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Romney: Olympic prep "disconcerting". Cameron: London isn't "middle of nowhere" Utah

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ezrarh

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LostVoyager said:
I just do not appreciate the sort of social bullying to vote for President Obama or you are not "cool".
That is not the reason I am not voting for him though... The performance of the president versus what he claimed he would do as a canidate is why.
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Most of the things he tried to do got filibustered by the Senate Republicans or watered down. You are the reason why they keep doing what do they, because people will think "see! look! Obama didn't do anything!" and not see that he didn't get any cooperation from the rest of Congress. I won't get anymore into it because everybody else is mobbing you at the moment.

edit: I don't know how any rational thinking person can take Mitt Romney seriously.
 
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Meadows

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Dear America,

Please can you charter a plane and take Romney home, he's being filling up the newspapers with utter bullshit about how security (drafted) and strikes (cancelled) are making the games seem uncertain. There has actually been a lot of effort to make this thing a good show and for some creepy, weird, American right-winger who organised a couple of ski events 20 years ago to come over and tell us that we're doing it wrong is annoying.

He also clearly doesn't know anything about anything and is really embarrassing to watch on TV.

We like Obama.

Send Obama.

Regards,

UK

P.S. Please stop chanting "USA USA USA" all the time throughout all of the events. It's really annoying.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Meadows said:
Dear America,

Please can you charter a plane and take Romney home, he's being filling up the newspapers with utter bullshit about how security (drafted) and strikes (cancelled) are making the games seem uncertain. There has actually been a lot of effort to make this thing a good show and for some creepy, weird, American right-winger who organised a couple of ski events 20 years ago to come over and tell us that we're doing it wrong is annoying.

He also clearly doesn't know anything about anything and is really embarrassing to watch on TV.

We like Obama.

Send Obama.

Regards,

UK

P.S. Please stop chanting "USA USA USA" all the time throughout all of the events. It's really annoying.
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Do you mind keeping him for about 8 months? He only eats caviar and sparrow hearts.
 
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Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
The Guardian is having a field day

The existence of MI6, the international arm of the British secret service, was not officially acknowledged until 1994, 82 years after it was established. But the organisation is still shrouded in secrecy, and its operations – and the diary schedule of its chief – are rarely acknowledged. But here comes Romney, in fully open mode: "I appreciated the insights and perspectives of the leaders of the government here and the opposition here as well as the head of MI6".

Got any pics, Mitt?
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Nesotenso

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Meadows said:
Dear America,

Please can you charter a plane and take Romney home, he's being filling up the newspapers with utter bullshit about how security (drafted) and strikes (cancelled) are making the games seem uncertain. There has actually been a lot of effort to make this thing a good show and for some creepy, weird, American right-winger who organised a couple of ski events 20 years ago to come over and tell us that we're doing it wrong is annoying.

He also clearly doesn't know anything about anything and is really embarrassing to watch on TV.

We like Obama.

Send Obama.

Regards,

UK

P.S. Please stop chanting "USA USA USA" all the time throughout all of the events. It's really annoying.
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I don't seen an issue with this.
 
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Exterminieren

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The Romneyshambles in full swing.

I find Cameron a despicable bully most of the time, but he turned his evil powers to good here.

This entire UK trip has been an enormous fuckup. Romney acting like everyone's worst stereotype of an American tourist.
 
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Dram

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Old quote from 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1567960/Mitt-Romney-I-wont-let-US-go-the-way-of-UK.html

Mitt Romney: I won't let US go the way of UK

"The question is whether we're going to become a stronger nation leading the world or whether we're going to follow the path of Europe and become a second-tier military and a second-tier nation." European countries had chosen to "become a wonderful nation but not the world's power".

America's health system should remain privately rather than government run, he insisted. "I do not want to go the way of England and Canada when it comes to healthcare," he said.

He added: "For me what America should do is strengthen our military, strengthen our economy and strengthen our family structure so that we always remain the most powerful nation on earth. A world without America as the leader is a very frightening place."

"Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards will take America in a sharp left turn towards Europe with big government, big taxes, Big Brother running your lives," he said.
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Amir0x

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like i said in PoliGAF:

Mitt Romney's foreign trip looks to be as astonishing success. The only thing he needed to do that he didn't hold a speech damning Europe for influencing the Obama socialist government and I think the world would have been clamoring so hard for a Romney presidency that they hold a mini-revolution to rewrite the American laws to allow anyone on Earth to vote in an US presidential election

damn this visit is being slammed everywhere

worse than Palin/Dubya both some said in British newspapers lol
 
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ChiTownBuffalo

Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
Meadows said:
I'm sorry but every time Americans say England instead of the UK I want to vomit.
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Well, not like we wanted to be part of your United Kingdom.

But yeah, why?
 
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PhoenixDark

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Special relationship! Nevermind I called you a second rate country, accuse you of socialism on a daily basis, and dissed the Olympics.
 
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Cyan

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Exterminieren said:
Because they are not the same thing.

It'd be the same as referring to the entirety of the USA as Texas.

Or all of the Netherlands as Holland, lol
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Sure, it just seems like a nutty overreaction.

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Special relationship! Nevermind I called you a second rate country, accuse you of socialism on a daily basis, and dissed the Olympics.
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You just don't understand Anglo-Saxon heritage like Mitt Romney.
 
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Exterminieren

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Cyan said:
Sure, it just seems like a nutty overreaction.
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There is a long, complex and often fraught history between the different members of the UK. It's really not surprising that the Welsh, Scottish and Irish get a bit narked that they're treated as subservient to the English in examples such as Romney's book.
 
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Devolution

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LostVoyager said:
Yeah advisors... Romney condemned the comments get over it.

Its unfair of you to pull guilt by association on Romney.

Also isn't President Obama half anglo-saxon (idk all the European comments). Race is pretty non existent imo and it is sad people obsess over it.

I know that President Obama went to Ireland supposedly and downed a few brews.

I do not even know Romneys ancestry but I do not get why he would even bother going to the UK. It does not matter what they think of our President... I would imagine that if the UK was in financial trouble the last thing they would want to see is their Prime Minister go pander to the US.

I actually commend President Obama on not doing this (unless he did). What matters is the United States, you are running for election here.

However I am sick of people making a big deal of racism... Yeah it exists, so does sexism, lookism,heightism, etc. Plenty of successful men and women are "black" so I do not see how it is that big of a deal.

I have only met one person who accused President Obama of being a muslim and just hated the President for illogical reasons (which is both racist and biggoted as plenty of good people follow the faith of Islam). Most the people I know are Republicans too.

I am just saying that some of you are clinging onto cliche or fringe comments and using them to portay a large segment of the population.
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hahahah holy fuck you're serious
 
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Cyan

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Exterminieren said:
There is a long, complex and often fraught history between the different members of the UK. It's really not surprising that the Welsh, Scottish and Irish get a bit narked that they're treated as subservient to the English in examples such as Romney's book.
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Oh sure, I'm from an Irish background myself. Didn't realize that's what he was on about.
 
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Reuenthal

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Just after there was talk about special relationship and how he is better than Obama on that he shoots himself on the foot on the same issue. Impressive from Romney.
 
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CLEEK

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Cyan said:
Sure, it just seems like a nutty overreaction.
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If you're English, having your nation refereed to as England, Britain or the UK is no big deal. They're all pretty much interchangeable (although clearly distinct, and everyone with half a brain a a few seconds to spend to look at a map should understand the difference between them).

However, if you're from elsewhere in the UK, being called English is at best annoying, at worst, as deep a nationalistic and racial insult as you could ever hear.

This isn't unique to the UK, obviously. Countries with histories that date back more than a couple of hundred years are often made up from previous distinct parts, with their own cultures, histories and even languages. Some are part of the current country by choice, some by force. Basic diplomacy dictates that you should know the brief history of a country, and general protocol of how to engage it before you go there and start flapping your mouth open to the local media.

Where this is a major fuck up on Mitt's part is he was trying to use this visit to show of his foreign policy skills. And he has failed spectacularly, committing serious diplomatic gaffs and a lack of understanding around protocol (the Mr Leader title, publicly referring to MI6 etc). This shows either he doesn't listen to his advisers, or his advisers are even bigger chumps than he it. Fuck, he didn't even flick though a copy of the Lonely Planet Uk on the flight over.

At least with the Olympic / England as an islands comments, they won't do any damage (outside of to Mitt's own image). Think if he commits the same fuck-ups on his next leg of his trip when in Israel. Is he going to refer to the Palestinians as Jewish or something? The guy is an idiot, surrounded by a team of idiots.
 
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echoshifting

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This is just one of those things that makes people say "lol he's got no chance!" when in fact he has a very real chance and shit like this will almost certainly have no bearing on the outcome of the election. This is the kind of shit that lulls the left to sleep, and that's a problem.
 
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SapientWolf

Trucker Sexologist
LostVoyager said:
Romney let same sex marriage pass in Massachuessets, Romney raised taxes in MA. Romney stated that he believes in seperation of church and state and is not very religious.
I just can not justify myself to vote for President Obama sorry and I like the image he portrays of our country abroad.

Hollywood claims to be so liberal and to have this moral enlightened artist high ground yet they all cave to their beliefs apparently. Matt Damon is one of the few to express disappointment (and I am not really a fan just saying) but maybe more do I just do not hear about it on the news. The real union so many actors/actresses support the Democrats is the union. Other forms of entertainment like athletes are split.

I just do not appreciate the sort of social bullying to vote for President Obama or you are not "cool".
That is not the reason I am not voting for him though... The performance of the president versus what he claimed he would do as a canidate is why.
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Romney is a puppet for the right. It's probably not hard to fit the hand in because there's no spine there anyway. I almost felt a shadow of respect for him when he went against his party on the penalty vs tax healthcare issue but then he went and reneged on that too. At least McCain wasn't as floppy as a fish.
 
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Aylinato

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LostVoyager said:
Also isn't President Obama half anglo-saxon (idk all the European comments). Race is pretty non existent imo and it is sad people obsess over it.

I know that President Obama went to Ireland supposedly and downed a few brews.
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Stanley and Madelyn Dunham
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/20/obama-irish-roots-european-tour

President Obama is half Irish. I don't get what you are trying to say with your falsehoods, but I cannot let people go around saying that Obama is not Irish.

In conclusion, stop being ignorant of historical documents and do some homework before you "make up" stuff and act like you know what is the actual reality.

obamainireland.jpg
 
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not psycho

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The most embarrassing part was when Romney pinned the Queen down and forcibly shaved her head as a "prank" to spice up the nations relationship.
 
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