Check out The Guardian Blog on Rmoney's visit -- too funny!
The Guardian had a blog going during Romney's visit. It's been taken down, but here are a few snippets. Funny stuff!
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We're going to wrap up today's live blog politics coverage. Here's a summary of where things stand:
• Mitt Romney made all kinds of news for saying and doing the wrong things in the first full day of his trip to London. The trip was meant to make him look presidential. In the apt summation of John Podhoretz, it made him look like Mr. Bean. The Romney show continues tomorrow, when he attends the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Should be fun!
• British politicians David Cameron and Boris Johnson took umbrage at Romney's remarks and ridiculed Romney in front of tens of thousands of people, respectively. We can't believe we just typed that sentence...
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The Mitt Romney Summer 2012 World Tour to Three Countries is apparently having trouble moving tickets.
The London blogger Guido Fawkes reports that organizers of a Romney fundraising reception in the city this evening have slashed the original $2,500 ticket price to $1,000 for "a few last minute guests," in an effort to drum up participation...
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Lacking a transcript of the private meeting between the American candidate and the British leader, we rely on the candidate's remarks after the meeting to relay to you that in the picture below Mitt Romney is telling David Cameron that while prospects for peace in the Middle East appear slim, they frankly have a better chance of pulling it off than London does of hosting an Olympics not historically disastrous, and so his, Romney's, recommendation would be that Cameron get MI6 involved, which if Cameron wants he can tell the world press assembled right outside about after they're through. PS: Nice Europe...
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Mitt Romney's charm offensive.
Paul Harris @paulxharris Good old Mitt. His charm offensive in the UK failed to be charming, but he really pulled off the offensive bit #gop #romney...
MORE AT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/26/mitt-romney-london-olympics-gaffe-live
