Mitt Romney, America's Most Successful English Major, Also Its Least Successful
Mitt Romney is really bad at telling stories about other people.
Mitt Romney is really bad at telling stories about other people. When Romney tries to tell the folksy stories about people who embody the American dream or the Obama economy, he doesn't mention their names, or offer many details, or craft much of a story arc, Bloomberg's John McCormick explains. This is particularly odd, given that Romney was an English major at Brigham Young University, as he admitted to Ohio college students last month. And, like most English majors, he's always been a little snotty about his skills as a wordsmith -- at a Republican primary debate in September, for example, he sneered at Rick Perry, "I actually wrote my book." In fact, he said some combination of "I," "wrote," and "book" four times. And, as McCormick reports, Romney wrote his own speeches the last time he ran for president, and an aide had to persuade him to hand over the task this time.