Famed trade-union activist Lech Walesa backs Mitt Romney

[Johonny]

Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, effectively endorsed Mitt Romney during a meeting with the GOP presidential candidate Monday. Walesa, a co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland which challenged Communist rule during the 1980s, urged Romney to "get your success" in the upcoming election. I wish you to be successful because this success is needed to the United States, of course, but to Europe and the rest of the world, too," Walesa told Romney ahead of an hour-long meeting between the two men. "Romney, get your success! Be successful

Seriously WTF! I weep for the future of trade unions world wide if anti-union Mitt Romney is seen as being need to the United States.

[Avalux]

1. Please post a link. n/t

[spanone]

2. he speaks for himself....not for Solidarity

Last edited Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021046959

[marmar]

5. Thanks for that link.....even that cryptic paragraph in the OP.....

...... didn't seem like "effectively endorsed" to me.

[spanone]

7. i imagine that's the romney camps interpretation of the meeting...

[marmar]

3. I need more context before making an assumption about that graph. There's a lot of missing info.

nt

[byoung6]

4. geeze! this makes me just ill

how disappointing that Lech would endorse the vulture capitalist???? The oppressor of workers?

[Archae]

10. Walesa is a right-winger.

He's fervently anti-abortion.

[notadmblnd]

13. Just because Rmoney says it, doesn't mean it's true.

he been shown to be a liar, and personally, I think he's a compulsive liar.

[Skidmore]

6. So Walesa is voting in this election?

Wow. And Bibi is too. Fascinating.

[cali]

8. Walesa is a homophobic, anti-choicer

and he's corrupt. none of this is exactly new.

[joeybee12]

12. +1

[Johonny]

25. It is sort of weird how time changes things

Walesa was seen as the cold war fighter for workers rights, post cold war he seems more interested in defending Poland from soviet threats than workers rights.

Same for the Pope. He was this great cold war warrior that stood up to the communist oppressing religious freedom and workers rights. Now best remembered for hiding child abusers.

Makes you think the whole 80s was a sham. Next thing you know the only reason we won all those medals in 1984 was because no one else was competing Was there anything not fake in that decade?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. A bit of history. Walesa has a strained history with Obama.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/white-house-barred-lech-walesa-from-medal-of-freedom-ceremony/

[riverwalker]

11. not so fast

if the Washington Post blog is the only source
this is what he said:
"Walesa replied to Romney, “Poland and many other countries will certainly do their best for the United States to restore its leadership position. And after our conversation, I’m quite confident that you will be successful in doing that.”

why is the MSM saying it is an endorsement?? WTF?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/lech-walesa-to-romney-get-your-success---be-successful/2012/07/30/gJQAAwgYKX_blog.html

[spanone]

14. our ever complicit media....

some of the news outlets covered their asses by saying 'effectively endorsed' or 'all but endorsed' (which means didn't endorse) but most just printed 'walesa endorses'

our media is so broken.


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http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=walesa+romney&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. The enemy of my enemy is usually just another enemy that I'll have to take on later. n/t

[Taverner]

17. IF only we had that attiude in the 80s re: Taliban

[Egalitarian Thug]

18. History is clear, it always comes back to bite us in the ass. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

23. Make that the 70s and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter's

National Security Advisor) who bragged openly about using Afghan resistance to lure the USSR into Afghanistan and has never showed even the tiniest bit of remorse, even after 9-11.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Blech Walesa is and was a right wing bigoted sexist and self serving prat

He and Willard are two hate peas in a pod.

[Starry Messenger]

19. +1

I thought that was common knowledge. He was buddies with Reagan too.

[enough]

20. At least now we know why he went to Poland. (nt)

[warrior1]

21. that does no favor to willard

in the USA.

[denverbill]

22. You mean the foreign union-thug Walesa backs Romney?

I thought Republickers hated union-thugs and foreigners.

[mmonk]

24. He's obviously a fraud, pure and simple if that is the case.

[Smilo]

26. But.........

Even in Poland, as Romney was chatting to locals outside Gdansk Town Hall on Monday afternoon, a small crowd of protesters chanted “Obama, Obama”.

http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/107489,Mitt-Romney-arrives-in-Gdansk

Ha, ha!!