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Oh for fuck's sake. These people. Et fucking cetera:

For most of 1968, Mitt lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the chic 16th arrondissement of Paris. “It was a house built by and for rich people,” said Richard Anderson, the son of the mission president at the time of Mr Romney’s stay. “I would describe it as a palace”. The Mission Home featured stained glass windows, chandeliers, and an extensive art collection. It was staffed by two servants – a Spanish chef and a houseboy. <a href="http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/us-politics\/8959440\/US-election-2012-Mitt-Romneys-life-as-a-poor-Mormon-missionary-in-France-questioned.html" target="_blank">The Telegraph, 15 December 2011 </a>

Tragically, there was no chauffeur.

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I'm sure he had equally spectacular success convincing them not to drink their Burgundies, Bordeaux, and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Might as well be proselytizing in a Dublin pub.

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Mitt, do you know that most anyone who still understands the significance of what happened in Paris 1968 remembers it with <i>reverence</i>, right?

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Well,they could drive around in a car... Oh wait. That ended badly.

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I was going for the DNC, but you win.

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Poor Mitt - mistook the bidet for a drinking fountain...

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C'EST MITTENS, L'ANGE EXTERMINATEUR!!!!

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Fortunately being a draft dodger is no impediment to high office for a Republican. In fact having no experience with actual military service or combat makes it easier to send others children to fight for oil!

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meh. that's what the 47% are for: fighting and dying in the wars that the 1% get us into.

duh.

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oh hai cnn: what exactly are you planning to do with this story? b/c i don't think it's being received that way.

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You know <i>where else</i> was "a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American" in 1968?

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Mittens has always been a buzzkill. All that pre-AIDS French tail walking around in miniskirts, and he's telling women to go to church? Wasted opportunity dude.

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"Paris . . . . . Fuck"

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I thought he killed a Catholic priest in the car accident.

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