I couldn’t disagree more. He’s not the president, and if the attention span of the British public is like that of us in America, they won’t remember a thing about it if and when Romney is elected.
First, if he’s elected no doubt he’ll manage to remind them. And second, it ruins the whole point of this entire trip of his, wasting his time and money at best. So yes, it’s a pretty big deal.
Romney is often cited as the “savior” of the 2002 Winter Olympics–and it’s true he took over after a bribery scandal regarding host-city voting was exposed. But let’s be clear; the games themselves were never in serious jeopardy, just whether or not they’d be profitable (emphasis mine):
I don’t really blame Romney for this–it was likely the only course of action he could take to meet the goals of the project. I just wish more people knew that, when a business was in trouble (yes, the Olympics are a business), he had no problem going hat-in-hand to the American taxpayer.
I said the exact same thing up thread. And this isn’t the only bad pattern that’s been revealed the last year or so about Mitt. There’s the whole cutting the kid’s hair at 18 (was it a trophy? does he still have it?). Impersonating a Michigan State Trooper and pulling people over. Tying his dog to the roof of his car for a 12 hour trip. Sucking the life out of companies, taking all the profits out then bankrupting them. This guy is like 3-4 different episodes of Criminal Minds. I swear the next story will involve Mitt and body parts.
Being born in Kenya?
Ann Romney’s horse, Rafalca, is competing in the dressage event(s) at the London Olympics.
*Ann Romney’s horse heading to London to go for Olympic gold
Ann Romney’s trainer Jan Ebeling, 53, who has been an active rider and trainer on the international dressage circuit since relocating to the United States from his native Germany in 1984. He owns Rafalca along with his wife Amy, Ann Romney and an additional owner, Beth Meyer. *
I agree that this alone is not likely to sink Romney’s election chances. But it is only of secondary importance what we (the British) think about the incidents. After all, we can’t vote in the election.
If the purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate that he is indeed able to deal with foreign governments and officials diplomatically, I’d say it was a failure.
Oh, excuse me, I forgot that the oh so smart President can’t gaffe. If he did, then we obviously are too ignorant to understand someone so intelligent.
Because Romney has a history of being involved with the Olympic committees and his wife’s horse is competing this year.
When you’re done talking to that scarecrow, could you please answer Fiddle Peghead’s question?
Okay, exactly to which real gaffe are you referring? I’m not saying Obama hasn’t gaffed, mind you, but vague comments like yours don’t mean much.
So that’s another purpose of the visit is it? Mitt doesn’t seem to think so.
*In an interview with NBC News Wednesday night, Romney spoke of the experience of being in the Olympics with the disengaged tone and shrug of a husband who doesn’t quite get his wife’s hobby.
“It’s a big, exciting experience for my wife. I have to tell you, this is Ann’s sport,” he said. “I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well. But just the honor of being here and representing our country and seeing the other Olympians is … something which I’m sure the people that are associated with this are looking forward to.”*
Are they holding events in Israel? I had no idea. Do the Palestinians know?
Romney knows where the money is, alright. Washington, DC. And he even brags about it!
Maybe most, but not all conservatives. Charles Kauthammer, maybe for the first time in his life, said that he was completely out of adjectives in trying to describe the stupidity of Romney trying to honestly answer the Olympics questions. IMHO it does not exactly demonstrate a preparedness to deal with other heads of state when you go about insulting the one head of a state that has had our back for almost two hundred years, no matter how badly we behave.
Are you saying that Mitt doesn’t think that his wife’s horse is competing in the Olympics?
Yea but we do take an interest in the nature of the Big Dog we’ll end up yapping along at the heels of in some pointless, ill-thought out war or another.
And he’s looking deeply unimpressive.
Are you guys being coy with me? I’m sure we all know what gaffe is still the main story right now.
Apparently we do not.
I know of a few of what I call “phony” gaffes, as I alluded to earlier. I honestly don’t know what you are referring to.