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July 26, 2012 10:13 PM UTC

Try Not to Insult Your Hosts Before You Arrive

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Maybe it’s time to move on to Poland and leave England early. Romney is killing himself with ridiculous comments. From Huffington Post:

The Telegraph posted an op-ed about the gaffes that read, “Mitt Romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive.”

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Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrived in London today on the first stop of a brief overseas trip designed to show that he has international relations chops. We talked yesterday about the racially-tinged gaffe by one of Romney’s advisors in advance of his arrival in London. As CNN reports, it’s not gone much better since, thanks to Romney’s own big mouth:

Early Thursday morning in the U.K., while much of the U.S. political world was fast asleep, the British press had seized on comments the GOP contender made about London’s preparations for the Olympics…

…The headline on the main page for London’s Daily Telegraph news site was not what the Romney campaign had in mind for this visit: “Mitt Romney questions whether Britain is ready for Olympic Games.”

During a visit to London’s chief Olympic stadium, British Prime Minister David Cameron was asked for a response to Romney’s comments. Cameron put diplomacy aside and took direct issue with Romney’s remarks.

“I think we will show the whole world not just that we come together as a United Kingdom but also we’re extremely good at welcoming people from across the world,” Cameron said to reporters just hours before his own scheduled visit with the GOP contender.

“I will obviously make those points to Mitt Romney. I look forward to meeting him,” Cameron added, mentioning the Republican candidate by name.

D’Oh! Cameron went on to rip Romney further regarding his Olympics comments, which should make for an incredibly awkward meeting when the two are face-to-face.

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21 thoughts on “Try Not to Insult Your Hosts Before You Arrive

  1. From PoliticalWire.com:

    Romney wrote, in his book, No Apology:

    “England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn’t been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler’s ambitions.”

    Next up for Romney: Making Polish jokes in Poland.

    BTW – The standard GOP meme about Romney is how “smart” he is.  I don’t see it.  Although, he does seem to be an excellent liar.  Latest example: He told Brian Williams, NBC News, that he didn’t know when his wife’s dressage horse would compete in the Olympics.  As Andrew Sullivan said, “This is either a fib, designed to insulate him from whatever minimal fallout there is from owning a dressage horse; or it’s true and he’s just unlike other human beings.”

    1. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland, and head of Her Majesty’s Government:

      Sorry.  He’s a bit of a boob, I know.  Not like we could keep him from going though.  Good luck with the Olympics.

      Cheers,

      Fidel

  2. Then he insults Abraham Lincoln.

    At a fundraiser for American expats, he reportedly said, “I’m looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again,” referring to the White House returning the artwork to the British Embassy in early 2009. President Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. (my emphasis)

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

  3. whatever Anglo-Saxon advantage capital he may have had.  Romney may have done a great job of memorizing the corporate pirate handbook but I agree with Caroman.  Outside of that particular sphere, he really doesn’t seem very smart at all. He seems almost socio-pathological in his complete lack of ability to connect with or insight into the feelings of fellow earthlings, Anglo-Saxons included.

    Wait a minute. Could he, and not Obama, be the ultimate “other”?  Are we coming dangerously close to electing a real alien, as in extra-terrestrial, infiltrator as the next President of the US and leader of the free world? Or an android controlled by ETs? I mean look at his eyes when talks. It’s scary. So empty. Holy space pod people!

    Now anyone who wants to accuse Romney of being an ET or android can honestly say the that “it is being said”… that would be by me… and can even include a reference…this blog.  Holy ArapG!

    1. on both sides and a full medical and DNA scan designed to detect aliens, molemen, atlantians and/or pod people  we can’t be sure that he is eligible to be president.

      1. close to life like androids or take over human bodies, forging a birth certificate or manipulating a DNA scan should be child’s play. Even when I see it, I still won’t believe it.  

        Don’t be fooled, fellow earthlings!  We should subject him to some deadly test. If he uses his superior ET powers to survive that proves he’s an alien.  If he doesn’t, that proves he was just their android and they fixed it to look like a real humanoid death. We can avoid  all the unpleasantness by demanding he phone home and leave us in peace. Of course they might then squash us like bugs but isn’t that a chance worth taking? Better dead than…whatever he is?

  4. From Huffpo:

    Mitt Romney’s disastrous British trip continued Thursday when, according to The Huffington Post UK, he “caused amusement” by saying he had spent a great day in the “backside” of Downing Street, rather than the back garden.

    In another faux pas, Romney announced his meeting with MI6, the U.K. Secret Intelligence Service whose existence was only acknowledged by the British government in 1994.

    Mitt’s gaffe-o-meter is spinning wildly!

      1. Are you sure Mitt’s not going to squeeze in a side trip to the Channel Islands to see what kind of bonuses they’re offering new customers that open a secret bank account there?

        Maybe a free week in Monaco to visit all the other billionaires that don’t pay any taxes?

    1. had a photo op with the Labor leader, who knows why, and couldn’t remember the guy’s name so had to call him Mr. Leader, not a title used in the British government.  At least he didn’t call him Dear Leader.

      Yep, he’s just charming the pants off his Anglo-Saxon soul brothers. Cameron got a jab in pointing out that London is one of the world’s busiest cities so naturally it’s not as easy putting on the Olympics there as it is in (and here he chuckled a bit) the “middle of nowhere”, a clear reference to Romney’s.

      Remember that Obama trip to the old ancestral village in Ireland?  Bet Mitt wishes this Ango-Saxon solidarity trip of his were going a tenth as well.

      1. You people should lay off and cut the guy some slack. It’s not as though, as president, he’ll have to have his shit together on foreign trips or anything.  

  5. I think GW was doing much better, gaffe-wise, at this point in time.  

    My favorite, on a trip to France when their economy wasn’t doing so well: “The problem is, the French don’t have the word entrepreneur in their language.”

    The Idiocracy is here.

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