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[Dr. Strangelove]

London Mayor mocks Romney, Chicago-style

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/lond ... 44027.html

Of course this comes after Romney expressed doubts that the Brits were capable of hosting the Olympics. Naturally he tried to backtrack almost immediately.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19007127

[Dr. Strangelove]

Romney camp continues to warn of the Soviet threat

A foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney’s campaign warned against policies that would aid “the Soviet Union” Wednesday, making him at least the third person from Team Romney — including Romney himself — to refer to a country that hasn’t existed since 1991 in the course of attacking President Obama’s foreign policy.

The Obama campaign has already accused Romney of having a “Cold War mindset” on foreign policy, so it naturally seized on a clip of longtime Republican diplomat Rich Williamson, a Romney adviser, speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday. Williamson was condemning the Obama approach to Syria.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/ ... -again.php

[AugustWest]

sniff, sniff...smells like dead possum...


leaves....

[Jungle Rat]

Augie is out of jail!!! Welcome back!

[AugustWest]

advice of the day. dont drop the soap.

[10ac]

Esp if you're a player in the Big.

[THE_WIZARD_]

"...it is alive..."

[Jungle Rat]

Heh. Not a good start for Novembers second place finisher. What a dork.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ondon.html

[Toemeesleather]

Ah yes, please vote for Mr. you didn't build that... and you'll get the sequel.

You don't own that.

[Jungle Rat]

Mitts "I'm trying to be President Please Meet With Me" Tour is off to a great start. Maybe he can visit the people he outsourced all those jobs to so they can thank him.

[THE_WIZARD_]

As opposed to Mr. "I couldn't run the economy of a shopping center" and Mr. "Government is Great and You Didn't Build That!"?????

[Professor Tiger]

Maybe he can visit the people he outsourced all those jobs to so they can thank him.

He's already got kin in Mexico.

[Toemeesleather]

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.5 percent from April through June, as Americans cut back sharply on spending. The slowdown in growth adds to worries that the economy could be stalling three years after the recession ended.

The Commerce Department also said Friday that the economy grew a little better than previously thought in the January-March quarter. It raised its estimate to a 2 percent rate, up from 1.9 percent.

Growth at or below 2 percent isn't enough to lower the unemployment rate, which was 8.2 percent last month. And most economists don't expect growth to pick up much in the second half of the year. Europe's financial crisis and a looming budget crisis in the U.S. are expected to slow business investment further.

"The main take away from today's report, the specifics aside, is that the U.S. economy is barely growing," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at BTIG LLC. "Along with a reduction in the actual amount of money companies were able to make, it's no wonder the unemployment rate cannot move lower."



3 MORE MONTHS!!!1111

[hedge]

"as Americans cut back sharply on spending."

You would think conservatives would applaud this sort of thing...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Why would that be? It's democrats that put party before country...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Charles Krauthammer just lays into Romney for insulting Britain...LOL

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[Professor Tiger]

Everybody - except IB - knows Romney is a total dumbass.

Krauthammer's comments should surprise no one.

[10ac]

Thanks for the info, Dsl, next he'll be bowing to the Japs or Chinks or maybe even the Arabs.

[Professor Tiger]

If he walks while holding hands with a foreign Arab despot, he will be just like W.

[10ac]

One can only hope he kills as many arabs.