Romney Promises to Bring Churchill Bust Back

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By Sarah Huisenga
Updated: July 26, 2012 | 4:59 p.m.
July 26, 2012 | 4:58 p.m.

LONDON – After vowing not to criticize American policies while abroad, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday took a swipe at President Obama’s decision in 2009 to remove the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, a decision that ruffled the feathers of some Brits.
“I’m looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again,” Romney told a crowd of about 250 people at a Thursday evening fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel following a day of meetings with current and former British leaders.
The bronze torso of Churchill had been loaned to President George W. Bush following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and although it was due to be returned when Obama took office, British officials offered to extend the loan for another four years. Obama declined, and replaced the Churchill bust with one of President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican president whom Obama admires ...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/romney-promises-to-bring-churchill-bust-back-to-u-s--20120726

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	"Churchill's back or bust!" really could motivate a lot of London voters
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	Ewww! Churchill didn't even have nice legs. Nobody wants to see his bust!
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	Maybe we cut a deal? Say, Churchill goes in the Oval Office, and Romney stays in the British Isles?
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	Winnie is OK, I guess, but Kanga rules
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	This somehow reminds me of the Churchill quote: "He has all the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire"
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	Republicans nowadays are making a real effort to distance themselves from Lincoln
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[yellowcanine]

1. So Mitt would replace Lincoln with Churchill? Okay then.

[Tx4obama]

3. President Obama replaced the Churchill bust with a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Lincoln bust was already in the Oval Office.

[Vehl]

2. Ah...bringing back the Bust of a well known racist and a war criminal...awesome

I wonder who was more racist...Hitler or Churchill? probably a tie.


Quote from Churchill:

“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” (To the Peel Commission 1937)

Millions of lives were lost due to the policies of Churchill in the colonies...not to mention the hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered by his bombing of civilian centers in Europe during ww2.

[HopeHoops]

4. "Churchill had TITS?!?!?!?!?"