WITH EVERY EXCRUCIATING day that passes in this interminably long march to November, it’s clear that Mitt Romney really is as bad as his Republican opponents said he was during the primaries.
It doesn’t take a Washington Post “hit piece” on a decades-old event to prove Mitt had the stuff for the vulture capital market from the start.
If anything is indicative of the kind of economic hatchet man Mitt Romney would be as president, his high school bullying story reveals it. Consider yourself this kid he targeted, with you’re economic world being chopped up by the bully who backs the Paul Ryan austerity plan.
Republicans are squealing like little girls over this story, which is old news being broken under the cover of vetting. Their problem is that it confirms a character issue that surfaces every time you think of Mitt Romney and his theory of the American dream, which is not even trickle down, because he’s actually going to cut away the ground beneath us.
Speaking of bullies in his book, little half Black Barrie said he pushed the only little Black girl in school just because.
When she ran away crying little Barrie was high fived by the other students.
Will someone please explain to me why he felt the need to call her a little, dark girl?
I wonder where she is today and if she has a job…
I guess I will have to wait for the Washington Post expose to find out.
Then again she may be a composite friend.
LOL
I have to say I’m disappointed to see this story picked up by Taylor. I’m not totally in sync with her views all the time, but she generally is fair in her reporting. It is clear now that one of the “eye witnesses” to this story, in fact, was not present and that the language used by the reporter “disturbed for years” about the incident was, in fact, made up by that reporter. The non witness has clarified that he, in fact, didn’t even know about the incident until earlier this year when the Wash Po contacted him digging. The sisters of the supposed victim have also issued a statement – stating their brother never mentioned any such incident (and remember he would have come home with a chopped hair cut), the story is factually incorrect & that their brother – if he were alive today – would be “furious” with the story. I find this to be just another example of how far gone our media is & how there is too much attention spent on ridiculous stuff like this – which is almost 50 years old. Did it happen – maybe – was it stupid – obviously – was it a different time in 1965 than today – definitely – has Mitt apologized if he caused harm – yes. Find one person who has NO regrets from behavior in their teens – good luck. And…not to mention, Obama’s past has zero light shone on it – from the drug use, bully incident, dog meals, radical affliations, etc – none of that matters because he has a D after his name & he was “young”. Can we focus on the economy/debt now? I’m sure my post will be slammed – btw – I’m a recovering conservative democrat – who supported Hillary…..I’ve moved over to Independent status now.
*stands up clapping*
Bravo!
The bullying metaphor is appropriate and instructive.
New York Times offered more today:
Don’t have much patience with Romney’s austerity penchant, which is akin to economic bullying when you consider he backs the Paul Ryan budget, which as was seen in the House this week through conservatives, Democrats & Republicans, it would increase defense, while cutting Medicaid, Meals on Wheels & other programs that hurt the less fortunate.
That’s economic bullying, something conservatives are very good at, no matter what party affiliation they claim.
We’ll have to agree to disagree, that something that happened nearly 50 years ago when a person was a teenager has relevance during a presidential campaign. I personally feel this is exactly why good people stay far away from the process. If you cannot make mistakes when you are a teenager & grow & learn from them, then we are all lost.
Regarding the budget, now that is something we should be talking about, the candidates beliefs. Clearly, you believe his & Paul Ryan’s vision is “bullying” – but at least it is a detailed plan – a place to start. Unfortunately, since the Democrats have been unable to produce a budget for 3 years – something that is a priority & mandatory – there is no place to start the discussion between differing plans.
These stories, unfortunately, are a part of the political process now, a distraction away from the real issues.
1″We’ll have to agree to disagree, that something that happened nearly 50 years ago when a person was a teenager has relevance during a presidential campaign.”
But…but…YOU just said in your other post it DIDN’T happen? Now you say…or admit it DID?!!! Which is it?
2.” I personally feel this is exactly why good people stay far away from the process.”
Why’s that, that they will be found out to be not so good….in fact quite loathsome in the light of day?
3.” If you cannot make mistakes when you are a teenager & grow & learn from them, then we are all lost.”
Sure you can. But he hasn’t.
Your try is kinda pathetic when you get down to it even for a repugnantklan/teabagger.
Sec, I just KNOW you didn’t have the nerve to show up trash talkin in a thread about bullies.
The jokes just write themselves.
*sips champagne and waits for it.*
Actually if you actually read my post, you would see that I am pointing out that there are distinct differences of opinion on what happened & that there are wholes in the story – only those present know what happened (and I also state – did it happen – maybe) – I don’t know – I wasn’t there. Yes, there are quite a few loathsome politicians who are discovered as such while vetted, but there are also lots of good people who do not go into politics because they do not want to have to deal with inaccurate, have proven stories that may or may not be true – which is the point of my post. The press spends way too much time on the BS & not on the issues important to the voters. Thanks for bullying me in my post by calling me names, it really shines a bright light on you. PS – I knocked on doors for Kerry/Edwards – yeah – that was really worth it – so glad the press was on top of vetting Edwards character. And – once again – try reading my post – I was a Hillary supporter.
“And…not to mention, Obama’s past has zero light shone on it – from the drug use, bully incident, dog meals, radical affliations, etc – none of that matters because he has a D after his name & he was “young”.-FromMaine
There is tons of books, old news and blog postings covering Obama past and present day life, online. He is one of the most talked about and followed man in America. Everyday I turn on the TV there is some moron news caster speaking out about Obama ex-girlfriends, the dog meat story or former pastor Rev. Wright etc…
Don’t believe me?….Than I suggest following and listen to Fox News the number one news cable network in America. If they have not uncovered any new info about Obama…then chances are their is nothing left to uncover. Because if Fox News had something, anything to take down Obama they would not miss that chance…lol
Though I don’t plan on voting for Obama or Romney (I am sitting out this election) I must say both of these guys supports are working overtime to tarnish each other.
With all due respect, there were five people — all former classmates of Mr. Romney — who spoke on record about Romney’s time at Cranbrook, and one who spoke on background. The details of the incident in question are not in dispute here.
Further, with all due respect to the sisters of Mr. Lauber, they were not in attendance at the all-male Cranbrook School, which is a boarding school — and siblings don’t ALWAYS share EVERYTHING with one another, you know.
Sorry, if you don’t like it, but this one stands.
Again, I’m not stating it did not happen. I am stating that there are clearly people (with all due respect – I think the family of the victim as every right to be heard & their opinion on the story & events is very relevant – quite sure if this was a story on Obama & there were family members disputing it – you would be pointing it out) who say the story is not completely accurate.
There are valid questions about the reporting – my point is – is it relevant when it happened 50 years ago when he was a teenager. Sorry, President Obama was handled with much care during his first election run & the MSM was completely jaded in his favor. I was a Hillary supporter then & they trashed her at every turn – without spending 1 minute on Obama & his lack of experience, beliefs, etc. Every time someone brought something up – it became “you are a racist”….meanwhile, the press was talking about Hillary’s cleavage. It is the MSM that I am critizing & our society that turns voters’ attention to ridiculous stories instead of giving us the information we need on the big issues that matter.
This is a great place to post differing views with words like “teabaggers, spew, all caps in response” – do not worry – I’m leaving now.
President Obama wasn’t vetted? Is that really something you want to cling to? I guess you not accusing him of not being born in American is a small victory. That is the only falsehood you didn’t spew.
“And…not to mention, Obama’s past has zero light shone on it – from the drug use, bully incident, dog meals, radical affliations, etc – none of that matters because he has a D after his name & he was “young”.”
Quite simply and accurately stated….that is a lie. And an easily demonstrable lie. This is exactly the kind of either disconnect from reality fueled by ignorance or out right dishonesty that has become the trademark of repugnantklan/teabagger gibbering.
How far back do we go with this stuff? Perhaps there should be a cut off age when it comes to politics.
Of course bullying should not be accepted and should be punished.
There must be a mass adult revisionist history or selective memory when it comes to adults remembering their childhood school years.
Just the social structure, along with the development; physical and mental, during this period. Think hormones and also the brain isn’t fully developed until the twenties. Along with the developement of cliques. The need to belong, etc. That period isn’t all as perfect as a TV show. It’s a cruel world. Also, besides the bully and the bullied, there are the audience that cheers, and others who don’t say or do anything.
Who knows: in the future’ Sally is a presidential candidate, but it is revealed that at the age of three, Sally to took Susie’s doll and made Susie cry. Is Sally fit to be president?
Where not talking about a playground dispute during recess at grade school. This incident occurred when Mitt Romney was 18 years old — well past puberty — and a senior in high school.
The notion that Romney couldn’t remember the incident on Fox News, but in the same breath assured the Fox News interviewer that whatever happened, it wasn’t because Mr. Lauber was gay, strains the bounds of credibility and speaks volumes once again about his personal character.
Vulture capitalist is the wrong term, a vulture does not kill what it eats.
GOOD point.
Let me see if I get this straight- Romney bullied someone forty years ago, which means he’s a bully today? Really?
How many of us want to be judged on what we did when we were young adults? I mean, come on.
This is weak.
Romney’s a creep but forty years ago? What’s next, he threw a plate of pasta at his mother while sitting in his high chair.
Rumor has that while in the womb, Romney ‘kicked’ and ‘punched.’ his mother.
Most mothers deserve it.
Well it matters in several ways.One is that it is illustrative of the world Mitt came from and bought into with gusto.He lived in a bubble of wealth and private institutions. His wife went to the sister college so she was from that world. Doors automatically opened for him to the point where he gave it no thought. He loves to defend his “success” as if he pulled himself up from the boot straps.
If conservative Dems think he is going to save their bacon, think again.You are punch lines to his jokes as in, “My father had moved a plant to Wisconsin and this band that played during his campaign played “On Wisconsin” and he did not want the voters reminded that he had moved a plant ha, ha, ha…..”
Another is politics, the narrative. We all remember high school and don’t try to say you don’t. We remember when we felt powerful and when we felt powerless. We remember who the bullies were ;both within and outside our “group of friends”. Mitt saying he does not remember…come on. he is still laughing about it.
I am not defending Obama. I was for Hillary too. The lack of vetting on Obama by the MSM and new media was professional malpractice.
Mitt was a bully and Barry did blow.
So what?
Either all of it’s OK, or none of it’s OK.
“Barry” is allowed to destroy his own body.
Mitt and his friends laid down an “assault” like “a pack of dogs” on someone else.
Frankly, I think we deserve a better option that either of these men, but it will take voters being a lot more energetic than we have today to make that happen.
Taylor…I agree with you on this issue. Both candidates have a ton flaws and its a shame voters have to pick from these two losers.
“Two Losers?” Let’s examine that comment shall we! Both men are multimillionaire graduates of the most prestigious university in the country maybe the world. They have both been married to the same woman for decades and have well adjusted offspring. This is your definition of a loser? We all should be so lucky!
Do you mean okay to bring into the debate when you say all or none? I think both are revelent. The President experimented with drugs when he was young and angry. Yet somehow he got his act together and achieved much. Actually fairly typical considering his age cohort. He is in a position to understand that our draconian drug laws are distroying young lives. What have you ever heard him say on the subject?
Mitt was and is a Bully, Barry did but no longer blows and JoeCHI as always sucks.
@Sec, so you say…
Well established media outlets, especially the Washington Post, used to be considered used to be considered the “4th Branch” or our Government. Those days are long gone.
Both Romney and President Obama have been bullies in their lives. For Romney, I didn’t like at all the way he acted during the primaries, even though I couldn’t stand Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, but to spend millions to destroy your opponent that is in the same political party as you is shameful. Yes, its supposed to be competition, but Romney took it too awhole other level. Thats why Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum took for ever to endorse him and it was not a real endorsement, it was like it was something they had to do. There is bitterness with Romney and I do not blame them for being bitter. What Romney does not know is Karma comes around. I am not fan of either President Obama or Romney even though I like President Obama much better since he came out for Gay Marriage, but there still more that needs to be done on his part.
FMI~ Good point what he did to his opponents in the primary was kind of a form of bullying, with money..
Really, is there any profiles of courage for either guy? Too take this bully concept and apply it to a persons entire life seems a little odd, to apply to politics is fine, if people want. Then you got to look at all aspects; the bully, the bullied, and that vast category of other people.
One example could be Shirley Sherrod. Now people can say that she was bullied by the Republicans and by the right leaning media. A fair and accurate portrayal. But who came to her defense? People in the adminstration looked at this ‘bullying behavior’ and while this ‘bullying behavior’ was actually occuring reacted in a manner that was in their best interests, not hers. Is that behavior any better?
MSNBC and the rest of the MSM did Obama’s bullying for him during the 2008 primaries.
Sometimes guys look above the fray and squeaky clean because they are good at ignoring what their supporters are doing in their names.
“Both Romney and President Obama have been bullies in their lives.”
One very significant difference is President Obama confessed to and expressed remorse for his act in his own book. Mittens to this day, even when confronted with 4 witness/participants testimony tries to equivocate and squirm without maning up and accepting responsibility.
THAT is the whole point to those wingnuts and ODS sufferers to stupid, disconnected from reality or dishonest to get.
FMI and LL you both make a valid point about Mittens and how he bullied Newt and Rick. Some will say even Herman. (Although Herman was blaming everybody.)
However, Barrie didn’t have to bully McCain in 2008. He whipped him fair and square and had Sarah not shown up to drag McCain’s sorry ass across the finish line the loss would have been staggering.
Do not underestimate Barrie. Mittens and Barrie are both flawed candidates but the battle of 2012 will be bloody, ugly and historic. Much like a prize fight we are only seeing these two men sizing each other up right now.
*giggles* I can’t wait.
I know plenty of actual decent human beings who made it through high school and never committed such a vile act at the age of 18. I am not one to shrug off stuff like this and excuse it under the guise of being stupid and young. Suffice it to say, I wish I had been there because I would have ripped the silver spoon out of Mitten’s mouth and rammed it up his filthy a$$.
On second thought, I would have first had to extract his head from said a$$, remove the spoon, and reinsert spoon and then head…
Romney is a classic sociopath. Sociopaths do not change over time. Here’s a list of symptoms of the sociopath from adolescnce through adulthood. Romney meets the diagnostic criteria for sociopathy in virtually every profile model of sociopathic behavior:
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
I recall the same sort of discussion about Obama… classic narcissist many wrote. I am not an expert in psychiatric care so before shooting my mouth off about someone that I do not know, except for seeing them on media, I will refrain from psychoanalyzing. RAJensen… you must be such an expert to claim Romney to be a sociopath……
It seems a pretty safe call considering the overwhelming amount of evidence that is comprised of his OWN words let alone the folks who actually helped in this.
Apologies SEC… I did not realize that you are trained in psychotherapy… Many sincere apologies.
SEC .. you know I adore you… I just do not adore this type of post.
whitepaw….you adore me….you really adore me!!
How about spoiled rich, white, homophobic punk that needs a good punch in the mouth everyday for a year or two instead of sociopath?