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Thursday, July 26th, 2012

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A gaffe-filled day for Mitt Romney in Britain 

Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a priceless gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a successful Olympic Games, The Guardian reports. Romney also appeared to forget the name of the U.K.’s opposition leader - Labor’s Ed Miliband - during a joint appearance with Miliband. 

# Posted at 3:18 pm Pacific