London’s Olympic Games are attracting visitors from all over the world. Including, Stephen Colbert said Thursday, America’s “crown prince of running for president,” Mitt Romney.But Romney’s first foreign trip as a presidential candidate got off to a rocky start after he questioned London’s readiness to host the Olympic Games. British Prime Minister David Cameron, London Mayor Borris Johnson and pretty much the entire UK press didn’t take too well to those comments. In an allusion to the Salt Lake City Olympics Romney ran in 2002, Cameron said: “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.”
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