Ebbie, I'm sorry that you should take my comments to be generalisations about all Americans. They certainly aren't meant that way.

My comments are aimed at the specific types which do the USA so much harm.

Those who call the French surrender monkeys and mean it, if they got the idea from British sources, are indeed missing the subtleties of British humour.

Mitt Romney is indeed a brain dead boor, whose visit we could easily have managed without, and whose utterances are utterly lacking in subtlety, tact and intelligence.

The thing we least understand is how you seem to elect such to govern your country on a more or less regular basis.

I have a great deal of respect for most of the US population, except for their somewhat suspect taste in representatives.

Don T.