Duh: According to Diamond, "Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework."

Are we surprised that Romney's millions distracted him from the non-paying task of reading? Has there ever been a more out-of-touch candidate from a major American political party? GHW Bush springs to mind, but the teetotaling Romney surely distances him when it comes to sheer aloofness from reality. Thanks to JV for the link.

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework, by Jared Diamond (New York Times)

... It is not true that my book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, “basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.”

That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr. Romney read it.