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malaise

(267,823 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:17 PM May 2012

WTF!!!Romney camp criticises British PM's Obama 'love-in' ahead of Olympic visit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/romney-british-pm-obama-london
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Senior advisers to Mitt Romney have bitterly criticised David Cameron's recent White House "love-in" with Barack Obama before Romney's first visit to London for the opening of the Olympic Games.

Referring to Cameron's highly flattering toast to Obama during a banquet given in the prime minister's honour when he visited Washington in March, a senior aide said: "You don't take sides in an election year".

The aide, who requested anonymity, said Romney and his wife, Ann, would attend the "first day of activities" of the 2012 Games, which open in July. Romney would do "one or two other things" while in London. A meeting with Cameron was not ruled out, but that was "up in the air", the aide said.

Doubts about a possible Downing Street meeting appear to stem in part from surprise and dismay felt in the Romney camp about what it saw as Cameron's obsequious behaviour at the banquet on 14 March.

Cameron's performance smacked of a "lack of experience" and was seen as "not very skilful", the aide said.
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Next they'll say they won't tolerate having an incumbent running against the entitled prick Willard Rmoney.
This is hilarious
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Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
1. Friggin' jealous twit.
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:27 PM
May 2012

He knows that if that snowball has a chance in hell that he'll never be shown the same amount of love and respect that our President has been.

Friggin' waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Why don't you piss off Medvedev some more you uncouth nitwit? Good Lord, I can't imagine him working internationally.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
2. so Romney doesn't want world leaders to praise the U.S. president?
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:30 PM
May 2012

I would think he would be proud as an American.

Here are Cameron's words that Mitt is so upset about:

Apparently acknowledging their differing political outlook, Cameron went on: "You don't get to choose the leaders that you have to work with. But all I can say is that it is a pleasure to work with someone with moral strength, with clear reason and with fundamental decency in this task of renewing our great national alliance for today and for the generations to follow."

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
4. I think Obama should go over for the opening of the Olympic games
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:44 PM
May 2012

and see who gets the best response from the British people. Mittens is always trying to profit from his handling of the Olympic games I think Obama should one up him there, too.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
9. It would also spare him and us a ton of faux outrage.
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:11 PM
May 2012

The rethugs would drown in all their own mouth-foam from all their frothing over how they're allegedly having to pay for his "vacation" again, if he were to attend any part of the Olympics.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
7. Geez, is there NO END to this man's lunacy???
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:03 PM
May 2012

If Mitt is this bad at this early stage in the campaign, he's gonna be dead in the water by the fall!

He sure picks great aides. First the Etch a Sketch and now this. You just don't go around pissing people off, esp. heads of state of our strongest ally in the world. You just don't. It's insane...

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
12. Oh, I love it, too! couldn't be happier.
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:31 PM
May 2012

What I can't figure out is why this guy is so clueless. He's not Sarah Palin, after all.

Or maybe he really is...

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
16. He probably thinks everyone is stupid and will buy this shit.
Wed May 2, 2012, 05:06 PM
May 2012

Granted, he does spend his the vast majority of his time around his own ilk. So, I can understand why he might think that way.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
11. Apparently, even performing Presidential duties is divisive and unfair
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:22 PM
May 2012

Romney isn't just criticizing Cameron. He's criticizing Cameron's acknowledgement that Obama is President. Romney doesn't seem to realize that an incumbent has always enjoyed a natural advantage of appearing Presidential simply because he is President.

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
13. The article smacks of anti-Obama snark.
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:34 PM
May 2012

Much 'faint praise', told begrudgingly. For example: Obama, too, had little foreign policy experience before becoming president, and visited Europe mainly to obtain pictures of himself abroad, visiting foreign leaders, important in an election campaign.

surrealAmerican

(11,340 posts)
19. Hmmmm, "lack of experience"?
Wed May 2, 2012, 06:41 PM
May 2012

You know who else has a "lack of experience": the former one-term governor of Massachusetts.

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