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MSM Crafting A Foreign Policy Resume For Romney

by eXtina

The Romney campaign embarks on a foreign excursion this week, starting with the London Olympics where Willard and Ann will sit in the owner's box to watch dancing horse Rafalca compete in dressage. The trip will highlight foreign policy 'bonafides' (evidence of qualifications or achievements) apparent only to NBC reporter Garrett Haake.

BOSTON — An impending overseas trip lasting six days provides Mitt Romney with the opportunity to highlight his foreign policy bonafides, but is also fraught with challenges for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, reflecting the delicate nature of international diplomacy.

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And a long article in today's Washington Post reads like a college application in 'my foreign experience'.
The article sums up Romney's foreign experience.

Romney, fond though he is of singing “America the Beautiful” and describing the “special gift” of his nationality, is, himself, no stranger to the wider world. His 21 / 2-year mission to France shaped his Mormonism. The internationalism at Harvard accented his education. His foreign travel as a young consultant, the early Central American investment in Bain Capital and the windfall he received from deals in Italy all boosted his signature business. He uses his chairmanship of the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, literally the world’s games, as Exhibit A to make his case as a turnaround artist.

Mitt's exposure to the world outside the United States starting with his family hosting a foreign exchange student from Italy. Mitt's mother wrote to the student's family saying the only Italians she knew were the Agnelli's and Pininfarina's (the Italian equivalent of the Kennedys or Fords, the article helpfully points out. He also was exposed at an early age to the need for fuel efficient vehicles.

In 1959, the Romney family opened its Bloomfield Hills home to Attilio Cortella, an Italian exchange student who had won a scholarship from the American Field Service to study in the United States.
Soon enough, young Mitt was bidding Cortella farewell with “ciaos” and “arrivedercis” and serenading him with the “Volare” chorus of the then-popular “Nel blu dipinto di blu.” On a road trip, Cortella expressed astonishment at how much gas the relatively small American Ramblers swallowed compared with the tiny Fiat 600s

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They then go on to talk about Romney's foreign activities in prep school - the American Field Services Club and the World Affairs Seminar. (Does anyone remember Republicans mocking President Obama at this point in the campaign for living in a foreign country as a boy?) Next is his college deferments from military service to serve as a missionary in France, where he had one day off a week to catch glimpses of the countryside. He also gained exposure to the Middle East in their cuisine.

Romney went with friends in the seaside tourist town of Biarritz to take pictures of the Rocher de la Vierge, a rock outcropping that resembles the Virgin Mary, and then climbed a nearby hill to write “Mitt Loves Ann” in the wet sand. In Roman ruins outside Le Havre, a port city at the mouth of the Seine, he struck an authoritative pose next to a statue of Julius Caesar. In Paris, he ate couscous in the Latin Quarter.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112803/-MSM-Crafting-A-Foreign-Policy-Resume-For-Romney

File under: You can't make this shit up!





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