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Romney on England: "It is a small island . . doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy". [View all]	grantcart	Jul 2012	OP
OMG	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#1
And to think Mitt went there to show off his foreign policy skills. I guess he did.	bulloney	Jul 2012	#66
God, I love England. I love London. Fuck Romney.	roguevalley	Jul 2012	#118
Their trees...not the right size.	TwilightGardener	Jul 2012	#2
yes I did spill my water over my keyboard on that one.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#3
omfg... lol	Coexist	Jul 2012	#6
spit take	TeamPooka	Jul 2012	#19
.	myrna minx	Jul 2012	#34
Good lord.	DURHAM D	Jul 2012	#4
.	ProSense	Jul 2012	#5
Wow!	SunsetDreams	Jul 2012	#7
Surely this cannot be true.	mainer	Jul 2012	#8
When you're flying over at 36,000 feet, they do look small	nichomachus	Jul 2012	#10
and as was pointed out up thread, their trees are not the right height.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#13
And when you are descending down through the fog,	RebelOne	Jul 2012	#55
when you live like he does,	iamthebandfanman	Jul 2012	#142
He could	malaise	Jul 2012	#18
Well, certainly not ALL of them.	MissMarple	Jul 2012	#41
Small houses like Downton Abbey, and all those other	Jane Austin	Jul 2012	#82
Lord Grantham would appear to be quite plebeian to Mittens. nt	mentalsolstice	Jul 2012	#101
Not all of them certainly but I did notice	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#141
It's true.	enlightenment	Jul 2012	#154
And this idiot wants to be our chief diplomat and foriegn policy maker???	CaliforniaPeggy	Jul 2012	#9
Breaking News: Mitt Romney buys the UK, plans to use it as his own private island.	JoePhilly	Jul 2012	#11
Bulldozes all the small houses to make room for one large compound. "That Buckingham place...	Moonwalk	Jul 2012	#164
Peeve: who cares if the rest of the world wants to buy their stuff?	arcane1	Jul 2012	#12
"Compete globally" means	TBF	Jul 2012	#30
Oh my	JustAnotherGen	Jul 2012	#14
The FLOTUS will be her usual gracious, intelligent and elegant	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#40
She can't get there fast enough!	JustAnotherGen	Jul 2012	#53
Face It England: He's Just Not That Into You	otohara	Jul 2012	#89
Yet the tailors...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#143
When Candidate Obama went there in '08	Rozlee	Jul 2012	#74
Reminds me of Randy Newman's parody song "Short People"	AnotherMother4Peace	Jul 2012	#15
and their health care system, worse than Socialism	Motown_Johnny	Jul 2012	#16
Well, now	Aerows	Jul 2012	#17
England is not an island	Enrique	Jul 2012	#20
Mitt, Learn the difference between England, Britain, and UK...	JaneQPublic	Jul 2012	#25
That was my first reaction.	libinnyandia	Jul 2012	#45
If England is an island...	NYC Liberal	Jul 2012	#50
Scotland is just a suburb. /nt	localroger	Jul 2012	#86
Right. It's only half an island	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jul 2012	#137
Wow! just Wow!	madinmaryland	Jul 2012	#21
I'm waiting for him to say	Aerows	Jul 2012	#22
This guy is a disaster!	Gregorian	Jul 2012	#23
I'm surprised he doesn't chastise them for driving on the wrong side of the road...	KansDem	Jul 2012	#24
They don't.	GetRidOfThem	Jul 2012	#111
And the front seat passenger gets the steering wheel	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jul 2012	#136
Good grief. How embarrassing.	PotatoChip	Jul 2012	#26
So wrong on many counts.	mwooldri	Jul 2012	#27
Well...	14thColony	Jul 2012	#52
lol!	eShirl	Jul 2012	#112
Rumor is he wants to tear down England and install a car elevator.	Hassin Bin Sober	Jul 2012	#28
Mitt the twit!	Raster	Jul 2012	#29
"Small houses! Small Roads! It's a nation of Hobbits!"	mainer	Jul 2012	#31
LOL	lillypaddle	Jul 2012	#97
Sounds like heaven!	Marrah_G	Jul 2012	#123
Like the Hobbits, they saved our collective ass.	sarge43	Jul 2012	#133
Can I just say, as a Brit, and on behalf of my dead grandfather,	sibelian	Jul 2012	#157
Thank you.	sarge43	Jul 2012	#173
They make stuff I want to buy.	ForgoTheConsequence	Jul 2012	#32
I think beer and ale.	AlinPA	Jul 2012	#42
Fish and chips	Aerows	Jul 2012	#69
Don't forget the mushy peas!	spiderpig	Jul 2012	#178
I hate peas	Aerows	Jul 2012	#179
Their music, too.	Fawke Em	Jul 2012	#48
good point!	ForgoTheConsequence	Jul 2012	#75
And we buy books by their authors	treestar	Jul 2012	#98
And popular titles, too--like, oh, let me see--	tblue37	Jul 2012	#170
For the ladies: LUSH UK, where it all began, plus Boden which has the most adorable clothes. n/t	progressivebydesign	Jul 2012	#60
They made stuff I've bought FOR YEARS. BEATLES music, for one.	calimary	Jul 2012	#96
And my MINI	mentalsolstice	Jul 2012	#105
And I simply couldn't do without my William and Kate tea towels!	smirkymonkey	Jul 2012	#113
Aga Six- Four	REP	Jul 2012	#114
DR Harris and Truefitt & Hill...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#144
For the past 50 years, they've done TV comedy 300 times better than Americans.	HughBeaumont	Jul 2012	#150
England and Scotland make some of the finest audio components in the world.	Elwood P Dowd	Jul 2012	#156
Those little homes have no lifts for their car parks!	JBoy	Jul 2012	#33
No words, just...	ailsagirl	Jul 2012	#35
He also says if not for divide by continent Hitler would have prevailed!	WI_DEM	Jul 2012	#36
Given the military situation in 1939-40, I'm not sure Hitler wouldn't have taken the country,	hughee99	Jul 2012	#68
So , if not for the Atlantic Ocean , the US would still be British colonies ?	pkdu	Jul 2012	#127
Or it could be that Brits stuck around to fight for their country instead of going on missions!	SunSeeker	Jul 2012	#130
That is probably true	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#160
not the right size . . . that's his ocd thing	bigtree	Jul 2012	#37
I am starting to speculate about his obsession with	vanlassie	Jul 2012	#124
I guess Romney never bought phonograph records during his youth	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#38
Percy Faith was from England?	Jeff In Milwaukee	Jul 2012	#39
He was probably listening to Perry Como	XemaSab	Jul 2012	#102
knr	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#43
Mr Diplomacy...	HooptieWagon	Jul 2012	#44
Mitt is clearly referring to England post-1066. You know, the year when	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#46
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?	Bobbie Jo	Jul 2012	#47
Perfect comparison!	JNelson6563	Jul 2012	#54
why would he write crap like that?	Liberal_in_LA	Jul 2012	#49
I wonder if he has the stones to admit it was ghostwritten??	Blue_Tires	Jul 2012	#168
England is lucky that a body of water separates them from Romney's ambitions.	Erose999	Jul 2012	#51
Yeah, but you can't run for King.	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#57
I don't think Romney would be above playing the game of thrones though.... I mean the Mormons could	Erose999	Jul 2012	#138
Not so much a "leak." It's in GoogleBooks for anyone to read. Here's more:	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#56
but the only people to have read the book are opposiiton researchers	Viking12	Jul 2012	#71
Fair enough.	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#73
Mitt the Twit is really a gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?	alphafemale	Jul 2012	#58
To be fair, every country's houses are small compared to his 11,000	sinkingfeeling	Jul 2012	#59
Oh come on, he lived in his son's basement...	SunSeeker	Jul 2012	#131
There houses are so small, they even can't fit car elevators	JPZenger	Jul 2012	#159
I just posted that quote on the Telegraph's comment section - I suggest we all post this quote on	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#61
Mitt should have hired a plagiarist like GW did to write his book...	Kalidurga	Jul 2012	#62
K & R	OmahaBlueDog	Jul 2012	#63
Don't want to buy? Hell, they make something I NEED to buy: Newcastle Brown Ale	mikeytherat	Jul 2012	#64
Duzy Award material in this thread!	northoftheborder	Jul 2012	#65
grantcart	Diclotican	Jul 2012	#67
what an idiot.	fishwax	Jul 2012	#70
Another thing England makes that the world wants to buy: dressage saddles!	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#72
What? No dentistry gaff yet?	longship	Jul 2012	#76
So, if Romney wins . . . war with England?	tclambert	Jul 2012	#77
Does this idiot have any idea of English pride in weathering the blitz?	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#78
No, he has no idea...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#145
Hitler declaring war on us made that decision for us.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#169
Yep...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#172
Not to mention the ambitions of the Right who wanted to Assassinate FDR.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#174
geeze that's bad	Whisp	Jul 2012	#79
This message was self-deleted by its author	allan01	Jul 2012	#80
re:Romney on England: "It is a small island . . doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy".	allan01	Jul 2012	#81
Ah yes, chickenhawk Romney thinks he's	Mendocino	Jul 2012	#83
As long as he promises to protect the island of England from the Soviet Union,	tclambert	Jul 2012	#84
Romney staff offended their British hosts	DearAbby	Jul 2012	#85
oh my...how embarrassing	limpyhobbler	Jul 2012	#87
Amazing. I hope the Guardian picks it up.	Vinca	Jul 2012	#88
Well, Romney should certainly be an expert on putting out things no one wants to buy... n/t	gkhouston	Jul 2012	#90
Hey Mitt--what language did you write your book in?	panader0	Jul 2012	#91
Here it is in context	Courtesy Flush	Jul 2012	#92
Well, it has been 200 years	Spirochete	Jul 2012	#93
The quote's been picked up by other sites and spread via twitter	Iterate	Jul 2012	#94
I have emailed to the Guardian.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#100
What is going on with this man?	wendylaroux	Jul 2012	#95
he wants to win	CountAllVotes	Jul 2012	#99
It's that CEO mentality talking. He's the chief executive. So might as well say "king."	calimary	Jul 2012	#106
They don't say y'all or like cheesy grits in England.	Initech	Jul 2012	#103
Was he hoping that Hitler invaded England?	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#104
He's with the Koch family, check out this by Thom Hartmann on MM & V. Devastating:	freshwest	Jul 2012	#108
it's very worrying	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#110
OMG this quote should be posted on the UK board. It would be delicious to hear them go at Mittens!	freshwest	Jul 2012	#107
Watch his approval rating among Republican voters shoot up	nxylas	Jul 2012	#109
OMG!! I just saw this on The Ed Show! Grantcart sure is spreading it around! LOL!	DippyDem	Jul 2012	#115
Dear England	Deb	Jul 2012	#116
that ones gonna leave a mark	90-percent	Jul 2012	#117
Mitt would've got the Hershey Squirts every time the air raid siren went off	NBachers	Jul 2012	#125
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Monty Python, Shakespeare, and too many thespians to mention...	peacebird	Jul 2012	#119
"Old Europe"	moondust	Jul 2012	#120
Don't diss on Marshall Amps Mitwit	Phlem	Jul 2012	#121
Better amps are still made in the UK.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#134
I bought a Marshall 100 watt stack in London in 1968	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#153
It depends on the specific amp model and year as well.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#155
Unfortunately, I experienced a financial crisis in about 1980	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#161
I'm sorry to hear that.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#162
It is nuts	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#163
I wish I would have had musicians in my family to give me some guidance at that time.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#166
Yes	Phlem	Jul 2012	#175
Hiwatt and Vox too.	Erose999	Jul 2012	#139
Back in the day I had a Vox Berkeley II with a Beatle bottom.	xtraxritical	Jul 2012	#165
And yet........	Smilo	Jul 2012	#122
They also make the best jet engines in the business	Populist_Prole	Jul 2012	#126
That is bloody insulting as fuck!!	and-justice-for-all	Jul 2012	#128
I certainly want to buy a Dallas Rangemaster and the chair that Christine Keeler sat in	Tom Ripley	Jul 2012	#129
"...doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy".	Raster	Jul 2012	#132
Does Gov. Romney even know that England is NOT an island? It is located on one of the British Isles	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#135
I am reminded of Sarah Palin's comment about the "country" of Africa. nt	tblue37	Jul 2012	#171
The quote is now mentioned in a ForeignPolicy blog!	Iterate	Jul 2012	#140
I'm gonna hear about this all week from my English friends!	agentS	Jul 2012	#146
That racist quote about Obama from RMoney's aide last week- I certainly believe it now!	agentS	Jul 2012	#147
I am hoping that Mitt's visit to Poland produces something classic	Walk away	Jul 2012	#148
Bain Companies in England	Betty Jo	Jul 2012	#149
So, in a nutshell:	malthaussen	Jul 2012	#151
Oh now THAT'S funny	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#152
And while Britain was fighting Hitler, your family was....?	JPZenger	Jul 2012	#158
I'll take a half-dozen of these, please:	Blue_Tires	Jul 2012	#167
He must have got a shock watching the Olympic Ceremony	Londoncalling	Jul 2012	#176
He's an educated man who thinks the rest of the world is made up of idiots.	undeterred	Jul 2012	#177
I don't understand why he'd go out of his way to insult a long time ally like that.	Marr	Jul 2012	#180

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