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Mitt Romney’s Overseas Trip Begins With Brutal Sassing by British Prime Minister

Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for the USA presidential election, arrives in Downing Street to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron on July 26, 2012 in London, England. Mitt Romney is meeting various leaders, past and present, on his visit to the UK including Tony Blair, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.
And then they met at 10 Downing and it wasn’t at all awkward. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.” —British Prime Minister David Cameron, responding to remarks by 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics organizer and  world’s foremost appreciator of the Special Relationship, Mitt Romney, who told NBC’s Brian Williams yesterday that it was “hard to know just how well” the London Olympics “will turn out,” and questioned whether the British people will truly “come together and celebrate the Olympic moment.”

Mitt Romney Sassed by British Prime Minister