MITT TAKES A HIT FOR THE U. S. OF A

In his new book, Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama's efforts as President to reconcile with foreign powers, Muslims, and others have weakened the United States' stature instead of enhancing it (no joke). Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Romney complained that when he was recently in a Paris airport, an elderly woman encouraged her poodle to urinate on his shoes. "Prior to Obama's election, that dog never would have complied, but this time he did. And then my 8-year-old grandson, who was with me, did the same thing!"