# RomneyShamblesFollow

Another Olympian, a Swiss soccer-player, was just booted from the games for a mean-tweet.

I've seen too much of Phelps. I won't fault him for his swimming, he has nothing to prove But, SO many excuses from the American media types. 'shew' They dont like seeing their hero fail.

He's trying to prove that he can handle foreign diplomacy so the only opinions that matter are those of foreign people and the foreign people think he's a tool. Feel free to elect him so we can all point and laugh.

Ah... So "nutty UK media trash mags" == "foreign people" now? You're also forgetting that the issue is how people in the US view how he handle's foreign diplomacy. And most folks in the US, upon hearing of this uproar over his gaffes and then reading what he did or said, think "huh? What's wrong with that?" and pretty much come to the same "their media is nuts" conclusion I do. When you trim away the silly (referring to the backside of 10 Downing Street), the WTF is this an issue (mentioning that he met with the head of MI6 after meeting with the head of MI6), the outright absurd (let's ask him about an allegation by a reporter of an off the record comment by an unnamed staffer. Really?), and then the taken out of context and grossly misrepresented bit about the Olympics, you're left with nothing.


I can only assume that the political Left is so painfully aware of how poorly Obama has performed in his foreign policy role that they have to do everything possible to knock Romney down to his level. I'll take Romney's supposed gaffes over Obama's disastrous actual policies any day though.

Most people? Got any polls on that?

I just got back from the UK, and tho' the quality of newsrag there is prettty lamentable (excepting a couple of notable publications), the state of the press in the US that I had the misfortune to see whilst in California last month makes the lowliest of UK media look pretty bloody good imo.

And Romney is a Mormon. 'Nuff said.

That's what you've been told, so it must be true.



Lol. Like I said. Trying waaaaaay too hard. You really really ought to step outside the MSNBC/liberal-bloger bubble sometime.

So not only has he managed to **** off the brits, one of our strongest allies in the world, according to one of those "nutty UK media trash mags," he's also managed to essentially promise to support Israel going to war with iran if he wins, and understandably, **** off the Palestinians in the process. (And apparently, the Mexicans as well, but I include Mexico with Canada in "Countries whose opinion doesn't matter, but are fun to listen to because they have funny accents" I don't actually do that) Can't wait to see how you try to justify Romney trying to fix our economy by having us go to war with a third country, gbaji. I don't expect anything from ThiefX aside from rabid sensationalism, but at least you manage to be coherent and somewhat civil

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 11:30pm by Jinte

I'm going to qualify that a bit.

A just war is good for the economy.

WWII was a just war. The US was not the aggressors, and when we got punked by Japan, the USians were righteously pissed for good reasons. When the whole of the country is enthused about a war and is willing to sacrifice for the good of the military, the economy can be robust afterward.

I would watch that.

Unfortunately the majority of the UK read shit like "The Sun", which is more or less printed Fox News. Very sad.

Just going to further qualify what catwho said. One just war, that the citizens support, is good for the economy. A third controversial war that (I would assume, based on the fact that during the last election, McCain's "Bomb Iran" sentiment cost him a fair number of votes) a fair majority (read: any educated individual not of the deep war-hawk nature and/or not an uneducated redneck who just thinks we should bomb the whole middle east and be done with it) are either uneasy about the idea of another simultaneous war, undecided about how well we could pull it off, given the job we've been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, or entirely against it, though I'm also not arrogant enough to say that I speak for most people, is not good for the economy. There's absolutely no way it will have the backing of the majority populace, no matter how romney sugar coats it, because while people are stupid, they're not as stupid as most politicians think. Besides, of the three, do we really want to go to war with a country that both hates us and has been ******* with nuclear energy for years now? Even if we don't think they've weaponized it, if we were openly aggressive, I doubt it would take them long to get something together...

To simplify what others have said

War, just or unjust, is good for the economy.
Occupation is bad for the economy.