Maybe Romney is upset that he can't pronounce Ahmadinejad correctly (who can?). Perhaps he's afraid that there aren't enough of the Chargers for the Staties to drive. Or maybe he's just making another calculated move for a potential 2008 Presidential bid. Whatever the case may be, Romney has ordered to refuse all requests for security details in protection of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. A visit by Khatami has been scheduled for this Sunday, September 10 at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. We haven't been able to uncover any evidence of a deliberate effort to make this happen on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but it's certainly received much media mention. Despite Romney's pledge, the visit is still on schedule.
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After U.S. Rep. William Delahunt negotiated a deal with the Venezuelan government last week to provide discounted heating oil to needy families in the Commonwealth, all hell seemed to break loose. We were reminded that Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, is a really bad guy, or, as the Globe delicately put it, citing unnamed critics, "a democratically elected leader who governs in an undemocratic manner." Today, the furor seems to have died down - even Governor Romney, while not mentioning Chavez directly, said the deal was a good thing. So what gives? The Bush administration had previously been pretty disciplined about staying on message in making Chavez out to be a dictator, and now of all times, the President could probably stand to distract the heartland from bad news abroad by beating up on Massachusetts Democrats. Then again, maybe all this talk of a democratically elected leader who doesn't respect democratic principles hits a little too close to home on the same day the federal government finally bothers to indict a U.S. citizen it's held without charges for over three years.