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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/romney-british-pm-obama-london<snip>
Senior advisers to Mitt Romney have bitterly criticised David Cameron's recent White House "love-in" with Barack Obama before Romney's first visit to London for the opening of the Olympic Games.
Referring to Cameron's highly flattering toast to Obama during a banquet given in the prime minister's honour when he visited Washington in March, a senior aide said: "You don't take sides in an election year".
The aide, who requested anonymity, said Romney and his wife, Ann, would attend the "first day of activities" of the 2012 Games, which open in July. Romney would do "one or two other things" while in London. A meeting with Cameron was not ruled out, but that was "up in the air", the aide said.
Doubts about a possible Downing Street meeting appear to stem in part from surprise and dismay felt in the Romney camp about what it saw as Cameron's obsequious behaviour at the banquet on 14 March.
Cameron's performance smacked of a "lack of experience" and was seen as "not very skilful", the aide said.
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Next they'll say they won't tolerate having an incumbent running against the entitled prick Willard Rmoney.
This is hilarious
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)He knows that if that snowball has a chance in hell that he'll never be shown the same amount of love and respect that our President has been.
Friggin' waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Why don't you piss off Medvedev some more you uncouth nitwit? Good Lord, I can't imagine him working internationally.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I would think he would be proud as an American.
Here are Cameron's words that Mitt is so upset about:
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Something Bush never had.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)and see who gets the best response from the British people. Mittens is always trying to profit from his handling of the Olympic games I think Obama should one up him there, too.
malaise
(269,278 posts)and flop he will.
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)The rethugs would drown in all their own mouth-foam from all their frothing over how they're allegedly having to pay for his "vacation" again, if he were to attend any part of the Olympics.
malaise
(269,278 posts)He was a disaster
muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)which is probably the best PR possible:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/story/2012-03-13/Michelle-Obama-to-lead-US-delegation-to-Olympic-opening-ceremonies/53516062/1
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)If Mitt is this bad at this early stage in the campaign, he's gonna be dead in the water by the fall!
He sure picks great aides. First the Etch a Sketch and now this. You just don't go around pissing people off, esp. heads of state of our strongest ally in the world. You just don't. It's insane...
malaise
(269,278 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)What I can't figure out is why this guy is so clueless. He's not Sarah Palin, after all.
Or maybe he really is...
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)Granted, he does spend his the vast majority of his time around his own ilk. So, I can understand why he might think that way.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Romney isn't just criticizing Cameron. He's criticizing Cameron's acknowledgement that Obama is President. Romney doesn't seem to realize that an incumbent has always enjoyed a natural advantage of appearing Presidential simply because he is President.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)Much 'faint praise', told begrudgingly. For example: Obama, too, had little foreign policy experience before becoming president, and visited Europe mainly to obtain pictures of himself abroad, visiting foreign leaders, important in an election campaign.
Alenne
(1,931 posts)It is not and that's unfortunate.
surrealAmerican
(11,368 posts)You know who else has a "lack of experience": the former one-term governor of Massachusetts.