Mitt Romney's Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama

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US presidential hopeful backtracks on warning of 'disconcerting' signs for Games after light-hearted rebuke by David Cameron


Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a priceless gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a successful Olympic Games.

In a move that astonished Downing Street, hours before it laid on a special reception for Romney at No 10 he told NBC there were "disconcerting" signs about the preparations for the Games.

One senior Whitehall source said: "What a total shocker. We are speechless."

David Cameron wasted no time in slapping down Romney hours after his remarks were broadcast. On a visit to the Olympic Park, the prime minister said: "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."

More:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/26/mitt-romney-olympics-blunder?newsfeed=true

ETA:

Romney in England: "Worse than Sarah Palin!"
From Daily Kos, July 26, 2012

Romney's very bad london trip

The Daily Mail is a British tabloid. A conservative one, in fact. James Chapman is the paper's political editor and a self-proclaimed Tory, and has been tweeting Mitt Romney's visit to his country.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113940/-Romney-s-very-bad-London-trip

Hilarious!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026258

[louis-t]

1. Another repug jackass pissing off the world while trying to get selected.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Willard slapped by the English ..............

[Warren Stupidity]

3. The thing about the British insult is that frequently the insultee

has no clue he has been insulted.

[Doctor_J]

4. The Tories are still of te sane conservative ilk

they are probably aghast at what a bunch of oafs and psychopaths the Republicans are.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. "Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."

except for the delays by, you know, sheep jams...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Romney gets the sheep vote!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Snap! Well played, sir.

[patrice]

29. Oh they've got those sheep -le fast-tracked into oblivion already: "no health care, no vote, no prob

lem, meet your very own sweet little hospice-angel-dolly! You're going on the buzzzzzzzzzzziest spiritual trip of your life!"

[vlyons]

6. The PM is right, SLCity is in the middle of nowhere!

[LynneSin]

8. And hosting an Olympics that is a quarter of the size. Winter is much smaller than Summer

No way that Salt Lake City could ever manage to host something like the Summer Olympics that host way more atheletes (11000 vs. 2500) over many more games (300 vs 80).

[truebrit71]

7. Okay when "Just call me Dave" smacks a fellow con down you KNOW you are doing it wrong...

...Rmoney has the same tact as a porkchop in a synagogue...

Completely fucking clueless...

[kmla]

9. Video of the conversation went something line this...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. I guess Cameron has the big fish!

[JHB]

10. Not to cut Mittens any slack, but...

...there have been a few fiascos, like having to call in the army and draft police from around the country due to contracting security to a firm apparently run by baboons. Or swindlers. Or both.

[aquart]

32. Absolutely true. But polite GUESTS don't mention it.

Those bitching privileges belong to the British and post-Olympics critics.

[catbyte]

11. I'm sorry, but LOL

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. Vintage Romney, King of the put-downs. It's time for Rush & Co. to call the British Socialists.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. Did he apologize? That's going to be priceless. "Walk back" is political speak for apologizing.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

20. He didn't apologise, he performed a beautiful, 10.00 "Mitt-Flop" outside Number 10!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18995166

[Kalidurga]

27. oh dear...

But hours later, in Downing Street, he said all Games were hit by "small" mistakes and he had seen "great progress" since arriving in the UK.

Mitt, be a good chap and do shut up.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. Set up for taking credit for the London Games. That's vintage Mitt the Insult Comic.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. Will republican voters know about his foreign blunders?

they still don't doubt him yet

[aquart]

21. They'll admire his macho telling truth to power. Honest.

If Obama had done it, however....

[Tomay]

24. You are correct. Over at one right wing site I visited,

they were praising RMoney's "honesty" and commenters were dismissing Britain as a washed-up has been of a country; RMoney was tough and manly and pointed this out to the Brits, thereby proving he was not a wimp. Or something.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

30. Bet if you do a search...

...you'll uncover outrage at Obama returning the Churchill bust, presenting the Queen with an iPod, and slurring a nation by giving Gordon Brown the inadequate gift of a DVD box-set.

[Sherman A1]

22. Well,

realistically what is their choice? This is their guy and they are stuck with him. Sure they could vote Democratic, but we know that won't happen. So good, bad or indifferent this is what they got.

[allan01]

17. re:Mitt Romney's Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama

we spent four years trying to undo the damage that regan and the two bushes did to our alies that they did in 8. here we go again. obama , yes .

[aquart]

18. Well done, Mr. Cameron!

The zinger insulting SLC is the first thing Cameron has done that I admire.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

19. Boris Johnson has been mocking Romney in Hyde Park too!

Man, Romney has managed to convince the entire British Conservative Party, supposed natural allies, that he's a complete fucking cretin in less than a day! Cameron himself isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but compared to this man?!

Ed Miliband's (Labour Party leader, for anyone who doesn't know) facial expression on meeting Mitt was priceless. Seemed to be trying very hard to conceal the sort of smirk you sometimes get when faced with someone completely ridiculous.

[SemperEadem]

23. pride goes before destruction

and the haughty spirit before the fall....

[Blue Owl]

25. Because Willard's an expert in Olympic Preparedness

[patrice]

28. Was Rmoney chiding his "anglo $axon" connection for not minding it's p'$ & q'$ el$ehow/el$ewhere in

his FOREIGN financial domain?

[linux80386]

33. can rmoney do ANYTHING right?

smh.

[Amonester]

37. Yes. Screw people.

Although that's not right, he sure does it well enough for his bank accounts.

[RickFromMN]

34. How will Mittens insult the Russians and the Chinese and the Middle East and ....

Mittens needs a handler real bad.

Mittens needs to learn to speak softly before anyone should consider giving him the big stick of being U. S. President.

I'm worried. Mittens liked to bully people in school. Will he try to bully countries if elected?

[IDemo]

35. I guess it's time for Fish n' Freedom Fries n/t

[Kalidurga]

36. So, that's what they will be serving in the pubs...

when Mittens packs up his bags and leaves.

[Courtesy Flush]

38. Atheists say "read the bible, and you'll stop believing."

I say "let Romney talk all he wants. Don't interrupt him. The more you know, the less you'll believe."

[Profco]

39. More blunders to come as Romney heads for Israel...stay tuned!

http://www.lobelog.com/on-the-rjcs-drive-to-get-romney-votes-from-israel-block-the-vote-here-rock-the-vote-there/

[magical thyme]

40. Not to worry! Romney's now using mnemonic techniques to learn leader's names.

"I can't wait to meet Benjamin Netangoogle!"

(stolen tweet)

[Kablooie]

41. No. It may turn out to be a disaster for Obama.

Romney is so incompetent that the Republican leaders are tearing him down publically.
They are turning the base against him so they will be able to elect a different candidate next month at their convention.

A bright, new face will inject new energy into the GOP and suck votes away from Obama.

We'd better stop laughing at Romney and prepare for a serious battle that looms ahead.

[Resles Leggs]

42. Waiting for Godot

mormon 1: "What could be keeping him?"
mormon 2: "I don't know? How would I know? He's a god.
mormon 1: "A god? How do you know he's a god?"
mormon 2: "Well, I don't but he's a saint at least."
mormon 1: "How did that happen?"
mormon 2: "Well, he was missioning at Lourdes and sure enough when he stood up from praying at the first French church of the greasy dead and discount house of the virgin mary his knees were all bloody as if he'd been... working or something..."
mormon 1: "Well, that settles it then!"
mormon 2: "It," of course."
mormon 1: "What's, 'it?' Pray tell?"
mormon 2: ""It's" a mystery to me!"

[Resles Leggs]

43. Waiting for Godot

mormon 1: "It's reasonable to ask how long this is going to take."
mormon 2: "Yes, I suppose, but what difference does it make?"
mormon 1: "That's absurd!"
mormon 2: "Perhaps, but what if the one time you go out into the field to take a leak the spaceship arrives?"
mormon 1: "I never thought of it that way, you mean the spaceship from Golub with jesus on board?"
mormon 2: "Yes, of course. Is there some other space ship that's coming?"
mormon 1" "How would I know that?"
mormon 2: "I was just asking, don't get so defensive."
mormon 1: "Do you imagine there really is a god? And, furthermore, that he'll come back and get us after two thousand years?"
mormon 2: "Well, it's more realistic than imagining we're going to be awarded a mansion in heaven somewhere."
mormon 1: "I suppose you're right... but, what if you're not? Do I get left behind because you lost your faith?"
mormon 2: "What faith? You don't actually think anyone's coming back for us do you? I mean when you were a child did you think you were going to grow up and be president?"
mormon 1: "No, of course not. But this is different; it's the very core of our belief system."
mormon 2: Yours, perhaps, but not mine. I believe that I'm going to heaven when I die and will get 72 virgins, but no house. I'll be living under a bridge with 72 virgins."
mormon 1: "Sounds... cold?"
mormon 2: "Yes, yes it does. And that's the way the cookies crumble."

[Resles Leggs]

44. Still waiting...

mormon 1: "He's not coming."
mormon 2: "You don't know that, he might."
mormon 1: "Yes, and the tooth fairy might show up naked."
mormon 2: "If he does he's all yours."
mormon 1: "Be serious! Can't you be serious for once?"
mormon 2: "You want serious, huh? Ok, NO! He's not coming back and we'll be out here til the cows come home, no virgins, no mansions, no bridge, NOTHING!"
mormon 1: "Don't be so negative."

[Ruby the Liberal]

45. WTF are you talking about?