Romney Adviser: Obama Doesn't Appreciate "Anglo-Saxon Heritage" of Britain, U.S.

[maddezmom]

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Why would Mitt Romney be a better president than Barack Obama when it comes to relations between the United States and the U.K.?

Part of an interview with the Telegraph newspaper during the GOP candidate's first major international foreign policy tour, the comments are raising eyebrows because of their hint at drawing a distinction between Romney and Obama over race. The suggestion is that, since president Obama's heritage lies in Africa instead of one of the Germanic Caucasian tribes that settled Britain and other parts of Europe, he doesn't fully understand what the adviser called the "special" relationship between the two countries.
The advisers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to insult a sitting president in the foreign press, also said Obama was "comfortable with American decline." President Obama, for his part, has suggested that his opponent is at best a foreign-policy novice. He may have a point—at least when it comes to Romney's advisers.

[Downwinder]

1. What is the derivation of "Romney"?

Is it, perhaps, a corruption of "Romany"?

[DreamGypsy]

3. The Romany thought occurred to me last evening...

and I spent half an hour or so trying to discover history or etymology to establish a connection. Didn't find anything obvious, but there are certainly a lot of places to look more deeply.

After my futile search I played Richard Thompson's song Beeswing a couple times

Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough
Back on the Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket
And a wolfhound at her feet

And they say she even married once
A man named Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan
Was too much settling down

They say her flower is faded now
Hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay
For the chains you refuse

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could just taste
All of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Then I wouldn't want her any other way

[Downwinder]

4. Are All But One US Presidents Related?

http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/04/are-all-but-one-us-presidents-related/

[pam4water]

5. I guess Romney read this BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18422949

[kitt6]

2. Is Mitt f...these days?

Then who is it? It ain't Ann!

[AsahinaKimi]

6. "This video is Private"

no other copies?

[maddezmom]

7. weird....it was from Slate