There were suggestions in a few of the political blogs that some of Mitt Romney's advisors did not want him to go on his recent trip overseas. "Why take the focus off the economy?" they asked. That, after all, is his strongest issue. Going overseas would just be a distraction. This isn't a foreign policy election, after all.
I'm thinking they feel vindicated after Mitt's less-than-stellar performance. It is true the media loves to jump on gaffes and little mistakes, and to be fair Mitt's mistakes were not terribly consequential, except perhaps the part about insulting the Palestinians. To say that a country undergoing occupation and economic sanctions is poor because of CULTURE is pretty strange.
But overall, it's hard to see this as being a decisive point in the election. Romney didn't come off well, but this will be a foggy memory come November. Still, it's part of a narrative that the Obama campaign can use--"Sure Romney's a great businessman, but there's more to the job than that." Given the reaction of the foreign press, it's an argument with some power.
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