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As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America's enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London.
In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.
“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”.
In other words the President is not "Anglo-Saxon" enough to appreciate the relationship between the white folk. Oh, well that explains the problem.
The President is too black.
Well just when we thought we had FINALLY figured out the platform that the Romney campaign was going to run on, they walked it back:
Andrea Saul, Romney's press secretary, disputed the comments and emphasized that they did not reflect the beliefs of the former Massachusetts governor.
"It's not true. If anyone said that, they weren't reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign," she told CBSNews.com in an email. Saul did not comment on what specifically was not true.
"Wait,...who....what did they say? Well THAT is not something we want to say publicly. So...never happened. Next question."
Look I think that most of us are already pretty sure that the Romney campaign is going for the racist vote, and I have little doubt that many in his inner circle are closet racists, so personally I think this was an example of somebody finally getting caught telling the truth.
That is why he referred to him as "our corrupt President" in this Hardball clip from yesterday.
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By the way, and I know I have been saying this a lot lately, but Matthews REALLY did a good job here, and was quite aggressive in going after Romney's war mongering and insulting attitude toward Obama. I am beginning to gain some of my respect back for the man.
Chris Matthews is pretty good about calling out the GOP/Tea Party's racist dog whistles and "othering" of our President. I give him props for that. You can tell it pisses him off.
ReplyDeleteAhhh Mitt. It's not enough he's a rich, entitled mofo with a vicious wife and
ReplyDeleteclone children who seep nastiness from being entitled too. Now he has to get his surrogates to wear his white pointed hood and carry burning crosses across the pond.
Dear Mitt:
ReplyDelete1) give minions list of talking points
2) give media list of valid minions
3) have minions log who talked to which media
Voila! You control of your message.
The "we don't know who said what to whom" meme indicates a campaign tail-spinning out of control.
None of this matters so long as great maverick American heroes like John McCain has an excellent working relationship with the Queen there. - Sarah Palin
ReplyDeletePretty hard to believe some media guy invented the "Anglo-Saxon-R-US" idiocy. Undoubtedly some ugly things were expressed in that anonymous interview. Mitt's gang of mor(m)ons are batting 1000:
ReplyDeleteetch-a-sketch
unzipped
dog on the roof
all you need to know about ... how we live our life
Wonder what sicko is still willing to join Mitt as the doomed veep candidate.
Don't forget the ponytail scissors!
DeleteMatthews may have been afraid of the Bush family; Poppa Bush’s bloody fingerprints are all over the place. The Mormons once pulled the Mountain Meadows Massacre (sp), but that’s child’s play compared to Bush.
ReplyDeleteSo many oops-we-did-it-again moments that "don't reflect Lord Romney's attitude" or that "wasn't said" or "nobody can remember" or that were "taken out of context" but just wait to see what they have in store for us tomorrow and the next day. The man and his submissive wife are repulsive from their smarmy smiles to the things they say.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's not just his wife who is submissive. Romney toes the line and does exactly what "The Brethren" (the higher-ups in the 'church') tell him to do, even down to what words to say.
DeleteMitt is a puppet; there is absolutely no doubt about that. An evil puppet worthy of a Stephen King novel.
Obama is Irish!
ReplyDeleteExactly. Of course, the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons, well....
DeleteInteresting how both are willing to give Romney a pass and accept that he might have misspoke. I'm sure if the speaker was Obama and made a slip like that, the GOP would be all over it for weeks and weeks.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know why he calls cutting military spending "taking the easy way out"? That's the same thing he said to that unfortunate woman who had to have an abortion in order to save her own life when he was governor. The day she was scheduled to have her abortion he showed up at the clinic and told her she was "taking the easy way out" too. Yeah, Mitt better she should just die and leave her other children without a mother to raise them.
ReplyDeleteWhat about your fuckin' wife? Why does everyone else with MS have to struggle when she gets to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on dressage horses? Maybe you should give her a lecture about the moral depravity of taking the easy way out?
Romney's wife would make a terrible first lady! We have the best one EVER in the White House right now with HUGE positive ratings.
DeleteOBAMA/BIDEN 2012
If his biggest vote-getter is his whiteness, then he's already lost.
ReplyDeleteThis made me cry, Gryphen. What makes people hate like this to take such a horrific action. I'm stunned.
ReplyDeleteHate Crime: ‘Fag’ Painted On Gay Man’s Car Then Blown Up In Front Of Him
Jon Ferguson, a 25-year old gay Oklahoma City man Saturday morning saw his car spray painted with the word “fag,’ then blown up feet away from him as he approached. Ferguson was rushed to the hospital with 1st and 2nd degree burns as the flames from his Camaro rose ten feet into the air. Oklahoma City Fire Department and local officials are treating this only as a case of arson, and not as a hate crime, for now. No, seriously. Arson. Not a hate crime — yet. (The New Civil Rights Movement called the Oklahoma City Fire Department and we’re awaiting a call back — we’ll update you when we get a response.) And sadly, the vandals may have won. “It’s almost not worth being proud of who you are, and trying to show that you’re gay, because stuff like this really does happen,” Ferguson tells local Oklahoma City News 9 TV. ”I’ve always seen it on the news that kids are dying and stuff because they’re being bullied, and you’re 25 years old and something like this happens to you. It’s almost not worth it, and you understand why kids don’t come out of the closet.”
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/hate-crime-fag-painted-on-gay-mans-car-then-blown-up-in-front-of-him/news/2012/07/25/44541
Remember that the majority in Oklahoma are Republicans and 'christians'. Doubt they'll move this to a hate crime as sad as that is to say!
DeleteI've friends that live in that state and they are interesting to listen to..they blow my mind truthfully.
I absolutely detest this shithead, Mitt Romney!
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the media cover the fact he called President Obama 'corrupt' yesterday? Romney should be confronted by our journalists and lies pointed out when he states them. No journalist seems to have the balls to do it and as far as I'm concerned they are not doing the job they are suppose to.
I think our media is doing nothing more than playing games w/this election process. And, I think President Obama is going to win.
Sincerely hope Romney doesn't do something overseas that screws things up for policies of the Obama Administration. If he does, he should be tried for teason ASAP. Remember that President Obama is well liked in Europe in spite of what asshole Romney says.
Why hasn't it been brought out that he deleted all proof of 'anything' when he ran the Olympics? Can you even imagine this jerk as president of the USA? We'd never know what he was doing and he assuredly wouldn't be up front and transparent w/the citizens of the USA.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Wait, so a guy whose father was born in Mexico is more white than a man whose mother and ggrandparents were born in the USA? Interesting thought, Mitt. I guess you want the press talking about your Mexican heritage nest? Is that how you plan to entice the Latino vote? What a load of crap comes out of Romney's mouth every single day. he isn;t even a closet racist. Nope, he might as well wear his pointy hat and robe from now on. I think Europe is pretty confused to hear that our President has no respect for them. That he doesn't 'understand' our shared history. I bet the President's ancestors have been here longer than Mitt's, and they don't even believe in turning people into Mormons after they die. But Mitt, you just earned yourself the KKK vote. Goody for you.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't want to let go of the Mormon thing, either. Romney says he wouldn't consider putting a Muslim in a cabinet position because he felt there wasn't a large enough percentage of them to warrant a cabinet level position. He does feel howeve, that they might be entitled to a lesser position.
ReplyDeleteDo you think there is a large enough percentage of Mormons to warrant having one as president of the United States?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7059.html
These are people who watch the Michael "I'm Kramer!" Richards racist meltdown video and secretly wish THEY could publicly shout "N*****R!!!" at the tops of their contemptible lungs....
ReplyDeleteOr maybe not so secretly.
O/T but I just saw a tweet for Palin calling Sally Ride 'inspirational.' Guess she missed the news report that Sally was gay. Unless Sarah is now a supporter? Nah.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how even a slobbering racist could trust this ass clown... he can't even keep to the simple message that the black guy needs to go for no other reason than he's black and that seems to be the only reason that motivates the GO-Tea base these days
ReplyDeleteIt won't even be whistling soon.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why they just don't give it up and put on the hoods and robes and go running in the streets screaming BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACKETY BLACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!
By the time the election comes we will be seeing the N word all over the place.
Romney may not have meant to refer to PBO as corrupt in his speech, but I think he said what he was thinking. He can read a TelePrompTer, so I think that he actually revealed what he thinks about the president. The Anglo Saxon comment is a dog whistle that the Romney campaign is now trying to walk back. I believe that the only reason Romney is trying to walk back the comment is that he knows it's offensive and racist. One of his campaign surrogates was speaking on his behalf, so I find it unbelievable that Romney and his advisers hadn't thought of what they would say about U.S.-British relations before the comment was made. I believe it was another attempt to portray the president as being different because of his race. Even some Brits were offended by the comment. Many of them were commenting on the "Think Progress" site, and they were also calling the comment racist. I have noticed a pattern with Romney. He and his surrogates will say things that reflect how he really feels, and once they get some push back on it, they'll back pedal and say they meant something else. In the case of the Anglo Saxon comment they're saying that whoever made the comment wasn't representing the Romney campaign. It's a lie. I don't believe that any member of the British press would have gone up to the first American he/she saw and asked him/her a question about Romney. Romney has made many blunders, and I always notice that it's someone else he throws under the bus.
ReplyDeleteRomney said the words 'President Obama is corrupt'. The clip was played over and over 'once' yesterday with no more coverage of it. Still baffles me! Wonder why it has been covered up?
DeleteI guess I need to forget about TV and the web for the next few months cuz I think my brain is on overload. Could you imagine the US divided like Germany was? Our side with Obama and theirs with Robme....could you imagine the people willing to die to escape from him. The horrible reality of what he would bring to our daily lives is so lost on these morons. The blogs are finally starting to write about the voter suppression scenarios.....something I have a deep fear of. Just watch the HBO movie called "Recount" again, don't think it can't happen with this Supreme Court...they did it before. This man is nothing more than a robber baron, a vulture, a vampire sucking the life blood from this country...he is worse than the mob. Now it comes out about the Olympics...he has nothing of a moral record, not Bain, not the governorship, no tax returns, charities other than a so called church which prides itself on money and ownership. The most unpatriotic american we have in politics is now going overseas to represent us...sorry I need to vomit and have a drink.
ReplyDelete12:31 I so agree with you. I worry about this jerk going overseas and undoing what President Obama has accomplished. If he badmouths our President, I don't know what I'll do. At least the majority of us know that President Obama is very well regarded overseas!!
DeleteRomney is frightening as hell! Even worse than Palin because he is smarter and has way, way, way more money and financial backers.
And, he is a Mormon. Every male Mormon I've ever gotten to know has turned out to lie about everything. It must be taught them in their cult!
Dear America and the Rest of the World,
ReplyDeleteWe have a black president with a foreign-sounding name. The GOP, the Tea Party and the Koch brothers are kind of pissed about it.
Love,
Mitt
p.s. I don't care how big Sarah Palin's new boobs are, she still isn't invited to my Big Party. So there.
Sarah is not married to a white guy she will never be part of Mitt's group in any capacity.
DeleteAnd I know Tawdry the pimp doesn't have much native blood, but one drop is too much for the Mormons
Why is it that the white supremacists always embody the worst in humanity?
ReplyDeleteRomney is a soulless, self-entitled, draft-dodging coward who got rich destroying people's lives and helping shady foreigners hide money (with government help). Yet he and his church believes that Obama, an American success story if there ever was one, is cursed with black skin by God.
Reprehensible.
And so you have the Neocon, boot licking, Michael Steel defending Mittens. What a reliable source to draw from. Remember when that scuzzbucket was the head of the GOP? What a joke that was.
DeleteWhat I like about these dog whistle attacks is that they ignore that President Obama is just as much "white" as he is "black" and in fact he shares that very Anglo-Saxon heritage. Must be a holdover from the old days, when one drop of black blood made your race black. You know, just not pure enough.
ReplyDeleteYes - and, the other part of this is that many of the whites being such jerks in this election process could very likely have 'black' blood running through their veins. Cracks me up! KKK members and those on the extreme right of the Republican party would absolutely crap if they found it to be true.
DeleteRemember, we are getting less and less white in the USA and it drives many nuts! Plus, we are becoming less and less christian which also lends to their anger.
Vote the bastards out of office - all Republicans across the nation on the national, state and local levels. They are a horrid bunch of nasty folks!
What am I to do? I live in Indiana and I'm afraid we're looking at a Governor Mike Pence. We already have a Republican state house and state senate majority and then add in we probably are going to replace Dick Lugar, a true bipartisan statesman with big teatard Richard Mourdock. Also, if you don't follow politics much, we in Indiana actually had the Secretary of State prosecuted and convicted of voter fraud last February. The guy got a divorce for a newer younger model (He definately was NOT a looker, more like a two-bagger!)and continued to vote from his ex's resdience cause he wanted to keep his high paying job on some council, which he would lose if he was honest with his new residency and anyway the guy voted from the ex's residency in two, not one, but two elections. But the guy who he defeated couldn't become the new SS because the Republicans had changed the rules when they had a sneaking suspicion that the guy would be found guilty. Nifty isn't it when you've got Republicans running things? AND YOU DON'T THINK THAT ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!! Listen to Gryphen and DO NOT sit this one out! Vote all of those Repubes out!
DeleteObama/Biden '12
Between now and the election I bet we'll see even more of Mittens' surrogates speak out in ever more outrageous and offensive ways...which will make him look ever more cowardly and craven when he still won't speak up and risk alienating the GOP base. This will not be pretty, but it will show anyone paying attention just who Mitt Romney is (and isn't) and just what he stands for, if only by showing it through the absence of his character when it counts. Truly disgusting, but it's going to get a whole lot worse because he wants the WH bad!
ReplyDeleteAnd just wait till after Labor Day and you see the PAC cash buying TV time!! It will be wall to wall ads bashing and lying ads against Obama and we got too many Faux News viewers that vote as they are told by those 3 nutjobs in the morning and O'Reilly in the evening. You will NOT be able to turn on the TV without seeing Obama as the big scary, Socialist scaring all of the low information mouth breathers. Plus the voting machines will be flipped. RMoney will "win".
DeleteI heard him say corrupt. Isn't it part of sociopath's m.o. to try to convince you that YOUR perceptions are incorrect? "He/she didn't do wrong, it's you who are wrong". Mitt's evil.
ReplyDelete"Anglo-Saxon heritage" is absoLUTEly meant to remind everyone that our President is of half African descent.
ReplyDeleteFrom where I stand, I'm not all that proud of the Angles and the Saxons. I think they have been pretty heinous throughout many points in history.
Where have these Republican bozos been for the last four years? President Obama has gotten along just great with our "Anglo-Saxon" allies, although the "Anglo-Saxon" phase ended quite a few centuries ago.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
You know, the problem with dog whistles is that at this late date we can all hear them. It isn't just audible to white Souther nutbag base any more. McCain had Sarah along to sully herself with all of the garbage while he stayed out of the fray. Mittens currently handling the nasty himself. Watch out, buddy. Sometimes when you sling shit you might come out stinking.
ReplyDeleteHey! You people, Ann said on ABC that it's Mitt's turn to be President. Don't bother voting it's his turn and that's it. He's been running for President for 10 years and it's his turn, dammit! Ann says so.
ReplyDeleteI think Mitt Romney has been acting like it's "his turn" ever since he first decided to involve himself in politics. Unfortunately the people of Massachusetts elected him as governor. Had they not done that, he wouldn't be so close to having "his turn" as president today.
DeleteMy message to Ann: It's not "his turn" to be president. He has never done anything in his life that shows that he cares about the issues facing real people (as opposed to robotic Mormons) and he knows absolutely nothing about the world beyond our borders.
Obama/Biden 2012
Sarah Palin will probably come out and endorse Romney now.
ReplyDeleteRomney is now talking Palin's racist language.
Watch Romney ask Palin to speak now. Romney needs a racist pitbull to stir up the KKK and trailer park people.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be 2008 all over again.
Oh, gawd. He just keeps getting worse and worse.
ReplyDeleteIs the GOOP really and truly going to nominate this trainwreck to represent them? Seriously?
He says this to British whose Royal family are German.But Obama is half Irish,I believe.Why are he and Michelle Bachman not prosecuted for sedition or treason.
ReplyDeleteAs Romney begins to feel comfortable about being a racist,his shenanigans will only get worse.........
ReplyDeleteI cannot abide Romney, but I beg to differ about the word he used. Both times, I heard him say "current", not "corrupt" (and I wasn't influenced by any pre-knowledge). Besides that, I can't understand why he would throw in the word "corrupt" at that point in his speech. However, the word "current" was appropriate.
ReplyDeleteThe man has thrown around enough lies, insults and genuine crap in his campaign, there's really no need to add to it!
Of course he's a racist! He grew up thinking that Obama and his daddy were the reincarnation of someone who was evil in a previous life...like, you know, a private equity guy, I guess...
ReplyDeleteBrits mock the hell out of Mittens over "Anglo-Saxon" remarks. Do shut the hell up like a good chap
ReplyDeletebyMinistryOfTruthFollow
"In short order, thanks to the The Guardian for this. . .
Want to be more like the Anglo-Saxons?
1. Stop destroying the English Language with Bushisms and Palinspeak
Its greatest threat these days is probably the former Republican president's "Bushisms".
2. You should be for MORE immigration, not less
It was sixth century British monk Gildas who saw the coming of the Anglo-Saxons as God's punishment for the sins of the Britons – an apocalyptic view that would be right at home in the delusional wing of the Republican party, and proof that the basic British distrust of foreigners was alive and well long before the barbarians invaded. If the Anglo-Saxons taught us anything, it is surely that we are all foreigners in our own country. Perhaps the Republicans can draw some inspiration from that.
3. Time to bow down to Royalty like a good peasant
One notes that the same servility to rulers applies to our Anglo-Saxon cousins across the water and that, no matter what their political hue, monarchs are accorded the respect due in the office of president.
(that last one probably has a certain appeal to Mittens . . . )
4. And finally, Stop worrying and learn to love the French
In 1066, Britain's mongrel nation status became complete, having been officially invaded by the Romans, the Angles and Saxons, the Jutes from Denmark, the Vikings and finally by the Normans who, critically, stopped Anglo-Saxon culture in its tracks. Twenty years after the invasion, the Anglo-Saxon nobility were in exile, or consigned to the peasantry, with only 8% of England under their control. The myth of Anglo-Saxon roots that Romney wants to perpetrate denies the enormous contribution to British culture by, essentially, the French. Without the Norman invasion of Anglo-Saxon England, our language and culture would obviously be very different – Mitt Romney would be wise not to cast us all back into the Dark Ages."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/25/1113573/-Brits-mock-the-hell-out-of-Mittens-over-Anglo-Saxon-remarks-Do-shut-the-hell-up-like-a-good-chap
Brits mock the hell out of Mittens over "Anglo-Saxon" remarks. Do shut the hell up like a good chap
ReplyDeletebyMinistryOfTruthFollow
In short order, thanks to the The Guardian for this. . .
Want to be more like the Anglo-Saxons?
1. Stop destroying the English Language with Bushisms and Palinspeak
Its greatest threat these days is probably the former Republican president's "Bushisms".
2. You should be for MORE immigration, not less
It was sixth century British monk Gildas who saw the coming of the Anglo-Saxons as God's punishment for the sins of the Britons – an apocalyptic view that would be right at home in the delusional wing of the Republican party, and proof that the basic British distrust of foreigners was alive and well long before the barbarians invaded. If the Anglo-Saxons taught us anything, it is surely that we are all foreigners in our own country. Perhaps the Republicans can draw some inspiration from that.
3. Time to bow down to Royalty like a good peasant
One notes that the same servility to rulers applies to our Anglo-Saxon cousins across the water and that, no matter what their political hue, monarchs are accorded the respect due in the office of president.
(that last one probably has a certain appeal to Mittens . . . )
4. And finally, Stop worrying and learn to love the French
In 1066, Britain's mongrel nation status became complete, having been officially invaded by the Romans, the Angles and Saxons, the Jutes from Denmark, the Vikings and finally by the Normans who, critically, stopped Anglo-Saxon culture in its tracks. Twenty years after the invasion, the Anglo-Saxon nobility were in exile, or consigned to the peasantry, with only 8% of England under their control. The myth of Anglo-Saxon roots that Romney wants to perpetrate denies the enormous contribution to British culture by, essentially, the French. Without the Norman invasion of Anglo-Saxon England, our language and culture would obviously be very different – Mitt Romney would be wise not to cast us all back into the Dark Ages.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/25/1113573/-Brits-mock-the-hell-out-of-Mittens-over-Anglo-Saxon-remarks-Do-shut-the-hell-up-like-a-good-chap