Romney Adviser's 'Anglo-Saxon' Comment 'Stunningly Offensive,' Obama Side Says
Source: ABC
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The Obama campaign swiftly responded, calling the anonymous attacks "stunningly offensive" and even the reporter who sat down with the Romney advisers warned the "remarks may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity."
"We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he [Romney] feels that the special relationship is special," the Romney adviser told British newspaper The Telegraph. "The White House didn't fully appreciate the shared history we have."
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After reading an initial ABC News report about the comments, Obama advisor David Axelrod tweeted "Mitt's trip off to flying start, even before he lands, with stunningly offensive quotes from his team in British press."
Vice President Biden also criticized the remark. "Despite his promises that politics stops at the water's edge, Gov. Romney's wheels hadn't even touched down in London before his advisers were reportedly playing politics with international diplomacy," Biden said.
"The comments reported this morning are a disturbing start to a trip designed to demonstrate Gov. Romney's readiness to represent the United States on the world's stage... This assertion is beneath a presidential campaign," the vice president said.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/romney-aides-cite-anglo-saxon-heritage/story?id=16853252
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)but not to the as yet undecided teabagger who doesn't want a Mormon in the Whitehouse.
yardwork
(61,705 posts)It seems to me that Romney has the racist vote tied up. I think that this was a really stupid mistake on his part - just the latest of a series of spectacular blunders. Romney is so stupid, racist, and out of touch he doesn't even know how out of touch he is.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Romney's strong suit is that he's just so, so likeable, doncha think?
Raven
(13,900 posts)diverse a country England has come to be.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)flamingdem
(39,321 posts)but can't figure out what the Obama campaign could do without being over the top.
God save the Mitt
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I read somewhere that the original name was Romenel or something similar and that it was a French Norman name from the time of William the Conqueror. The Normans of course were originally Viking men who invaded northern France and never left, taking French wives and becoming a Norse-French hybrid.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)"Normans - they're just Vikings in drag."
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)Or does he have to be related to the Queen?
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Obama is related to Royalty, his Mother's side.
coldbeer
(306 posts)His grandfather served as a sergeant in WWII and
his great uncle was in Normandy shortly after D-Day.
Sounds like patriotic Americans to me!
(not draft-dodgers)
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)the rethuglican party
zonkers
(5,865 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)all he has left is running talking points up a flagpole and taking credit for the ones that get saluted -- "What, nobody's buying in to our Anglo-Saxon heritage meme? Then it never happened!"
rocktivity
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Just some random guy saying random stuff. We have never ever ever had anything to do with him"
funny as hell
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)the W campaign used whenever a car showed up at a campaign event w/ an anti w bumpersticker. It was always the fault of some overzealous local campaign volunteer.
This rmomey campaign advance advisor has suddenly become an 'aide'.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)I wish I had that kind of power of time and space.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)he has never seen or employed?
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mac56
(17,574 posts)Also, lecturing to and squaring off with the NAACP.
blm
(113,091 posts).
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)A couple of people I know, and they're latent right-wingers...became so due to Obama being elected,, were even embarrassed. Even if they deep down agree with the sentiment, even they realize what an impolitic remark that was.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...uh, white of course.
Snarkage.
SouthernLiberal
(407 posts)Firstly, because it's hard to not think of 'Anglo-Saxon' in this context as code-talk for 'not brown skin'. Which makes his 'we' pretty divisive from the get-go.
And then there is the fact that while I am certainly pale-skinned enough for Mr. Romney's 'advisors', to the best of my knowledge, there isn't a drop of Anglo-Saxon blood in my veins. My ancestors were mostly Scots/Irish Celtic, with a possible early admixture of Norman/French, so I am offended on my own behalf as well.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)taken out of context, this was actually said unlike what the Mitten's campaign did with Pres O's statement about businesses.
This is how his campaign really feels, so its beyond any logic how people of color can support the GOP, but you do have idiots in every race. You even got gays supporting them as well, please give me what they are smoking, please!
KT2000
(20,587 posts)Roselyn Carter said that he made people feel comfortable with their prejudices. The GOP lives through bigotry.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)"We employ them in all of our homes!"
You just know that's what's running through his mind when he gets called on BS like this.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)and unlike Mitt, I actually pay taxes to maintain this country
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Hate and division are so Republican, and so unAmerican.
Willard and his Chickenhawk Republicon cronies need a Tighty Whitey Wedgie
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)until 1979 or so.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)is Romney going to flip-flop once again and become retroactively black?
Democrats_win
(6,539 posts)snip
According to the telegraph, the adviser suggested that Mr. Obama could not understand the depth of the relationship between the two countries because he cannot fully appreciate the shared "Anglo-Saxon heritage."
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To me, this makes the racist nature of the comments clearer. For instance, why can't Mr. Obama fully appreciate the shared A.S. heritage? ANY American CAN appreciate the shared heritage. One has to laugh because the thing that would make one appreciate this heritage more is an English Literature course. You know, the thing that those greedy GOP bastards try to cut out of education.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)in prisons and at monster truck pulls.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)when I ran into people who shared my Scottish ancestry.
I could not understand what the fuck they were saying even when I'd put my eyeballs three inches from their lips.
The worst thing was I couldn't say, "Do you know English?" because that's what they were speaking.
The only way your ethnic background could help is if you were from that country and were old enough to remember the culture and so forth.
Or if it's an oppressed country and you're the leader of a more powerful one.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)would be if I was in an African or Asian city where no spoke English, and I had some hope that the other white guy did, so he could be my sherpa.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Asked for a retraction from the newspaper, only calling it a "false quote". Since the newspaper was likely prohibited from using actual quotes it seems odd to attack them in this manner. Besides, Romney could clear it up by releasing the full statement so we can then decide how "false" it really is. That they haven't done this is an indication of how much of a dog whistle attack this really is. How did they think the newspaper would play this story?