Posted on 08/16/2012 4:12:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
What does Greece have to do with the next US president? Or the current debate about a "political and fiscal union" in Europe?
Readers tempted to shrug shoulders and say "not much" would be ill-advised. The main topic in the US campaign ahead of the 6 November presidential elections is the economy. And Europe has become the bogeyman for the Republican camp.
"I see our President making us more and more like Europe. I don't want to be like Europe, I want to be like America," Republican candidate Mitt Romney said on Sunday (12 August) during a campaign event in North Carolina. …
With a close race ahead—Obama has an average of 4 percent ahead of Romney in the first half of August, according to RealClearPolitics—the fear in the Democratic camp is that if the euro crisis gets worse and spills over, there will be no way for Obama to win this election. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
Romney's statement is just infested with racial code words!
I mean, look what he said! "I see." Oh, I BET he does - he sees a Black Man! Don't you get it!? "I want to be like America." Oh, suuurreeee! Notice he didn't say like and "African-American"? What's the matter, African isn't good enough for him?!
Wake up people!
Americans probably should be concerned about the Eurozone crisis, but they're not. They don't even really know about it.
They just don't like Europeans. That's why Romney's line resonates.
-——the euro crisis gets worse and spills over——
Scape goat positioning
-——the euro crisis gets worse and spills over——
Scape goat positioning
Yeah, what a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Snake-licking socialists.
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