Politics
- The Foreign Relations Fumbler – NYTimes.com
…The essential problem is that every time Romney touches foreign policy, he breaks things. He went on a friendly trip to Britain — the easiest possible test for a candidate, akin to rolling off a log — and endeared himself by questioning London’s readiness to host the Olympic Games. In the resulting firestorm, one newspaper, The Sun, denounced “Mitt the Twit.”
(Imagine a President Romney making a London trip and helpfully offering off-the-cuff advice on Northern Ireland, or breaking the ice in Parliament by telling jokes about Queen Elizabeth. The War of 1812 would resume, and the British would again be burning down the White House.)
Then there was the Romney trip to Israel, where heinsulted Palestinians and left some Jews uncomfortable with stereotyping by praising Jewish culture in the context of making money. Hmm….(Read the complete article…)
- The National Memo » The American Election’s Global Reach
- The Domestic Dan Senor – NYTimes.com
- Inside the campaign: How Mitt Romney stumbled – Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei – POLITICO.com
- Romney using new wave of ads to spell out how he would govern | Fox News
- The Mexican Mormon War – Trailer | VICE News | VICE
- Todd ‘legitimately raped’ Akin’s wife claims the GOP is raping her husband (forgets his body can just ‘shut it down’) | FreakOutNation
I’ve been thinking a lot of people who call themselves libertarians didn’t know what the word meant a few years ago.