Mitt Romney’s campaign calls gay teen bullying report ‘exaggerated’

[Birdpreacher]

Mitt Romney’s campaign calls gay teen bullying report ‘exaggerated’
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05...t-exaggerated/

Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...KFU_story.html

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.
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Romney is now the presumed Republican presidential nominee. In a radio interview Thursday morning, Romney said he didn’t remember the incident but apologized for pranks he helped orchestrate that he said “might have gone too far.”

[JimR-OCDS]

Even if true, we're going to use pranks a candidate did over 40 years ago to judge his character by?

This is really going to be a horrible campaign season.


Jim

[scipio337]

Make that 47 years ago.

And according to the WaPo story, it wasn't due to any presumed sexual orientation, but the length of his hair.

Got desperation?

[oldcelt]

Even if true, we're going to use pranks a candidate did over 40 years ago to judge his character by?

This is really going to be a horrible campaign season.

I agree completely Jim. Both sides have no shame when it comes to picking out the most trivial or irrelevant points in an effort to defame the other side.

John

[Birdpreacher]

Originally Posted by JimR-OCDS

Even if true, we're going to use pranks a candidate did over 40 years ago to judge his character by?

This is really going to be a horrible campaign season.


Jim

It speaks to his character as a person who grew up wealthy and separate from "regular" society, and was already becoming a person very intolerant of anyone that thought, or acted, in any way that didn't conform to what Mitt saw as the correct way.

[28562]

So if this is fair game, does that mean Obama has to be held accountable this time around for his cocaine use and hanging out with terrorists?

Surely, the media wouldn't look the other way, would they?

[scipio337]

Originally Posted by Birdpreacher

It speaks to his character as a person who grew up wealthy and separate from "regular" society, and was already becoming a person very intolerant of anyone that thought, or acted, in any way that didn't conform to what Mitt saw as the correct way.

So is this a class envy story, or a "Why do Republicans hate teh gays??" story?

[Birdpreacher]

Originally Posted by scipio337

Make that 47 years ago.

And according to the WaPo story, it wasn't due to any presumed sexual orientation, but the length of his hair.

Got desperation?

Lets not forget that it was Romney's main advisor that originated the "Obama ate dog as a child" push from a few weeks back.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ears_ago_.html
But yes the campaign is going to get nasty from both sides

[scipio337]

Originally Posted by Birdpreacher

Lets not forget that it was Romney's main advisor that originated the "Obama ate dog as a child" push from a few weeks back.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ears_ago_.html
But yes the campaign is going to get nasty from both sides

You do remember it was a response to the Obama admin continuing to use the "Seamus on the roof" story, right??

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...ondents-Dinner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincol...b_1433610.html


Like your "Romney Camp Muzzles Gay Advisor", this issue is an epic fail.

[Birdpreacher]

Originally Posted by scipio337

So is this a class envy story, or a "Why do Republicans hate teh gays??" story?

I dunno it sounds like a Mitt being a bully story to me. But those are both fair inferences to me. (Idk about the republicans hating the gays slant, I know too many gay republicans to paint with that broad a brush.)

Also the kid getting bullied also went to the expensive prep school, so its rich on rich violence. I doubt this will enflame a class warfare rhetoric as he was not beating up on a kid for being poor but just for being different.

[JimR-OCDS]

Originally Posted by Birdpreacher

It speaks to his character as a person who grew up wealthy and separate from "regular" society, and was already becoming a person very intolerant of anyone that thought, or acted, in any way that didn't conform to what Mitt saw as the correct way.

Baloney.

I did things at age 20 that I would be too embarrassed to admit to, but it says nothing about my character today.

Most of us grow in character as we age. It can be good or bad, depending on the path we take in life.

Jim

[qui est ce]

Originally Posted by Birdpreacher

Lets not forget that it was Romney's main advisor that originated the "Obama ate dog as a child" push from a few weeks back.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ears_ago_.html
But yes the campaign is going to get nasty from both sides

Obama made it public in Dreams of my Father

[Birdpreacher]

Originally Posted by scipio337

Like your "Romney Camp Muzzles Gay Advisor", this issue is an epic fail.

Lol you're here educating me, so it is by no means a fail. I enjoy your insight and interpretation of stories. It is truly a pleasure any time you post

[_Abyssinia]

Originally Posted by Birdpreacher

Mitt Romney’s campaign calls gay teen bullying report ‘exaggerated’
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05...t-exaggerated/

Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...KFU_story.html

This was nearly 50 years ago! It is not right but high school students do some stupid things sometimes. I think you will find a lot of boys who do pranks and hair cutting, particularly at all boys schools like the one Romney attended.

On a radio show with Brian Kilmeade, he said “Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that. I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.” He denied recollection of attack on Lauber: “I don’t remember that incident. I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s so that was not the case.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...l-bullying.php

[april32010]

holding someone down and cutting their hair isn't a prank,it is assault with a deadly weapon.