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dcnovice -> RE: Blunderer-In-Chief Romney does it for a 3rd time in London (7/27/2012 6:36:32 PM)
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In fairness to Governor Romney (now there's something I never expected to say) . . .
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Fact....He called the leader of the opposition party "Mr Leader"............ Again, shows poor protocol.
I've watched the video twice now, and I can't tell whether Romney used "Mr. Leader" because he'd forgotten Milliband's name. If so, well, that is a mite awkward, but brain lapses happen to all of us. I've certainly had my own. I work part-time as a guide at a historic house here in DC, and I sometimes cringe at what comes out of my mouth. My all-time favorite forgotten-name story, though, came from a professor of mine at the University of Sussex. She recounted how she was trying, as gracefully as possible, to decline a proposal, when she totally blanked on the gentleman's name!
Another possibility, suggested by the center-left blog LabourList, is that Romney was following the congressional practice of calling someone "Mr. Leader" (or Mr. Speaker or Mr. Chairman...).
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Fact.....He made a reference to Anglo Saxon allegiences....... Hardly a good thing in a multiracial society
From what I've read, this was not Romney (who disassociated himself from the comment) but an unamed advisor. I agree that "Anglo-Saxon" was a politically incorrect way of putting it these days, but I get the point that we do share a heritage with Britain and that our roots reach back to Magna Carta, common law, and so forth.
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