freeman2 wrote:Well, another classmate said that Romney would say "atta girl" when he volunteered in class...Starting to seem like more of a pattern (he was 18 years old when these incident occurred btw)...And Romney not sounding credible when he says he does not remember the incidents (and inappropriately laughing about it when asked).. He's a creepy guy.. I said before he had lost the Black vote, the Hispanic vote, the female vote,, the youth vote and a poriton of the Senior vote. Wel, add to that dog lovers (remember he put the family pooch on the roof when they went on vacation) and the gay vote.
I can't view this impartially but I never liked bullies
Hmm, could it be that this is all/mostly garbage?
First, the alleged victim is no longer alive. Second, the alleged victim's family has no recollection of the incident and says he would be appalled to be a part of a political story.
Third, there are serious doubts about
whether the incident took place.There are a few problems with the story, to be sure: One person, said by The Washington Post to have “long been bothered” by the incident, told ABC News he wasn’t even aware of it until earlier this year, when the paper first contacted him.
Romney, for his part, says he doesn’t recall it and insists that he had “no idea” of the classmate’s sexual orientation.
Fourth, an alleged star witness to the alleged incident
was not there:Yet in an interview with ABC News today, White disowned that characterization:
While the Post reports White as having “long been bothered” by the haircutting incident,” he told ABC News he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.
White didn’t know about the incident until this year, but the Post reported that he had “long been bothered” by it. We demanded a correction.
So the Washington Post did what no reputable newspaper should ever do when caught falsifying testimony: it made a stealth correction to its own article. The article now reads:
“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.” [emphasis added]
The Post did not note that it had made any correction to the article.
Fifth, this would at least appear to have all the hallmarks of a politically-motivated lie. The alleged witnesses?
Mark Twain once said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
It travels more quickly if people are gullible enough to swallow it and post it on the Internet. Who needs evidence if the WaPo says it's true, it must be--even AFTER they've changed their story.
Romney says he has no recollection of the incident. Apparently, neither does anyone else, yet, it rates 5500 words in the Wa-Po.
Meanwhile, by the President's own admission his last two years of HS were spent "in a daze," ditching class, hanging out with bullies who were spoiling for fights. How exactly did he ever matriculate to Harvard Law School?
How many words has Wa-Po spent trying to sort that out? Has anyone ever tried to sort out if the President ever sold drugs? Have they interviewed his stoner or bully buddies in HS?
So, what is all of this?
As the Archduke so profanely implies, it is a distraction. Throw some dirt in the air and pray that people focus on that instead of the President's performance.
10 May 2012, 3:04 pm 
