A disingenuous tool
Mitt Romney is disingenuous, readers. Here’s what he said in response to Barack Obama’s statement that American kids would benefit from learning languages:
Just last week the onetime Republican presidential hopeful said Obama “looks toward Europe for a lot of his inspiration” after the Illinois senator suggested Americans would benefit from knowing more languages.
“I think John McCain is going to make sure that America stays America,” Romney said in an interview on Fox News.
Foreign languages? There’s no benefit in those. Better to ignore them and let “America stay America.” But what’s this, readers?
Updated 2008/07/21: It seems that the owner of this video has recently disabled embedding. If you want to see the video, you’ll have to go to YouTube and watch it there.
That’s right, readers: Mitt Romney speaks French, and he speaks it really well. His French is excellent, much better than John Kerry’s, as a matter of fact. (Romney spent two and a half years in France in the late 1960s, on his Mormon mission.) Does that mean Romney also “looks to Europe for inspiration”?
Mitt Romney is playing the American people for fools here, readers. He’s willing to say things that are stupid and wrong, knowing full well they’re stupid and wrong. What a tool.
(CNN link via Sadly, No!)
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July 16th, 2008 @ 20:09
Only a fool would think that being fluent in as many languages as possible is ‘bad’.
July 16th, 2008 @ 22:46
Mitt Romney is an intelligent person, and he knows perfectly well that saying American kids would benefit from studying other languages is not the same thing as “taking inspiration from Europe” or doing something that might keep America from “staying America” (whatever the hell that means). He’s just playing the voters for a bunch of fools.
July 18th, 2008 @ 00:41
>He’s just playing the voters for a bunch of fools.
Fourputt knows all about being ‘played’. He’s a two-time Bush fool. His head has been stuck so far up Bush’s and the republicans’ asses it’s remarkable that he’s still breathing.
July 22nd, 2008 @ 18:05
Good to see you are sharp on your political commentary. For the record, any inspiration from Europe has come in the form of history that I have already learned at school. I love learning foreign languages and we can all benefit from them. Europe’s policies are good for Europe.
July 22nd, 2008 @ 20:34
Steve Elzinga! How are you, my friend?
July 22nd, 2008 @ 22:06
I’m doing well. I was actually in PA, DC, Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg the second week in June on vacation with my family (wife and three kids) when the East Coast decides to have a heat wave! We planned the trip in June specifically to avoid the heat. We still had a good time.
How is everything with you?
July 23rd, 2008 @ 14:49
You covered most of my old stomping grounds — Virginia’s Historical Triangle, where I grew up; DC, where I lived much of my adult life; PA, where I live now. I remember there was a heat wave in early June, oddly. According to my indoor/outdoor thermometer, those were the hottest days we’ve had in 2008 thus far.
Life here is pretty good. I’ve got no serious complaints.
August 8th, 2008 @ 16:51
Speaking of a disingenuous tool - can’t wait to read your commentary on John Edwards.
August 8th, 2008 @ 23:44
I’m actually in Las Vegas right now (my sister’s getting married on Sunday!!) enjoying myself. I just heard about Edwards fessing up to his affair a couple hours ago. Wow! I am genuinely shocked and disappointed.