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I wonder if he’ll tell a pollock joke on his next stop. There are certain to be several other non-existent Nations that he’ll mention. A few more days like today and he’ll make Sarah Palin and Herman Cain seem like Foreign Policy experts.
Mitt worked really hard today to earn the Twitter tags: #RomneyShambles and #AmericanBorat. Imagine the deep ridicule he would create as President. One tweet I saw described him perfectly:
“65 year-old w/
#AngloSaxonHeritage, no business experience since 1999, seeks position, possibly as Leader of the Free World.”
Happy trails Mitt.
And now an Open Thread…
Cheers
Steve
Like, a joke about Jackson Pollock? Huh?
BGinCHI
How many Mitt Romneys does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Joey Maloney
N@Steve: No, stupid, a fish joke. Obviously.
the Conster
Posting in the other thread, but #romneyshambles and #AmericanBorat have trended together, and it’s fucking ridiculously awesome.
Mitt Romney retroactively cancels trip to London.
Romneyshambles UK to do list.
C Nelson Reilly
Mitt’s been huffing his own jenkem for so long he actually believes what he’s saying
Redshift
@BGinCHI: Dunno, but it only takes one to screw up a light bulb!
the Conster
Mitt’s bad day continues with fundraiser FAIL.
Suzan
I suggest a little slack be given to Sully on a day like today as he has spent the whole day trashing Romney. A beautiful sight to see.
Beth in VA
Still can’t get over those Romney Salt Lake City Olympics pins.
Mike G
It was inevitable:
The Romney Badger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD0bwTzFDM
Dennis G.
@the Conster: Too funny.
Mark S.
I can’t believe Mitt basically said that London wasn’t ready to host the Olympics. How crappy of a politician do you have to be to insult your hosts like that?
How are those Anglo-Saxon relations now?
dp
It’s amazing, but those Salt Lake Olympic pins with Mitt’s effigy are perhaps the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen. What in God’s name would possess someone to even think about creating such things?
the Conster
The Poles are telling Mitt jokes.
Brutal.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@the Conster: Couldn’t happen to a douchier douche. I wonder how many attendees didn’t want reporters, or Her Majesty’s investigators, to be able to find them to ask pesky questions about LIBOR.
@Mark S.: Seriously, it’s like when he didn’t know how to dig out of “I’m not concerned about the poor”. “There are many challenges in planning a successful Olympics, as I know so well, but I’ve been talking to old friends [ed- name one, Willard, just one.] and I can feel the wonderful energy here and I have every confidence blahblahblah
the Conster
Fulfilling vow not to insult Obama while overseas, @MittRomney insults everyone in Britain instead.
Hill Dweller
@Mark S.:
Willard has always been an awful politician. It took Massachusetts 24 months to see through him. The Brits saw through him in less than 24 hours.
I’m hoping the rest of the country sees through Willard before November, but the MSM is working overtime to cover up his ineptitude.
jimmiraybob
Can you imagine at this point realizing that bringing in Sarah Palin as V.P. to boost your gravitas is actually an option?
kay
@Suzan:
The snippet from blogs on the Right is great.
“Get over it, Britain”
24 hours ago US conservatives were claiming Obama didn’t understand the “special relationship”
Now it’s “get over it, Britain”
Redshift
@dp: Love makes you do strange things, and Mitt’s in love with himself.
jimmiraybob
Somewhere there are 5 sons watching a hereditary ruling dynasty evaporate.
Redshift
@kay: Perhaps that woman from the “VIP” fundraiser could explain to the Brits that they’re not educated and they don’t understand how things work…
Hill Dweller
The most devastating criticisms I saw came from the anonymous British government personnel, who said Willard had no charm, warmth nor sense of humor.
Suzan
The Mitt pins are priceless. There are worse ones on Buzzfeed. I don’t know how to post the link here. Google it. Check out the one with Mitt pulling them to the finish and the “Mitt Happens”. I’m from Salt Lake and I do not remember these pins. Would love one but they can’t be found for sale. This guy is all ego and hair (or is that the same?)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Hill Dweller: “Gormless”. What a great word. I hope that’s one of the British words that gets Americanized. Our Willard is a gormless prat.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
When your appearance sparks a tweet that reads
it’s going to be a long and grueling road to the first debate. Seen at TBogg’s place, with Thursday Night Basset Blogging also, too.
feebog
I can’t wait for him to get to Isreal. Will he complain that he can’t find a decent pulled pork sandwich anywhere? Wonder outloud why those cute little beanies all the men wear lack propellers? Tell a reporter that those Kibutz things are a litte bit too commie for his taste?
dm
Remember how it was an article of faith in Wingnuttia that Obama was an embarrassment when visiting Britain — what with Michele putting her hand on the Queen’s back, and the Obamas giving the Queen an iPod?
scav
@kay: Entire Party has learned to Love its Inner Flip-Flop.
NotMax
@Kay
What, no juvenile sniggering from them that the British eat spotted dick?
Mightily surprised if that hasn’t been posted and cross-posted on those forums yet.
dead existentialist
@jimmiraybob: They’ll be on the esteemed 30rock or whatever Brian William’s wankfest is called late this week.
And since this is an open thread and the Olympics start tomorrow, I want to share this little gem of the US Swim Team performing “Call Me, Maybe.” (I was unfamiliar with the song outside of a weird performance at the CWS.) There will be some major hookin’ up in the Olympic Village over the next couple of weeks! Our American youth are teh hawt! USA USA USA!
Really, it’s a very cute video.
Hypatia's Momma
I eagerly await his confident statement that Africa is a big country.
Ash Can
@ Dennis G.:
Not “he will.” “He would.” Or are you just trolling us?
Wazmo
@the Conster: LIke how he borught his pregnant wife wife to the appliance store ‘cuz they said “free Delivery”?
Kyle
@dp:
Creepy authoritarian idolatry is a feature of Mormonism.
Villago Delenda Est
I’m expecting Rmoney to ask for a bacon cheeseburger with a side of cous cous while in Jerusalem. Also, tell a crowd there that he visited a Polish resort in someplace called Auschwitz.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Did Rmoney actually say “the nation of Great Britain” or is that guy with the beagles having us on?
Villago Delenda Est
@Kyle:
Also, like all creepy authoritarians, they’re seriously into kitsch in a non-celebration of camp sort of way.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax:
Well, no mention of strange desserts, but, via Sully, from an individual called Dan Riehl that I’ve heard of but don’t know anything about:
Cacti
I’m hoping Mitt finishes his international statesman tour by saying “Jerusalem has always been a Mecca for the Jewish people”.
If anybody can do it, he can.
pseudonymous in nc
I’d look to the Sunday papers in Britain just to see if there’s a tick-tock on this. Londoners and the British press have indeed been pointing to problems with the security arrangements (contracted out to the private sector, which fucked up) and the missiles on roofs of residential buildings and the aggressive brand policing. There’s been a hearty chorus of “fuck off, Boris” all week in response to his taped messages on the buses, and after he read out a specially composed ode in Pindaric Greek.
But the British people — Londoners in particular — are very proud and protective of their right to grumble. They do not like people who look like the cliché of the slick Yankee gobshite barging in on their turf. So when Willard committed his unforced error, I can’t help wondering if Cameron’s spin doctors saw their chance at a deflection strategy, depending on how the meeting at Number 10 turned out, with the assistance of a few choice background leaks (“worse than Palin”) The momentum has come from the Tory press — the Telegraph and Mail, with the Times in tow — while the Guardian has just watched the trainwreck with amusement, from a distance.
That’s pretty daring politics, which bets to a certain extent on Mittens losing in November, because his campaign team is either smarting tonight or even dumber than I suspected. But it’s definitely the kind of politics I’d expect from the Tories.
DJShay
Does anyone have a link to how Romney insulted England’s healthcare?
Nutella
Good thing the candidate with a true understanding of our Anglo-Saxon heritage and the special relationship between the US and UK was the one who went to London. Putting our best foot forward with the Brits.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Heh. That Thatcher broad. What a leftie, huh, Mr. Riehl?
Joseph Nobles
Sweet Baby Jesus, DU just ran an instant classic of a graphic: Mr Bain Goes To London.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021028781
I love it so much, I’m having its terror babies.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I guess that whole “true understanding of our Anglo-Saxon heritage” thing really meant that only Romney understands what pathetic losers the British are.
Ash Can
@the Conster:
Holy Moses. I saw earlier today that they were discounting the tickets, but there were all kinds of different numbers being thrown around, leading me to believe that the tickets had been discounted from $2,500 to $1,000. I didn’t realize it was from $25,000-$75,000 to one grand (with freebies being offered on top of it, according to that article).
So, on the first day of his Excellent Foreign Policy Cred-Building Adventure, Mitt has managed to piss off all of Britain, turn himself into an international laughingstock, piss off his own American press corps, and fall on his face trying to raise money for his campaign. I’m having a hard time imagining how he can possibly top this, but given his penchant for doubling down in the face of every last shred of common sense imploring him to do otherwise, I’m sure he’ll find a way.
Linnaeus
Folks, you need to watch Bear Cam right now.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@DJShay: I haven’t seen that, but this is from his book
Now… how does that fit in with his promise to return the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office? And it’s from his book. He wrote that. HE probably re-read it at some point and decided to keep it in. Presumably, there was an editor who saw it, and it’s still in there. Willard is one weird fuck, but he’s also an asshole down to his bones.
Cacti
@Nutella:
And am I the only one who’s had it up to their eyeballs with this “special relationship” “Anglo-Saxon heritage” tripe.
This country was founded on an explicit rejection of the central institution of our special friends…their Monarchy.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cacti: Oh pish, posh. Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.
jwb
@Linnaeus: Even more than the last time I looked.
MattR
@Linnaeus: That is pretty cool. Gonna keep an eye on it.
BadFileName
Yankee Doodle went to London riding dancing pony. Stuck a faux pas in his hat and knew that he was phony.
BillinGlendaleCA
Speaking of pins, anybody notice that Willard’s American flag pin looks a bit, different? I noticed it during the primaries, it’s got something in the right part of the flag and thought it odd. I googled it last night, apparently it’s got an elephant in the stripes in the right part of the flag. What Willard, an unadorned American flag isn’t good enough?
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
The spin?
He was referencing Shakespeare’s Richard II speech calling England “this sceptred isle.”
He’s not responsible for anything in a book with his name on it and from which he received income.
He was out of town when it was printed, thus could not have known what was in it.
robertdsc-PowerBook
I am taking great delight in slagging Willard at work. Fuck that motherfucker and his stupid ass wife.
scav
I suppose one problem for the true stars of the necessarily exceptional red staters on twitter is they all have to run their #tags entirely on their lonesome with none of that commie help or sozialist working together no nohow. Ah well.
Still, it’s interesting to note that special relationship wasn’t so special after all. They’ll be out dumping teabags into local gutters any minute now with a bit more (unintended) historical consistency.
Wazmo
@Linnaeus: beauty.
NotMax
@scav
And will have to global replace all references past and present in calls for making English the official language of the country.
MattR
@Wazmo: The salmon definitely got the short end of the stick. It’s gotta be tough enough to swim up waterfalls without your biggest natural enemy sitting at the top just watching, waiting and salivating.
NotMax
Where’s the white-hot winger outrage of yesteryear?
No cries to rechristen those fork-split baked goods as Minuteman Muffins?
Richard
It will be interesting to see how Mitt manages to insult everyone in Israel when he visits them.
The Republic of Stupidity
At least he didn’t refer to Greatest and Least Britain…
Funny thing…
If you go to the WaPo link Sullivan has embedded in his article, note the body language in the freeze frame at he start of the video clip… is that not the same inane cowboy swagger that Bush the Lesser perfected in his glory days?
MikeJ
@Linnaeus: I see the salmon going upstream all the time when I’m out hiking, but happily I’ve not run into bears (except black bears, and they hardly count) in the wild. Neato cam!
(Unrelated, here‘s where I went hiking today.)
dead existentialist
@Joseph Nobles: Oh my!
David Koch
Can you imagine the firestorm in the MSM if a Dem, say Hillary Clinton, had a commissioned a bunch of cult style pins reminiscent of Kim Jong-il.
Of course, IOKIYAR
dead existentialist
@BadFileName: That is full of WIN. You might want to sell it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT: Shorty Bloomberg can go fuck himself :
Bloomberg To Host Fundraiser For Scott Brown
El Cid
Daaaaaaamn.
And people thought the breakup of the small and not quite geostrategically crucial Yugoslavia was fun.
karen marie
@the Conster: #Mitthitsthefan and #Mitthappens are also hilarious.
He’s such a #Mittwit
BadFileName
@dead existentialist:
Everything on the internet is free.
BadFileName +1 or 15
danielx
At this point Karl Rove is probably grinding his molars down to the gum line and channeling Casey Stengel:
Can’t anybody here play this game?
A truly delicious image, and a well deserved one at that. I am beginning to suspect that short of Obama really and truly screwing the pooch on some major issue – unlikely, he’s not a fool – he’s going to run over the Marquis like a lawnmower.
Mitt Romney really and truly does not seem to grasp what’s involved in campaigning for the presidency – that for starters. For starters, his refusal to release his tax returns, which has been more or less standard for presidential candidates for a while, is foolish – unless he really does have something to hide, which he probably does. This on top of the repeated gross and egregious political blunders? Nephi is definitely not guiding the man’s hand or footsteps.
RadioOne
I was debating with myself for months whether Romney would actually do “the trip” this year, like Obama did in 2008. I’m really surprised he did it, because I never thought that the Romney campaign would ever shift the debate to foreign policy on a global stage.
Because they are bad at foreign policy. Really bad. Israel and Poland should be interesting.
gwangung
@RadioOne: With our luck, he’ll do only a minor gaffe and look like a genius in comparison.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@danielx: I was watching Tweety a couple days ago, and he asked, a sincere question AFAICT, if the Olympics were “big enough” for a presidential campaign. It’s the question I’ve been asking myself, if my own Olympic-skepticism was blinding me to a strong asset he had. The answer from his Village guests was “no”, which was my hunch. Timothy Noah had an interesting take on Romney and the Olympics
I like the idea that Our Willard is “deeply invested” in the delusion of his superhumanity. I think that my well trip him up in the debates.
Hill Dweller
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope Willard keeps pretending the Winter Olympics(much smaller than the Summer Olympics) makes him uniquely qualified to be President. That will give the Obama campaign the opportunity to inform the American people about the massive government bailout and army of lobbyists.
If Noah is right, and Willard thinks his ‘saving’ the Winter Olympics was superhuman, Cameron’s dig about the ease of running an Olympics in the middle of nowhere is even more devastating.
karen marie
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): #MittWit
Hill Dweller
The Twitter machine is telling me CNN has pretended the Willard disaster in London didn’t even happen.
I know CBS and NBC led their evening news with it, but it is still astonishing the lengths our media goes to to help cover for Willard’s ineptitude.
Origuy
Mixed in with the Anglo-Saxon-American snark on #romneyshambles are some really pathetic responses from rightwingers. One guy apparently thinks the mayor of London is a Socialist. Somebody brought up a slip of the tongue from a year ago when Obama said he was going to Asia for Christmas instead of Hawaii. I’d never even heard of that one. And several think the the Brits should be outraged that Obama returned a bust of Churchill that Blair loaned to Bush.
Oh BTW, this is good: New Olympic event dedicated to Mitt Romney: 100 meter backpedaling.
Mike G
“Hi, I baptized Hitler” is not an acceptable greeting in either place.
VividBlueDotty
@dead existentialist: Loved the video, thanks for sharing!!
Hill Dweller
@Origuy: The wingnuts can try dredging up every alleged Obama gaffe, but nothing can top Willard managing to enrage an entire country and completely stun their government with stupidity in the span of twenty four hours.
stibbert
the euro-mitt tour has certainly come up trumps, i’ve really enjoyed it, ‘specially the part about the discounted fundraiser tix, mixed in w/ the Barclaysbank ex-chair excusing himself from the proceedings.
& The Conster has been on fire in these comments, hats off!
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Hill Dweller:
I made the mistake of watching CNN today while the soccer games were going on at MSNBC. Wolf Shitster was in Aspen interviewing the guy in charge of Special Operations and essentially said ‘you ordered the attack on Bin Laden’, to which the guy stated that the President ordered (and took the risks that all that entailed) the operation and he just led it. Wolfie kept trying to push the line that this guy was the reason that we got Osama and the guy kept correcting him so much on that that the audience started laughing at Wolf. The military guy kept pressing back on it, giving Obama all of the credit for the political risk, and the audience heartily applauded him (and Obama). Wolfie got all flustered and started tongue-bathing him on his leading the Special Operations forces, while the military guy kept giving Obama credit and the audience laughed at the absurdity of Wolfie drooling and acting like a fool. Later segments that Wolfie aired of the interview had the absurdity edited out, making the interview look very serious and all that.
FSM, I can’t wait for the Olympics to get over and MSNBC to get back to their regular programming. I wouldn’t wipe my cats asses with Wolfie Shitster.
Jewish Steel
You call that a bearcam? Nothing but a bunch of lazy ursidae waiting for dinner to jump in their mouths. Where is the house music? Where are the mustaches and unruly chest hair? I ask you!
Narcissus
Sullivan says that the right blogosphere has basically pretended today didn’t happen. Is this right? Anyone have more info? Somebody must have tried to put some spin on it.
Kane
An Idiot Abroad.
TheMightyTrowel
@Narcissus: I think that’s a yes.
David Koch
@Hill Dweller: CNN doesn’t really cover politics, anymore.
David Koch
@Hill Dweller:
And so did ABC. Mitty hit the trifecta.
Kane
The Olympic pins of himself are really quite extraordinary. Pins not to commemorate the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, but pins to commemorate his role in the 2002 Olympic Games. He was already selling the meme that he had saved the 2002 Olympics even before the games had begun.
Joey Maloney
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I think what we’re seeing is Willard’s first time out of the bubble. He’s spent his whole life as a powerful guy, but the power came from his money and people sucked up to him because they wanted some of it. He has made the mistake of thinking that the power was something intrinsic to him. He is possibly for the very first time in his life encountering people and situations that his money can’t buy and it’s clear from his reactions that it simply Does. Not. Compute.
We already know that he doesn’t take criticism well. He fired his debate coach, remember, for being good at his job (good enough to get mentioned in the press) and then went on to give performances that got a passing grade only because of the severe curve – he was in the front seat of the short bus. Now all of a sudden it’s graduation day and he’s nowhere near ready.
amk
@BadFileName: LOL. tweeted.
SteveM
I feel as if I personally know all the people in America who know how to spell “souvenir.” There are about six of us.
Valdivia
@Kane:
the ‘we love mitt’ one is the creepiest.
Maude
@SteveM:
Make that seven. There was a club song with that title. That’s how I learned, and of, course, spell check.
WaterGirl
I used to have a fun book on Dan Quayle. It was really fun to take on road trips – filled with multiple choice questions about all the stupid things he had said.
There would be a question like: “What did Dan Quayle say when speaking at the Olympics”.
The question would be followed by answers a, b, c, d and e. All the answers would be amazing, of course, but only one was true. Sometimes what he had said was SO bad that you eliminated that one right off the bat.
How about if we at BJ collectively create a book like that on Romney and we sell it as a fundraiser at Christmas? I’m sure this crowd could come up with some great ideas.
And maybe some enterprising BJ person who is not employed or is under-employed might want to put it together for us, and we could pay them a smallish stipend for doing it?
Off to swim, will check back later to see if anyone responds.
sherparick
I must admit if this is a foretaste of the “competence” and return to glory promised by our Right Wing friends when the Mittster turns out the Kenyan Socialist Acorn Activist usurper, we will at least have some laughs while dumpster diving (Casey Mulligan’s preferred way of supporting the unemployed). These headlines from the Right Wing Daily Mail:
“What a car crash… worse than Sarah Palin’: British politicians’ fury at Romney’s blunder-filled visit to London ahead of Olympics.”
So much for Winston Churchill’s bust being restored to the oval office.
Jay C
@RadioOne:
Not to forget Poland, or anything: but it’s always seemed to me that the Israeli segment of Willard’s Wacky World Tour has been the main event of the whole deal. As we have seen, the GOP has come up with precisely jack, diddly and squat in terms of foreign policy initiatives so far in the campaign* – Israel is probably the one notable place he can visit which has a local vein of anti-Obama sentiment to be tapped. Mainly, I think, because (actual policies and actions aside), right-wing Israelis believe that Mitt and the GOP can be relied upon to not only absolutely back each and every hardline policy they can devise or enact, but defend it (and them) against even the least criticism. And (again, facts notwithstanding) they don’t seem to believe the same of Obama and his Admin. Israel is the one place where Mitt can posture for the (domestic US) press and be sure to have it covered in a properly deferential manner.
Yeah, I know that domestic economic policy is going to be the main driver of the Fall elections, but on the Presidential level, at any rate, it certainly helps when the US President (or even a candidate) projects well on the international stage. Republican carping aside, I think Obama does this very well: but then, when one of major parties seems to have adopted “F*ck those stupid foreigners” as its benchmark policy in international relations, what can you expect?
NickM
@dp: They struck me as worth a second look. Besides their creepiness, who the fuck cares who’s the head of the Olympic host committee? Since when is such a person a celebrity with fans? The asshole had his name on EVERY freakin’ pin, and his cartoon was upstaging the animals.
NonyNony
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Maybe he’ll just refuse to have debates.
Sure it would be unprecedented, but then so is not releasing tax forms.
It would be crazy to do it, but he’d probably score some big points with the fraction of the base that thinks the rest of his antics are “WINNING!”
Donald G
As I quipped elsewhere:
“After Mitt Romney’s Great British Vacation, Britain and the European allies begin to ask, “Was George W. Bush really THAT bad?”
Remind me again, which of the candidates really understands the Anglo-American “Special Relationship”? I seem to have forgotten.”
It’s beginning to look that the Romney campaign is an elaborate attempt to rehabilitate Bush’s reputation, not by touting anything good Bush may have done, but by achieving a level of incompetence on the world stage even worse than Bush.
Dennis G.
@Ash Can: fixed.Thanks for the proof read.
redshirt
I’d like to say thanks to Mitt for providing me a lot of laughs yesterday, in days past, and I’m sure in days to come.
Dennis G.
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Video of the entire interview here.
By the way, it seems that Wolf will ‘interview’ Mittens in Israel. Two masters of the flub together–what could possibly go wrong.
ZaftigAmazon
If he tells pollock jokes, he’ll lose the vote of every Pollochius spp. fish in both Atlantic AND Pacific oceans.
Downpuppy
@ZaftigAmazon: You just haddock go there, didn’t you?
Epicurus
@Downpuppy: This whole thread smells fishy to me. BTW, Dennis, I believe the word you were looking for is spelled “Polack”; get your ethnic slurs straight, willya?
Ben Cisco
I love the Guarniad:
rikyrah
@Hill Dweller:
YOU SPEAK THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
nominus
Indeed. It seems to be a mixture of “not as bad as Obama’s visit” mixed with “#ChickFilA is more popular than #romneyshambles” and some “good, those eurofags can suck it, they hate us for our freedom”.
If it gets worse for mittwit, they’ll have to invent some other distraction – find some new sluts to shame, find some other economic distraction, or maybe start a war.
barath
@WaterGirl:
Sounds good. You collect the quotes / multiple choice possibilities, and I can do the typography / layout for a book and make a decent looking PDF out of it.
The thing is, maybe it should be a pre-election fundraiser?
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Actually Willard was on a leave of absence when that chapter was written.
R-Jud
@Downpuppy: Relax, I don’t think he did it on porpoise.
Tony the Wonderhorse
how relevant is the title Leader of the Free World today?
in 1975, sure. But all that’s left of communism is China and a few small fry. Freedom doesn’t exactly ring but most of the world is as free as we are, whereas it used to be most of the world wasn’t. Descending into a police state played a role but still, there is no big Us and Them any more, except the terrorists of course, but regardless that doesn’t make the title meaningful. The idea is out of date.
Even if Mitt wins the election, and he won’t, he’ll never be leader of the free world because no one will be ever again.
Except maybe Jesus. On second thought, definitely not Jesus.
Another Halocene Human
@Mike G: wow
ottercliff
Oh but think of the footage yet to come of Netanyahu riding Mitt as he does his dancing horse routine