Quit Whining Cameron, Romney Ran An Olympics

RiehlWorldView.com ^ | 7/27/2012 | Dan Riehl

[Qbert]

This silliness has mostly been fun for me, as I suspect, unlike the media, the average American voter couldn't care less about it; however, it does have an element of Obama and the left's ongoing war against success in it.

Some are forgetting that, not only does Romney speak with experience and success when it comes to running an Olympics, it was far from America's best moment when it risked botching an Olympics of its own back in 2002. 

They can like it, or not, Mitt Romney is largely credited with hauling those, and Salt Lake's ashes out of the fire, suggesting he's competent and capable. What I see is a seasoned executive speaking with some authority gained from significant experience versus a bunch of preening children not appreciating being smacked in the face with a bit of reality.

Cameron looks like a petulant brat here, instead of focusing on what's important, he's self-absorbed as his and Britain's wobbly egos seem to have been bruised. Oh well, life happens - which is basically what Romney was conveying in his remarks - that, and it's wise to be prepared for it.

All things considered, as I think and hope Americans will prefer the adult in the room in November - that's Romney - as opposed to four more years of an ostriched plumed politician like Obama (and Cameron is increasingly looking like one, too for the little that's worth to American voters), I'm tempted to go back to bed so I can continue to not lose sleep over a less newsworthy story than that annoying Queen's Jubilee we recently had to endure thanks to America's silly, elitist media.

This pompous non-circumstance is already getting decidedly old.

Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a potential gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a successful Olympic Games.

In a move that astonished Downing Street, hours before it laid on a special reception for Romney at No 10, he told NBC there were "disconcerting" signs about the preparations for the Games. One senior Whitehall source said: "What a total shocker. We are speechless."

David Cameron wasted no time in rebuking Romney hours after his remarks were broadcast. On a visit to the Olympic Park, the prime minister said: "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."

[edpc]

The American contribution to WW1 and to 1918 and final victory, although helpful and brave, has been grossly exaggerated.

Yeah, that whole Belleau Wood thing has been overblown, huh? It was only the pivotal point in stopping the Germans from overrunning Paris, then the rest of France. You could have had a warm up act in 1918 for your Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.

You bore the brunt of the 1918 offensive because the Germans had more troops to bring your way after the Russians pulled out.

They deployed so they could overwhelm and defeat you before American reinforcements arrived. They understood the addition would be problematic and were well on their way, kicking the crap out of French and British forces at the Somme and Marne Rivers.

Fortunately, the US Marines were able to slow them down and eventaully stop them at Chateau-Thierry by the end of May. But we thank you for the ride across the Atlantic and making the Germans so tired from all that marching and shooting they had to do before we got there.

[the scotsman]

I didnt and havent said American troops did little, all I have said is that they didnt ‘win the war’ by their entrance and battles, as modern myth claims.

It was till the British (and Commonwealth/French) armies that bore the major brunt in 1918.

Yes, the Germans threw us back 40 miles, but we stopped them and then drove them back to their start point and eventually back into Germany. And I have pointed out that that drive was a joint force of British, Americans, Canucks, French, Aussies......I have never said we did it alone.

We can start throwing out battles: you have Belleau Wood, we have Amiens. And on it goes. You have Thierry, we have the sacrifice of Gough’s 5th Army.

I am not and do not wish to be seen to belittle American involvement. All I am doing is putting it in true perspective.

I am in awe of the Marines of Belleau Wood. And one of my ww1 fascinations is with the ‘Lost Battalion’ (great film with Ricky Schroder about them btw), an American unit whose bravery and stand was incredible.