So... what do you think?

[illyushadarling]

As we draw ever closer to the November elections, it's no surprise to start seeing politically oriented posts appearing on LJ. I've read the recent posts about Republican candidate Akin and his (pardon the pun) ill conceived words about "legitimate rape". We've already endured Weinergate, with the ensuing demands for and subsequent resignation.

Comments

[bluemeanybeany]

It went wrong for them from the start because they attempted to approach the British on terms of "shared anglo-saxon heritage" an approach which basically implied that we as a nation would naturally favour Romney as President, a white European, over Obama, who isnt. The implication that would do this, on a personal or governmental level is pretty damn insulting. The Romney Camp then appear to have approached all the Press and the Government in a "we whites have to stick together" vein. Seriously it must have been a carnage of PR because I've never seen the British Press that united about anything before. From a history point of view, a foreign Political Party trying to get a Conservative British Government to support it based on a "common anglo-saxon heritage" last happened in 1938, and it really, really doesnt look good. It makes everyone nervous.

Then when the press got nasty, Romney held a $100,000 a ticket fundraising dinner full of investment bankers [that no Briton could enter into the hotel of because of foreign funding concerns] while Boris, Mayor of London stood in Hyde Park in front of 60,000 londoners and called Romney out.

So Romney was in a luxury dinner with bankers [who arent the most popular people at the moment] in a space no Briton could enter even if they did have 100,000 dollars, while meanwhile just down the road a huge crowd was booing him. It ain't exactly a good visual for a man hoping to run the most powerful democracy in the world that. Hence the elitist.

Now it could just have been that he got the diplomacy the wrongest anyone has ever gotten it, but if he can't manage for 3 days on a Foreign trip he chose to make himself look good, in an extremely friendly country, ruled by a Conservative Government, speaking the same language.....how on earth is he going to cope with actual countries where sensitivity is truly needed. Hence the incompetent.

[illyushadarling]

I can see where that approach, however well intentioned it may have been, could be interpretted in such a way. Not having heard it, I can't say more than that. Except that I think he was referring to our shared heritage as nations, not demeaning Obama from a racial standpoint at all. Just my opinion.

Who was it in '38? I'm not as up on my history as I'd like. If it was Germany, I can certainly understand the reaction, considering how that turned out.

As to holding a fundraising dinner with investment bankers, well... he has to have funds for a campaign, and it would seem to me that, since the US and global economy is in such a mess, it would make sense to talk to investment bankers. Once of the major points of his campaign is that he knows how to fix the economy. I would think pitching his ideas to them would be logical.

Sounds like, from one interpretation anyway, it could be seen as a comedy of errors. Hopefully, he's learning, and won't repeat such mistakes.

[bluemeanybeany]

Yeah it was the Nazi Party. They attempted to bond with the British Tories, and insisted that Britain wouldn't oppose them because of the shared "anglo-saxon heritage" They also throughout the War when trying to get the Britons to surrender kept highlighting the "shared connection" to some genetic and cultural ancestory of anglo-saxoness. Which even if it wasn't bullcrap and was actually true, would still be insulting and no basis whatsoever for political unity.

Hence why the Romney Camp majorly tanked. They're either dangerously Bigoted or dangerously Incompetent to be preparing to run the planet. And judging by that and the comments in Israel I'm currently going with that they are both until convinced otherwise.