MA people, do you know where your governor was this week?

Iraq - Doesn't MA have flooding? (or is this why things looked so organized on that NECN Kerry interview video? )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2304042

:sarcasm:

to see Mittens make an appearance in Mass during the flood. Maybe if we all hope and pray hard enough, the Iraqis will agree to keep him.

Otherwise, he would have been out of state.

Cuz one little trip to Iraq and a visit to the Green Zone, well, that about makes you an expert on Darfur and Bosnia and China and Russia and other stuff. (It's a magical Rethug thing. You go to one foreign country, you become a serious foreign policy guy.)

Mittens left Massachusetts after declaring that we had all the money we need to recover from the flood and he saw no need to speed up the request for money. (What an unconsionable asshole.) It was left to the grownups to see that 14,000 Massachusetts homes were damaged, millions and millions of dollars worth of damage were done and the infrastructure of the Commonwealth was damaged. Grownups like John Kerry who quickly adapted his Small Business Seminar to suit the fact that the floods had happened and tried to show how small business could apply for help.

Romney is a jerk and an absentee Governor. He doesn't give a crap about the people of MAssachusetts. He doesn't give a crap about anything or anyone but Mitt Romney.

You would think that the Katrina heritage would be such that this would not be a good idea - if only for PR sake. I'm sure Bush/Rumsfeld could have rescheduled his field trip to the war.

The NECN video with Kerry that Whome posted had the reporter asking Kerry about flood plane work in Peabody ? that Romney vetoed a couple of years ago. The people in the video looked happy to see Kerry though.

It is strange that he thinks this could give him any foreign policy credit. I doubt if he stayed in the ME for the rest of year, he could learn a fraction of what Kerry knows.

He ran for Gov in this state promising to be one thing and he became another. The only reason he ran for Gov of Mass was to burnish his credentials for a run for Gov. He ran for Mass so he could run against it later. (That is his campaign: Vote me for because I hate the state and the people I govern. Can you imagine any other US Governor doing this? It is why he drives me around the bend.)

Payback is a beyatch. Watch for it this fall in MAss. Good times, my friends, good times.

and caught a video appearance a couple of times and I have to tell you, I am glad he isn't my governor. He is harder to watch and listen to than Bush. He strikes me as being a self-serving, egotist who panders to get ahead and everything he does is a calculated move to promote himself. I find him unappealing and unworthy of any leadership role.
In other words, I agree with you.

(snark, snark, snark, funny, even if it is the Herald.)

Just send us a postcard
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Thursday, May 25, 2006 - Updated: 01:29 AM EST

Yes, other governors have made the trek to Iraq and Afghanistan - nearly half of the nation’s governors, according to the Pentagon. And there is no quibbling with the fact that it’s a worthwhile effort - even an obligation - to visit with the state’s National Guard contingent and other local soldiers now serving in those war zones.

Now if this were one of those rare forays out of state by Gov. Mitt Romney, it wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow. But let’s face it, Romney has virtually abandoned this state - unless, of course, it suits his purposes to come racing in to hold an I’m-in-charge-here news conference in the midst of last week’s flooding. (He actually had to cancel a fund-raiser and a trip to Wisconsin to reassure the good people of Methuen and Peabody that he would keep them safe from “looters.”)

If this - and his earlier trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - is Romney’s way of puffing up his foreign policy credentials in advance of a presidential run, it’s a fairly pathetic effort. But, according to the Associated Press, Romney has been out of state about half the business days of every month since the start of the year. The people of Massachusetts deserve better than that kind of absentee stewardship.

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They also said this about Mitt the Snit:

So there’s no way Gov. Mitt Romney isn’t going to take advantage of his last year in office to engage in this utterly shameless exercise - made all the more amusing by the attendant spin. The governor’s visit to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba a month ago was supposed to be a chance to update officials there on Massachusetts’ “best practices” in its prisons.

His current trip to Iraq and Afghanistan is “about seeing our men and women from Massachusetts” serving there, he said. Although he’ll also be stopping in Pakistan and getting some face time with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. All so at some appropriate moment he can say, “As I was saying to Hamid Karzai last time I was in Kabul. . .”

Of course, Sen. John Kerry could so one-up him on that score. In brief remarks last Friday to the New England Council, Kerry dropped enough names of foreign leaders to fill several rows of the U.N. General Assembly, including that of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Karzai (who was the star attraction at a Georgetown dinner party thrown by John and Teresa).

http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=140700

did the Herald's dinner party invitation get lost in the mail???

You couldn't go unless you could find Afghanistan on a map. No one at the Herald could do it.

They could however, find Medford. They did try to make that a 'same thing' argument, but no one bought it.

They still don't know which fork is the salad fork, anyway. It would have been embarrassing.

Hey, Hahhhhhmid - I hear yuhz wanted to throw out the first pitch at a Sawx game last year, but they wouldn't let yuhz. Geez, those bunch of friggin bastids. What'd you do? Show up drunk at a funeral or somthing?

Hey Hahhhhhhmidm, why do you guys wear them dresses anyway? I heard it was hot in wherever you are from. (Afghanistan? How far east of heyeah is that? I think my sistas' husbands cousin's son was there once but it could have been one of them otha 'stans, you know what I mean. So, what's up with that hat anyway?

(Okay, the Herald guys have to go now. Now! They are an embarrasament!)

He's useless to us anyway, and just showing up during the flood in time for photo ops doesn't help improve his image, either. Stay there, Romney, they need your handsome, smiling self over there. They really do, honest!