Mitt V Britain

[Al B. Sure!]

When is his VP pick due?

McCain didn't make his pick til a few days before the convention. The convention is August 27, this year.

[regexcellent]

He's in Israel now. Will he have the common sense to avoid mentioning that as a Mormon he considers himself to be Jewish too? Hopefully he'll avoid mentioning the post-humous enrollment of Jews into the LDS.

Whatever he does it will be nearly impossible to make the Israelis hate him as much as they hate Obama.

[kentonio]

The British press had the knives out for Romney before he even got there, judging by the completely fabricated "anglo-saxon" story.

Please provide a link to this being 'completely fabricated', from all accounts I've seen it was a comment made by an unnamed advisor. Romney's response was..

"I'm generally not enthusiastic about adopting the comments made by people who are unnamed. I have a lot of advisers," he told Williams. "Actually we've gone from calling the rope line where I shake hands every day to the advice line. Because you have a lot of people that offer advice. So I'm not sure who this person is."

Does that sound like he's saying it was a complete fabrication?

[Dr Strangelove]

He promised the Israelis a free hand in dealing with the Iranians. No options off the table. I wonder if he realizes that he gave them permission to launch a nuclear strike?

[Lorizael]

They're a sovereign nation. They don't need our permission to use the nukes they stole from us.

[MOBIUS]

He promised the Israelis a free hand in dealing with the Iranians. No options off the table. I wonder if he realizes that he gave them permission to launch a nuclear strike?

Yeah, I kinda think that's worse than what he said about the Olympics in the UK...

[Ecthy]

He promised the Israelis a free hand in dealing with the Iranians. No options off the table. I wonder if he realizes that he gave them permission to launch a nuclear strike?

And what exactly makes you think that the Je... sorry, that Israel will launch a nuclear strike as soon as the US allows them too? And I'm going further than Lorizael here, I want to know what makes you think this is what they WANT to do.

Otherwise I can't see the point of a US presidential not-so-hopeful having to give permission to an action, or rather, the being problematic of that permission. Again, what is it that makes you think of these people as being so nuke-prone?

[Aeson]

Will he have the common sense to avoid mentioning that as a Mormon he considers himself to be Jewish too?

Descended from Abraham through Jacob, but not necessarily through Judah. I don't think Judah is one of the tribes used in patriarchal blessings, but could be wrong about that. Ephraim is usually the one.

[MOBIUS]

And what exactly makes you think that the Je... sorry, that Israel will launch a nuclear strike as soon as the US allows them too? And I'm going further than Lorizael here, I want to know what makes you think this is what they WANT to do.

Otherwise I can't see the point of a US presidential not-so-hopeful having to give permission to an action, or rather, the being problematic of that permission. Again, what is it that makes you think of these people as being so nuke-prone?

I was thinking more that he was giving the Israelis carte blache to launch and airstrike on Iran's perceived nuclear assets - isn't that technically a 'nuclear strike' per se...?

Not to mention the fact that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine that Iran's likely response will be to attempt to close the straits of Hormuz - which is the equivalent of dropping a nuke on the world's oil supply!

[Ecthy]

Assuming you're willing to take the blame off him :-p

I was thinking more that he was giving the Israelis carte blache to launch and airstrike on Iran's perceived nuclear assets - isn't that technically a 'nuclear strike' per se...?

Not to mention the fact that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine that Iran's likely response will be to attempt to close the straits of Hormuz - which is the equivalent of dropping a nuke on the world's oil supply!

An 'abstract' nuclear strike then? And if I hadn't asked, would it have been OK for you that people might have assumed it OK to blame Israel for generally being somewhat on the nuky side?

[MOBIUS]

I think it is safe to say that Israel has a history of going for the 'nuclear option' when it comes to international diplomacy, short of actually using nukes themselves...

[kittenOFchaos]

Mitt Romney, bringing a dirty bomb to a place near you

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19055643

[Dr Strangelove]

Oh, and Mitt just received 1 million dollars from donors at an Israeli fund raiser. Apparently he raised $2 million in Great Britain.

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/07/29/romney-holds-unprecedented-fundraiser-israel

[C0ckney]

steve bell's take on mitt's 'insult the world tour'.

[Aeson]

I watched the women's rowing event earlier and the starting buzzer broke causing two restarts. It took them several minutes to produce a flag necessary to start the race Mitt was right, they weren't ready