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Romney once assaulted a classmate at school for being 'different'(read: gay looking)

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So as a high school kid he attacked someone for looking different ? Wow, sounds like your average high school kid..

Shock awe. National headlines this story needs to be for sure.
 
I can remember when in the first grade despising almost all my class because they made fun of a girl who was physically uncoordinated and I'm still the same several years later. So don't mind me then if I hold this asshole in contempt if the facts presented are true.

Not that I can blame him though; I know what he saw in that kid was himself, a hideous monster and piece of shit he wanted to destroy.
 
Moonbeam said:
I can remember when in the first grade despising almost all my class because they made fun of a girl who was physically uncoordinated and I'm still the same several years later. So don't mind me then if I hold this asshole in contempt if the facts presented are true.

Not that I can blame him though; I know what he saw in that kid was himself, a hideous monster and piece of shit he wanted to destroy.
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You're quick to hold in contempt the hideous monsters you see around yourself, and yet see them as the ones projecting hate.
 
woolfe9999 said:
Followup as of 28 minutes ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ool-incident/2012/05/10/gIQAOelsFU_story.html

Good for him. He did the right thing here. His language is a bit couched and non-specific, but it's better than a denial.
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That's the shittiest apology ever:

Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair. [...]

“Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”
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MIGHT have gone too far? really?

And his apology is worse than no apology at all, it places the responsibility on his victims (as IF they interpret the hurt or offense that way).

What a shitty half assed hedge of an apology. He should have just pretended he didn't remember instead of flip flopping yet again, it's far less insulting.
 
I'm sorry if I may or may not have done something.

Classic hollow suit. No real admittance, he can't do it.
 
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PokerGuy said:
woolfe9999 said:
I notice how you inserted the word "embellished" in there without the slightest reason to back it up. Nice touch.
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I put that in there because I think it very likely that a story brought up at this particular time from something that supposedly happened 45 years ago is going to be a politically motivated attempt at smearing, and thus be embellished.
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So your position is that you can unequivocally state it's embellished solely because you think it's embellished? Wow.

And you cling to this magical thinking this despite the article in the OP clearly saying:

The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another. Four of them — Friedemann, now a dentist; Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer; Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor; and David Seed, a retired principal — spoke on the record. Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named. The men have differing political affiliations, although they mostly lean Democratic. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. Seed, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan. All of them said that politics in no way colored their recollections.
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Doppel said:
You're quick to hold in contempt the hideous monsters you see around yourself, and yet see them as the ones projecting hate.
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Exactly. That's why I say you can't blame bigots for being bigots. They ARE scum because they make themselves scum without requiring any projection. Bigotry is ugly but the bigot is only ugly because he's a bigot. But a bigot wants to be a bigot and will stay a bigot until he sees how ugly he is. I try to help with that. A mirror simply reflects, it doesn't condemn. It is the bigot who sees through the glass darkly.
 
Just realized that Romney was 18 when this incident occurred. Yeah, he was a grown ass man when he did that shit.

I think if you add up this incident, his rather fucked up way he treated his dog, and the callous way he treated a dying man in a wheelchair, i think we have a full blown sociopath running on the GOP's ticket.
 
Phokus said:
I think if you add up this incident, his rather fucked up way he treated his dog, and the callous way he treated a dying man in a wheelchair, i think we have a full blown sociopath running on the GOP's ticket.
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Sociopath:
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

Well he's not antisocial is he? Though I figure you're focused more on the amoral aspect of the description. Which, of course, any true conservative should be telling you about Romney.

The guy doesn't bat for us, he doesn't bat for you. A true upstanding moderate who, instead of taking sides, takes opportunities. You don't come from Massachusetts, the Leftist state of Kennedy and Kerry, pass UHC and then run on the Republican ticket. Certainly not while holding a moral, social conscience.

/sigh GOP.
 
Bowfinger said:
Sorry, what Romney did as a high school kid is really irrelevant at this point in his life. This is just as dumb as so much of the pointless Obama bashing done by the nutters. There are lots of valid reasons to criticize Romney. If rephrehensible high school behavior is the best the Dems can do, they're in trouble.
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I agree wholeheartedly that what he did back then is completely irrelevant. However, how he addressed that incident now, since it was brought up, IS relevant and says a lot about his character. "I don't remember it." Yet, it was important enough of an incident that everyone else involved in it remembers it quite well.

"This incident happened 45 years ago, and is something that I regret having participated in. All of us have something we regret doing. I'm just happy that in the ensuing 45 years, my values have..." That would be an example of good character. "I don't recall ever being involved" is poor character. We all know it's bullshit that he forgot.
 
peonyu said:
So as a high school kid he attacked someone for looking different ? Wow, sounds like your average high school kid..

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Sounds like alot of you guys went to some nasty high schools or watched too many teenage slasher horror movies. My experience was that the teachers were the cruel ones, especially the gym teachers.
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Now that I think it through it seems like this story is made up. The timing is just too suspicious.

The day after Obama endorses same-sex marriage a story appears claiming Romney bullied a gay kid 50 years ago :hmm:
 
PokerGuy said:
I put that in there because I think it very likely that a story brought up at this particular time from something that supposedly happened 45 years ago is going to be a politically motivated attempt at smearing, and thus be embellished.



Character is very relevant... but this supposed incident says nothing about it. Just pure irrelevant smearing and drivel.



The smear campaign is in full swing with the election so close. With a willing participant in the left wing media, it will be very easy to smear Romney, which is why all along I've said Romney can't win this election.
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There were 4 witnesses to the incident, and they all tell the same story. The significance of the incident is doubtless being exaggerated, but there's zero reason to believe the incident itself is and you've presented none. Moreover, Romney himself has now offered an apology of sorts, and has not to sought to set the record straight which you'd expect him to do if the real incident was not as portrayed by these witnesses.

As to your "smear campaign" rhetoric, of course there never has been, nor will there ever be, a campaign to "smear" Obama. Just keep repeating that enough times and you might actually start to believe it instead of just pretending to.
 
Phokus said:
Literally none of that is even 1% as bad as what Romney did (smoke pot, REALLY?) and this is stuff Obama readily talks about, unlike Romney, who first denied knowledge of the incident, and gave a horrendously shitty 'apology' that doesn't even address the incident in question.
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The fact that you even replied to my post shows the maturity level you're operating at. None of this stuff means shit. The stuff about Romney and this stuff about Obama.

We have serious issues in this country and this is what dominates your thoughts? For fucks sake...

This room is too easy.
 
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