Mitt Romney is less than two days into his world tour but we can already draw one conclusion: the foreign press does not feel the same way about Romney now as it did about President Obama in 2008.

Romney had not even landed in London before a British tabloid had published a quote from a supposed “Romney adviser” who purportedly said,”We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and [Romney] feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.” The Romney campaign immediately disavowed the quote, but it ended up dominating his first day abroad anyway.