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Posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jul 25 14:51:57 2012, in response to Is America getting more hateful?, posted by orange blossom special on Wed Jul 25 12:56:52 2012. "Despite all of these events having taken place during democrat control, is America becoming less tolerant, or is it some Democrat thing? "MORE LIKE REPUBLICANS: FROM THE NYDAILYNEWS: Mitt Romney adviser raises eyebrows touting ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’ to UK paper An aide to the presidential candidate promises Mitt Romney will strengthen the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Britain because a shared ethnic background helps the soon-to-be nominee understand it better than President Obama does. By Kristen A. Lee / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 7:51 AM Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 7:51 AM An adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has blundered into a charge of racial insensitivity by telling The Daily Telegraph that President Obama does not fully understand the "Anglo-Saxon heritage" of the U.S. and its “shared history” with the UK. “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the unnamed adviser told the British newspaper. “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.” The Telegraph, which met with two of Romney’s foreign policy advisers, said they promised a departure from Obama’s supposed coolness toward Britain. “Obama is a Left-winger," said one adviser. "He doesn’t value the NATO alliance as much, he’s very comfortable with American decline and the traditional alliances don’t mean as much to him. He wouldn’t like singing [the patriotic British anthem] ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’” As one example of a step Romney would take to improve U.S.-UK relations, the advisers said the Republican would reinstate a bust of Winston Churchill that was displayed in the Oval Office by George W. Bush but returned to British diplomats by Obama. “He is naturally more Atlanticist,” an adviser said of Romney. Romney arrived in the U.K. early Wednesday for the start of a much-hyped international tour designed to boost his thin foreign policy credentials. RELATED: AS MITT ROMNEY HEADS OVERSEAS, HE ATTACKS PRESIDENT OBAMA ON FOREIGN POLICY “We are wheels down in London,” Romney wrote in a tweet. “Excited to be here to cheer on Team USA.” Romney is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday and remain in the UK for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Romney then visits both Israel and Poland before returning to the U.S. It is considered improper for political rivals to criticize the U.S. president while overseas, so Romney delivered a scathing critique of Obama’s foreign policy just before his departure in a high-profile speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev. He accused the White House of allegedly leaking classified information, including intel about the secret strike that killed Osama bin Laden. klee@nydailynews.com |
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