
Ok, excuse the rant. Having a wonderful time exploring genealogy of the Romney clan. Right from Dalton in Furness, Lancashire. I can only give a Shakespearian epithet to the politically correct, figuratively of course.
A pox on your throat.
I didn't see anything about this in the story. What do you mean?
The 1936 Games were the first ones that a torch was lit and the first ones that used the 5 ring symbol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
Gov.Romney chose to go to the Olympics in London. That was fine, anyone can go. Like any individual, he is entitled to an opinion and can blurt-out anything, any opinion.
But, as Republican candidate Romney, he should have used discretion knowing anything he said would be picked-up by the press and distorted.
THAT is the problem.
Romney didn’t think before opening his pie-hole. Worst of all, he probably couldn’t help himself becasuse he is, at heart, a micro-manager.