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Why Does Romney Hate Canadians?

Joshua Keating comments on Romney’s pledge to go to Jerusalem on his first presidential visit, which he made again in his AIPAC speech: This is pretty standard practice. Since Franklin Roosevelt, nearly every president has gone to either Canada or Mexico first. (Carter went to Britain first; Truman and Nixon went to Belgium.) As far […]

Joshua Keating comments on Romney’s pledge to go to Jerusalem on his first presidential visit, which he made again in his AIPAC speech:

This is pretty standard practice. Since Franklin Roosevelt, nearly every president has gone to either Canada or Mexico first. (Carter went to Britain first; Truman and Nixon went to Belgium.)

As far as I can tell, Israel has never been particularly bothered by this practice. But between this and “that oil from Canada that we deserve,” Romney is running a serious risk of incurring the wrath of our neighbor to the north.

Presumably Romney’s promise to make his first foreign presidential trip to Jerusalem is just more embarrassing pandering on his part. Insofar as he’s serious about this it tells us how misplaced his priorities are. There are at least two dozen other states that are more strategically and economically important to the United States than Israel. Presidential candidates should show some awareness of this and refrain from making absurd pledges that they are unlikely to keep once in office.

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