The Romney European Tour 2012 - How Many Can He Piss Off?

[Nickdfresh]

I worked under Mitt as an olympic volunteer but him and his wife were my nieces first major clients as a interior decorator. She spent a lot of time at their New Hampshire lake house redecorating it. Mitt is a high energy guy. He's like he's on one big caffeine buzz and he likes to be in the game. He's very hands on. He can get more done in a meeting in fifteen minutes than most people can get done in two hours. He's a better administrator and manager than a politician. I hear he's decent to work for. I didn't have any problem with the guy.

I'm thinking this is the 80% bull stool-sample...

[LoungeMachine]

I worked under Mitt as an olympic volunteer

10,000 people can make this same claim.



The guy handing out water bottles before the Luge Trials worked under Mittens....

Bring specifics, or consider this part of your 80% bullshit

Seriously, man....it gets old.

[ELVIS]

He could post a pic of himself shaking Mitt's mitten and you retards wouldn't believe it...

[Terry]

The aspect of Romney's candidacy that has me less than overwhelmed is how Mitt has basically been running for the presidency since 2006.

The economy is weak. Plenty of people who voted for Obama (and many of Obama's largest 2008 donors) aren't enthusiastic about doing so this time around.

Mitt has been at it for 6 years now. Yet he hasn't taken the lead in many polls...he still can't close the deal...a large chunk of swing voters out there aren't seeing him as a viable alternative to Obama.

Romney has to hope something catastrophic happens between now and November, because he's already by and large been defined: people have made up their minds about him. On top of all this, Romney has no real economic plan. Nothing new or innovative. Just the same old supply-side bullshit that works very well for the very few - people are hip to that claptrap. Now Romney has gone from promising to create jobs to promising to "create the conditions that can create jobs," which promises nothing tangible or concrete. All Romney has to offer is a campaign strategy that subtly boils down to "Vote For Me and Get Rid of the Darkie."

I suppose part of this "creating conditions" strategy can be illustrated with the decision to hold the GOP Convention in Tampa, which is now resulting in a dozen downtown blocks and adjacent neighborhoods being shut down for four days, so none of the businesses in the area can get deliveries during this period. Lovely.

[ELVIS]

Creating the conditions to creat jobs is exactly what a president should say and do...

A president can't create a single job, but he can help create an environment where people feel safe to invest money and thus start up new business and or expand existing business...

[Nickdfresh]

Dupey poop!

[Nickdfresh]

Creating the conditions to creat jobs is exactly what a president should say and do...

A president can't create a single job, but he can help create an environment where people feel safe to invest money and thus start up new business and or expand existing business...

No they don't! The forces of the economy and its cycles do! Obama can't control the Euro-Debt Crisis and its effect on a skittish Wall St., nor can he force profitable, gun-shy companies to hire even though their workers are being over-worked and they're overpaying them with overtime when normally they'd hire more people but refuse too because they're scared...

Short of a works project for public infrastructure (which I think would be great!) Obama nor anyone cannot directly effect jobs creation. They can only set policies of enforcement to prevent wholesale economic corruption routinely seen during the Bush Admin during the Qualcom/Enron/Adelphia scandals. Though yes, Clinton also dropped the ball on that one!

[jhale667]

[Seshmeister]

Romney's itinerary on this tour was to go to Poland, then over to the UK and then swinging East towards Palestine.

Was that not the same route as Hitler planned?

[vandeleur]

[Seshmeister]

It's quite impressive how much Romney is hated in the UK already.

It's now been noticed in his recent book No Apology he said

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions. Yet only two lifetimes ago, Britain ruled the largest and wealthiest empire in the history of humankind. Britain controlled a quarter of the earth's land and a quarter of the earth's population.

He may think that and some of it may be true but it's not a way to build bridges as an international leader...

[Terry]

Creating the conditions to creat jobs is exactly what a president should say and do...

A president can't create a single job, but he can help create an environment where people feel safe to invest money and thus start up new business and or expand existing business...

Do you really believe a president can't create a single job?

One step beyond that, is it your belief that should Romney win and then goes on to reduce the corporate and individual tax rates across the board, that this will create conditions where suddenly companies start a massive hiring boom?

If your answer to both of the above is yes...well (and hey, everyone's obviously entitled to think what they want to think), there's really little point in continuing.

[vandeleur]

He is Quite the diplomate ....

[Seshmeister]

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