{"id":7530,"date":"2012-07-26T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T19:32:05","slug":"mitt-romney-olumpics-blunder-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/07\/26\/mitt-romney-olumpics-blunder-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt (The Diplomat) Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mitt Romney: How on earth did you manage to cause a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/jul\/26\/david-cameron-romney-london-2012\">diplomatic incident in Great Britain? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just what we want in a president &#8212; someone so desperate to show off his knowledge about the Olympics, that he <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/26\/romneys-remarks-cause-stir-in-london\/\">insults our best friends, the Brits, <\/a>while a guest in their country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONDON \u2014 Mitt Romney\u2019s carefully choreographed trip to London caused a diplomatic stir when he called the British Olympic preparations \u201cdisconcerting\u201d and questioned whether Londoners would turn out to support the Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging,\u201d Mr. Romney said in an interview with NBC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted a tart rejoinder from the British prime minister, David Cameron. \u201cWe are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it\u2019s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere,\u201d an allusion to Salt Lake City, which hosted Games that Mr. Romney oversaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Mitt (The Diplomat) Romney<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitt&#8217;s Olympian need to convey<br \/>\nExpertise nearly caused a huge fray.<br \/>\nA prez needs the skill<br \/>\nOf diplomacy: Shrill,<br \/>\nBlow by blow game-host insults? Bad play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mitt Romney: How on earth did you manage to cause a diplomatic incident in Great Britain? Just what we want in a president &#8212; someone so desperate to show off his knowledge about the Olympics, that he insults our best friends, the Brits, while a guest in their country. LONDON \u2014 Mitt Romney\u2019s carefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,38,20,1990,2041,126,2040,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,999,2764,1992,2042,1250,1968],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-foreign-policy","category-gop-humor","category-great-britain-humor","category-international-affairs","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-olympics-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-campaign-humor","tag-diplomacy","tag-election-satire","tag-great-britain","tag-international-incidents","tag-mitt-romney","tag-olympics-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}