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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 02:44 AM Jul 2012

Those Aren’t Gaffes That’s the Real Mitt Romney




Those Aren’t Gaffes That’s the Real Mitt Romney

After eight years of the Bush administration sullying this country’s reputation around the world, President Obama faced a Herculean task of convincing the world that the days of American arrogance and domineering were over. Indeed, ending cowboy diplomacy and American pretentiousness earned the President respect and admiration America deserves as a world leader in the community of nations. In the race for the White House, presumptive Republican nominee Willard Romney is proving to the world, and America, that he will continue the arrogance characterized by George W. Bush that portrayed all Americans negatively.

In 1958, a political novel and subsequent 1963 movie portrayed the innate arrogance and pretentiousness Romney is displaying on his world fundraising tour, and unfortunately, the American people are suffering same behavior as Willard defines himself as The Ugly American at home. In the novel, a foreign journalist says, “A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They are pretentious, they’re loud and ostentatious.” Romney certainly lived up to the Ugly American portrayal during his visit to England, and although the level of arrogance was embarrassing to America, it is the real Romney that the American people have come to know over the past six months. Obviously, not all wealthy elitist Americans stoop to Romney’s level of condescension and preeminence, but his actions are borne of arrogance associated with his wealth, religious upbringing, sense of entitlement, and apparent feeling of superiority.

By now, Romney’s embarrassing behavior is well-known and apparently knows no end. After insulting the British people, he blasted London Mayor Boris Johnson as “an eccentric, odd fellow” whose public attack on Romney was characterized as “unbecoming and an indication of his bias towards President Obama.” Whether or not Mr. Johnson is biased toward the President is of no consequence, because he was reacting to Romney’s arrogance and disregard for the British people. As it turns out, there is an international bias towards President Obama and it is his foreign policy acumen that earns high marks throughout the world. Romney is fond of portraying the President as “angering America’s allies and emboldening its enemies,” but a Pew Research poll tells a different story altogether.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/gaffes-real-mitt-romney.html




A Good Read


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Those Aren’t Gaffes That’s the Real Mitt Romney (Original Post) Tx4obama Jul 2012 OP
Romney has made the character issue a real issue he has no self control. gordianot Jul 2012 #1
Tx4obama Diclotican Jul 2012 #2

gordianot

(15,245 posts)
1. Romney has made the character issue a real issue he has no self control.
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 03:08 AM
Jul 2012

Slam his children's nose is butter (I take it not margarine)leading a blind teacher into a door, assaulting a classmate and cutting his hair, impersonating a police officer (felony) is it any wonder the adult Romney is unable to control himself? The last three weeks have been a disaster for this non comic buffoon. Let him breathe air it will not end.


It does make one wonder what goes with him on a hourly basis?

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
2. Tx4obama
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 05:51 AM
Jul 2012

Tx4obama

And the worst of it all is - regardless of how stupid Mr Romny looks, regardless of how many insult he have managed to carry out in a couple of nations, regardless how many gaffer and "misunderstandings" mr Romny have managed to blow up, both abroad and home -
He could still be the next president - as we all know with the bonehead W. Acting stupid, is not by any way the same as not been elected to the President of the United States...

And I doubt USA, and the world will be able to survive 4 or 8 year with Romney without damaging the relationship between Europe and US far worse than with W - mostly because the strain of having George Walker Bush II at the stage was hard enough... to have a bad copy of mr Bush jr will just hurt USA and the world...

And that is my nightmare - been able to wake up - and se Romney as the next president - and the whole 9 yard with stupidity on a new level as Bush jr was bad enough - but this man have no breaks either.. Jr at least had some breaks down the hill but Romney - are full trottle down the hill regardness of the speed....

Diclotican

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