From Russia with Love: 'Electing Romney is like making a paedophile a kindergarten teacher'.

[denem]

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(yep, that's a "screaming tabloid headline of a story", all right
Great work, as always, Mittens.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125125752 )

Russia has taken a real shine to Mitt's 'vapid stupidity': A 'serial paedophile', a 'rapist' a 'psychopath' Just to be safe, don't leave 'a pea-brained, pith-headed simpleton' playing about anywhere 'near a red button'. Yes, those great, old fashioned. red hot Prava raves are back: Even the Red Button is on the table. Get Condi on the phone, or STFU until the GE.

Mitt Romney: Out-of-touch, out-of-date, unelectable (Pravda)

Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten teacher, a rapist as a janitor at a girls' dormitory or a psychopath with a fixation on knives as a kitchen hand. His comments on Russia are a puerile attempt at making the grand stage and boy, did he blow it.

Somewhat like Condoleezza Rice did before the Bush regime was er..."elected" ..., Mitt Romney takes the chance to mouth off about Russia, calling her "our number one geopolitical foe" which fights "every cause for the world's worst actors". Unfortunately, such vapid stupidity has become commonplace among senior US politicians, providing the rest of the world with a telling insight as to the real nature of the political class in that country - out of touch, out of date and dangerously jingoistic. In short, overgrown self-opinionated schoolboys with super-egos but nothing whatsoever to back it up with.

True, it feels great to slag off another country's cuisine and say, for example, that "Mexican food is crap! American food is far better!" Adolescent-type comments such as these generally provoke a session of back-patting, and a ra-ra-ra raucous explosion of national pride which after a few drinks degenerates into "My God is better than your God" and then "My President could smack the crap out of yours".

Fine for grade school playgrounds. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where this upstart nonentity Mitt Romney belongs, certainly not to the intricate and complex wheels and cogs of world policy and nowhere near a red button. Imagine this guy as President.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-03-2012/120921-mitt_romney-0/

Lucky the Russian public doesn't believe this stuff ...

[MrSlayer]

1. Scathing and correct.

Man, there is a lot of ugly truth in there.

[denem]

2. If you have read the whole piece,

I strongly disagree. It's old school propaganda, mixing up as many factoids as Pravda could scavenge, into a angry diatribe of insults. My point is, and has always been, the last thing the United States wants is to provoke Russia by inventive that serves no purpose other than foster xenophobia on both sides, but particularly in Moscow. Mittens walked right in and threw punches that served no purpose at all, other than the narrowest of partisan politics.

As I asked in my first post, "Is Romney truly clueless, or just completely irresponsible?" I fear it is the former, or both.

[Arkana]

3. Romney's stuck in the 60s when it comes to attitudes towards Russia

Like it or not, we're going to need to be friends with them on some level. Same with China, however much we wish it weren't so.

[grantcart]

4. I wonder where Romney puts N Korea on the list?

[Beacool]

5. You are quoting Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey?

You should read some of his other columns.

Here's an example:

http://english.pravda.ru/world/africa/25-05-2011/118009-obomber_camoron-0/

[denem]

6. Yes it's Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey.

Thanks for the context. Sloppy insults are what he does best, I guess. One thing I am sure of, if these pieces strayed too for outside Vladimir's comfort zone, the articles or the author would be gone.

In a reply here I said "the last thing the United States wants is to provoke Russia by inventive (like Romney's) that serves no purpose other than foster xenophobia on both sides, but particularly in Moscow."

Can you imagine, sitting in State, watching Mitt shout his mouth off ... 'Madame Secretary, we have a problem'.