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Originally Posted by LeslieAGD
Does anyone else think Mitt Romney seems like a tool? IMO, he comes off looking like a jerk in every interview or debate.
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And yes, he is a tool. He's widely regarded as being a jerk. And he has a way of saying things in very un-presidential ways. Example from late last week, after Obama won in Iowa: "Did you listen to Barack Obama? He is a new face, but gosh when you listen to what comes out of his mouth. It's like, 'We're going to just get our troops out of Iraq." The "did you listen to what comes out of his mouth?" and the tone of it just came off as very patronizing to me.
And just a couple of months ago, he confused Obama with Osama Bin Laden, saying that Barack Obama had called on jihadists to fight in his latest video. An excerpt from
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...a-osama-gaffe/:
"But he paused to talk about the threat of radical Islam, taking John Edwards, one of his Democratic opponents, to task for comments he made several months ago that criticized the “global war on terror” as a bumper sticker for President Bush.
“I think that is a position which is not consistent with the fact,” Mr. Romney said. “Actually, just look at what Osam — uh — Barack Obama, said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. That is the central place, he said. Come join us under one banner.”
The comment set off some confusion among the press corps. Glen Johnson of the Associated Press was momentarily frantically searching for comments made by Mr. Obama, another Democratic presidential contender, about jihadism and Iraq.
It turns out, of course, Mr. Romney was talking about the new audiotape from bin Laden calling on insurgents in Iraq to unite.
Oops."