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Source: DailyMail
A Romney campaign official has blasted Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, as an eccentric, odd fellow whose public attack on the Republican candidate was unbecoming and an indication of his bias towards President Barack Obama.
The official said that Prime Minister David Camerons wisecrack about it being harder to stage an Olympic Games in London than in the middle of nowhere an apparent reference to Salt Lake City, where Romney oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics was probably appropriate, albeit awkward and unfortunate for Romney
Johnson on the other hand lived up to his reputation as an eccentric, odd fellow. It was unbecoming to attack Governor Romney in that way. There really was no need. But Johnson made it clear in 2008 that his vote would have gone to Obama.
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The campaign official, who was not directly involved organising the London trip, that that the Romney campaign had not prepared sufficiently for a visit of this magnitude and that the candidate had not been briefed properly on how to answer questions about the staging of the Olympics
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`Unfortunately, it shows that the campaign by solely focussing on jobs has really neglected foreign policy and international affairs.
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