American reporter on the trip aptly described as a 'Cat 4 manurestorm' when he mocked Romney before 60,000 people. 'I hear there's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready,' Johnson shouted, in a performance more Viking than Anglo-Saxon. 'Are we ready? Yes we are!' He then led the crowd in a chant of 'Yes We Can', Obama's famous campaign slogan from 2008. 'Can we put on the greatest Olympics games that have ever been held?' he asked. 'Can we beat France? Yes we can! Can we beat Australia? Yes we can!' Talking shop: Romney meets with Ed Miliband during the first foreign visit of his campaign Johnson, who was born in New York and with characteristically boundless ambition nurtured youthful thoughts of becoming U.S. President, angrily renounced his U.S. citizenship after a spat at Houston airport in 2006. In 2008, he backed Obama over John McCain for the presidency. There seems little doubt that Cameron, despite being leader of the Conservatives, the sister party to Republican party, would prefer Obama to Romney. On one level, Romney's comments about the Olympics were wholly unexceptional. In fact, they were much more mild than those uttered by many, many British people after the shortcomings of G4S became a national fiasco. But it is one thing for Britons to criticise their own and quite another for an American visitor to wade in on the very eve of the Olympics. Cameron's 'middle of nowhere' jibe was overly defensive and indicated