From the Huffington Post:
"Mitt Romney, in his first trip abroad as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, is trying to walk back comments he made questioning London's Olympics preparation -- comments that have drawn a sharp response from Prime Minister David Cameron.
The dustup began Wednesday, as Romney, who ran the 2002 Salt Lake City games, said there were 'disconcerting' signs in the days before this year's games.
'The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials -- that obviously is not something which is encouraging,' he told NBC News.
'Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? And that's something which we only find out once the games actually begin,' he said.
Cameron soon rebuked Romney. 'We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course, it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere,' he said.
'I think we will show the whole world not just that we come together as a United Kingdom, but also we're extremely good at welcoming people from across the world,' Cameron added. 'I will obviously make those points to Mitt Romney. I look forward to meeting him.'
UPDATE: 3:35 p.m. -- Mitt Romney's disastrous British trip continued Thursday when, according to The Huffington Post UK, he "caused amusement" by saying he had spent a great day in the "backside" of Downing Street, rather than the back garden.
In another faux pas, Romney announced his meeting with MI6, the U.K. Secret Intelligence Service whose existence was only acknowledged by the British government in 1994.
"I appreciated the insights and perspectives of the leaders of the government here and opposition here as well as the head of MI6," he told reporters.
MI6 was mum about the meeting, according to the Wall Street Journal. "[MI6 Chief] Sir John Sawers meets with lots of people," said an aide in the British foreign press office, "but we don’t give a running commentary of any of these meetings."
London Mayor Boris Johnson hit back at Romney's comments about the Summer Games before a crowd of 60,000 in Hyde Park. "There is a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know if we are ready. Yes, we are," he declared.
Romney also seemed to break the longstanding rule for U.S. politicians not to criticize the president overseas. At a fundraiser for American expats, he reportedly said, "I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," referring to the White House returning the artwork to the British Embassy in early 2009. President Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Romney Opens Global Swing With Critique of U.K. Over Olympic Planning
Romney in London for Olympics: Candidate Angers Brits
"Mitt Romney isn't on track to bring home the gold in Diplomacy from London.
He hasn't been in London for two full days and already he's been verbally upbraided by London's mayor and been the subject of a snide comment by the British prime minister.
He referred publicly to the head of the British spy agency MI6, which apparently in England is just not done.
And he's had an unnamed staffer criticized for comments about a shared "Anglo Saxon heritage."
From a reader on Andrew Sullivan's blog:
Dishenfreude
- A reader writes:
- So, Mitt Romney is rebuked by a Tory Prime Minister famous for backing gay marriage, then he's openly mocked in front of a stadium-sized London crowd by the mayor, and he reveals what he talked about with the head of MI6, and to boot he calls the country by the wrong name. This has got to be a 10 on your personal Schadenfreude meter.
In ANGLO SAXON terms: tone-deaf, shit-for-brains, gormless, charm-free. Going down like a cup of cold sick and featured in the first 3 minutes of the BBC ten o'clock news, in a highly disparaging fashion. FAIL. (Actually just the kind of wanker we need to FINALLY get behind the games!)Another is more polite:
My view is that the British will first of all think of Romney as showing very poor manners. He's a visitor - and a private citizen at that. He's our guest in London, and as you will know from your British childhood, if you're a guest, you have responsibilities. The transatlantic politics geek in me also thinks this may play appallingly with exactly the US voters Romney needs.
My imagination of an independent or swing voter is someone suspicious of government, deeply wedded to American exceptionalism and firmly of the belief (for reasons varying from the war to Downton Abbey to the Beatles and the Stones and many other shared cultural and political experiences) that while the British don't run US policy, they are always, always deserving of complete respect and invariably worth agreeing with. This is exactly Obama's attitude to the Brits - and he can be trusted to be a polite, dignified guest.
The Right And Romney's Crash Landing Abroad
Crickets at NRO. Nothing at the Weekly Standard, except a note on his determination to bring the Churchill bust back to the Oval Office. Zilch at Malkin. Nothing at Insta. Drudge sees a huge story when it is in front of his nose. But it's at times like these when you realize how so much on the online partisan right is simply propaganda.
Oy! What a disaster!
65 comments:
Barmy? Naaah. He might have been a bit cheeky but neither Boris nor Cameron are brassed off. It's not like the guv'nah kicked 'em in the goolies now is it? I'll bet those two blokes think Mitt is the mutts nuts; the dog's bollocks; they love him!
Heh.....So much for being able to get along better with the British thanks to that "shared Anglo-Saxon" thing. It's just a shame all these wonderful gaffes are being wasted on a place that has no electoral votes in the US election.
KP,
Very funny.
Infidel,
Remember the shytestorm the media had over Mr. Obama removed Churchill's bust in the Oval Office in favor of the Lincoln one?
I remember the pundits and bloggers on the right decided that that was incontrovertible proof of Mr. Obama's ineptitude in foreign matters--and an HUGE insult to our British friends.
And this gaffe on the part of Romney?
*crickets*
What he managed to do is worse, since he made direct insults to the British people.
He seems not to be able to handle himself well in these situations.
Some hilarious tweets from the Brits, via Sullivan's blog:
#AmericanBorat sounds like Herman Cain on foreign affairs, but w/o the awesome lines from Pokemon Movie song
Mitt Romney: From #AngloSaxonHeritage to #americanborat in one day.
You can tell @MittRomney's doing badly when he starts getting booed by rich white people
65 year-old w/ #AngloSaxonHeritage, no business experience since 1999, seeks position, possibly as Leader of the Free World
"Not since WWII has London seen a bombing as thorough as Mitt Romney's."
One more
Danielle Blake@DCPlod
Mitt Romney retroactively cancels visit to London. #RomneyShambles
I especially enjoyed the quip about no biz. experience since 1999.
Did the current WH occupant ever have any business experience at all?
How so predictably progressive of the Brit.
Hilarious tweets :-)
Sounds like John Stewart wrote them!
I am betting even Romney got a good chuckle from them.
They are just pissed off because he what he said was true. The security firm said they didn't have enough people and the transit workers said they were going to strike. What about what Romney said was not true?
At least he didn't insult the British Small business owner with some arrogant saying like "If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
He does need to remember that the best comment is silence. It is encouraging that as much as the liberal MSM tried to get him to go after Obama, he refused.
RN: "I especially enjoyed the quip about no biz. experience since 1999.
Did the current WH occupant ever have any business experience at all?
How so predictably progressive of the Brit."
RN, the point of the dig is this:
Mitt Romney has made his business experience the CENTRAL point of his campaign and the main reason he'd make an awesome president.
President Obama made no such claim.
You missed the point.
skudrunner: "They are just pissed off because he what he said was true. The security firm said they didn't have enough people and the transit workers said they were going to strike. What about what Romney said was not true?"
Whether true or not, skud, a diplomat would know enough to hold his or her tongue while in his host's country. Romney seems not to understand this very basic point of diplomacy.
skud: "At least he didn't insult the British Small business owner with some arrogant saying like "If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Nice try at redirect. It's apparent that what happened to Mitt as a result of his inept performance is making certain people uncomfortable.
skud: "He does need to remember that the best comment is silence. It is encouraging that as much as the liberal MSM tried to get him to go after Obama, he refused."
Oh yeah. Because Romney's ungracious dig at his and the Brits' shared Anglo-Saxon heritage had nothing to do with the usual racially suggestive digs at Mr. Obama's racial background?
Ho. Ho. Ho.
Anything to take attention away from the disastrous freak show that is the Obama presidency.
It's a tempest in a teacup. It's not like a sitting president saying, upon a visit to Austria, that he doesn't speak Austrian, like our Dear Leader did a few years back.
The Brit papers had fun with it, as they always do, and the democrats here, bereft of ideas or any accomplishments to run on, are overplaying their hand as usual.
Over the top is the "Anglo Saxon" comment. Anyone who really thinks that came from the Romney camp is a dupe. "anonymous..." Yeah right!
But then again, the people who believe that also voted for Obama, so I can see the connection.
I can ALWAYS count on SF to come here and hysterically tell us what happened means nothing, NOTHING!
Except, of course, if it has anything to do with Mr. Obama, then it's a HUGE mistake of unimaginable proportions!
No matter.
Romney is taking some hard hits on his own Romney-made diplomatic disaster.
When you have the mayor of London mocking the presumtive Republican nominee in a stadium filled with thousands of people, you really can't spin that to "Obama did it too!!!!"
LOL!
I will admit Obama never did something like this, tell the truth.
Romney does need to not share his opinions because the leftist MSM is waiting to attack him every chance they get.
What is this Diversion from Obama's horrible administration number 100.
Now Obama signs a cooperation agreement with Israel, a country he has never visited just before Romney visits.
Barry should be ashamed and so should all of his lemmings.
Obama was president, with a protocol staff when he and his administration committed these embarrassingly stupid gaffes:
Mr Brown handed over carefully selected gifts, including a pen holder made from the wood of a warship that helped stamp out the slave trade - a sister ship of the vessel from which timbers were taken to build Mr Obama's Oval Office desk. Mr Obama's gift in return, a collection of Hollywood film DVDs that could have been bought from any high street store, looked like the kind of thing the White House might hand out to the visiting head of a minor African state.
Statement at the time by a state department official:
The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4953523/Barack-Obama-too-tired-to-give-proper-welcome-to-Gordon-Brown.html
Anyone remember Obama's "Polish Death Camps" remark?
Or how about when he cancelled the missile defense pact with them, and told everybody but the Polish PM first?
Or him blowing off the funeral of their president and instead going golfing.
But yeah, let's focus instead on an innocuous comment by a candidate and a false flag liberal plant comment that duped a pro-Obama reporter...
skudrunner: "What is this Diversion from Obama's horrible administration number 100."
Yes. Of course. Mr. Obama orchestrated Mr. Romney's diplomatic disaster just to divert attention from him. How incredibly perceptive of you to figure that sly little trick out!
skudrunner: "Now Obama signs a cooperation agreement with Israel, a country he has never visited just before Romney visits."
Because, in your universe, a president isn't allowed to do such things? BTW, our American Jewish population overwhelmingly SUPPORTS President Obama, and that's what counts, not the Israeli voters.
skudrunner: "Barry should be ashamed and so should all of his lemmings."
Barry should be ashamed of outshining Romney in the campaign?
You are amusing if nothing else.
Silverfiddle,
You're annoying.
Coming here to argue like a 12-year old is tiresome.
Mr. Romney made a colossal fool of himself, and bitching about what Mr. Obama did or did not do with gifts is pettyfoggery.
Romney insulted the Brits in their own country about their handling of the Olympics.
Nothing Mr. Obama did in the past comes close to that stupidity.
And the fact that you're on this like a dog on a bone shows us all that you know this.
... But president Obama did defuse the tense relationship with Britain with an unintended bit of humor.
His state department, in a radical departure, began calling The Falkland Islands, The Malvinas, which is what the British-haters call it.
Obama smoothed things over with his geographic ignorance by calling them "The Maldives."
Keep on trying to change the subject from Mitt's disaster to Mr. Obama's gaffes.
You have a problem with just accepting that he made a gigantic goof and made a fool of himself.
So you keep coming here and saying Obama di.d it too!!!!!
Childish and pathetic, and that does nothing to change the embarrassing hole Romney dug for himself.
Remember--Romney keeps telling the American people he'd be the better person to lead the country.
His recent diplomatic bungling and unwillingness to release his tax returns show us he would not.
You're on the defensive all over here.
It's what people who've lost the argument do all the time.
Shaw,
Agreed, it was a goof for Romney to truthfully answer a question when asked. He needs to work on his evasive answers just like most seasoned politicians. This will blow over and the Obama team will be on to the next diversion.
Have to admit that if the republicans lose this election they deserve it because they are running against the most unqualified president since Carter.
"American Jewish population overwhelmingly SUPPORTS President Obama" You really should put "supports any democrats" because, like unions, they a yellow dog democrats and try to leave thinking out of it. That says nothing for Obama.
I find Obama's insult to small business owners more offensive than Romney telling the truth to some reporter. But hey, I don't know why I should be offended because I didn't build my business according to the exalted one.
"If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
I find this discussion rather amusing. COMICAL REALLY.
Obama has been a disaster, not unlike GWB.
But Romney seems to be every bit a gaffe pone, or tone deaf, as Joe (The Disaster) Biden.
Rather than defecting the problem wouldn't the better bet be to get Romney, an otherwise intelligent man from making ridiculous statements.
Ahh, it's just so predictable.
Not that you don't have plenty there already Shaw. But here's Charley Pierce yesterday.
http://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com/2012/07/mittens-in-need-of-coaching-on-diplomacy.html
http://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com/2012/07/brits-see-romney-as-worse-than-gasp.html
There is an alternative... To both jokers.
Kevin,
Charlie Pierce is wonderful.
This latest Romney disaster is having a melt-down effect on the people who want him to vanquish Mr. Obama in November.
You can tell by the stuff they're desperately dredging up to make it a "Obama is Worse" argument.
In fact, no one, and especially Mr. Obama, has ever made such a fool of himself on the international stage. And the international community is in agreement.
Being President of the United States also carries with it the responsibility of know how to represent America while visiting foreign countries.
Like his One Percenter Tone-Deaf remarks about his wife's Cadillacs and his car elevators, Willard's insults to the Brits are evidence of his clueless upper-class mentality.
This is only a "disaster" in the lefty echo chamber.
It is nothing compared to Obama admin deliberately deciding to change 30 years of pro-British policy and suddenly start calling the Falklands, The Malvinas.
That was a deliberate public slap to Great Britain.
Mitt's comment was unwise, but not insulting, and it hardly rose to stratospheric Biden-eque levels.
But, anything to keep attention away from the horrible Obama record...
Seems Romney has been drinking to many pints over there.
He also said in an interview with NBC, that Holms bought all his killing gear. illegally.
A lie SF and the rest of Republiscum land, is totally silent about.
Glad to see RN wrote about it, at my prodding. Makes me wounder if he would have, if I had not mentioned it to him at all.
Romney's idiotic comments, just prove he has no qualifications to be president.
It's not so much the lies, or even insulting our best Allie, but the total lack of judgment of what to say, or not say while abroad.
Not to mention the tradition of not verbally attacking the president of the United States while abroad and we are at war.
SF,
Not surprising you don't see Romney's words as insulting to Brits; reading your blog it's clear you don't think anything is insulting.
Like the way you bash liberals for criticizing something a business owner said, but did not print what that business owner said.
Now get back to Silverville where the children are building your bunkers to stave off the government.
I'll be watching for you on the news (probably getting shot by ATF agents) Shouting, "Fuck the government."
@Shaw << When you have the mayor of London mocking the presumtive Republican nominee ... >>
In fairness, Conservative Party mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (the one man melting pot) is a lot like comedian Don Rickles. He will find something to laugh at or some way to make us laugh anytime there is a camera.
Nobody should have their feelings hurt by this guy. His is absolutely funny all most all the time.
The whole thing is humerous :-)
Having said that I am sure Romney would like a do over!
@ Steve who said... "
Glad to see RN wrote about it, at my prodding. Makes me wounder if he would have, if I had not mentioned it to him at all."
Well, like I said I'd been away from the news. Glad you mentioned it, I thought it noteworthy. That' why I made a comment on it.
What KP said. The Brits love lampooning stuff like this. Yeah, Mitt walked into it, but it hardly rivals the stupid comments and actions of Obama and Biden.
And as I've already said, the "anglo saxon" "anonymous" comment has no credibility whatoever, so unless the reporter can name names, it's a dead issue.
And we're "on the defensive?"
Obama is still stumbling and fumbling trying to repair the damage over his "you didn't build that" diatribe.
I'd say he acted stupidly...
And his spokesmouths are still trying to explain it.
If this is all you guys got, you're toast.
Heh heh heh...
Oh so now you are concerned about insulting our aliies....oy!
Mitt Romney is the new Sarah Palin!
@ Shaw who said... "RN: "I especially enjoyed the quip about no biz. experience since 1999.
Did the current WH occupant ever have any business experience at all?
How so predictably progressive of the Brit."
RN, the point of the dig is this:
Mitt Romney has made his business experience the CENTRAL point of his campaign and the main reason he'd make an awesome president.
President Obama made no such claim.
You missed the point."
No Shaw I didn't miss the point, I just made an observation about a man who with zero business experience, a crappy and continuing ailing economy (40 months above 8% unemployment)for a record, one who thinks his plans are working, etc... take it however you wish. The truth about "The Chicago Master of Disaster" I realize is not anything the progressive lefties want to hear about. As you keep reminding Silver.
@ Jerry who said... "Mitt Romney is the new Sarah Palin!"
Actually Jerry, not quite. It does almost seems as though Romney is trying however to claim the spot however.
Sadly the quality of politicians and lawmakers from both major parties today is atrociously low.
The Brits can dish it out. They are a funny lot. I like that about them. And America gives them just as much shit and laughs just as hard.
I don't think this latest round of fun at Romney's expense means much at all. The Brits and Americans are like brothers. In case you don't have a brother, that means they tease each other mercilessly, argue a lot and may even fight one another in a shared bedroom. But God help the bully at school or down the street if he picks on one of the brothers!
It's rather amusing how often the right-wing squad has to keep coming back here to defend Mittens.
And how SF is the most outspoken in his defense of the disaster.
It's obviously a mess--and the more they keep coming back here to defend and deflect, the worse it gets.
We're not fooled by the constant hysterical "He Did It Too!" excuses.
RN, as I stated clearly, Mr. Obama never crowed about his business as often and as insistently as Mr. Romney has. A closer look at what Bain Capital did to many hard working Americans belies that hollow boast.
And running a country is NOTHING like running a business. In a business, the CEO and the board of directors make ALL the business decisions.
Our government has three branches. Despite what the paranoid right says, it is not a dictatorship.
Business experience has squat to do with running a government.
Harry Truman is a good example. His business went bankrupt, but no one can say he was a terrible president. He had more experience as a Democratic pol than a businessman. And history has shown that he was a damned good president.
Quite the diplomat, Mitt. Spreading his charisma offshore (along with his $)
KP, what you wrote is true.
"Mitt the Twit" shall be his image in Britain from here on, whether he wins or loses the election.
And yes, he did "build that" image.
This is only a "disaster" in the lefty echo chamber.
Well, there and in practically the whole British media including conservative-leaning papers like the Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
Funny how the right-wingers here still so often react by trying to change the subject -- "Well, Obama once did so-and-so, so let's talk about that instead of about the topic of the post." We read the "Karl Rove" thing too, guys.
imagine if obama did this.
silverfizzle's head would have disintegrated in a nanosecond...but you won't hear him or his biggest fan, RN-USA, say anything about the size of the ego that would do such a narcissistic stunt...but, says silverfizzle's biggest fan, Obama has a registry list...and that makes him worse!...lol!
Found this over at RN-USA's blog:
Politicususa - The British reaction to Mitt Romney has gone from openness, to skepticism, to mocking, to concluding that Mitt Romney is worse than Sarah Palin.
Daily Mail Political Editor James Chapman has been providing the world a play by play of Romney’s British implosion via his Twitter account. Romney started things off by criticizing London’s preparedness for the Olympics. He then forgot the name of British Labour Leader Ed Miliband, and then he admitted that he had been given a secret briefing by MI6. This led the British to ask aloud if they have another George W. Bush on their hands, “Romney blunders again by revealing he’s had (supposedly) top secret briefing by John Sawers, MI6 boss. Do we have a new Dubya on our hands?”
After his visit to Whitehall, Chapman offered two of the kinder reviews of Mitt Romney, “Serious dismay in Whitehall at Romney debut. ‘Worse than Sarah Palin.’ ‘Total car crash’. Two of the kinder verdicts.” Chapman also reported another verdict from British meet and greet with Mitt, “Another verdict from one Romney meeting: ‘Apparently devoid of charm, warmth, humour or sincerity’”
Getting compared to Sarah Palin is one thing, but being called worse than Palin is an indication of the epic display of fail that Romney is putting on in London.
If you thought things couldn’t possibly get worse for Mitt Romney, you were wrong. How does one top being unfavorably compared to Sarah Palin? If you’re Mitt Romney, you get mocked in front of 60,000 people.
The Telegraph is reporting that London Mayor Boris Johnson mocked Romney’s readiness comment, “Quite a moment from the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Shortly after Rix had lit the flame he really went for it in Hyde Park. He referenced Mitt Romney’s ‘London isn’t ready’ quip and shot back in style. “Are we ready?” he called and the crowd went wild. There may even have been a hint of the Obama-friendly “Yes we can!” in there – he may have jumped into a winning scenario but I’ve not heard a politician get that reaction before.”
For their part, the White House rubbed salt in Romney’s wounds by pointing out that President Obama has full confidence in Britain’s ability to provide a secure Olympics>
Wonder how SF will spin that tragic report. Worse than Sarah Palin?
Ye Gawds!
Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop
Today Romney said,
"It appears London is ready."
Mr. Obama never crowed about his business...
Because he never has one. According to his book, Sins of My Father, he held one corporate job, as a spy for the other side.
Shaw, Obviously you have a personal issue with me.
Ya see it matters not if I am in agreement with you on essential points, such as I have been certainly more than one or twice.
Hell I got up three posts on this issue already. But never mind you gotta nit pick even when I agree on the essential issue at hand.
At any rate it is what it is. Have a marvelous day now ya hear?
Oh yeah, Harry was a good president during difficult war times times none the less. Was it Harry who said "the Buck Stops Here?" Perhaps Obama ought to take a look at how that worked out for Harry Truman. Barry certainly ain't no Harry Truman.
Mitt made a mild ill-considered comment, but Obama's British Bashing has the official weight of the United States behind it.
For your reading enjoyment. Some are funny, but many are deadly serious:
President Obama's Top 10 Insults Against Great Britain
"It's unbelievable, it's beyond human understanding, it's incomprehensible. I'm out of adjectives," he lamented.
Who said that?
If you guessed a Brit, you guessed wrong.
If you guessed a liberal columnist in the U.S., you'd be wrong.
If you guessed a Congressional Democrat, you'd also be wrong.
How about - are you ready for this RN, SF, Sud? How about Fox's own Charles Krauthammer?
The Brits seem to have a better handle on Mitt than the fright-wingers in our own country.
To put it in my own words: The unmitigated gall of this arrogant imbecile to insult the host country and its people and to slam our president, no matter who he is -or what color, demonstrates a mindbogglingly lack of diplomacy. Poland and Israel coming up. I can't wait.
@ Shaw who said... "
Found this over at RN-USA's blog:
http://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com/2012/07/brits-see-romney-as-worse-than-gasp.html
Glad you liked the post, albeit missing my comments. There must be hope for us yet :)
//Silverfiddle,
You're annoying.//
quite so.
//Romoney the new Sarah Palin//?
Ha.."What's the difference between Mitt and Sarah?"
Mitt knows he is stupid.
For all your efforts, SF, in trying to turn this into an Obama Did It Worse thread, you might want to keep in mind that President Obama is well liked by the Brits.
So despite your trying to divert attention from the Romneyshambles, it's a failing effort.
"He's one of the most well-liked global leaders in the real world.
Now, it would seem, Barack Obama has conquered the online world in the popularity stakes.
The U.S. President has been voted the most popular world leader on Twitter with 17 million followers.
"Likewise the Brits love Obama more than ever; his popularity rose in the U.K. by 13 point to 67%." --Swampland, Time Magazine, Jay Newton Small, April 2012
When the American president is "well-liked" that's a compliment to American, and all of us.
the dumbass conservative claim that Obama kicked churchill out of the oval office
"Mitt Romney has vowed to return a bust of Winston Churchill to the White House if elected president.
The only problem: it's already there.
Responding to Romney's claim that the bust has been removed from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- perpetuated in conservative Charles Krauthammer's Friday column in the Washington Post -- White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer on Friday called the rumor "so patently false" that he had to respond.
Though President Obama did move the bust out of the Oval Office -- and replaced it with a bust of President Abraham Lincoln -- it's still in the White House, just moved to the residence, outside the Treaty Room. "News outlets have debunked this claim time and again," Pfeiffer wrote in an unusual fact-check blog post on the White House website.
In case those reports haven't satisfied critics, Pfeiffer also offers up a 2010 photo of the president and British Prime Minister David Cameron looking at the bust along with his post.
"Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again," Pfeiffer said.
At a fundraiser Thursday in London, Romney said he is "looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," where it was during George W. Bush's presidency."
Romney's an jackass. Couldn't he have someone on his staff check to see if the story about the churchill statue was true?
his campaign is based on lying about the president
I understand WHY Obama selected Lincoln's bust for the Oval office.
Even though I do believe Winston Churchill should have kept a Prominent place in the White House.
Perhaps the study? :-)
Maybe in the bathroom.
Where Churchill spent most of his time (in the bathtub) while staying at the White House.
Dictating war strategy talking with FDR, while sitting in the tub smoking cigars and drinking brandy.
It was Churchill's favorite room in the White House.
"I understand WHY Obama selected Lincoln's bust for the Oval office.
Even though I do believe Winston Churchill should have kept a Prominent place in the White House." --RN
"Though President Obama did move the bust out of the Oval Office -- and replaced it with a bust of President Abraham Lincoln -- it's still in the White House, just moved to the residence, outside the Treaty Room.
Shaw, Ya know, you're really, really, really getting tiring. Get some sleep, ya need it.
I worded my comment Precisely as I did BECAUSE I knew Mr Wonderful your Hero and Idol had merely moved it to a less prominent location.
Now really, get some sleep. Tomorrow is a new day!
RN: How rude. It is not Shaw who is getting "tiring." It is you and SF who come here and overrun her blog with utter bullshit.
Just never learned the "progressive goosestep shuffle" I guess. Of course my bad.
Oh well, Life goes on.
Yes please just ban SF and RN and put Skud on probation. They have completely hijacked your comments section.
So much for the marketplace of diverse ideas and free speech huh Tim?
NO, so much for condescending garbage and always changing the topic, to meet your liberal bashing agenda. It's common for opponents to hijack comment sections and disrupt (start fights) civil conversation, and interject lies that derail serious debate.
@ Republican Racism - LOL
There are still rules of etiquette, even on the Internet. Just Google "netiquette" - you might learn some manners about the rules of the road that have been in place since long before there were blogs and social networks. Your one and only purpose in coming here is to disrupt and to hijack this blog. When you get called on it, you bitch and moan and whine and cry like a bunch of ill-mannered adolescents. You remind me of loud mouthed boorish drunks at a party who do ALL the talking at the top of their lungs while insulting the host the entire time.
RN: "So much for the marketplace of diverse ideas and free speech huh Tim?"
I'm afraid your idea of a "marketplace of ideas" is where you continue to call me partisan and other such things because I am a liberal, but never when your fellow ideologues come here and give their conservative opinions. It's never happened.
You may not be able to see your partisanship but every person who comes here does.
And you dig at "free speech" to Tim is misplaced. There is no "free speech" on a blog.
Coming here is like coming to a person's home. You're invited to participate, but like any host or hostess, I don't expect to be insulted or called names in my own home.
I make no claims to being neutral. My blog name should have given you a clue about that.
I subscribe to the values of the Democratic Party and am not ashamed of it.
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@ Ms. Shaw...
"I make no claims to being neutral. My blog name should have given you a clue about that."
I know, tis why I visit.
"I subscribe to the values of the Democratic Party and am not ashamed of it."
I know, you need not be, although the democratic party that was once honorable is dead, IMO.
'You may not be able to see your partisanship but every person who comes here does."
Bullshit! I am buy far less partisan than you have ever been or ever will be. Read my stuff without your ideological blinders on.
"Coming here is like coming to a person's home. You're invited to participate, but like any host or hostess, I don't expect to be insulted or called names in my own home."
Never called you names, in fact several times called you a class act. That is a fact and you know it.
I've questioned your goosestepping alliance to the hidebound ideology of the far left yes. But it ain't much different that the issues I've had with Hannity, Limbaugh, Santorum, Palin, Gingrich, Romney, Perry and their hidebound goosestepping alliance to the wacko and disingenuous neo-con right.
It's all there in the archives somewhere if you care to research them. Or ask my so called conservative "brethren" who have often taken me to task.
So Ms. Shaw I bid you adieu. It is obvious you prefer commentary that aligns nicely with your own premises and ideology.
Enjoy your summer.
Romney said the exact things the British reported and they are pissed.
This will blow over just like the Polish death camp statement from another politician. Romney may lose a few British votes but it is the left MSM making a lot to do about nothing.
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