Romney offends another ally: Italy

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Mitt Romney has offended yet another important US ally, this time Italy.

We learn via AGI, one of the top Italian wire services, that Romney, while speaking yesterday in Roanoke, Virginia had a few choice words for Italy:

Speaking at an campaign rally in Roanoke, Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, took aim at President Obama by citing Greece, Italy and Spain as examples of countries that the U.S. will end up like.



HuffPo reports that the Italians were ticked, and boy are they. I went around and looked at the top Italian papers, and almost all of them have given Romney’s attack on Italy front-page billing. I speak Italian, almost all of them quote Romney saying “With Obama, we will become like Italy.” A number of them also used a nasty photo of Romney I’d not seen before.

Now remember, this isn’t the first time Romney has insulted an important US ally.


http://americablog.com/2012/11/romney-offends-another-key-ally-italy.html

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1. The way he sneers "Sold Chrysler to the ITALIANS..." is bad enough

Those of us who are Italian American know that sneering tone all too well: the Italians, see? They're like filthy little ethnic children. The Italians.

That Chrysler was previously all but owned by the Germans before makes the point startlingly clear: the Germans are like white people, you know? The Italians, well, not so much. Sold Chrysler to the Italians. Yes, don't end up like Greece, Italy, or Spain.

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2. How unbelievably insensitive and out-of-touch is this guy, anyway?

One of my fantasy-not-football wishes is that Rmoney would show up campaigning on my front lawn, so I could call him out for the tool that he is.

I am so tired of him - and don't even bring up Lyin Ryan.

I think I'll go to sleep until next Wednesday and hope for the best.