“Mitt Romney Struggles To Identify A Doughnut”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/11/mitt-romney-donut-video_n_1585744.html
I think Huffington Post is overreacting a bit:
“A tip of the hat to Buzzfeed for alerting us all to the video above, and thus the possible dangers of Mitt Romney becoming President of the United States.
Yes, if you thought it was worrying when Sarah Palin’s claim to foreign policy expertise was the fact that she could see Russia from her house, then we suggest you worry even more at the notion that the potentially most powerful man on Earth is unable to identify a chocolate doughnut.”
The President does not live in the same world as normal people. His/her decisions are made on a national or global scale. Being able to “relate to the average American” has little to do with Presidential level decisions relating to economic or foreign relations policy.
However, for some reason, US voters give a high weight to the candidate that they would “like to have a beer with”. So, yeah… it’s not so great for Romney if he keeps doing stuff like this…
HuffPost/Drudge typically overreact. Just venting grounds for people with political biases. As with many things Obama gets flack for, this is just another stupid non-news worthy item.
It’s not so much that he can’t name a donut or the Pennsylvania bakery incident, it’s more how terribly he handles these. He clearly has trouble communicating with normal people, or people outside of his background. How difficult will it be when he has to interface with someone from say a traditional muslim country? Believe me, you really don’t want to inadvertantly piss them off. I guess the thing is to me, he appears so sheltered from anything outside his bubble that I think he’ll struggle in world politics. If he was wicked smart, I could forgive him, but he doesn’t appear to have that going for him either. Not that any of the other candidates really shine either, I’m just saying this is my take on it.
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The video doesn’t say much to me. Maybe he was thinking it could be some type of pastry and didn’t want to get it wrong by calling it a simple donut
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Romney is wicked smart … 1600 SAT, HBS Baker Scholar and cum laude at HLS … not too shabby
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I doubt that Romney is going to have trouble communicating with world leaders. You can’t be a CEO of a consulting company without being a good communicator.
“I’m a CPA! I got money b***h!”
Then explain how he’s doing so bad at it?
That being said, I did not realize he had some of those credentials. Therefore, I concede some leeway for him. Still, dude’s gotta work on this shiz and polish his game a little. Someone should drag his ass to a local dive bar and tell him he can’t leave until he has at least one normal conversation with someone.
I used to smoke pot and go to class.
Sneak in ten minutes late with a bullsh*t excuse.
Slink down low at my desk.
Pray to god nobody asked me any questions.
I was the best teacher ever.
Romney is not bad at communication. He has done well in the Republican primary debates and has achieved extreme success in communications-related business. He just has trouble relating to average Americans. Being comparable to average Americans can help get votes, but it has little to do with constructing good public policy. The President is not supposed to be an average person. Ideally, he should be in the top 0.00001% of Americans. Typically, people like this are not like average people (which Romney is not).
“I’m a CPA! I got money b***h!”
Well, obviously none of the questions on his SAT exam were donut related.
I used to smoke pot and go to class.
Sneak in ten minutes late with a bullsh*t excuse.
Slink down low at my desk.
Pray to god nobody asked me any questions.
I was the best teacher ever.
I think every president and presidential candidate has had brain farts like these before. The camera is on them all the time and they get distracted by 1000 other things. I’m willing to bet that everybody that was in the video didn’t even notice this particular gaff, only people who watched it afterwards.
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Totally agree with MCalamari, the effects of being under the scrutiny of the US media for 23 hours a day cannot be underestimated. It happens in every election in both parties, these guys are human beings and aren’t perfect, so they’re going to mess up every now and then. I’d also agree with the comments of his performance in the debates, which defintely improved over time.
Btw, how relatable is Obama? He’s probably somwhat better able to relate to the average Joe than Romney, but Obama certainly isn’t the average Joe and his ability to relate to us can’t be that great either.
It’s a bit ironic, actually. In 2008, Republicans attacked Obama for being unrelatable to the average American. McCain, on the other hand, was someone that you would feel comfortable “having a beer with”. Of course, this comparison is somewhat artificial. As Obama supporters were quick to point out (I remember Paul Krugman saying this during an interview), no person who thinks he “ought to be President” is like an average American. They might be good at acting average in public, but we would be deluded to think that a Presidential candidate would hang out with plumbers or firemen in their free time.
Relatability for Presidential candidates = acting.
“I’m a CPA! I got money b***h!”
Really Huffington Post?…this is the ax to grind? That is so weak.
Yeah, he’s rich beyond understanding by most and probably doesn’t feast on donuts. Can you have a beer with a morman? I’m not sure, but I’ve heard you can’t. (old joke about mormans, fishing, and a six pack). I watch the video clip and I see a guy who hesitates perhaps because he is fishing for the specific name of the donut (boston?) or perhaps because he doesn’t want to insult the proprietor by reducing a thoughtful pastry probably made espicially for him to a common name like donut.
Seriously, all the news in the world and you choose this cheap shot to persuade the lemmings. Pathetic. That being said, it’s all part of the game and perhaps the most important lesson we learned from Clinton is that you gotta look good in front of the cameras.
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How do people come up with this stuff? The guy is hanging out with some people and is like “hand me one of those uhhh chocolate thingys” or whatever. Who cares. Relax.
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Reminds me of this:
We all have brainfarts.
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They all have brainfarts, naturally. The real test is to see how many and how often. Watching Bush Jr. speak was like watching a train wreck every time.
I think Romney’s had a lot more than Obama.
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Now he’s “amazed” at how you order a sandwich at Wawa.
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I wouldn’t think that one of the founders of Bain Capital is a dumb-ass. No matter how poor his expertise in doughnuts.
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Here’s the big difference between Mitt and Barack.
Mitt supporters sign their checks on the front. Barack supporters sign their checks on the back.
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I feel like the problem with Romney is that he and his team are trying so hard not to saying anything to turn off different voting groups that he’s having to check every single thing he says before it comes out of his mouth. It’s getting to the point where he is over analyzing casual conversation topics because that’s what he’s trained to do at this point.