Mitt Romney flies to UK, immediately starts insulting the country

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Not to mention that the trees are altogether the wrong height.

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Joke politician. Can you imagine if this series of events happened every the President Romney visited a foreign country?

And this is the country that his campaign says he is much better-positioned to understand than is the President.

Romney is probably now wishing he'd just stayed home, and spent the day talking about why he doesn't want to release his tax returns.

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To be honest all the things he said are true.

Shhhh..!   You're pricking the cocoon! 

The truth-value of Romney's comments isn't really at issue; the point is that Romney was rude and tactless while a guest in someone else's country. And in not just any country, but one where a member of Romney's team had, days earlier, bragged that Romney would be able to manage a "special relationship" much better than Obama has.

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Another knee-jerk, bleeding-heart, liberal comments on Romneyshambles:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/karl-rove-romney-blew-it-in-london-video.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

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What a group of whiners.

Romney was only stating the truth, and made a very valid point.

The London Olympic Committee, out of touch elites, out sourcing olympic security to G4S, who failed, miserably, to meet their mandate to provide proper security, the government was forced, at the last minute, to call in the military.  

http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/article/1231804--london-2012-olympic-leaders-live-in-different-world-dimanno

I think it's pretty clear which side is whining here, and which side is enjoying a bit of a joke at the other side's candidate's expense.

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I agree no one's going to give a damn about Romney's tax returns.  This election is about the U.S. economy.

Besides, Obama is hiding a lot more records than Romney.  Romney has already released a year of his tax returns.  He should say that he'll release another when Obama releases a year of his education records.

Obama is hiding more because he hasn't released his education records? It comes off as really desperate that those on the right feel that Obama needs to prove that he's an intelligent individual.
Is there a precedent for doing that? How many past presidents/candidates have released their grades when running?

Really, who gives a $h!t if Obama made an A or a C in history class 30 years ago.

If that's all you think he's hiding, you must be shocked he's going through all the trouble.  But that's not all you think he's hiding, is it?

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True, that was his 2008 campaign.

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Romney's advocating forcing banks to make loans to uncreditworthy people to "close the racial gap in home ownership"?  He's such a liberal that I wouldn't be surprised.

Anyway, Obama's had four years to fix it and I don't think anybody can say "he has fixed it" and expect to be taken seriously.

Ah yes, those poor, hardworking, banks, just trying to do their job, but hamstrung by the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, and the Community Reinvestment act of 1977. They struggled bravely on for decades, but suddenly in 2008 it all became too much for them, and the banks collapsed, for reasons that had nothing to do with deregulation of lending practices or questionable pricing on mortgage-backed securities.