July 26th, 2012
By Stephanie Devereaux -- In a surprising act of evolving political foundering, Mitt Romney went international with his political "tone-deafness" by ostentatiously flying to Great Britain, then blasting the British for what was in his opinion the inadequate and perhaps poorly managed security apparatus for the 2012 Olympics.
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The British, not surprisingly, blasted Romney right back -- saying that in remote places of diminutive populations ( like Utah perhaps) security requirements may have been a little easier to put in place and a little simpler to manage -- but that to hold the Olympics in and around London is a little bit different.
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What is disturbing about this is not that Mr. Romney shoots off his mouth without thinking, which he inevitably does in most cases anyway -- or that he displays an alarming tone-deafness -- not only domestically but internationally as well -- but the sad fact that he can't even go to a country that is one of our biggest friends, supporters and world allies -- on what is for all intents and purposes a light weight public relations gimmick trying to gain some modicum of political advantage (or at least notoriety) in this election year from the 2012 Olympics -- just because he ran the Olympics several years ago in Utah -- and he can't even pull that off -- without insulting the host country of the Olympics, Great Britain, in the process. With skills like these -- I can hardly wait until he sits down with representatives from Russia, Iran, and North Korea -- and eagerly anticipate what international crises result from his carelessness and tone-deafness in those meetings. Not what most of us Americans are looking for in a President, I would venture to say.