By all accounts, on his recent disastrous world tour, the Republicans apparent choice for President has inadvertently and surgically exposed his unfortunate and debilitating ”Palin-like" understanding of the world. But if that wasn't enough to make him unelectable, it must be his correspondingly poor choices in radical-fringe advisers, "experts" and shady financial supporters.
All this was exposed on a supposed "world tour" which was to pump up the candidate's standing at home. However, Romney's comments, behavior and deportment on his "world tour" went bad from the start. In the UK, he blundered into questioning his host-nation's abilities at running the Olympics. At his next stop, in Jerusalem he made erroneous and racist remarks concerning the economic attainments of the Palestinian Authority. (While in Jerusalem, he made an unfavorable comparison of the Palestinian's "culture" to that of Israel, the nation which continues to occupy most of the Palestinian West Bank. If that wasn't enough, he burnished that stupidity with the remark that the differences in wealth (GDP) were the result of "Providence" or God's will. His "culture" statement underscored his shaky understanding of the region, the dynamics and history in that tense area. It was tantamount to blaming the poor economy in the pre-1994 South African "bantustans", black homelands, on the "culture" of the blacks whom the Afrikaners had forced into those areas and concluding that their "culture" was ineffective while that of their oppressors was superior.) Finally, in Poland, Romney's over-protective staff and advisor bad-mouthed the American press as they attempted to get a response from the American candidate for President, who kept himself buttoned-up during the long tour, unwilling to speak with the press, which in desperation, called-out question to the candidate-- generated from his gaffs during his previous stops.
Romney on this expose' trip, fully reveals his weaknesses as a person, who it is clear has lived a cloistered and privileged life and has little practical understanding and knowledge of the world outside of his small elite circle, his close-knit Mormon church, intimate business partners and family. After observing this man's behavior abroad, one must conclude, it is Romney who is the "foreigner" on American soil, not the oft accused Barack Obama, the President with the exotic sounding name and birth certificate from Hawaii.
What could be more "foreign" than Romney as a ventriloquist dummy doing an act in Jerusalem? Romney mouthing statements excised from recent writings of infamous neo-con Dan Senor ( and his co-author) revealed a man with little understanding of his own, and much more study and preparation needed to become a prime time player. His weaknesses are dangerous to our nation, because he apparently has no strong abiding opinions of his own (witness his many changing positions pro and con on issues from birth control to health care) and thus must rely on advisers. However, his utter lack of sophistication is such that he has pulled his advisor cadre, rather than from the many Republicans of stature and experience available to him, but right from the worst losers and radicals of the "toxic" last Republican administration. While in terms of financial support, he seems to have no qualms at all about who supports him as long as it comes in big denominations.
As a consequence, based on what we saw in Jerusalem, we can imagine what a nation under a Romney presidency might look like--I see a weak executive, led around on a nose ring by a determined, affluent minority with strong ties to a foreign nation, and a distorted one-sided view of world affairs. Such a situation in the White House can only raise the old specter of ”divided loyalties" with disastrous results for the presidency, the nation, the world, and eventually the resentment which results for the minority in question.
Our nation experienced a similar problem (inexperienced junior President and powerful advisers) only three and a half years ago with the disaster of the "Bush jr." Administration. Bush II, under the sway of powerful, neo-con advisers led junior and the Nation astray. How can we forget the unmitigated financial, moral and military disaster of Iraq so quickly? The nation, the world and our economy are still struggling to extricate ourselves from the excesses of those years. In this present case, the circumstances could be worse.
To my view, there was nothing more frightening, or depressing, than observing blank-faced, Mitt Romney in Jerusalem, his face frozen in a Parkinson disease smile, attempting to mouth the accepted "Israeli" line under the tutelage of so-called "Middle East specialist" Daniel Senor (trained at University of Western Ontario and Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and under the watchful eye of Mr. Sheldon Adelson, a man with dual Israeli and American citizenship who came along to make sure that Mitt Willard is worthy of the millions he is shelling out---to buy a US President.
God help America, the Middle East, and World Peace with this team in charge.
Get the picture?
rjk
To my view, there was nothing more frightening, or depressing, than observing blank-faced, Mitt Romney in Jerusalem, his face frozen in a Parkinson disease smile, attempting to mouth the accepted "Israeli" line under the tutelage of so-called "Middle East specialist" Daniel Senor (trained at University of Western Ontario and Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and under the watchful eye of Mr. Sheldon Adelson, a man with dual Israeli and American citizenship who came along to make sure that Mitt Willard is worthy of the millions he is shelling out---to buy a US President.
God help America, the Middle East, and World Peace with this team in charge.
Get the picture?
rjk
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