Romney adviser touts candidate’s Anglo-Saxon heritage

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Romney adviser touts candidate’s Anglo-Saxon heritage
By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 23:47 EDT

An adviser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday said the Republican presidential candidate would have better relations with England because of his Anglo-Saxon ancestors.

Romney has planned a six-day overseas tour to meet high-ranking officials in England, Israel and Poland. The tour begins Wednesday in London.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he (Romney) feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser told London’s Daily Telegraph. “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

President Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother was an American with mostly English ancestry.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/24/romney-adviser-touts-candidates-anglo-saxon-heritage/

[NYC_SKP]

1. I can NOT WAIT until we start filling the FEMA camps this November.

I'm tired of hearing this nonsense on the news.

[nolabear]

5. What?

Please explain, cuz FEMA is not my favorite entity.

[NYC_SKP]

9. Right after election day we will fill all those Secret FEMA camps with citizens who don't obey...

...fearless leader.

It's a RW conspiracy theory that FEMA is building secret camps to house thousands and millions of citizens during some imagined period of martial law.

Just Google "FEMA CAMPS"

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

[gordianot]

12. This one is truly too much.

Islamophobia, identity nativist, homophobia, utter inabilty to tell the truth that sort of thing I have learned to expect. This is pure stupidity.

[bluesbassman]

2. Keep talking, please god just let them keep talking.

Unbelievable.

[sofa king]

40. Beautiful and frightening, yes?

Half of me is clapping my hands and saying that if they keep talking, they may just kill themselves off for decades.

The other half reminds the first half that four out of ten Americans actually believe that horse-poo, and they have a better chance of making it to a voting machine than those who would vote against them.

We need to work on the second half of that. Why can no authority establish the trust right-wingers require and then offer rational solutions to our problems? Because forty percent of Americans cannot even define "rational."

[gordianot]

3. Good grief he looks a little Norman to me.

Of course there were African slaves left and assimilated in Britain

[smirkymonkey]

47. I would love to see his family's actual genealogy chart.

I doubt he's as blue blooded as he thinks he is.

[gordianot]

48. Rest assured they are all now retroactively baptized and married in the Church of Latterday Saints.

[msongs]

4. hope this makes the REAL news instead of raw story, which is not really news nt

[goclark]

6. To think that a candidate

would allow his staff to say something
that stupid and plainly racist is way out of line.

[nolabear]

7. I swear to God...

I have had it up to HERE with these people. I'm bordering on speechless.

[DRoseDARs]

8. Wow, ok. So are we openly going with "Mitt Romney: Not a n*gger" as a campaign slogan now?

I feel bad for the dog whistle. Bastards keep blowing on the poor thing...

[alp227]

22. Haha I'm surprised Michael Richards hasn't found a new job with the Romney campaign yet

[McCamy Taylor]

23. Yep, I think that is the plan.

[Quantess]

33. Not a b**ner either

since his father was born in Mexico.
But not to worry, Mitt's dad was not really a Mexican. He's totally anglo!

Ugh! This is so repugnant. Sorry I went there, but someone had to.

[HughBeaumont]

41. I think we're an hour past "dog whistle" and into full on "Alphorn" with this one . . .

[RedStateLiberal]

10. This sounds like blatant racism to me.

Am I wrong?

How the HELL would your ethnic heritage have any impact whatsoever on whether you can "fully appreciate the shared history we have" with England???

I'm disgusted. This adviser should be fired immediately.

If the MSM ignores this I will vomit.

[D23MIURG23]

19. No, you aren't wrong n/t

[bluedigger]

11. I had no idea our relations with Great Britain were so poor.

Are hostilities imminent?

[DRoseDARs]

13. Well, the king is still a bit sore over that whole American Revolution thing...

I would keep an eye on those One Direction boys. Something about them screams loyalist redcoats...

[bluedigger]

15. I see what you mean.

This is a job for Rmoney! I'm changing my voter registration, posthaste!

[thelordofhell]

29. They're still pissed we never paid for all that tea........

[Alamuti Lotus]

31. and the interest that has accumulated on that is astronomical..

it takes up most of that debt we keep hearing about..

[Blue_Tires]

42. I'm still waiting for Britain to rebuild our Capital City

The shit looks worse now than it did when it was a pile of ashes 200 years ago....

[bluedigger]

45. I thought we made that good with Spam.

[amandabeech]

56. Some of the British are still mad that we didn't forgive much of their war debt for

SPAM and all the lend-lease and other aid we sent them.

They were the only country that paid up, and they made their last payment only a few years ago. You have to respect their diligence, but IMHO we should have halved what they owed us, at least.

The Brits spilled much blood on the Continent and survived the Blitz before we entered the war. That should have counted for something.

[RedStateLiberal]

14. Romney's advisers are morans

The advisers could not give detailed examples of how policy towards Britain would differ under Mr Romney. One conceded that on the European crisis: “I’m not sure what our policy response is.”

"Durrrrrrrrr...I dunno."

And get this:

The advisers spoke on the condition of anonymity because Mr Romney’s campaign requested that they not criticise the President to foreign media.

Sure sounds like they're criticizing the President to foreign media to me. But they're anonymous so it's okay...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9424524/Mitt-Romney-would-restore-Anglo-Saxon-relations-between-Britain-and-America.html

[bluedigger]

17. That's too much!

They literally have no policy other than to criticize the President!

[Tx4obama]

18. Yes, they are bashing Obama. See article on link in comment #16. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Well, they do follow up the 'dunno' with a bit of fearmongering

particularly about Iran. So that's the foreign policy - foment war with Iran. Oh joy.

It's a bit worrying when the "foreign policy advisory team" is now at the level of ignorance of Dubya from 12 years ago.

[ehrnst]

44. Well, to be fair - Romney was still over the Atlantic when the quote went out.

So there!

[Tx4obama]

16. Headline in the OP is awfully mild. The one below is more to the point, Romney Advisor BASHES Obama

Romney Advisor: Obama ‘Doesn’t Fully Appreciate’ United States’ ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/romney-advisor-obama-doesnt-fully-appreciate-united-states-anglo-saxon-heritage/

And here's another link to a DU OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021016812

[DearAbby]

20. Whooo it's a good thing they are using covert code words

to hide the fact, they hate the idea of a Black man as President.

[aquart]

27. Nah. If they think they're basic Brits, they hate him for being Celt.

[DearAbby]

50. *Snarf

[McCamy Taylor]

21. "Vote for me, I'm all white."

[freshwest]

24. So, England and Saxony are part of the USA. He should run for office there. Or France.

He is the most anti-American candidate I have ever seen!

[gkhouston]

52. Even Blackadder couldn't get this oaf elected in the UK. n/t

[freshwest]

53. Ah, I loved the original Black Adder. A lot like Romney, if you take a while to look:

At least we know who killed King Richard the Third.

[gkhouston]

54. I think my favorite episode has to be "Beer" from Blackadder II.

The scene where the uber-religious relatives first enter cracks me up every time.

[freshwest]

55. I liked that too, and it had the guys from Jeeves and Wooster and few others. KR3 was hysterical.

[truthisfreedom]

25. Let rMoney be Queen of England~!

Pip pip! And all that rot!

[applegrove]

26. The GOP is 'uncorked'. Many have been holding in the crazy for so long - it will all spill over in

the convention when Palin/Bachmann et all are not allowed to be there. I really hope there are many reporters on the floor to ask teabaggers how they really feel about it.

[truthisfreedom]

28. rMoney's people are COMPLETE IDIOTS. Obama is Anglo Saxon!

From here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama

The family of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, is made up of people of African American, English, Kenyan (Luo), and Irish heritage...

And further, his white Anglo-Saxon mother's history:

Ann Dunham
Mother of Barack Obama born in 1942, died in 1995. Born Stanley Ann Dunham, she was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. She earned her PhD from the University of Hawaii and worked with the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty.[22][27] The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment in the Anthropology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Ann Dunham Soetoro Graduate Fellowships at the East–West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii are named in her honor.[28] Obama refers to his mother as the dominant figure in his formative years. "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."[29]

[orwell]

30. Translation...

...Willard will put the "white" back in the White House.

[tclambert]

34. So he's saying Romney should get elected because he's not a black man.

Hmm, pretty sure they already had the racist idiot vote locked up.

(But ya know . . . his dad was born in Mexico.)

[Quantess]

35. No their wink-wink message is that Mitt is a genuine anglo

for anyone who might think that Mitt's father was a (beaner). This is a two-fer... one to contrast himself from our current black president, and the other to counteract his father being born in Mexico.

And yes, they have already sewn up the racist vote, so I don't know why they can't seem to stop with the dog whistles and blatant race cards.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. Everytime they try to go there

they keep running into this -

Obama shares a common descent from King Edward I of England, King Henry III of England, King John Lackland of England, King Henry II of England, King Henry I of England, King William I of England (i.e. William "the Conqueror&quot

http://genealogyofpresidents.blogspot.com/

And this -

Farmers
Louisa Eliza Stroup Dunham and Jacob Mackey Dunham are the President's great-great-great grandparents. A farmer in Tipton, County, Indiana in the 1870s, Jacob Dunham later owned restaurants and a confectionary in the Oklahoma Territory. He died in 1907.

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1834628_1754180,00.html

Lots more - http://www.americanancestors.org/ancestry-of-senator-barack-hussein-obama-jr/

[maddezmom]

37. wow, racebaiting from Mitt's camp

so surprising

[Vinca]

38. Maybe Mitt doesn't know there are black people in England.

[Blue_Tires]

43. +1

[JoePhilly]

39. Why use a dog whistle when you have a bull horn handy.

[wordpix]

46. wait a minute---I thought he was of Hispanic descent. Another etch-a-sketch

Who cares, anyhoo?

[DCBob]

49. Hardly surprising the Rmoneys would create a controversy almost immediately..

upon landing on foreign soil. This should make for an entertaining next couple of weeks.

[gkhouston]

51. Openly going for the race-baiting and it's only July...

that's some kind of desperate.