Romney campaign blasts ‘eccentric, odd’ Mayor Boris Johnson of London
Source: DailyMail
A Romney campaign official has blasted Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, as an ‘eccentric, odd fellow’ whose public attack on the Republican candidate was ‘unbecoming’ and an indication of his bias towards President Barack Obama.
The official said that Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘wisecrack’ about it being harder to stage an Olympic Games in London than ‘in the middle of nowhere’ – an apparent reference to Salt Lake City, where Romney oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics – was ‘probably appropriate, albeit awkward’ and unfortunate for Romney
‘Johnson on the other hand lived up to his reputation as an eccentric, odd fellow. It was unbecoming to attack Governor Romney in that way. There really was no need. But Johnson made it clear in 2008 that his vote would have gone to Obama.’
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The campaign official, who was not directly involved organising the London trip, that that the Romney campaign had not prepared sufficiently for ‘a visit of this magnitude’ and that the candidate had not been briefed properly on how to answer questions about the staging of the Olympics
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`Unfortunately, it shows that the campaign by solely focussing on jobs has really neglected foreign policy and international affairs.’
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Just keep coming! 
I'm not a trained diplomat but my mother taught me how to act when I was at someone else's house. 
A "little guy" below Rmoney's huge stature 
He's going to run his campaign like an Internet flame war.
Let's see more of that fabulous grace under pressure and diplomatic skill!
Seems like it only takes a bit to pain Romney.
Tikki
Rmoney effed up. Rmoney backpedaled as best he could. And then, instead of brushing/laughing it off and moving on...they pick a fight with the mayor of London? Are they for effing real? Doubling down on the insult?
And this:
"the Romney campaign had not prepared sufficiently for ‘a visit of this magnitude’ and that the candidate had not been briefed properly on how to answer questions about the staging of the Olympics"
How much preparation does it really take to know that when you are a guest someplace you lavish praise, not insults? Seriously? He needed to be briefed and prepared to be civil and polite?
This was as easy an overseas visit as he was *ever* going to get.
He can't handle a fucking meet and greet as an invited guest at a big public party hosted by our closest ally without insulting them repeatedly on day one...and his campaign official blames the insulted party for brushing off his insults with a joke. Unreal...
or our president isnt as much of a far left socialist liberal as our right wing makes him out to be 
can they?
and who dare not speak his name...
rocktivity
he isn't any good at creating them!
rocktivity
They really do get offended an awful lot. I imagine London is HOWLING right about now at Romney's ego. You don't go and attack the Mayor of London, while you're there for the Olympics.
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heard the one about the Polack and the...
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for a potential presidency, does it? 
For a guy who hasn't held a job in years, why doesn't he have time to prepare for such a visit? 
it would seem mitten`s crew think johnson`s comments would sway the american people to vote for the non anglo saxon canidate.
johnson certainly is a game breaker in the game of us politics is`t he?
