Posted on 09/02/2012 2:41:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..........The British have never been especially keen on enthusiasm, either in its modern sense, or in the older meaning of ‘seized by religious fervour’. Americans – ideological descendants, in many ways, of those regicides – differ from us perhaps more in this than in any other regard.
.....One after another, friends and colleagues of Mitt Romney lined up to tell us about the many acts of kindness which he had performed unremarked. Parents choked back their tears as they recalled the time he had spent with their dying children. Former employees spoke of his humility, his industriousness, his quiet charity. In a stroke of genius, one of his sons told us that, as boys, he and his brothers had always had to go to their mother for pocket money, their father being tightfisted – which, given America’s present circumstances, strikes me as the best possible recommendation.
........‘The greatest pleasure I know’, wrote Charles Lamb, ‘is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.’ A lot of us have just learned, almost by accident, about several of Mitt Romney’s good actions. We are building up an image of the man which is rather more appealing than we had expected: workaholic, uxorious, quiet, prayerful, more than a little dull, but fundamentally decent. What a relief after the soaring but (in both senses) vain rhetoric of the past four years.
Modest, calm and obsessively private, Mitt Romney seems more British than American. He is obviously fond of this country, making it the first place he visited on his tour as a candidate..........
We have had four years of a president who scarcely troubles to hide his disdain for Britain. What a pleasure it would be.....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
For God’s sake stop it, the man is a a horror.
Your buddy Obama is a saint, though!
You need to go to the site and read the last paragraph - I think he’s talking to you.
Do you have a point of view? What is it?
Thanks for posting this, a good article.
It’s amazing, isn’t it, how much further back the Euro’s memories go, than ours?
I mean, I guess it’s not amazing, America is still such a young country. But to read an article about Romney, and have it start with the murder of King Charles I, and mockery of his killers by calling them “enthusiasts”, well we just don’t have anything like that, do we?
I was working in a Greek diner in 1976, and we started to get all the straws and coffee cups with bicentennial decorations on them. And one of the Greek gals working there asked me “What’s this?” and I said, with great pride “America is 200 years old this year!” and she looked at me strangely and said “And Greece is how old....?”
LOL, I’ll always remember that.
Well, they’re a mess now and so are we, I guess I want to say we better all put our thinking-caps on and find a way out of the mess.
I think Romney & Ryan will be good at that. God bless them I hope they will be, and I certainly hope they win, because Obama, God bless him too, has just been dreadful.
Communism is NEVER the answer.
If you don’t like a thread, no one is forcing you to read it.
Gosh, what will we do?
Did they mention the Churchill bust? I’m sure that still infuriates them. Hell, I’m still infuriated.
obammy's not only an empty chair...
“If you don’t like a thread, no one is forcing you to read it.”
So true, but I gather some are given the job of sowing discord among brethren. - Over at DU they don’t allow that problem to exist; so it’s the “F” word every other word and an Obama lovefest orgy to their hearts’ content.
“I’m still infuriated.”
Me too, and here’s a funny story.
Many months ago, and I don’t know what brought it to my mind, I don’t think there was anything in the news about it, but as you’ll see that could be wrong, I said to hubby, I hope the next president asks England for that Churchill bust back.
I said this as we were driving in to work. I get to work, turn on the radio and hear Glenn Beck say to one of his co-hosts “If I were to run for president, and say that I’d do just one thing, just ONE thing, but I won’t tell you what that one thing was, and then I’d resign, would you vote for me?”
I think the consensus was “no, we wouldn’t vote for you unless you told us what the one thing was”, but it went on for a while.
In any event, Beck’s ONE THING that he would do if elected president was ask for the Churchill bust back!
I stood straight up, because otherwise I would have literally fallen over in my chair.
Oh goodness, I hope Romney will win, ask for this memento back and make a big deal of it.
I know that Romney’s a squish, but I have a hope that he has/will learn the #1 lesson for all Republican pols, you must NOT CARE what the MSM says about you.
I figure if they bash Mormons enough between now & November, he’ll get that lesson down.
Not this time but it's pretty much ingrained in their psyche.
BUMP!
But not as much of a horror as those that would allow Obama another 4 years to make some sort of pointless point...
Your candidate changed his position on abortion the other day.
And he has been saying Roe vs. Wade should be overturned for some time. There's a difference between having an opinion and wanting to enforce it...BTW Obama hasn't changed his opinion - a fetus is fair game and a newborn is just a fetus outside the womb - hope you don't get your wish and seat him for another 4...
So who was your choice?
That is not true.
Romney returned to his pro-abortion position on August 27.
What is your reaction to this?
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