Was all this really impoliteness, or a cultural misunderstanding, or something more deep-rooted?

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But when Team Romney started selling bracelets with the phrase on them to supporters, it became guilty of more than impoliteness.

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There may have been a heckler or two, but while they failed to find an echo, such displays of impoliteness are not the usual way at this gathering.

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Despite having started his second (and final) term as mayor with a blizzard of campaigns to rid New York city of, among other things, drugs, jaywalkers, crumbling baseball stadiums and impoliteness, Mr Giuliani looks restless.

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