Boris Slates Mitt

[Frankie]

Romney is a loser, I was hoping the GOP would back someone dumber / more insane than him like Herman Cain or Santorum so Obama could sort them out fast and he could go on cleaning up Bush's mess and helping the world for another 4 years. But luckily Romney is doing a fine job embarassing himself so far.

[Joe Murphy]

Romney is a loser, I was hoping the GOP would back someone dumber / more insane than him like Herman Cain or Santorum so Obama could sort them out fast and he could go on cleaning up Bush's mess and helping the world for another 4 years. But luckily Romney is doing a fine job embarassing himself so far.

Oh good Lord... we are fucked.

[Philbert]

I was watching the BBC World News on PBS last night, as Mike Embley related a story about a Romney aide saying that Romney would relate better with David Cameron because of their "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage". He was visibly baffled as to why a politician would say this, and said to the Washington correspondent "That's a bit racially charged, wouldn't you say?" or something along those lines. The Romney camp is vociferously denying it was ever said, of course.

This may have been a valid point. Remember when Prime minister Brown gave the President a pen holder made from the timber of a historic anti-slavery ship, and the president gave the prime minister a box of DVDs? That sounds like there could be a lack of "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage" to me. Recognizing the challenges of overcoming cultural differences is not racist.

[tertius]

This may have been a valid point. Remember when Prime minister Brown gave the President a pen holder made from the timber of a historic anti-slavery ship, and the president gave the prime minister a box of DVDs? That sounds like there could be a lack of "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage" to me. Recognizing the challenges of overcoming cultural differences is not racist.

I have no idea about what you are referring to, actually. But nothing about either of those things is very Anglo-Saxonish. It's just a mismatch in the level of uniqueness of gifts. Which has nothing to do with being Anglo-Saxon vs. African-American (and I don't know where Obama's mother's people come from, so maybe he's part Anglo too).

So your example sort of falls down and lays in a puddle of its own sick, and twitches occasionally.

[JC]

Do people actually like boris? He comes across to me as some rich arsehole playing on the old boy network, although he does try to do good which is more than most politicians i think - although that might be because he's already rich as fuck so he's not such a greedy thieving cunt? I don't know much of him, but i don't trust him from what i have seen.

[Brodie Butland]

Wow...in a 24 hour period, Romney or his advisors insults London's preparation for the Olympics, drops a racial bomb, misrepresents a conversation he had with the Australian PM (the PM immediately corrected the record), refers to Great Britain as a "country," and refers to that currently existing nation, the Soviet Union.

And yet Obama is the one who hurts our standing in the world.

[B4PJS]

Go on then, what countries make up Great Britain then?

[JC]

To be fair, i doubt i'd get them all (without wikipedia) if it includes all the 'sometimes islands', or if you were meaning the physical landmass or national-political alleigance type thing.

[B4PJS]

Technically it is just England, Scotland and Wales. The UK includes Northern Ireland and all the other little islands scattered about the place

[Brodie Butland]

Technically it is just England, Scotland and Wales. The UK includes Northern Ireland and all the other little islands scattered about the place

Glad you answered first, because I would have embarrassed myself by including Northern Ireland in GB. Yes, my geography sucks. What do you expect...I'm American. At least my knowledge of history is passable.