Spain is also unhappy with Mitt Romney

After his debate quip about the Spanish economy

Published October 7, 2012 7:02PM (EDT)

Add Spain to the growing list of countries Mitt Romney has managed to offend.

"I don't want to go down the path of Spain," Romney said during the debate, adding: "I want to go down the path of growth that puts Americans to work."

From the AP:

"'What I see is ignorance of what is reality, but especially of the potential of the Spanish economy,'" said Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria.

Maria Dolores Cospedal, leader of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party, noted that 'Spain is not on fire from all sides like some on the outside have suggested.' Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo called it 'very unfortunate that other countries should be put up as examples' when the facts are skewed."

 


By Jillian Rayfield

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