This guy is an absolute nut case. This is going to be the battle of the 21st century and a "Y" in the road for our country. Do we chose to follow back to 1950's and start the walk all over again or do we pick up where we are and progress to a more mature society.
I pick President Obama and a more mature society.
Mitt Romney Was A High School Gay-Bashing Bully
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Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was a gay-bashing high school bully who said, “Atta girl,” to effeminate boys and shockingly had a days-long emotional attack that culminated with him pinning down a gay classmate and cutting off his bleached-blond long hair. Governor Romney claims he has no memory of any of these incidents that date back to 1965, according to a lengthy and heart-wrenching exposé in today’s Washington Post. An excerpt:
John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
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.
“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”
“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”
The Post article concludes with an emotional note about John Lauber:
He came out as gay to his family and close friends and led a vagabond life, taking dressage lessons in England and touring with the Royal Lipizzaner Stallion riders.
His hair thinned as he aged, and in the winter of 2004 he returned to Seattle, the closest thing he had to a base. He died there of liver cancer that December.
He kept his hair blond until he died, said his sister Chris. “He never stopped bleaching it.”
But Lauber was not the only target for the gay-bashing Mitt Romney.
In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!” In the culture of that time and place, that was not entirely out of the norm. Hummel recalled some teachers using similar language.
Saul, Romney’s campaign spokeswoman, said the candidate has no recollection of the incident.
Yes, it was 1965, a different time, when these acts of anti-gay bullying were not just ignored or accepted, but often condoned.
But the handful of Mitt Romney’s classmates who either participated or didn’t stop it, not only remember his gay-bashing, they feel terrible about it. For Romney to not remember, and thus be affected by his own gay-bashing, speaks volumes about his character.
The Romney campaign, and others, no doubt would say it was 1965. It doesn’t matter. But Mitt Romney married his wife Ann in 1969, just four years later, and that certainly matters in his campaign.
And they have on their campaign website a video that shows Mitt’s life, beginning with 1968, with the note:
“I think there’s one word that would be high on my list of a few words you would describe Mitt with. It would be trust. I think the qualities Mitt would bring to the Oval Office would be integrity, intelligence, an ability to see a problem and see a solution and make people recognize that he has those leadership qualities that would unite many people.” – Ann Romney
At what point do your actions matter?
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sjalan 2012/05/10 15:40:46
Hating a person for his beliefs would be like me hating people who think Animation is childish or demonic.
I'd be more worried if he was police officer.
America for the persecution of polygamy by the government. Many curses were issued by other prominent leaders using both "God" and "Damn." Google it. But nice try.
And their up bringing is not the only factor I weigh into my vote so don't worry
If you don't like Obama you must be racist.
No, I don't like Obama because I want a balanced budget (at the very least)
I don't like Obama because he has harmed civil liberties.
I don't like Obama because I don't believe in Keynesian Economics.
And talk about civil liberties... the Patriot Act did more to destroy civil liberties than anything Obama has done. Granted, he should have done something about it when he took office but the fact is Bush created that wonderful piece of legislation.
Nothing wrong with Keynesian economics. If the government does hire people to work for it, they still create private sector jobs and it all helps the economy in the long run. Spend a little now... make more in the future. It is an investment in the country. Putting people to work is the bottom line. Unemployed are a double drain on the economy. They don't pay taxes or buy anything and they are being paid unemployment. Get them to work any way you can even if that job is digging a hole and filling it in. It worked in Germany, they are one European nation not hurting right now because of the government unemployment payments. Look at the countries that are practicing austerity. They are going under.
The only way government can "boost" the economy is by stealing from the economy. The money spent on taxes could have created more private sector jobs, so at best when government helps failing businesses or the unemployed they are taking from successful people, they are moving money from their right hand to their left hand and declaring i'm rich. And if they go down the path of printing money it devalues the currency they print. It seems like Keynesians don't regard human interaction, which is what drives an economy, not spending. Plus low interest rates steals from savers.
Bull. Check out how Germany does it quite successful without stealing from anyone, but in fact by GIVING money to companies so they don't fire employees, who in turn have enough money to SPEND their money to stimulate the economy.
I'm just saying your statement wasn't quite correct. Germany spent money instead of saving money, and it saved our economy. That doesn't mean it always works, but there you go.
Here are the reasons I don't like Obama and I think they are legitimate:
1. The speed the National Debt is driving up under his presidency
2. His lack of determination in even balancing a budget
3. His constant vacationing
4. His drone usage. And his Wilsonian foreign policy in general.
5. His never ending executive orders
Now I think Romney only answers one of those 4 issues, but at least the liberty movement can enlist the left to criticize his foreign policy (a group of people that seem to have silenced under Obama), and can enlist the right to criticize him in he doesn't cut spending (he are more vocal under Obama, however as long as we aren't silent, they won't be)
Now about Mitt Romney's character, I don't trust Romney or Obama, just the thing is that a Mitt Romney presidency will have more resistance than the Obama presidency. Why?
The Left doesn't like Romney
The Liberty Movement doesn't like Romney
and even some conservatives do not like Romney (as a presumptive nominee, he has yet to eclipse over 80% in a primary)
So the reason why I'm voting for Romney is not because I support him, or don't support Obama, i'm voting for Romney because as president he will probably be the least favored preside...
Here are the reasons I don't like Obama and I think they are legitimate:
1. The speed the National Debt is driving up under his presidency
2. His lack of determination in even balancing a budget
3. His constant vacationing
4. His drone usage. And his Wilsonian foreign policy in general.
5. His never ending executive orders
Now I think Romney only answers one of those 4 issues, but at least the liberty movement can enlist the left to criticize his foreign policy (a group of people that seem to have silenced under Obama), and can enlist the right to criticize him in he doesn't cut spending (he are more vocal under Obama, however as long as we aren't silent, they won't be)
Now about Mitt Romney's character, I don't trust Romney or Obama, just the thing is that a Mitt Romney presidency will have more resistance than the Obama presidency. Why?
The Left doesn't like Romney
The Liberty Movement doesn't like Romney
and even some conservatives do not like Romney (as a presumptive nominee, he has yet to eclipse over 80% in a primary)
So the reason why I'm voting for Romney is not because I support him, or don't support Obama, i'm voting for Romney because as president he will probably be the least favored president in a long time.
Now also the firing people statement was taken way out of context, he was referring to a competitive free market, and the idea that if you don't like that quality of service you are getting you can opt out.
However one thing you can't deny is the communist history of his family, his mother's family had her enrolled in a school where they taught communism, and his father's side of his family has ties to Frank Davis. No, I'm not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to be communists, I just think I don't think a person who believes in Communism (which I can't prove he does or he doesn't, all I do know is his family does) should lead a Constitutionally limited Republic. Also I don't think he should be thrown out of office, I think he should either be voted, and if he wins re-election I will have to face the reality that he will have a 2nd term.