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Romney Advisor: 'Obama doesn't appreciate the ANGLO-SAXON heritage we share with Great Britain.'

Mitt Romney would restore 'Anglo-Saxon' relations between Britain and America

[Scuba]

1. You mean there's a racist left that Mitt doesn't already have on his side?

[Enrique]

2. I missed the "Atlanticist" bit

I guess Obama is a Pacificist.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Well, that would be...

Left coast

[Canuckistanian]

43. Yeah, that's a new one

And if he were aligned with South America, he'd be a "Gulfist"?

[chelsea0011]

3. Dog whistle? How about racist to the core?

[progressivebydesign]

11. Seriously, they've dropped the whistle and flat out calling to the dogs, now. n/t

[freshwest]

49. Sounds more like hog calling to me. Preview of the GOP convention in Florida:

[avaistheone1]

4. I thought Romney had a little bit of class.

Obviously not.

[flamingdem]

6. We Anglo-Saxons 'ave a lot of bloody class!

[nichomachus]

7. Whatever would have led you to believe that?

[rocktivity]

8. Is Mr. Romney aware

that the United States REBELLED against being owned by England about 250 years ago???


rocktivity

[nolabear]

9. Those people have no core.

The mind just boggles. If you'll SAY this kind of thing, what on earth will you DO?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. I don't have a drop of Anglo Saxon blood

I guess I might as well just shoot myself, Mr. Romney.

[struggle4progress]

12. Americans everywhere are crying out for more Anglo-Saxon relations with Great Britain:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. Anglo-saxons in Great Britain DON'T LIKE Mitt Romney

Romney: It ranged from "who" "not another Bush" and "save us"

(just came back from there)

and the non Anglo Saxons over there don't like Mitt Romney

[whathehell]

24. Now, now..

You don't want to rile up the UK forum, do you?


I AM joking, btw...I've known quite a few Brits, dated one, visited there

and am actually a fan of the UK in many ways, and what surprises

me (along with asshatted racism) is that the jerk

doesn't realize how many BROWN and Black people are "British".

Could he be as ignorant as Dumbya who, on a visit to Brazil, supposedly

whispered in their president's ear "Wow..You have Black people here, too, huh"?

Jackass

[HughBeaumont]

13. We're an hour past "dog whistle" and into full on "Alphorn".

It's just that these people are being far more brazen with their agenda lately. I don't know whether to encourage them or fear that their assholiness is being bought by the mAsses.

[tsuki]

39. Best response I read was on another site,

I forget which site-

Good-bye racist dog whistle, hello honkey foghorn...buuurrrppp, buuurrrppp, buuurrppp...

[Ikonoklast]

14. I have read good arguments stating that we fought on the wrong side in WWI.

Without our intervention, the British Empire would not have doddered much further into the twentieth century if the Great War had been a stalemate.

In WWII, Churchill was just as worried about retaining Empire as defeating Germany...and he got us to do most of the dirty work for him.

[Chorophyll]

18. So... we should have fought alongside the Germans against the English? Really?

[whathehell]

21. One of my history teachers described WWI as "Queen Victoria's grandchildren fighting each other"

World War I was not about nazis and such, as in WWII.

To my understanding, it was basically about monarchy and colonies.

The Austrian-Hungarian empire was a big player then, and what kicked it off,

was a Serbian dude getting pissed off at being (along with the rest of the Balkans)

under their thumb......My maternal grandparents came from "next door" in Croatia

about 15 years before WWI and always referred to themselves as "Austrians",

which, in terms of citizenship, of course, they were.

As their grandchild, I was always confused by the fact that their names

sounded Russian-like, they spoke Italian, but they called themselves "Austrian".

I was the first in the family to find out we were actually Croatian.

[Chorophyll]

22. This is my error. I instinctively read World War TWO where you had said World War ONE.

So yes, and never mind. Do we still have the blushing smiley?

[whathehell]

25. Oh, no problem...We're all guilty of those kind of oversights

and misreads...I've made a few duzys, especially when I'm tired.

I just checked the smilies, and, no, it seems we don't have that

blushing smiley anymore, and that just goes to show ya

-- There's just no humility anymore!

[Chorophyll]

40. I was gonna say that the internet has made me too quick to comment,

but I read Ikonoklast's original post like five times and still misread it somehow.

You will both have to accept my verbal expression of humility instead: d'oh!

ETA: And I'm still not reading properly. I'd best pack it in for today. Au revoir, DU...

[Control-Z]

33. For the blushing smiley

just type

: blush :

without the spaces between the colons and the word.

[Chorophyll]

41. Oh thanks. Let's just test it out...

Awesome. Thanks again!

[Control-Z]

42. My pleasure! n/t

[dflprincess]

50. I had a history professor who pretty much said the same thing

He called it "the family feud to end all family feuds"... Few in the class caught his play on the WWI (or "Great War" as it was called before we knew we'd need to number them) slogan "war to end all wars".

[Ikonoklast]

29. My own opinion is that we should never have entered WWI on either side.

But as I said, I have read papers written that gave just as good a reason to fight with Germany against Great Britain, as for them.

[fedsron2us]

60. Read Germanys Aims In World War 1

by Fritz Fischer and you might change your mind.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

15. Obvious right wing racist is obvious.

Hey, it worked for Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush.

[TahitiNut]

16. My ancestors fart in the general direction of Angles and Saxons ... pantywaists they were.

My ancestors were Norsemen, often called "Vikings" but less commonly known as the foundation of Norman France (aka Normandy). Even the Frenchified descendants of my Norse ancestors kicked Anglo-Saxon butt ... repeatedly.

[whathehell]

19. LOL!..n/t

[ieoeja]

26. But you lost the American Civil War.

The north was dominated by Anglo-Saxons. The south was dominated by Normans. There were even two proposed plans for replacing African slaves with Anglo-Saxons : raid the north if the south achieves independance, or conquer the north, tear down the cities and reimpose feudalism with Norman rule over Anglo-Saxon serfs and peasants.

[TahitiNut]

35. Sadly, the Norse gene pool was terribly polluted in the antebellum South.

The purer and reconstituted strains survived only where rhubarb grows.

[lonestarnot]

54. Always the best way to start a day.

With your of course. That freak'n eyeball creeps me out.

[Chorophyll]

17. Wow. I had heard the Anglo-Saxon remark but not the others.

Pure, undiluted racism, chased with desperation and zero policy on anything.

[Caeser67]

23. And to think here we thought that

Mitt Romney had come to terms that Blah's were people too. No we didn't, was wondering how long it would take before he went there, now we know. He'll be overseas so he will have time to come up with a weak, nonstandard, standard reply to this.

[Smilo]

27. Our Non-Anglo-Saxon Presidents

"Obama is not our first non-Anglo-Saxon president. And because his mother, Ann Dunham, was of English descent, he’s actually more Anglo-Saxon than many of his predecessors.

Here’s a list of presidents who were less Anglo-Saxon than Obama.

Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841: Van Buren was the first president who had no ancestors from the British Isles. In fact, English was not even his first language. Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, N.Y., a Dutch settlement in the Hudson Valley. His great-great-great grandfather, Cornelis van Buren, had emigrated to the New World in 1631, but the Van Burens never completely assimilated with their Anglo-Saxon neighbors.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909: Like Van Buren, Roosevelt was also a New Yorker of Dutch descent. The founder of the Roosevelt family, Claes Maartenszen von Rosenvelt, bought a farm in Manhattan in the mid-17th Century. However, Roosevelt’s mother was from an old Georgia family, making him at least half Anglo-Saxon. He belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was also descended from Claes Rosenvelt. His mother, Sara Delano, was descended from Dutch Pilgrims who arrived in America shortly after the Mayflower. In the White House, Roosevelt once railed, “This is an English and Dutch country! Everyone else is here on sufferance,” making him a bit more inclusive than Romney’s adviser.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961: Eisenhower was our only president of predominantly German descent. His ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch who had migrated to the United States in the 18th Century. Despite his lack of Anglo-Saxon heritage, he was able to work with English generals to plan the D-Day operation, one of the great moments in our special relationship with Britain.

John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963: Kennedy’s Irish ancestors had been in conflict with the Anglo-Saxons for hundreds of years. His maternal ancestor, Thomas Fitzgerald, emigrated to America during the Irish Potato Famine, one of the low points of that relationship. As president, though, Kennedy visited Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

And then there is.............. Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989: Reagan was also of Irish descent. His great-grandfather, Michael O’Regan, was born in County Tipperary before emigrating to London, then Illinois. The Republican president’s friendship with Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the strongest between an American and a British leader.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Our-Non-Anglo-Saxon-Presidents--163699306.html#ixzz21eui67YH

[Moonwalk]

36. "Anglo-Saxon" mean "Anglo" (England) and "Saxon" from Scandinavian Places--

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The word was created thanks to all the invasions England and it's "Anglo" population (the Angles themselves having been invaders who stomped all over the native Britons) suffered from the Scandinavians (Saxons) in the centuries prior to when they got invaded by Normans. So. technically, all the Dutch Presidents were equal to "Anglo-Saxon" as they're descended from the same invaders that created the "saxon" in Anglo-Saxon--and all the Irish Presidents were, more or less, equally Anglo-Saxon as they, too, were invaded by Saxons and, later by Anglo-Saxon-Norman British.

Of course, following this logic, tracing back and back to who invaded whom from where to where we eventually end up back in the only continent of origin that counts for human beings: Africa

[Flatpicker]

28. No Mittens

Not Atlanticist.

You're supposed to be more Atlantean. You should probably go looking for them. Maybe they have a new place for you to hide your money from the IRS.

Anybody got video of Mitt saying these things?
I'm sure it would play well with Latino's and African Americans if it was aired in the states.

[MarinCoUSA]

30. ...oops, time for Willard to issue an apology "to those who may have been offended".

--- if one can hear the dog whistle, it ain't no dog whistle anymore.

[progressivebydesign]

46. Nope, they're coming out swinging, attacking the newspaper.

Just saw it on yahoo's front page. They're attacking the Daily Telegraph as a "foreign newspaper" in a derogatory fashion.

They're calling it an anonymous comment.. but I bet the Telegraph will be happy to name names if Mitt continues his lame attack on them. His peeps need to know the difference between off the record and anonymous, or they will soon.

[Jamaal510]

31. Willard Robme has lost his mind with

these dog whistles coming from his campaign. There's these statements that make it as if Obama is some foreigner, Robme's palling around with the Birther King Trump, and him going in front of NAACP intentionally getting booed.
I can't believe I actually thought once that he was the only non-racist Republican in the primary. But he's just as mean-spirited as Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Herman Cain if not more so.

[DhhD]

32. Barack Obama's family tree is very interesting.

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

[Moonwalk]

34. So, Romney = British (anglo-saxon) and the French (he loved his time in France, right?)

Am I wrong or don't most right-wingers (1) Make a big to-do about Americans dumping British tea into that "Atlantic" there and (2) Really hate the French?

Someone help me out here. How is all this supposed to make Romney more attractive to his base?

[Moonwalk]

37. Okay, I'll bite. How many votes can Romney expect from the U.K.? Is his dressage horse...

...in the Olympics likely to get him London voters? Oh...wait...silly me! Britain's not part of the U.S.

Hm. Do you think his campaign advisor forgot that?

[GoCubsGo]

38. Well, considering the President is part Irish, I guess that's understandable...

Yes, that was .

(He also has English ancestry, BTW.)

[tanyev]

44. Take Back Mercia! Romney 1012!

[freshwest]

52. Hahaha!

[progressivebydesign]

45. Romney is now disputing this by calling it a "FOREIGN paper!"

It's hilarious to watch them freak out. What happened to their special relationship? NOW they call it a "foreign" paper in a derogatory way. Here's the link. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-spokesman-blasts-british-paper-false-quote-anglo-184521146.html

<<"Spokesman Ryan Williams angrily denounced the comment on Wednesday as "an anonymous and false quote from a foreign newspaper." >>

haha, how quickly they turn on the UK when caught being racist jerks again. Thing is with a quote like that, and there was more than what that tool at Yahoo put up, is that it would be impossible for someone to make that up. Where would a journalist even come up with an entire line of thinking like that to attribute to Romney's advisor???

Of course the ass kissers at yahoo are like.. 'oh, that paragraph is not that bad,' but it was not the only thing that was said there.

[MADem]

56. If it's the Telegraph (aka the Torygraph) that's the paper most likely to favor Mittsy.

He can't get a single thing right it would seem.

[muntrv]

47. What? Mitt is too classy to say "WHAAAAAT PAAAAAR?"

[Kalidurga]

48. I had lunch with my youngest daughter today...

One of the first things she brought up was she heard that Mittens adviser said something about Obama not being Anglo-Saxon enough to understand the Brits. Not in those words exactly, but this is a direct quote: "Mitt Romney is a racist a55h013." This is from a girl that rarely swears and doesn't like politics, well until a couple of weeks ago. She tells me it's like watching a soap opera.

[dflprincess]

51. Shared history?

Did he mention that it's the bicentennia of the War of 1812?

[Initech]

53. He is the only one who attends his own summit.

He has to purchase all of his twitter followers - using actual US currency.

People liken him to Sasquatch - the only difference is that people don't go out of their way for a photo opportunity with him.

He'll occasionally go wild at happy hour and order several glasses of sparkling apple cider - and he'll still ask the bartender to call a cab.

He's never eaten a buffalo wing.

You can never tell if he's a pacifist or not.

He is Mitt Romney - the least interesting man in the world!!!

"I tried beer as a teenager once - I didn't like it."

Stay boring my friends.

[MADem]

55. Is this "advisor" a total nitwit? Land of Hope and Glory? Does the moron understand that that song

(which we use in its "Pomp and Circumstance" iteration at high school graduations) is the "unofficial" National Anthem, most well known for being sung, drunkenly, on the last night of the proms?

Who the fuck WOULD want to sing LOHAG, unless they were BRITISH? The song is like any other anthem--"We're better than anyone else."

The stupid, it burns.

[Norrin Radd]

57. No such thing as pure Anglo-Saxon people in the UK. eom

[kitt6]

58. The way Mitt walks

is the way Mitt talks. Check it out!:

[AnotherMother4Peace]

59. Racist statements, Insult NAACP, Purge Minority Voters - a pattern is developing