Mitt Romney walks back comments on Olympic troubles as he kicks off UK visit

Or have his minions say it (Anglo-Saxon Heritage debacle) and when it hits the papers it wasn't said or he didn't mean it? WTF? The guy is a loose cannon and an idiot! I'm starting to have sympathy with McCain when he said he thought Palin was the better VP choice, he might have been right.

are we sure he's Anglo-Saxon? maybe we should check his papers...

Part French myself.

Cause Obama's from Kenya right?

... would be enough to make him loved in England. Simply use the dog whistle of referring to a shared "Anglo-Saxon" heritage and just wait for the British to embrace him as a long lost son. I bet he is completely flabbergasted that making a racial shout did not immediately smooth the waters.

in Britain. Just keep putting your foot in your mouth, mitt. Now you've pissed off Britain and Australia.

Even London's Guardian was reporting on the security problems. http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/search/?search=Olympics+%2B+security

I do not intend to be 'fair' ....

The bastard said it; He is getting called on it, and I could not be more pleased ...

I wish he could fairly speak MORE about this subject ...

but wouldnt France and Holland be older alles, being that the helped us during the Revolutionary War?

Consider that, in the War of the American Revolution, Britain was trying to keep us subjugated to the crown, but French military support helped us win our independence.

Take that, you Tea Party nitwits.

Of course, I agree with you that Britain is also a key ally and shouldn't be gratuitously insulted.

military leadership and guidance, and even helped design our nation's capitol, well, yeah, I would have to agree with you!

France was our pal back when the Brits were trying to give us the "Naughty Colonial" beat-down! They are certainly an older ally than the Brits..!

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

a couple of times. He's trying to walk back the comments already. I thought a businessman is supposed to be more savvy than Mitt is? What an embarrassment to himself, the Repug party and this country. He's picking up where Dubya left off. It's no wonder why America under BushCo was so hated.

How could anyone vote for such a nincompoop?

or worse than he is!

I have no idea how anyone could vote for him.

uber rich, Mormons, racists. Why anyone else would vote for him - can't think of a single reason.

low information morons!!!

What a dipshit.

Just saying!

just like she were a dog or a horse was interesting.

'He can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth'.

maybe he has some sort of personality disorder.

'Jackass' is the word that comes to mind. Our friends across the pond make jokes about us and we make jokes about them, but we do have a bond, and while understanding that bond, each side of the pond can recognize a jackass immediately.

Leave out the "charm" part and you're spot-on.

about diplomacy because its always been Mitts way.

To go along with the extreme desire for secrecy. A real disaster in the making.

to disregard or make up facts?

"I'll bet the mash in this 'bangers and mash' is instant mashed potatoes!"

"I'll bet this spotted dick was made with instant Jell-O pudding!!"

Those were perfect!

...he "flip flopped" an hour later.

God Save the Queen!

Wonder if he's got a bunch of Polish and Jewish jokes in his repertoire....? Come on, Mitt, you can do it!

Netanyahu: Romney Lying About Their Friendship
Netanyahu: Romney Lying About Their Friendship
byTeam Sarah4Choice

Bibi Netanyahu told Vanity Fair:


“I remember him (Romney) for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections, I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”
~Bibi Netanyahu, July 2012 in Vanity Fair Interview


But, to hear the pathological liar, Mitt Romney, tell it the two were as thick as thieves (no pun intended) while they both worked at Bain Consulting Group in the 1970s (not to be confused with Bain Capital.)
Romney to the New York Times:


ROMNEY: "We (Mitt & Netanyahu) can almost speak in shorthand. We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning which is similar."


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113809/-Netanyahu-Romney-Lying-About

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021024474

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Netanyahu has pushed back at the notion that he and Romney have a close relationship.


"We did not know each other that well," the Israeli leader told Time Magazine in May, speaking of the time the two worked together at Boston Consulting Group. "He was the whiz kid. I was just in the back of the room." Netanyahu added that the two men had only seen each other a handful of times over the years, according to Time.



That characterization doesn't exactly square with the "unusually frank exchange of advice" between the men described in the New York Times article.



"Romney's relationship with Netanyahu is one of acquaintance rather than friendship as far as I can tell," said Indyk. "It's interesting that while the Romney campaign plays it up as a great friendship - that's the way the New York Times reported it - that's not something you hear from the prime minister's office."

more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57480120-503544/on-israel-romney-sees-opening-against-obama/

He said he should have been "bland" instead of sticking his foot in it!

Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy: Failure to Launch
Mitt Romney picked a bad day to launch a blistering attack on Barack Obama's foreign policy. As Romney was speaking to the annual gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, charging Obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a new poll. It turns out that on "handling of foreign policy," Americans prefer Obama to Romney by 15 points.

Romney's principal charge against Obama is that he has angered America's allies and emboldened its enemies. Again, it turns out that some recently released data contradict the claim. The Pew Foundation released one of its global surveys in June, soliciting opinions from several countries around the world. When asked if they have "some" or a "great deal of" trust in President Obama, the numbers are overwhelmingly positive. In Britain, for example, which is Romney's first stop on his foreign tour, 80% of people trust Obama, compared with 16% who trusted George W. Bush. All countries surveyed have much higher approval ratings of America in 2012 than they did in 2008, when Bush was President. (It's fair to note that the numbers have come down from their 2009 highs, just after Obama's Inauguration, when expectations were soaring.)

In order to give substance to his claim that Obama has let down our allies, Romney dwells at length on a minor issue: the supposed humiliation of the Poles and Czechs over the building of an antimissile system. That is presumably why Romney chose to visit Poland, a country where he thinks attitudes toward Obama will be distinctly cool. That narrative is often repeated on the right. On July 23 the conservative commentator George Weigel of National Review argued that the Poles are extremely nervous about this election, worried that Obama might remain in the White House and continue his allegedly anti-Polish policies.

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Mitt Romney is a smart man who has had much professional success. But even Republican insiders have admitted to me that he has been strangely amateurish on foreign policy. His campaign, they note, is not staffed by the obvious Republican foreign policy heavyweights--people like Robert Zoellick, Richard Armitage, Richard Haass and Stephen Hadley. As a result, he has blustered about Russia's being our greatest geopolitical adversary (actually it is a second-rate power), seems willing to start a trade war with China, is vague yet belligerent about Syria and Iran and has gone back and forth on the timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Romney faces a tough problem. President Obama is the first Democrat in nearly 50 years to enter an election with a dramatic advantage in foreign policy. (The last time was Lyndon Johnson vs. Barry Goldwater in 1964.) Unless Romney can craft a smart, strategic alternative, that gap will only get wider.



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2120500,00.html#ixzz21l0bM5Yf

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026027

What a total idiot.

And then in Poland ... "Hey look, more donuts!"



"I saw donuts in America once ... and clearly, Obama doesn't understand the common foods of our cultures."

Donuts are FOREIGN, actually....well, some donuts! Not Bain Capital-Owned DUNKIN Donuts....but those KENYAN donuts....why, those are a sign of un-American non-Anglo-Saxon breakfast leanings...my friend!

http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/mandazi-kenyan-donuts/

to Michael Jackson.

Practice, practice.

With both feet in his mouth?

Thanks, Mittens, we really appreciate your letting the crazies know that.