Latest Pole Gives Election to Romney

[ksoze]

Lech Walesa that is


Even though his country is behind Obama like virtually all international countries.

Poland's legendary dissident, Lech Walesa, gave a strong endorsement to Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican contender and declared disappointment with President Barack Obama's record.

http://stream.wsj.com/story/campaign-2012-continuous-coverage/SS-2-9156/SS-2-39138/

[snappyturtle]

1. What is he thinking? nt

[DefenseLawyer]

6. He's like 100 and out of power

gotta go against the grain to get back on tv.

[Drab]

2. That about say's it all.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Can't stop looking at Ann's barfatrocious dress.

[sarge43]

9. An arts and crafts project gone horribly, horribly wrong. n/t

[barnabas63]

4. Just shows you can't trust the Poles!

[DJ13]

5. Thats dissapointing

Romney represents everything Walesa fought against, its a shame he's forgotten who his enemies were in his old age.

[cyglet]

11. He agreed with Occupy?

When Romney's the embodiment of the 1%?

[mil_5529dem]

16. I agree, what the?

Seems rather strange he'd make such an endorsement.

[hollysmom]

7. doesn't it have to do with Obama not keeping ridiculous deals that Bush made to get them into Iraq?

Like tons of money in fighter planes and aid

[renate]

8. well. That's really too bad

Good thing he can't vote here.

[Dem2TheCore]

10. Saw this back in August and wondered

How can the man who founded and led the first trade union in the soviet block, broke the back of communist government in Poland, and was the head of a party with the name Solidarity (with its underlying principles) could even tolerate being in the same room with Romney?

Just incredible!

[begin_within]

12. Why is Ann constantly on camera?

She keeps saying, "I'm not running for anything," yet we see more of her than we do of him...

[Angry Dragon]

13. A Pole sandwich -- made with American white bread

[louis-t]

14. Maybe Lech is losing it and is confusing Willard with his Dad.

[BlueToTheBone]

15. I tried to think of which pole...maybe a pole outside my barn? n/t

[davsand]

17. Gawd, could Ann's dress be ANY uglier?

I'm no fasionista, and usually I don't really pay much attention to this kind of stuff. Having said that, I gotta say that dress she's wearing is almost as ugly as an endorsement for her husband. I hope she didn't pay much for it.



Laura

[NYC Liberal]

18. No surprise here. He's a homophobic and anti-choice bigot.

[PowerToThePeople]

19. I feel the urge for a non-pc joke here.

But I will not go there.

[Hamlette]

20. a trip to Poland in the early 2000s

we talked with two groups of young, progressive college students on our tirp. The shine had come off Lech by then to these people. They actually compared him to Bush, because of his verbal gaffs, they said he was a good labor leader but didn't have the skills or ability to do much of anything else. I was stunned as Lech is sort of a progressive hero here. Maybe those "kids" were right.