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Mitt Romney visits London while stumbling on almost every front
guardian.co.uk ^

Posted on 07/27/2012 6:29:38 AM PDT by tsowellfan

If Barack Obama were dreaming up the ideal start to Mitt Romney's first overseas visit as the presumptive Republican nominee, the president might wonder whether his rival could offend the US's historic transatlantic ally.

That would obviously be rejected as impossibly ambitious, so the president might then ask himself whether Romney would fail to remember the name of one of his hosts in London.

Surely a successful businessman would never make such a basic error. So the president would wonder whether Romney would breach convention by saying in public that he met the head of MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence agency.

To the undoubted joy of the White House, Romney stumbled on all those fronts in London on Thursday, the first day of his visit to three of the US's closest allies - Britain, Israel and Poland.

Downing Street, which had gone to great lengths to give Romney the red carpet treatment without breaching strict protocol rules, was astonished when he questioned whether London was capable of running a successful Olympics. In an interview with NBC after his arrival in London, Romney said it was "disconcerting" that the Olympics organizers had encountered difficulties over security. One Whitehall source described Romney's remarks as a "total shocker" that had rendered officials "speechless"...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pissofflimeys; romney
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1 posted on 07/27/2012 6:29:44 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: tsowellfan

Obviously we’re better off with Obama.


2 posted on 07/27/2012 6:32:16 AM PDT by skeeter
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His only saving grace is that most people don’t give a damn about the Olympics or anything that happens overseas when they have to look for a job and pay the rent...................


3 posted on 07/27/2012 6:33:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: tsowellfan

The UK Media Whorenalists are even more overtly Obama cheerleaders than even the USA media

Ignore them

There is NOTHING he could have said or done that would have made them praise him- NOTHING

If he walked on water the headline would have been “Romney Can’t Swim”


4 posted on 07/27/2012 6:34:04 AM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
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To: tsowellfan

While Willard was not my pick, at least he appears to have the right enemies.


5 posted on 07/27/2012 6:35:17 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Mr. K
There is NOTHING he could have said or done that would have made them praise him- NOTHING.

This is true. Romney's remarks were pretty mild. But, what can you do? It is Londonistan, after all.

6 posted on 07/27/2012 6:36:39 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: Mr. K

>> The UK Media Whorenalists are even more overtly Obama cheerleaders than even the USA media

Not all of ‘em, but the Guardian for sure.


7 posted on 07/27/2012 6:37:19 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Love the cult, respect the leader, but I simply can't drink the koolaid and die.)
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To: tsowellfan

F**k the Brits. Within 10 years it will “offend” them for Ann Romney to forget her hijab in public.


8 posted on 07/27/2012 6:40:44 AM PDT by montag813
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To: tsowellfan

This is a riot.

http://tinyurl.com/6ter6ua


9 posted on 07/27/2012 6:41:11 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Red Badger

and he’s right about the security..didn’t they have to call in troops because the security staff was so low in numbers?


10 posted on 07/27/2012 6:41:47 AM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: tsowellfan

The NPR story this morning covered this. They painted a picture of gaffe after gaffe, but when I listened to the “gaffes”, I did not see them as such.


11 posted on 07/27/2012 6:42:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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“Romney said it was “disconcerting” that the Olympics organizers had encountered difficulties over security.”

That’s it? All this brouhaha over “disconcerting”?

I figured he’d said something like “You ignorant, incompetent limeys totally bungled security like you bungle your dental care. The islamderthals are going to walk in and wipe out 100,000 people with your inept leadership.”


12 posted on 07/27/2012 6:44:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: tsowellfan

Oh GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK.

Sheesh.


13 posted on 07/27/2012 6:46:12 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: tsowellfan

It’s the Guardian for Pete’s sake. “Nuff said...


14 posted on 07/27/2012 6:48:03 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. - Modified Descartes)
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To: skeeter

We’re really not better off with either of them. It is going to be a long and miserable 4 years regardless.


15 posted on 07/27/2012 6:49:03 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Red Badger

Nothing Mitt says or does will make liberals happy and if elected president, this is the conversation for the next for years.

He just needs to get use to it.


16 posted on 07/27/2012 6:49:13 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: tsowellfan

Willard probably knows a few things about how to set up a city infrastructure for moving tons of people around and how to make sure the NK and SK flags are appropriately displayed.


17 posted on 07/27/2012 6:50:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: skeeter
This constant every thread. The DU crowd has taken over FR.
18 posted on 07/27/2012 6:50:52 AM PDT by angcat (Without Valor there is no hope.)
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To: listenhillary

“Data entry is one of the most crucial ways to help re-elect President Obama, .....”


19 posted on 07/27/2012 6:52:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tsowellfan
Who the Hell cares?

The International Olympic Committee is the same kind of crypto-Marxist global cabal as the United Nations.

Get us out of both of them.

20 posted on 07/27/2012 6:52:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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