...but it seems like Romney just went and lost himself for good a lot of the foreign press, with titles ranging from "Romney's first real test in foreign affairs: total failure" to "the presidential candidate the world and America can't afford" to opinions in the vein that not only diplomacy and world peace but US economy can't afford a matador as clearly unready and inept in foreign affairs as Romney, no matter the disappointements with Obama. My favourite editorial title goes to an untranslatable play on words between the "to bless" and the french verb "blesser" (blesse in the 3p.s., the final e is silent), to give "Dieu blesse l'Amérique", ie: God wounds America.

Heck, some of the Canadian press started to compare Romney's handling of things yesterday to something "worthy of Paulin" and saying he fully deserved "the humiliating lesson in foreign affairs" Obama gave him. Some are openly worrying that Romney wouldn't be able to rein in the religious right when it becomes like happened with that movie a threat to US interests and world security (not a whole lot of sympathy from editorialists either, as in many western countries that movie would fall under criminally heinous/racist material and thus fall under the limitations to freedom of expression).

So a lot of echoes of the Democrat press, but without a partisan bias.

On the governemental front, it's almost the opposite. Harper has unilaterally condemned the attacks, without denouncing in any way the movie itself or the provocation, which is likely not to sit well with the Canadian left/center left (but we're almost permanently outraged with Harper anyway and he does something every other day or so to rekindle it, so it's hard to say if that is going to make much waves).