On-Topic Romney's First Foreign Trip a Disaster

[chance1]

There is no double standard here. Hands down Obama is the better one on foreign policy. Romney is a fumbling disaster...

Thats quite a compelling case u make but I will reserve judgement

As Chris Mathews says "he's perfect"

Course with mittens loose overseas more is bound to happen

 

[T-Rexx]

If he has one more gaffe incident particularly in Israel, he might as well just quit before the GOP convention. You can make gaffes as long as they seem good-natured. Romney just comes off as an arrogant prick (borderline sociopath IMO) with no regard for others' emotions.

I could not agree more.

I truly believe that the part of Romney's brain responsible for emotion and empathy never developed. He is simply incapable of connecting with people (and animals) in the human way.

What's more, Romney knows this. He is constantly doing damage control for his emotional ineptitude (in part by constantly contradicting himself) and he tries to hide it behind that idiotic plastic smile. But that just makes him look really, really, really creepy.

You get the impression that there is something less than human there.

 

[chance1]

Yeah something "less human"

Jesus

Bullshit flies out at warp speed

 

[bike10]

Surprised he did not ask when can I see Princess Diane?

 

[gewhite3]

Looks like the first lady has a bit of class and knows how to act in certain social situations. Unlike some twits I've heard about:

Michelle Obama Shows Mitt Romney How Diplomacy is Done

 

[Jack Springer]

Chance mon ami this isn't always true.

I'm no Obama fan and have said it several times. In fact,I think he's a pretty lousy politician.

But there's no doubt that he's a gifted speaker. By contrast, Mitt is an Android at best.

Chance, I have had this idea about Mitt for quite some time that he displays characteristics of sociopathic ideation. He has a flat affect, and his voice has that monotone that seems consistent with a Schizoid Personality. Can you honestly say that you have ever seen genuine emotion register on his face?

Go through characteristics of of a sociopath and compare those with Obama. Very scary.

 

[Benvolio]

No one in good mental health would want to go through what it takes to become President. A narcissistic personality if a virtual requirement. An iron-clad ego able to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. That is why the Republicans have a hard time finding good candidates. And the Democrats end up with good "actors". Men like Hussein, Clinton and Carter who have a great smile, can make good speeches but with little federal experience to live down. No embarrassing compromises and flip flops. Men whose best ability is being a good candidate. When elected, they continue to see it as an ongoing campaign in which defeating the opponents--not working with them--is what being a President is all about.

Democrat boys often, it seems, aspire to be Robin Hood dictators: chess masters. "If I were President I would just move these pawns here and those there; take away from these and give to those. I would solve the problems because I can see what is wrong and as President I can just move everyone around as I please." I think that is how Hussein saw himself.

Republican boys are more likely to aspire to be rich businessmen.

 

[White Eagle]

Looks like the first lady has a bit of class and knows how to act in certain social situations. Unlike some twits I've heard about:

Michelle Obama Shows Mitt Romney How Diplomacy is Done

Thanks for this link. Look what i found. Great Britain is not gonna like Mitt the Twit no matter what he does.

Romney in Shambles as Britain Proclaims Him Worse than Sarah Palin


Romney in Shambles as Britain Proclaims Him Worse than Sarah Palin

By: Jason EasleyJuly 26th, 2012see more posts by Jason Easley

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The British reaction to Mitt Romney has gone from openness, to skepticism, to mocking, to concluding that Mitt Romney is worse than Sarah Palin.

Daily Mail Political Editor James Chapman has been providing the world a play by play of Romney’s British implosion via his Twitter account. Romney started things off by criticizing London’s preparedness for the Olympics. He then forgot the name of British Labour Leader Ed Miliband, and then he admitted that he had been given a secret briefing by MI6. This led the British to ask aloud if they have another George W. Bush on their hands, “Romney blunders again by revealing he’s had (supposedly) top secret briefing by John Sawers, MI6 boss. Do we have a new Dubya on our hands?”

 

[JayHawk]

OH NOES! FARTBONGO JUMPED THE GUN DURING A TOAST AND MICHELLE TOUCHED THE QUEEN'S BACK! THANK YOU BILL O'REILLY FOR SHOWING US WHAT HORRIBLE PEOPLE THAT SECRET MUSLIM SOCIALIST AND HIS FAT BEARD REALLY ARE!

Yawn...how predictable. Mitt Romney screws up royally in the UK and manages to insult the whole country (ALL BY HIMSELF, no less), so the usual Fox News Parrots try to deflect this major fuckup by bringing up Obama's last UK visit and making mountains out of anthills.

Exactly. The Brits themselves WERE NOT up in arms about Obama but I don't think you will find a sympathetic voice in the UK for Mittens these days.

Very Amusing that the people on the right are so party-centric that they would swallow very very hard and get behind Romney. At least Bush is an amazingly likable person. No one really questioned Obama's capability AFTER the convention but they di up and until. Yet none of that stuck with the publica ads McCain ran. I guarantee the republican attacks on Romney such as "He saved the Salt Lake City Olympics BY getting a earmark of hundreds of millions from the US Government" -- So in other words Romney couldn't do it without others....

Jeesh... as I ramble. Romney has SO fucking much not to like about him it is funny to see weak ass attempts at defense just because you are XX or YY party.

 

[rareboy]

I could not agree more.

I truly believe that the part of Romney's brain responsible for emotion and empathy never developed. He is simply incapable of connecting with people (and animals) in the human way.

What's more, Romney knows this. He is constantly doing damage control for his emotional ineptitude (in part by constantly contradicting himself) and he tries to hide it behind that idiotic plastic smile. But that just makes him look really, really, really creepy.

You get the impression that there is something less than human there.

I also agree.

He is an emotionally stunted child of exceptional privilege who probably never had the opportunity or the drive to experience many of the events that would have allowed him to become a more empathetic or even an emotionally well rounded person. He reminds me of several 'powerful' people that I have known over the years. Their childhoods were lived in a gilded cage; parents were distant but instilled the notion of entitlement in them. In school they were shielded from consequence and lived in a world so distant from the middle and lower class that in many ways, they just don't even think that such things exist....or that if it does...it is God's will or the natural order of the world.

His performance in Britain so far has been an embarrassment. To be rebuked publicly by the head of the elected government makes it crystal clear that he has no notion of statecraft or possesses the minimal skills to act on the world stage. It clearly demonstrates that his idea that an appreciation of the US's special anglo-saxon relationship with Great Britain is a farce.

It is also somewhat ironic that for someone who wants to connect with the NASCAR voters, he is at the Olympics because their horses are performing in the Dressage events....a sport that requires vast wealth to participate. I woder how that is going to play with his base?

 

[rareboy]

No one in good mental health would want to go through what it takes to become President. A narcissistic personality if a virtual requirement. An iron-clad ego able to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. That is why the Republicans have a hard time finding good candidates. And the Democrats end up with good "actors". Men like Hussein, Clinton and Carter who have a great smile, can make good speeches but with little federal experience to live down. No embarrassing compromises and flip flops. Men whose best ability is being a good candidate. When elected, they continue to see it as an ongoing campaign in which defeating the opponents--not working with them--is what being a President is all about.

Democrat boys often, it seems, aspire to be Robin Hood dictators: chess masters. "If I were President I would just move these pawns here and those there; take away from these and give to those. I would solve the problems because I can see what is wrong and as President I can just move everyone around as I please." I think that is how Hussein saw himself.

Republican boys are more likely to aspire to be rich businessmen.

Once again, one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

The republicans have selected one of the most emotionally dysfunctional people to lead them in 2012. There was a field of talent out there to choose from, but they got crushed by the money that Romney and the Koch cabal could lavish on their pet project to give the US a servant who would be utterly compliant to their 'needs', in the same way that Bush was chosen to let Halliburton plunder the US treasury and the taxpayers' wallets for 8 years and counting.

It is total bullshit to blame the Republicans for fronting the worst people possible for the job because somehow they are all so emotionally healthy that you can't find someone with the personality of a psychpathic dictator in order to run the nation. The facts show that it isn't so.

 

[T-Rexx]

Go through characteristics of of a sociopath and compare those with Obama. Very scary.

Let's go through the characteristics of a sociopath and compare those with Romney. Very scary. Here are the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Symptoms of this disorder may include, but are not limited to:

* Reacting to criticism with anger, shame, or humiliation
* Taking advantage of others to reach their own goals
* Exaggerating their own importance, achievements, and talents
* Imagining unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power, intelligence, or romance
* Requiring constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
* Easily becoming jealous
* Lacking empathy and disregarding the feelings of others
* Being obsessed with oneself
* Mainly pursuing selfish goals
* Trouble keeping healthy relationships
* Easily becoming hurt and rejected
* Setting goals that are unrealistic
* Wanting "the best" of everything
* Appearing unemotional


Narcissistic personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sound like anyone we know? And, contrary to Benvolio's bizarre opinions, there is a reason that this kind of narcissism is called a disorder.

 

[chance1]

Chance mon ami this isn't always true.

I'm no Obama fan and have said it several times. In fact,I think he's a pretty lousy politician.

But there's no doubt that he's a gifted speaker. By contrast, Mitt is an Android at best.

Chance, I have had this idea about Mitt for quite some time that he displays characteristics of sociopathic ideation. He has a flat affect, and his voice has that monotone that seems consistent with a Schizoid Personality. Can you honestly say that you have ever seen genuine emotion register on his face?

you're not a progressive ideological zombie - congrats didn't think u were and my response was NOT directed at you

Obama speaks well with a teleprompter - big diff from being a good speaker - when left to his own devices he often tells us how he really feels not how his advisors told him to feel

comments about Mitt and him being "non human" or "sociopathic" are fucked up - period

period

it's pretty fucked as well that the walking dead go batshit when u question the president yet attack romney the way they do

partisanship is obvious when commentary that reaches far beyond one's level of knowledge is so evident

 

[Benvolio]

Actually he has been very successful at most everything he has done: rescued the Olympics, made a fortune managing failing businesses, by rescuing those survivable and liquidating other, and yes, as a politician. He will win this election and he will make a great President if he can just get in office before we go broke.

Your list of narcissistic characteristics are true to some degree of virtually all politicians and a large percentage of the population. Section 301.81 of the DSM-IV-TR states:"Many highly successful individuals display personality traits that might be considered narcissistic. Only when these traits are inflexible, maladaptive and persisting and cause significant impairment or subjective distress do they constitute Narcissistic Personality Disorder."

 

[chance1]

Surprised he did not ask when can I see Princess Diane?

now that's funny

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Probably because most of the shit questioned of the President is the most inane shit.

LOL

i'm sure that's what your ears hear

 

[chance1]

Looks like the first lady has a bit of class and knows how to act in certain social situations. Unlike some twits I've heard about:

Michelle Obama Shows Mitt Romney How Diplomacy is Done

LOL - "Real Liberal Politics" is the "blog" - good source

right below your "piece" was this ........

get real (not real liberal politics)

 

[chrisrobin]

Let's go through the characteristics of a sociopath and compare those with Romney. Very scary. Here are the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.




Sound like anyone we know? And, contrary to Benvolio's bizarre opinions, there is a reason that this kind of narcissism is called a disorder.

Ask yourself the following question be you a Democrat, Republican or Independent: Is this the man you really want who will have access to "the button" 24-7?

 

[chance1]

^ except Martin Sheen was Jed Bartlett too

great move btw

 

[T-Rexx]

Obama speaks well with a teleprompter - big diff from being a good speaker

And Romney speaks phenomenally poorly without a teleprompter. Perhaps your guy should catch up to the twentieth century.

comments about Mitt and him being "non human" or "sociopathic" are fucked up - period

period

I rest my case.

 

[chrisrobin]

^ except Martin Sheen was Jed Bartlett too

great move btw

Ah, the magic of Hollywood! I just rented the first season of The West Wing. I can't wait to view!