Mitt's mouth touches off international incident somewhere between London and the middle of nowhere
by Jed Lewison
It all started with Mitt Romney casting doubt on the U.K.'s ability to pull off the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
... and it escalated with British PM David Cameron saying Romney's Olympics took place "in the middle of nowhere" ...
"This is a time of some economic difficulty for the UK but look at what we are capable of achieving as nation even at a difficult economic time," Cameron said, according to The Telegraph of London. "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."
... and now even though Romney walked it back, "the middle of nowhere" is firing back:
It's almost enough to make you forget about this:
Last month, U.S. and British agencies fined Barclays a total of $453 million. In the wake of that shock, chief executive Bob Diamond resigned. Diamond had been scheduled to attend the fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the tony Knightsbridge district, but has pulled out. He already had sent Romney a check for $2,500.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113880/-Mitt-s-mouth-touches-off-international-incident-somewhere-between-London-and-the-middle-of-nowhere
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and discussing his 'foreign policy' tour so far, I would quote this from Apollo 13:
"Let's look at this thing from a standpoint of status. What have we got on the (trip) spacecraft that's good?"
At this point in the trip, the answer to the above question would have to be 'NOTHING'.
he just talked about the "backside of No. 10 Downing Street", lol. I can't wait until the British media grab this goodie:
As reported by the Political Wire:
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."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026048
I can see his description of England being well received.....NOT!
this is 'ratings gold', imo.
The US political cartoonists are going to have a heyday with this stuff, I just have to remember to 1) relieve my kidneys BEFORE reading them 2) stay away from liquids around the computer until after I have read them.
