Romney ‘Advisor’: Mitt Will Bring a White Man’s Touch

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Romney ‘Advisor’: Mitt Will Bring a White Man’s Touch​

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"Mitt Romney would restore 'Anglo-Saxon' (White man's)
relations between Britain and America"​

As Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of appeasing America's enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that Romney would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London.

In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon [White] heritage, and he feels that the special relationship [White relationship] is special [between whites],” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared ["White"] history we have”. ​

Mr Romney on Wednesday embarks on an overseas tour of Britain, Israel and Poland designed to quash claims by Mr Obama’s team that he is a “novice” in foreign affairs. It comes four years after Mr Obama’s own landmark foreign tour, which attracted thousands of supporters.


He lands in London early on Wednesday morning, in advance of meetings with David Cameron and other senior ministers on Thursday. He will also meet Ed Miliband and Tony Blair before attending two lucrative fundraisers and the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
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SOURCE: The Telegraph

 

[QueEx]

July 24, 2012

A racial subtext certainly isn’t foreign to the Romney campaign’s critique of Barack Obama. But putting it so front and center may raise a few eyebrows.

What the London Daily Telegraph calls one of Romney’s “advisors” told the paper that Romney was better positioned to understand and respect the ‘special relationship’ between the US and Great Britain than President Obama, whose father was from Kenya.

Said the advisor: “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

It’s all of a piece with the constant refrains that Obama is an outsider to whatever is essential about the American experience of simply being an American ("Sununu: Obama Needs To ‘Learn How To Be An American"). But it’s getting closer to the surface. And I suspect we’ll hear much more of it — from ‘advisors’ if not from Romney himself — during the trip abroad.

Late Update: It’s interesting as a side note that the Telegraph suggested the Romney aide’s remarks “may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity.” To which one might respond, ya think? The Telegraph does write from 90s era, unreconstructed Tory kind of viewpoint. Or maybe 1930s unreconstructed Tory kind of viewpoint. And casting this as a matter of ‘sensitivity’ seems part and parcel with that.

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It’s interesting as a side note that the Telegraph suggested the Romney aide’s remarks “may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity.” To which one might respond, ya think?

This is exactly what the 2012 presidential election is all about in summary. The past verse the future!

 

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Mitt Romney adviser raises eyebrows touting ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’ to UK paper Read

Mitt Romney adviser raises eyebrows touting ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’ to UK paper

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ele...tage-uk-paper-article-1.1121392#ixzz21eO8adiu

It's not even September and the Romney camp has already leaked its secret "Us White People Have to Stick Together" argument?

An adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has blundered into a charge of racial insensitivity by telling The Daily Telegraph that President Obama does not fully understand the "Anglo-Saxon heritage" of the U.S. and its “shared history” with the UK.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the unnamed adviser told the British newspaper. “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

The Telegraph, which met with two of Romney’s foreign policy advisers, said they promised a departure from Obama’s supposed coolness toward Britain.

“Obama is a Left-winger," said one adviser. "He doesn’t value the NATO alliance as much, he’s very comfortable with American decline and the traditional alliances don’t mean as much to him. He wouldn’t like singing [the patriotic British anthem] ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’”

As one example of a step Romney would take to improve U.S.-UK relations, the advisers said the Republican would reinstate a bust of Winston Churchill that was displayed in the Oval Office by George W. Bush but returned to British diplomats by Obama.

“He is naturally more Atlanticist,” an adviser said of Romney.

A Romney spokeswoman later tried to distance the candidate from the advisers' comments. "It's not true. If anyone said that, they weren't reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign," Andrea Saul told CBSNews.com.

Romney arrived in the U.K. early Wednesday for the start of a much-hyped international tour designed to boost his thin foreign policy credentials.

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“We are wheels down in London,” Romney wrote in a tweet. “Excited to be here to cheer on Team USA.”

Romney is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday and remain in the UK for the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Romney then visits both Israel and Poland before returning to the U.S.

It is considered improper for political rivals to criticize the U.S. president while overseas, so Romney delivered a scathing critique of Obama’s foreign policy just before his departure in a high-profile speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev. He accused the White House of allegedly leaking classified information, including intel about the secret strike that killed Osama bin Laden.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ele...tage-uk-paper-article-1.1121392#ixzz21eNqEkqX

 

[QueEx]

When I read racist things like this:

In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon [White] heritage, and he feels that the special relationship [White relationship] is special [between whites],” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared ["White"] history we have”.​

I know Micheal Steele was right:

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GOP chairman: African-Americans
not given good reason to vote for party </font size></center>

RNC Chairman Michael Steele (Credit: AP)


Chicago Sun-Times
April 20, 2010


<font size="3">Why should an African-American vote Republican?</font size>

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"You really don't have a reason to, to be honest -- we haven't done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,"</span>

Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.