Daily Telegraph- Mitt:"utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive."

[kpete]

“Mitt Romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive.

His derisory comments questioning Britain’s preparedness for the Olympics in an interview with NBC were a strange way to build bridges with a country that he says should be restored as the umbilical ally of the United States, and a strange way to demonstrate the persuasive qualities needed as leader of the free world.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9428764/Commentary-if-Mitt-Romney-doesnt-like-us-we-shouldnt-care.html

[arely staircase]

1. i will restore our historical bond with the great anglo saxon people

who are also beneath me.

[Swede]

2. He's putting those Anglo-Saxons in their place.

nt

[Rambis]

3. Psychopaths are usually more charming

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. I would argue...

...that Rmoney is a sociopath, not a psychopath. Near-zero empathy or ability to connect in any real way with other people... He just doesn't "get" that sort of thing, that social connection between human beings, and can only try to imitate it. That's what sociopaths do (I'm a mild case, myself...).

Unfortunately for Mitt, he's a piss-poor actor, and his imitation is unconvincing. I think this is one reason that most of the conservative support for his candidacy isn't pro-Romney, it's anti-Obama. The guy just can't get people to like him...he's fundamentally unlikable.

[Rambis]

17. sociopath is a better fit (NM)

[dickthegrouch]

4. From the Telegraph no less

The major upscale (so they'd like to believe) conservative rag.

I wonder what The Guardian thinks

[Spazito]

6. Ask and ye shall receive...

Some good Anglo-Saxon values for Mitt Romney

If Romney wants to rebuild the special relationship, building on 'an Anglo-Saxon heritage', what might that mean, exactly?

The Republican presidential challenger, Mitt Romney, is reported to want to restore "Anglo-Saxon" relations between Britain and the US as part of a concerted effort to lay down a set of foreign policies to counter accusations from Obama's supporters that he doesn't have enough experience on the world stage.

It's an intriguing idea, even if it is couched in rather lazy terms. What, for instance, happened to the past thousand years of culture bequeathed to us by the Normans, including the lineage of our monarchy (a blood line which has its fair share of German corpuscles)? If Romney wants to forge some kind of union with an anachronistic view of Britain, what are Anglo-Saxon values anyway? Here's a list to get him started …

more (and be sure to read the comments as well, lol)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/25/mitt-romney-anglo-saxon-values

[dickthegrouch]

12. Thankyou

I loved the one with the anglo-saxon "greeting" for him :evilgrin"

[Wounded Bear]

5. "Mildly" offensive?

[KurtNYC]

9. The British are known for understatement

It's snarky and fun.

[Berlum]

7. De Void = the Kozmick Hellhole from whence Republicons have been spawned

[coalition_unwilling]

8. If Mitt is 'mildly offensive,' I wonder what 'absolutely revolting' looks and

sounds like. Maybe 'Day of the Dead'?

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. What "absolutely revolting" might look like:

[ailsagirl]

10. Perhaps it's a typo and it should read "wildly offensive"

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. from the Toryograph - U.K.'s most conservative paper - that was wildly pro-Reagan and pro-Bush Sr.

[longship]

14. Romney: Open mouth; exchange foot! nt

R&

[lpbk2713]

16. He only just arrived and they have nailed him.

It didn't take them long at all.

[ailsagirl]

18. You mean it didn't take HIM long to botch things up

The newspapers are just reporting it.

[JDPriestly]

19. When it comes to foreign policy, Obama even tops Kennedy in terms

of knowing how to get along with foreign leaders.

Military service used to be a requirement to be president. Now, I think that living overseas including studying overseas is the requirement.

Bush failed in the presidency partly because his understanding of other countries was too limited. I think he had spent a summer in Scotland. It did not give him the global perspective that he needed.

Romney lived overseas for a couple of years, but does not seem to have learned much humility and understanding while there.

[lpbk2713]

20. I'll never forget when an interviewer asked Shit-for-Brains to name a few world leaders.

This was when he was running for the first time. All the interviewer got was one continuous "duh??" .

I still have to laugh to myself when I think of it.

[sulphurdunn]

21. Are rich sociopaths common,

or were George Bush and Mitt Romney consciously selected for that disorder?