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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaily Kos asks - Can Romney interact with ANYONE without insulting them?
Why,no. No he can't.
As noted earlier, Mitt Romney's trip to London has been a non-stop gaff-a-thon, including insulting his hosts by suggesting the city wouldn't be able to pull off its Olympics.
After some snarky retorts from Brits clearly bemused that a major American political party would nominate such a git, Romney was forced to do the most horrible thing Pres. Barack Obama has (supposedly) ever done: apologize. Oh well, yet another anti-Obama GOP talking point (like the TelePrompter nonsense) bites the dust.
But of course, this sort of thing is par for the course for Romney. Meeting with NASCAR fans at Daytona he decided to "interact" with them by insulting their ponchos. When some sweet ladies decided to lay out a spread of their fancy local bakery's wares, he insulted them by "joking" that they looked like they came from 7-11. When a classmate showed up with hair that wasn't the right height, he ... you get the picture.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113912/-Can-Romney-interact-with-ANYONE-without-insulting-them
benld74
(9,911 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Scary.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)President Obama has already called all of the Israeli officials and said:
"Hey, this is Barack ... Please turn on any coverage of romney's trip to the UK. I just want you to know, it ain't me. There is no need to fire the nukes."
Retrograde
(10,170 posts)He was probably never in a subservient position, where he had to use tact and his own resources to get ahead rather than his family name or money. He's not used to dealing with people as equals - even with his wife, it looks like (he says he doesn't know when his tax-deduction is competing).