Mitt Romney Goes to London to Get His Ugly American On
It is an unfortunate stereotype, but why in heck would you — a Presidential hopeful– travel to a host country (hoping for lots of positive photo ops, hoping to look statesmanlike), then launch into a criticism of their signature event? That event being the Olympics and supposedly the source of Romney’s hoped for photo ops. This is also a country currently under Conservative control (they might be your allies, dude) and one where you have just told the world that the current President doesn’t treat as a special partner. But Romney goes to London and tells NBC news:
Romney told NBC News: “There are a few things that were disconcerting. The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials – that obviously is not something which is encouraging.”
In the interview he also called into question whether the British people were behind the Games.
“Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? And that’s something which we only find out once the Games actually begin,” he said.
David Cameron is having none of it, though:
“This is a time of some economic difficulty for the nation, everyone knows that. But look at what we’re capable of achieving even at a difficult economic time. Look at this extraordinary Olympic Park, built from nothing in seven years,” he said. […]
But Cameron, who was due to meet Romney later on Thursday, said: “In terms of people coming together, the torch relay demonstrated that this is not a London Games, this is not an England Games but this is a United Kingdom Games. We’ll show the world we’ve not only come together as a United Kingdom but are extremely good at welcoming people from across the world.”
This is not how one starts a “special relationship”, Mitt. And I’m thinking that the people of the UK aren’t going to let you invoke your Anglo-Saxon privileges on this, either.
Mitt was trying to draw a comparison with his Salt Lake City gig. Mitt’s only way of (attempting) making himself look good is to put someone else down. It really is his signature style.
Romney is a prick, and it has probably worked well for him most of his life. Picking on the strange hair kid in school, chewing up viable companies and spitting them out has the head vulture at Bain. At this point, he can’t help it. He is just a rich prick who always expects to end up on top regardless (perhaps because of) of his prickishnes. It is that simple.
LOL! Cameron slaps Mitt:
That’s probably gonna leave a mark.
BTW Loving Cameron’s retort: “Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”
D’oh! Beat me.
LOL!
This is already being picked up in the US press, which indicates they aren’t going to cover Mitt with Teflon like they did for GWB, who made dumbass comments like this every day of his campaign. Romney may come to envy Michael Dukakis.
It was just that good, Jason!
And the gaffes keep coming… Loose lips Mitt talks about meeting with the head of M16. A big no no.
Romney’s not even ready for the 3:00 PM call.
Serious question: When it comes to foreign policy, what’s the difference between Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin?
@Pandora: Romney can’t see Russia from his back yard.
LOL! But his money can see many different countries!
Palin was Mitt’s foreign policy briefer. It was the briefest briefing on record.
Balloon Juice has more Rmoney international man cluelessness fail. This time, it looks like they are cutting the rates on fundraisers to get people in the door.
Prediction: Romney will claim he was never in Europe.
The SUN summed it up MITT The TWIT sounds like a skit from Monty Python