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An unnamed adviser to Mitt Romney who told the London Telegraph that the candidate appreciates Anglo-Saxon heritage better than President Obama has no actual connection to the campaign, a spokeswoman for the former Massachusetts governor said Wednesday.
Its not true, Amanda Hennenberg said in a statement. If anyone said that, they werent reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign.
We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, reporter Jon Swaine claims a a member of the [Romney] foreign policy advisory team said. The White House didnt fully appreciate the shared history we have.
Obama strategist David Axelrod called the quote stunningly offensive.
Romney does have a team of 22 foreign policy and national security advisers. But British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes than most of the American press. An adviser could have no actual role in the campaign; the Republicans staff rarely talks to the foreign press.
more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-camp-anglo-saxon-report-false/2012/07/25/gJQAS9D38W_blog.html
What a farce. So they sent 22 advisors to talk to The Telegraph yet they aren't really advisors?
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)So many loose cannons, so much fun to come. He better rein all that in
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)"LEAKING?"
And we're supposed to trust our economic and national security to this guy?
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)Are we suppose to just trust Romney's word? REALLY? All he's done is lie lie lie.
Why would a newspaper interview someone with no ties to the campaign and call them an adviser. If I get interviewed can I call myself an Obama adviser?
This is bullshit. They're covering their ass.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Enough of Romney's bullshit antics.
flamingdem
(39,330 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)When they actually may have to answer for comments or actually take action and be held accountable, they fold like the cheap, empty-suit cowards they are.
This piece of shit was pro-draft yet ran off to "study" in France. he is a vulture capitalist who hid money in swiss bank accounts. This piece of evian-scented dung bought companies, fires people, off shores their jobs then guts the company for insane profits.
Yet deep-down, this dog-abusing coward won't stand up for his own paid political adviser.
Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)"an "advisor" could have no actual role in the campaign." What the hell does that even mean?
Keep digging Mitt.
Spazito
(50,484 posts)This from the same 'team' whose candidate goes out of his way to call the President "corrupt", "foreign" etc.
I have NO doubt it was 'wink, wink, nod, nod' approval from the campaign for their cowardly anonymous advisor to say exactly what he/she said.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)but that whole idea that President Obama has an "anti-colonial mindset" because of his Kenyan father has been a pretty common attack by the racist Glenn Beck crowd since the beginning.
Solomon
(12,319 posts)anti-colonial as well? I mean hell, how did we become the United States of America?
Dumb asses.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Bandung Conference, postcolonial theory, and generally n*ggers of all stripes getting all land-grabby and killing white farmers with machetes.
They don't mean the Irish or - heaven forefend - the Founders!
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)HE WENT out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun
In case of accidents he always took his mom
He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
All the children sing
Hey Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)...to deny that Bolton has "no connection to the campaign" too?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021018965
"What a farce. So they sent 22 advisors to talk to The Telegraph yet they aren't really advisors?"
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)orwell
(7,776 posts)...retroactively.
It's the new TimeMachine Mitt!
Romney has no credibility on personnel matters.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)These people are racist AND stupid. They wouldn't say this about someone who was part French and part German, even though that is a person who isn't at all Anglo Saxon, but they'll say it about someone whose mother's last name is English.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Reporter should punch back.
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)to satisfy watching this freak show Willard Mitt Rmoney, TheFreakCandidate.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)(we've lost our minds... )
Aerows
(39,961 posts)At least we've lost our minds over something funny instead of out of hatefulness
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)"The Candidate From Another Planet."
rocktivity
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Of bladder-flappers.. with no clue at all what goes on around him?
reference edit:
Gulliver's Travels
The Land of Laputa (note: not the Lilliputians)
Ay my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality. They beheld me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder; neither indeed was I much in their debt, having never till then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.
Their heads were all reclined, either to the right, or the left; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands. In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. With these bladders, they now and then flapped the mouths and ears of those who stood near them, of which practice I could not then conceive the meaning. It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is CLIMENOLE) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Am I understanding this correctly? What are the qualifications to be considered an "advisor" then?
Lex
(34,108 posts)"Romney does have a team of 22 foreign policy and national security advisers. But British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes than most of the American press. An adviser could have no actual role in the campaign; the Republicans staff rarely talks to the foreign press. "
Am I misunderstanding it?
Spazito
(50,484 posts)a member of Romney's foreign policy advisory team. Seems pretty straight forward in that the source IS an advisor.
"The reporter later tweeted to clarify that the quote came from a member of [Romneys] foreign policy advisory team."
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I was just surprised the journalism rules over in England allowed a reporter to call someone an adviser who didn't actually work for the team.
Spazito
(50,484 posts)this strikes me as the opinion of the writer of the article with no citing of what that even means re looser guidelines. When a writer throws that kind of thing out, imo, they should back it up with the guideline/s they are referencing.
Lex
(34,108 posts)because I do think "advisor" is kind of a gray area. I don't think you have to be a paid advisor to a campaign to be an "advisor."
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I can just imagine the media here quoting someone and calling them a "white house adviser" because he once recommended that Obama try the grilled chicken wrap for lunch.
Lex
(34,108 posts)would be different. Romney's camp pegged Hilary Rosen as a Obama adviser when she said that thing about Mrs. Romney not understanding women's issues today because she hadn't ever had to work in her life. I don't think Rosen is a paid advisor to Obama.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/04/12/romney_camp_will_keep_calling_hilary_rosen_an_obama_adviser_because_shut_up_that_s_why.html
hughee99
(16,113 posts)from an officially hired adviser, a nutritionist, the neighbor who told you the easiest way to get rid of the ants in your garage, or the waiter who recommended the chicken salad.
I'm not a fan of anonymous quotes, and it's always seemed suspect to me when the press asks someone to comment on an anonymous quote. I'm mentioning it here, but it seems to be a popular tactic of the RW.
unc70
(6,121 posts)And usually "adviser" in the US, unless in a government context when "advisor" prevails.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Let loose a dog whistler, then deny and deflect the blame. Mission accomplished.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)lying his ugly ass off has served him his whole life..hopefully that ends with this election!!!!
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I didn't believe it then either.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I used that old card to no particular good effect.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)We're all trying to get him to stop...
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)the teenagers' hall of fame. Damn!!!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)They can't help it. His campaign is rapidly becoming a joke...
shanti
(21,675 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)and by no connection I mean he is an advisor.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)and attributing them to you and your campaign, maybe you should run a tighter ship, hmmm?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)My goodness! Imagine the leaks!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)of information because one of Romney's people had too many Cuervo shots last night.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)nt
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Or just claim that it wasn't said by an adviser?
Lex
(34,108 posts)Then we'd know for certain.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)so y'all are barking up the wrong tree. The whistle takes just a moment..they can re-write it anyway they want. The target, got the message. All that matters.
Romney: Leave no racist behind.
33Greeper
(188 posts)John Bolton
spanone
(135,886 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)such a problem w/ those 'enthusiastic volunteers'. As I recall the dumbya campaign had an ongoing struggle w/ them at nearly every rally and appearance.