Does Sununu Really Want to Bring Up Youth and Patriotism?

This morning Romney supporter Republican John Sununu went on Fox News to blast President Obama's decisions with recreational drugs as a teen and his time as a child overseas to suggest the president needs to learn how to be an American.

Let's see here.  The president-- going back over two decades now-- has routinely admitted to past drug use as a teenager and college student.  Something about half of all people have done themselves.  It's also extremely well known he spent time in a foreign country as a child, a situation in which he had no control because he was after all a child.  This means he needs to learn to be American?

As a child Willard Romney grew up wealthy, the son of a longtime politician.  As a teen and college student, he simultaneously spent his days cheering on the war in Vietnam and dodging the draft.  When he was of prime fighting age, and during a time when his country needed him the most, he fled to France and spent his days living in a mansion valued today at $12 million.

Here's how fellow Mittens Mormon described the French estate:

Although he spent time in other French cities, for most of 1968, Mr Romney lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the French capital’s chic 16th arrondissement. “It was a house built by and for rich people,” said Richard Anderson, the son of the mission president at the time of Mr Romney’s stay. “I would describe it as a palace”.

The only thing Republicans hate worse than Democrats are the French.  Does the Romney Campaign really want to talk about time spent as a youth and who is more American?

Romney's Palace in one of the richest portions of Paris

It's valued at $12 million in today's money.  Looks much cozier than the jungles of Vietnam.

It was here in this Paris Mansion that Romney Learned to be American