There's America, and there's Mitt Romney's "Amercia."

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**BrassScorpion**

As long as Romney is running in this other country called "Amercia" then I suppose we have nothing to worry about.

Mitt Romney iPhone App, 'With Mitt,' Misspells 'America'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/mitt-romney-iphone-app-with-mitt-america-amercia_n_1555714.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

There's America, and there's Mitt Romney's "Amercia."

Twitter was ablaze with commentary on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning after it came to light that the Romney campaign's newly released app, "With Mitt," misspelled "America" as "Amercia."

The free iPhone app allows supporters to personalize and share photos that are superimposed with one of more than a dozen phrases, like "I stand with Mitt," "Obama isn't working" and "American Greatness."

But one of the slogans plasters "A Better Amercia" across the front of the image.

As of Wednesday morning, the app still had not been updated.

There's more article at the link above.

**Easy E**

I guess the CIA really does run everything here.

**ShumaGorath**

God bless Amercia.

**Frazzled**

BrassScorpion wrote:As long as Romney is running in this other country called "Amercia" then I suppose we have nothing to worry about.

Mitt Romney iPhone App, 'With Mitt,' Misspells 'America'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/mitt-romney-iphone-app-with-mitt-america-amercia_n_1555714.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

There's America, and there's Mitt Romney's "Amercia."

Twitter was ablaze with commentary on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning after it came to light that the Romney campaign's newly released app, "With Mitt," misspelled "America" as "Amercia."

The free iPhone app allows supporters to personalize and share photos that are superimposed with one of more than a dozen phrases, like "I stand with Mitt," "Obama isn't working" and "American Greatness."

But one of the slogans plasters "A Better Amercia" across the front of the image.

As of Wednesday morning, the app still had not been updated.
There's more article at the link above.

meanwhile, Obama

ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

**biccat**

Frazzled wrote:meanwhile, Obama ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

But did he spell America wrong Frazzled? Who do you want to be President, someone who can't spell America or someone who

s off our allies?

**BrassScorpion**

There's one thing I knew for sure when I posted this and that is that a certain extreme right wing apologist would be posting something in here within 10 minutes of its appearance. I was not "disappointed". Is it really necessary to do that in every thread one doesn't like? Or to try and counter every post one doesn't like within a thread? If I did that I'd be in here all day doing nothing else, which is apparently the case for some people, justifying the use of the word "extreme" to describe their behavior in the extreme. Cue vehement, extreme response in 5...4...3...

**Kovnik Obama**

biccat wrote:But did he spell America wrong Frazzled? Who do you want to be President, someone who can't spell America or someone who s off our allies?

Implying Romney won't be good at pissing off allies.

Frazzled wrote:meanwhile, Obama ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

Implying one cannot entirely disregard the existence of the Poles.

**ShumaGorath**

Frazzled wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote:As long as Romney is running in this other country called "Amercia" then I suppose we have nothing to worry about.

Mitt Romney iPhone App, 'With Mitt,' Misspells 'America'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/mitt-romney-iphone-app-with-mitt-america-amercia_n_1555714.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

There's America, and there's Mitt Romney's "Amercia."

Twitter was ablaze with commentary on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning after it came to light that the Romney campaign's newly released app, "With Mitt," misspelled "America" as "Amercia."

The free iPhone app allows supporters to personalize and share photos that are superimposed with one of more than a dozen phrases, like "I stand with Mitt," "Obama isn't working" and "American Greatness."

But one of the slogans plasters "A Better Amercia" across the front of the image.

As of Wednesday morning, the app still had not been updated.
There's more article at the link above.

meanwhile, Obama ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

You sand sound like an amercian't.

**biccat**

BrassScorpion wrote:I was not "disappointed".

How is one "disappointed"?

Is that like being disappointed?

BrassScorpion wrote:Is it really necessary to do that in every thread one doesn't like?

Is it really necessary to post silly "gotcha" political crap like this?

Remember when the President said he had illegitimate children? Good times man, good times.

**Frazzled**

BrassScorpion wrote:There's one thing I knew for sure when I posted this and that is that a certain extreme right wing apologist would be posting something in here within 10 minutes of its appearance. I was not "disappointed". Is it really necessary to do that in every thread one doesn't like? Or to try and counter every post one doesn't like within a thread? If I did that I'd be in here all day doing nothing else, which is apparently the case for some people, justifying the use of the word "extreme" to describe their behavior in the extreme. Cue vehement, extreme response in 5...4...3...

Your avatar is cute. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

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ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote:As long as Romney is running in this other country called "Amercia" then I suppose we have nothing to worry about.

Mitt Romney iPhone App, 'With Mitt,' Misspells 'America'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/mitt-romney-iphone-app-with-mitt-america-amercia_n_1555714.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

There's America, and there's Mitt Romney's "Amercia."

Twitter was ablaze with commentary on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning after it came to light that the Romney campaign's newly released app, "With Mitt," misspelled "America" as "Amercia."

The free iPhone app allows supporters to personalize and share photos that are superimposed with one of more than a dozen phrases, like "I stand with Mitt," "Obama isn't working" and "American Greatness."

But one of the slogans plasters "A Better Amercia" across the front of the image.

As of Wednesday morning, the app still had not been updated.
There's more article at the link above.

meanwhile, Obama ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

You sand sound like an amercian't.

WE've disagreed on a slew of many things, like what color the sky is, but thats funny there.

**Grey Templar**

Why is this spelling gaffe Mitt's fault?

It was probably misspelled by the advertising firm that designed the slogan.

At least its not as bad as all the schools accross the country that have been having pretty blatent misprints lately. Shcool anyone?

**Joey**

Good job he's not from Tamworth or he'd be...

A MERCIAN.

**Frazzled**

Amercia! Amercia! God shed His Grace on thee!

Yep, still rhymes. Change approved.

**Ahtman**

Grey Templar wrote:Why is this spelling gaffe Mitt's fault?

The same reason anything that can draw a line to Obama gets put on Obama's head as well, no matter how far removed. You would think policy would be enough to not vote for someone, but we've proven it isn't enough to not agree with a person's policies, you have to actively dislike them as a person as well and use any excuse to denigrate them.

**LoneLictor**

Any article about politics with "gaffe" in the title is sensationalist fumbledumbler, and nothing less.

**Grey Templar**

The funny thing is, 70% of the people in this country probably wouldn't have noticed the mistake, 25% wouldn't care, and only 5% would raise a stink.

**Some_Call_Me_Tim?**

LoneLictor wrote:Any article about politics with "gaffe" in the title is sensationalist fumbledumbler, and nothing less.

+1 to this!

The "gaffe" in question here was a mistake by the graphic designers employed by the Romney campaign...Still, seems like some one should have spotted it before it was released.

~Tim?

**Orlanth**

Well its sort of true.

As Moral is to Amoral. Mercia is to Amercia.

Mercia (Central England) and America don't overlap, so America is a form of Amercia.

**IcyCool**

Ahtman wrote:You would think policy would be enough to not vote for someone, but we've proven it isn't enough to not agree with a person's policies, you have to actively dislike them as a person as well and use any excuse to denigrate them.

Pshaw. By that crazy logic I wouldn't be able to vote for any politician ever.

**notprop**

So this is how all those post apocalyptic Amercias you see in films come about.

when is Kevin Costner having his gills fitted?

**MeanGreenStompa**

biccat wrote:
Frazzled wrote:meanwhile, Obama ed up and called the Nazi concentration camps, "Polish camps" causing the Poles to have a major hissy. Everyone makes mistakes and is stupid. It doesn't help one restore one job.

But did he spell America wrong Frazzled? Who do you want to be President, someone who can't spell America or someone who s off our allies?

As a citizen of your principal military ally, I can assure you we like Obama a great great deal more than his predecessor.

**Frazzled**

Too bad he doesn't like you nearly as much as his predecessor...

**biccat**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:As a citizen of your principal military ally

Which one? Netherlands? Australia? Poland? Great Britain? Germany? S. Korea? Israel? France? Italy? Japan?

Spoiler:

But not Denmark.

**AustonT**

"Can you raed tihs?

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid; aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Mtit Remnoy

biccat wrote:
MeanGreenStompa wrote:As a citizen of your principal military ally

Which one? Netherlands? Australia? Poland? Great Britain? Germany? S. Korea? Israel? France? Italy? Japan?

Spoiler:

But not Denmark.

That guy looks creepily like Jude Law.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

Isn't it the sworn duty of every American president to p**s off their allies?
I mean look at the track record. You guys either turn up late (WW2) insult your allies (Johnson calling Britain ungrateful b******s for not joining the fight in Vietnam) or attempt to seduce them with sweet music (Regan and Maggie's candlelit dinners)

**Orlanth**

Dear America/Amercia whatever

Please forgive Romney's little faults and vote for him. We so desperately need you to remove the current tennant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW before he feths up anything else.

Your sincerely
The Rest of the World.

**MeanGreenStompa**

biccat wrote:
MeanGreenStompa wrote:As a citizen of your principal military ally

Which one? Netherlands? Australia? Poland? Great Britain? Germany? S. Korea? Israel? France? Italy? Japan?

But not Denmark.

You're being deliberately obtuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Coalition_involvement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_role_in_the_2001-present_Afghan_war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Multilateral_support

As to Obama citing several nations as allies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy

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Frazzled wrote:Too bad he doesn't like you nearly as much as his predecessor...

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No, his predecessor liked Tony Blair, they could pray together about their great holy crusade whilst other people's sons and daughters got sent to the desert to be killed, including my cousin.

**AustonT**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
biccat wrote:
MeanGreenStompa wrote:As a citizen of your principal military ally

Which one? Netherlands? Australia? Poland? Great Britain? Germany? S. Korea? Israel? France? Italy? Japan?

But not Denmark.

You're being deliberately obtuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Coalition_involvement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_role_in_the_2001-present_Afghan_war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Multilateral_support

As to Obama citing several nations as allies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy

You mean Thomas Buch-Andersen is being deliberatly obtuse? Who else do I know like that?

**biccat**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:You're being deliberately obtuse.

No, I'm pointing out that the President is an idiot.

There's a difference.

**KingCracker**

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