<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How To Royally Piss Off An Ally,&nbsp;Ctd]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[
<p>A reader writes:</p>
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<p>As a genuine Brit I have had my doubts about the Olympics, but as of now  am a full supporter. <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/how-to-royally-piss-off-an-ally.html" target="_self">You&#39;re right</a> &#8211; we love to complain but hate  someone patronizing us.</p>
<p> Indeed, it strikes me that Mitt Romney personifies the very aspects of  the London Olympics that I am most doubtful about &#8211; the overweening  sponsors, the misallocation of the costs (the state pays and the  sponsors gain), and this &quot;Olympic Family&quot; who are so up themselves that  they have had the mother of Parliaments suspend the law of the land to  offer them special traffic lanes to ensure a fast journey to the  stadium. As Andreas Whittam-Smith said in today&#39;s Independent, no one  asks for help to get to the tennis at Wimbledon &#0160;- they just leave a  little earlier &#8211; whereas we have had to introduce social laws to grant  IOC what is essentially a perk.</p>
<p> It confirms all you have been writing about this strange international  elite who regard themselves as subject to no laws, or at least different  laws to the rest of us. Mitt&#39;s world.</p>
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<p>Another:</p>
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<p>Romney&#39;s not an &quot;asshole&quot;. He&#39;s an &quot;arsehole.&quot; What a time to forget your roots!</p>
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<p>British Dishheads are hereby invited to offer their take on how Mitt is going down in the mother country.</p>
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