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I don't know if he's confused... DomA Send a noteboard - 13/09/2012 12:09:16 PM
...but it seems like Romney just went and lost himself for good a lot of the foreign press, with titles ranging from "Romney's first real test in foreign affairs: total failure" to "the presidential candidate the world and America can't afford" to opinions in the vein that not only diplomacy and world peace but US economy can't afford a matador as clearly unready and inept in foreign affairs as Romney, no matter the disappointements with Obama. My favourite editorial title goes to an untranslatable play on words between the "to bless" and the french verb "blesser" (blesse in the 3p.s., the final e is silent), to give "Dieu blesse l'Amérique", ie: God wounds America.

Heck, some of the Canadian press started to compare Romney's handling of things yesterday to something "worthy of Paulin" and saying he fully deserved "the humiliating lesson in foreign affairs" Obama gave him. Some are openly worrying that Romney wouldn't be able to rein in the religious right when it becomes like happened with that movie a threat to US interests and world security (not a whole lot of sympathy from editorialists either, as in many western countries that movie would fall under criminally heinous/racist material and thus fall under the limitations to freedom of expression).

So a lot of echoes of the Democrat press, but without a partisan bias.

On the governemental front, it's almost the opposite. Harper has unilaterally condemned the attacks, without denouncing in any way the movie itself or the provocation, which is likely not to sit well with the Canadian left/center left (but we're almost permanently outraged with Harper anyway and he does something every other day or so to rekindle it, so it's hard to say if that is going to make much waves).
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Question: did the Egyptian government apologize for letting a mob attack our embassy on 9/11/12? - 12/09/2012 03:37:00 PM 1040 Views
I haven't seen it, but I honestly wasn't looking for that. - 12/09/2012 04:00:39 PM 645 Views
The administration did issue an apology, which was stupid. - 12/09/2012 04:21:04 PM 596 Views
Don't get me started. I'm not in the mood, and I might rip your face off. - 12/09/2012 04:30:57 PM 501 Views
Try it. - 12/09/2012 05:28:37 PM 545 Views
... No, thanks. *NM* - 12/09/2012 05:39:30 PM 252 Views
Aw...I was hoping to see what "ripping off" my face would look like. *NM* - 12/09/2012 05:56:41 PM 269 Views
Unfortunately, I'm much calmer today. - 13/09/2012 03:47:20 PM 473 Views
I'm profoundly disappointed. - 13/09/2012 05:22:54 PM 488 Views
Would you care to cite this apology the US administration issued? - 12/09/2012 08:40:35 PM 631 Views
Timeline and statements - 12/09/2012 09:20:39 PM 699 Views
what is stupid is deliberately distorting the actual statements in order to be outraged at obama - 13/09/2012 04:01:04 PM 605 Views
I'm not outraged personally. - 13/09/2012 05:14:59 PM 493 Views
Besides, the whole point of this post was to question Egypt's position, not Romney OR Obama's *NM* - 13/09/2012 05:16:02 PM 276 Views
Uh huh... - 15/09/2012 02:33:39 AM 513 Views
Don't know, don't care. - 12/09/2012 04:24:18 PM 523 Views
No government has apologized to anyone for the attacks, to my knowledge. - 12/09/2012 05:37:45 PM 723 Views
So we're the only ones who apologized to anyone? That's disgusting. - 12/09/2012 05:55:39 PM 620 Views
Re: So we're the only ones who apologized to anyone? That's disgusting. - 12/09/2012 08:26:07 PM 683 Views
Dunno about apologies - 12/09/2012 08:38:04 PM 532 Views
Clarification, please: Egypt arrested four of the perpetrators, or Libya (or both)? - 12/09/2012 08:45:11 PM 721 Views
Egypt. - 12/09/2012 08:55:37 PM 643 Views
Ah, thanks. - 12/09/2012 11:01:22 PM 516 Views
does anyone know where Romney actually stands on this? - 12/09/2012 11:26:47 PM 550 Views
NO ONE is as confused as Romney. - 12/09/2012 11:48:23 PM 606 Views
I don't know if he's confused... - 13/09/2012 12:09:16 PM 603 Views
Romney never "had" the foreign press to lose... - 13/09/2012 02:08:59 PM 556 Views
Re: Romney never "had" the foreign press to lose... - 14/09/2012 01:06:38 AM 503 Views
Can Egypt afford to apologize at the moment? - 14/09/2012 03:21:53 AM 585 Views
Oh great now it's our embassy in Sudan that is on fire - 14/09/2012 02:12:21 PM 574 Views
I suspect there is a very perverse dynamic at work here. - 14/09/2012 04:57:28 PM 626 Views
I love how the media are tying all this to a movie that no one watched. - 14/09/2012 03:22:38 PM 503 Views
What's this about then? - 15/09/2012 12:21:45 AM 491 Views
Wish I knew - 15/09/2012 03:43:32 AM 520 Views

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