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    Default Will Mitt Romney's London woes hurt him at home?

    Team Romney has long made it clear that the travelling pool - the journalists and camera people who record and monitor their every step - will not be allowed to follow them to the opening ceremony itself.
    "No traveller or pool coverage available", reads the note. For that they must be glad. Otherwise they might have to cover their heads in blankets.
    They will have had a glum breakfast. Last night's campaign fund-raising dinner, where each guest had to pay $25,000 (£16,000) a head, might have choked them. Their security physically stopped the cameras getting shots of anti-Mormon protesters, but nothing could block the barrage of negative coverage.

    More ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19015278

    Tough at the top.

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    We dont give a rats ass about the olympics, why would we care about anything mittens does there?

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    Republican candidates should stay clear of Europe during election times.

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    " Mitt Romney's undiplomatic Olympic remark obscures the larger story - he's lost the thread of his own campaign narrative."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19003717

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    Fortunately Poland and Israel will be much easier.
    In both he only has to diss all surrounding nations and praise the host to the skies and he'll be good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seraosha View Post
    We dont give a rats ass about the olympics, why would we care about anything mittens does there?
    Wasn't he there to illustrate his skills at international relations?

    Quote Originally Posted by JCR View Post
    In both he only has to diss all surrounding nations and praise the host to the skies and he'll be good.
    Dissing the French and Germans would have pleased us

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    The Beeb desperately wants Obama to be reelected. They think conservatives make pastries with the blood of liberal children.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laworkerbee View Post
    Republican candidates should stay clear of Europe during election times.
    Word. ​.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laworkerbee View Post
    Republican candidates should stay clear of Europe during election times.
    Yup, there's an opening in downtown Damascus he can be slotted in, if he is interested?

    (Great photo opportunity, for sure!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Connaught Ranger View Post
    Yup, there's an opening in downtown Damascus he can be slotted him in for if he is interested?

    (Great photo opportunity, for sure!)
    There's combat going on there...something Mitt's manifested no interest in.

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    I didn't even know he was here until I heard on the radio about his lack of diplomatic skills vis-a-vis the Olympics. Still, he can't be any more offensive and undiplomatic than Obama.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ought Six View Post
    The Beeb desperately wants Obama to be reelected. They think conservatives make pastries with the blood of liberal children.
    And yet left-wingers will adamantly tell you that the BBC is catastrophically right-wing.

    The logical conclusion is that their reporting is actually pretty unbiased.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KB View Post
    There's combat going on there...something Mitt's manifested no interest in.
    Nor Biden and Obama will be interested except to send American Boys there Chicken-Hawks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by happyslapper View Post
    And yet left-wingers will adamantly tell you that the BBC is catastrophically right-wing.

    The logical conclusion is that their reporting is actually pretty unbiased.
    That is some craptastic logic right there. If you say the sky is blue, and I say the sky is yellow, is the logical conclusion that the sky is somewhere in between?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mu-Meson View Post
    That is some craptastic logic right there. If you say the sky is blue, and I say the sky is yellow, is the logical conclusion that the sky is somewhere in between?
    It assumes that people don't have such ridiculously abstract views.

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