{"id":820,"date":"2012-07-25T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=820"},"modified":"2012-07-25T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T06:02:18","slug":"advisers-say-only-romney-fully-appreciates-anglo-saxon-heritage-u-s-shares-with-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/25\/advisers-say-only-romney-fully-appreciates-anglo-saxon-heritage-u-s-shares-with-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisers Say Only Romney Fully Appreciates ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ U.S. Shares With Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mitt Romney’s advisers kicked off a week of parading their candidate overseas to prove his aptitude for foreign relations matters by telling a London newspaper<\/a> that Barack Obama’s White House doesn’t “fully appreciate” the “Anglo-Saxon heritage” shared by the United States and Britain. The full, profoundly articulate quote from the unnamed Romney adviser, who also said<\/a> that Romney “would abandon Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Left-wing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d coolness toward London<\/span>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>It’s special! Don’t you get it, people!? Noting that some might construe the comment as racially insensitive, the Telegraph<\/i> also writes<\/a> that one Romney adviser said that the former Massachusetts Governor <\/span>is “better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Obama.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the adviser went on to discuss Romney’s lineage<\/a>, which traces to England, Scotland, and German<\/span>y. Maybe the adviser said that Romney’s family frequently dines at Medieval Times (of course they don’t). Absent greater context, the adviser seems to suggest by “better placed” that Obama, a black guy with a Kenyan father, is incapable of a Romney-level understanding of the\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>U.S.-Britain Anglo-Saxon heritage.
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To boot, the pair of advisers were unable to provide<\/a> the Telegraph<\/i> with “detailed examples of how policy towards Britain would differ under Romney.” Nevertheless, Romney would understand the heck out of shared problems and other Anglo-Saxon<\/span> things.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mitt Romney’s advisers kicked off a week of parading their candidate overseas to prove his aptitude for foreign relations matters by telling a London newspaper that Barack Obama’s White House doesn’t “fully appreciate” the “Anglo-Saxon heritage” shared by the United States and Britain. The full, profoundly articulate quote from the unnamed Romney adviser, who also … <\/p>\n

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