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Romney was a sadistic asshole at prep school

By iwog   Follow   Thu, 10 May 2012, 2:49pm   5,086 views   59 comments
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At least he didn't smoke pot eh?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSBRE8491B220120510

The Post interviewed several former classmates of Romney who recalled that he orchestrated the incident in which the presumed gay student, John Lauber, was tackled and pinned to the ground by a group of students, who wanted to cut the student's bleached-blond hair.

"As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors," the Post reported.

I've known plenty of sadistic people like Romney and I've known plenty of stoners like Obama might have been in high school. One type of person grows up to be a great productive guy with lots of friends and one type of person I wouldn't move a finger to save from drowning.

I'll let you Republican lemmings guess which is which. This story sickened me today and that doesn't happen often.

"I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended ... obviously, I apologize," ~ Mitt Romney

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1. msilenus Follow Befriend (3) 8 threads 335 comments

   20   11:48pm Thu 10 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Bigsby says I'm not sure what is wrong with that. He's been pulled up on things he did a very long time ago (and at a time when attitudes about many things were very different to how they are now) and he's apologized for it. We aren't talking criminal activity here, so the only concern should be what he's like now and what you think of his policies. I'm not saying that the man is beyond redemption. Romney was a teenager, high as Charlie Sheen in a DEA evidence warehouse on pubescent testosterone. It's patently obvious that he's a different man today. The problem is that he's speaking like a cad with a hangover on the night after a cocktail party. This is simply not how the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth ought to speak. Furthermore, Presidents don't apologize over inconsequential garbage like this; and when they do apologize, they take real accountability. "If anybody was hurt or offended" when I unleashed my barberous side on a man I ordered restrained --this is the language of bullshit. Involuntarily shearing your fellow man is unlike mispronouncing his name: it is an unambiguously offensive and hurtful thing to do to him. An appropriate response might admit fault, definitely expresses regret, and can makes the distance clear without seeming like it excuses the act (avoid the word 'but'.) A Presidential way to put it might be: "The incident in question is shameful, and I deeply regret it. I ask the American people to judge me not as the boy I was, but as the man I am."

2. Bigsby Follow Befriend 2,826 comments Monterey, CA

   21   12:02am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   msilenus says The problem is that he's speaking like a cad with a hangover on the night after a cocktail party. This is simply not how the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth ought to speak. Furthermore, Presidents don't apologize over inconsequential garbage like this; and when they do apologize, they take real accountability. "If anybody was hurt or offended" when I unleashed my barberous side on a man I ordered restrained --this is the language of bullshit. Involuntarily shearing your fellow man is unlike mispronouncing his name: it is an unambiguously offensive and hurtful thing to do to him. He's not the President.

3. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 764 threads 7,710 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   22   12:26am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   msilenus says It's patently obvious that he's a different man today. He hated gays when he was a teenager. He wants to outlaw gay marriage as an adult. I had no problem with gays as a teenager. I believe in equality under law and that means gays can marry. Yes, he's the same person he was then.

4. marcus Follow Befriend (5) 168 threads 5,098 comments

   23   12:40am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   clambo says That's great. I was worried that Romney was as much of a pussy as McCain. Romney's way more of a pussy than McCain. Interesting that your idea of a tough guy, or bravery, is cutting some (presumably) effeminate guys hair while other guys hold him down. That's not being a tough guy or hard ass. That just makes him the worst kind of asshole, and not in any conceivably good way.

5. Bigsby Follow Befriend 2,826 comments Monterey, CA

   24   12:44am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says msilenus says It's patently obvious that he's a different man today. He hated gays when he was a teenager. He wants to outlaw gay marriage as an adult. I had no problem with gays as a teenager. I believe in equality under law and that means gays can marry. Yes, he's the same person he was then. It wasn't a gay friendly world when he was a youngster (and we should remember, it still isn't). There was also a great deal less awareness let alone understanding of a great many things back then. He was a kid. Kids do bad things. Then they grow up... and maybe they continue to do bad things... maybe they change. Really, it's pretty pathetic dragging up this sort of crap. What's so difficult about focusing on what he has done as a political figure and what he intends to do?

6. Kevin Follow Befriend 40 threads 2,652 comments

   25   12:57am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Romney is a sadistic asshole FTFY

7. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich Follow Befriend (28) 171 threads 4,211 comments Premium

   26   3:24am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Why would a high school boy have a pair of hair stylist shears?

8. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

   27   7:08am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says To Romney's base, this story will have some appeal. I don't think y'all really understand. I was at a Baptist wedding a couple of weeks ago where the preacher took time to explain how "serious" marriage is, and one element was that it doesn't consist of Bob marrying Joe and other such nonsense. Yeah. Mittens credibility will rise a notch among the gay-bashing group. It's possible for someone to be against gay bashing & bullying and also be against gay marriage. Really, it is. Why do we so easily fall for the "false dilemma"?

9. StillLooking Follow Befriend 27 threads 233 comments Skokie, IL

   28   9:55am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says StillLooking says I don't care for Romney either, but choosing our national policies on this kind of nonsense don't work too well. This has nothing to do with national policy. I consider Romney a worse choice than Obama because his stance on corporations is moronic and he'll likely give in to some very dangerous tea party demands. This speaks to his character. As far as I'm concerned, he's a POS human being and the fact it happened decades ago doesn't change that. And our problem is that we choose policy and candidates based on character so then the Mass media can now basically tell us for whom to vote. We should be able to vote for policy, not character.

10. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,415 comments Davis, CA

    29   10:29am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   wthrfrk80 says It's possible for someone to be against gay bashing & bullying and also be against gay marriage. Really, it is. Certainly it's possible. However folks who are scared and creeped out by one, usually are at best sanguine about the other. "It's just high school pranks & hijinks".

11. msilenus Follow Befriend (3) 8 threads 335 comments

    30   10:55am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Bigsby says He's not the President. He's filled out his application for the job of President, passed his phone screen, and is sitting in the American public's office being interviewed. We are trying to decide if he's fit for the job, based on how he performs for us. The distinction you're drawing is not substantive.

12. Bap33 Follow Befriend (3) 12 threads 3,100 comments

    31   11:16am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says A real conservative would have snapped the victim's neck and sodomized the lifeless body Is Romey a REAL conservative? finally, someone understands me!

13. Bap33 Follow Befriend (3) 12 threads 3,100 comments

    32   11:19am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   StillLooking says We should be able to vote for policy, not character. ummmm , now I may be wrong .... but ..... the only way a stated policy can be counted on being carried out is if the promise is made by a person with character. Lord Barry's folks met at the march in Selma ... when he was 3 .... interesting stuff this story telling.

14. Rin Follow Befriend 4 threads 536 comments

    33   11:32am Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   I'd committed one act of bullying. I'd pushed a kid out of a swing set at the age of 8 & I wasn't egged on by others. Instead, I was in a bad mood that day and wanted to take it out on someone who I thought couldn't fight back. Well, although he wasn't hurt anymore than the minimal time he'd landed on the ground, I was never happy about that incident since then. Sorry, but I don't buy excuses from bullies. Either you're an A-hole or you screwed up. That's all there is to it. If I were running for office, I'd admit that I pushed a kid off a swing set and apologize for it. Yes, I Rin, f'ed up that day, many decades ago.

15. Bap33 Follow Befriend (3) 12 threads 3,100 comments

    34   6:35pm Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike (3)   libs are a funny bunch ..... Lord Barry makes up shit as he goes, and it's all good ...... Romney makes a sissy boy feel bad about himself and all hell brakes loose! lol How did that bossman from Isreal feel when Lord Barry dissed him at supper? I know, that don't matter. How did those cops feel when Lord Barry said, "they acted stupidly", just becasue they did their job and the issue happened to be a negro? How should Sheriff Joe and the citizens of Az feel with Lord Barry attacking them for wanting a safe and secure border and no more invasion? I got picked on, just as all my buddies did and all of those before us. Every kid is either the bully or the target and the rolls change. Every kid that was a target got joy from watching their bully getting picked on by his bully. Right now I feel I am being bullied by activist judges in the Cal Courts that are forcing libtopian horseshit down my throat, inspite of what the ballot box says .... I feel bullied by the invaders from mexico that have flipped reality to a point where we must push 1 for english, but nothing is mentioned about Italian, German, Russian, Chineese, or any other lingo ..... I feel bullied by the liberal/progressive dope-smokers that control the educational system (I say dope-smokers, because they MUST be on drigs to come up with their stupid shit) .... I feel bullied by the wealth transfer system that takes money from producers and hands it to breeders without any restriction in use .... I feel bullied by the anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-normal, scum that can't read and understand the friggin constitution as it is written, so they dream up some weird ass bullshit instead for the lib-tilted supreme court to vote on. Yep, bullies suck, and liberal/leftist/progressive dope-headed pukes are the worst bullies America has ever produced. Lord Barry' pals Rom E and Eric H are the King Supreem Bullies. Say no to bullies! EPA - bully ACLU - bully IRS - bully

16. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich Follow Befriend (28) 171 threads 4,211 comments Premium

    35   6:53pm Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (5)   Dislike   Did George Romney know his son was wandering around his high school with hair dresser sheers, leering at boy's hair dos and leaping upon them and re-styling their hair? And that his son was a cheerleader?

17. Automan Empire Follow Befriend 3 threads 90 comments Los Angeles, CA

    36   8:04pm Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike   So the son of the Governor has a group of friends he can command to hold down a weaker one and cut him up. Sounds a lot like his adult life at Bain Capital, preying on the weak, picking companies apart. I do see a pattern.

18. Bigsby Follow Befriend 2,826 comments Monterey, CA

    37   9:59pm Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   msilenus says Bigsby says He's not the President. He's filled out his application for the job of President, passed his phone screen, and is sitting in the American public's office being interviewed. We are trying to decide if he's fit for the job, based on how he performs for us. The distinction you're drawing is not substantive. And your desire for Presidents or Presidential candidates to have to so deliberately parse their speech that they basically never say anything that doesn't sound like it's passed muster with a room full of speech writers is hardly a positive step forward.

19. burritos Follow Befriend 52 threads 269 comments Newbury Park, CA

    38   10:39pm Fri 11 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   I kind of want Romney to win. But then again, I think most Americans are ignorant god fearing assholes, and I want them to suffer.

20. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,572 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    39   12:03am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   burritos says I kind of want Romney to win. But then again, I think most Americans are ignorant god fearing assholes, and I want them to suffer. The best way to make most Americans suffer is to elect Romney.

21. msilenus Follow Befriend (3) 8 threads 335 comments

    40   12:06am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Bigsby says And your desire for Presidents or Presidential candidates to have to so deliberately parse their speech that they basically never say anything that doesn't sound like it's passed muster with a room full of speech writers is hardly a positive step forward. You're missing the point. Desire has nothing to do with it. The man who represents our nation on the world stage needs to come off a certain way. Gravitas is not optional. Granted, this is a particularly difficult spot in which to affect it. But he also failed particularly miserably. Obama also had a long way to go when he got the job. During the first few months of his Presidency, it was not uncommont to catch him saying 'I' when articulating, for example, the foreign policy of his administration. He's picked it up on the job. And Romney's not running against Senator Obama. He's running against President Obama. It's a little shocking that Romney's having trouble with this, of all things. One would think that with that stick up his ass, he'd have an easier time emulating backbone on camera.

22. Kevin Follow Befriend 40 threads 2,652 comments

    41   12:14am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Bap33 says I feel bullied by the wealth transfer system that takes money from producers and hands it to breeders without any restriction in use I find your choice of words here amusing.

23. Bigsby Follow Befriend 2,826 comments Monterey, CA

    42   12:50am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   msilenus says You're missing the point. Desire has nothing to do with it. The man who represents our nation on the world stage needs to come off a certain way. Gravitas is not optional. Granted, this is a particularly difficult spot in which to affect it. But he also failed particularly miserably. Obama also had a long way to go when he got the job. During the first few months of his Presidency, it was not uncommont to catch him saying 'I' when articulating, for example, the foreign policy of his administration. He's picked it up on the job. And Romney's not running against Senator Obama. He's running against President Obama. It's a little shocking that Romney's having trouble with this, of all things. One would think that with that stick up his ass, he'd have an easier time emulating backbone on camera. I rather think that it's you who's missing the point. He said something that YOU deemed not quite presidential enough. Big deal. What does it matter if this one comment wasn't quite phrased the way you would've liked? It's not the comment that makes him unsuitable to be President; it should be what you think of the policies he represents.

24. Austinhousingbubble Follow Befriend 7 threads 677 comments

    43   12:52am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Anyone with adult children or who has been alive awhile has probably figured out that people really don't ever change that much. I read this same story about Mitt Romney - Crazed Coiffure - and my first thought: natural enemy! I love to hate no creature more than a bully. Mitt's behavior goes beyond hi-fucking-jinks -- it's dark shit that scars a kid and can actually alter them forever as a person on a chromosomal level. Now, in fairness...someone sent me this a while back, and I thought...hey...noiseless charity...Mitt's alright.

25. msilenus Follow Befriend (3) 8 threads 335 comments

    44   1:20am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Bigsby says I rather think that it's you who's missing the point. He said something that YOU deemed not quite presidential enough. Big deal. What does it matter if this one comment wasn't quite phrased the way you would've liked? It's not the comment that makes him unsuitable to be President; it should be what you think of the policies he represents. You're saying my opinion does not matter, while both expending energy to dismiss your misunderstanding of it, and trying to tell me how I should think. I count at least four ironies. This degenerate conversation has long passed the point of uselessness.

26. Bigsby Follow Befriend 2,826 comments Monterey, CA

    45   1:32am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   msilenus says You're saying my opinion does not matter, while both expending energy to dismiss your misunderstanding of it, and trying to tell me how I should think. I count at least four ironies. This degenerate conversation has long passed the point of uselessness. I didn't dismiss it. I didn't misunderstand it. I am not telling you how to think. And there wasn't anything ironic in my post. I'm not saying your opinion doesn't matter; I'm saying your opinion isn't the be-all and end-all, and that there are far more important matters to consider when judging a candidate. And by the way, your 'degenerate conversation' comment is just laughable - even more so coming from someone complaining about Romney's use of language.

27. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 249 threads 4,739 comments

    46   10:02am Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   I blame Mike Wallace...

28. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    47   1:27pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says The best way to make most Americans suffer is to elect Romney. How did we get to the point where we are forced to choose between far-left 60's radicals and far-right Ayn Rand assholes who want a return to Robber Baron capitalism?

29. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,572 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    48   2:40pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   wthrfrk80 says How did we get to the point where we are forced to choose between far-left 60's radicals and far-right Ayn Rand assholes who want a return to Robber Baron capitalism? Obama is not a far-left radical. Obama is right of Ronald Reagan. Reagan raised income taxes when it became clear his huge tax cuts were creating insane deficits. Ronald Reagan granted illegal aliens amnesty. Ronald Reagan raised gasoline taxes and Social Security taxes. Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times and was responsible for the national debt tripling in 8 years. In 1980, Barack Obama would have been far too radial RIGHT (I'm not kidding) to win the Republican nomination. The one thing we can say about American political discourse is that it has severed all ties to historical context and reality. When moderates start questioning Obama as being too liberal, we're in big trouble. He's actually much too conservative.

30. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,572 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    49   2:48pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Here's a clear example of what I'm talking about and a demonstration of the STUNNING stupidity of Republicans who idolize Reagan. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax rate from 15% to 20%, an action many Republicans attack as job-killing. Yet Reagan is the only president to ever back a tax increase to cause capital gains to be taxed at the same rate as someone who works for a living. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/20/408345/reagan-raised-capital-gains-taxes/?mobile=nc For most of the history of income taxes in America, long-term capital gains — defined at different times as investments held for minimum periods of as little as six months and as long as 10 years — have been taxed at substantially lower rates than top ordinary income tax rates. Reagan’s tax increase did not cause investment to fall, as many anti-tax ideologues had predicted. There was, in fact, only one time that capital gains were taxed at the same rates that were paid by people who earned their money by working. That was during the years 1988 to 1990, as a result of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — a law championed by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s tax increase did not cause investment to fall, as many anti-tax ideologues had predicted.

31. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    50   4:53pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says Obama is not a far-left radical. Obama is right of Ronald Reagan. Reagan raised income taxes when it became clear his huge tax cuts were creating insane deficits. Ronald Reagan granted illegal aliens amnesty. Ronald Reagan raised gasoline taxes and Social Security taxes. Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times and was responsible for the national debt tripling in 8 years. In 1980, Barack Obama would have been far too radial RIGHT (I'm not kidding) to win the Republican nomination. I completely agree, when talking economic issues. I'd like to see some moderation on social issues. Whether we like it or not, the main reason so many low-income folks vote Republican is because of social issues. For example, Kerry might have won if it weren't for the whole "gay" issue becoming political. Just what we needed, another "hot button" social issue (like abortion) to help divide us into camps.

32. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    51   5:01pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   I guess I could be described as a "blue collar Democrat" or a "Reagan Democrat". I'm a dying breed, I know. ;-)

33. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,572 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    52   7:10pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   wthrfrk80 says I'd like to see some moderation on social issues. Whether we like it or not, the main reason so many low-income folks vote Republican is because of social issues. You and me both. Unfortunately Democrats are fighting a propaganda war and have felt it necessary to side with some misguided left wing groups on some issues. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him?

34. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    53   9:37pm Sat 12 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him? Amen to that.

35. Kevin Follow Befriend 40 threads 2,652 comments

    54   9:31pm Mon 14 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   iwog says wthrfrk80 says I'd like to see some moderation on social issues. Whether we like it or not, the main reason so many low-income folks vote Republican is because of social issues. You and me both. Unfortunately Democrats are fighting a propaganda war and have felt it necessary to side with some misguided left wing groups on some issues. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him? He's busy:

36. Travis Bickle Follow Befriend (1) 9 threads 64 comments Anaheim, CA

    55   11:05pm Mon 14 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says Romney was a sadistic asshole at prep school No one cares

37. don Follow Befriend (3) 14 comments Calistoga, CA

    56   11:41pm Mon 14 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   As long as Mitt wears his sacred undergarments, I will vote for him. We need more Mormons in high places who can keep women in the kitchen where they belong. And maybe reform the sick homos who are a threat to marriage.

38. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,415 comments Davis, CA

    57   11:59pm Mon 14 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Kevin says [Teddy Roosevelt is] busy: Nice! I had no idea Teddy fought Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) The things you find on the interwebs.....

39. Serpentor Follow Befriend 7 threads 438 comments

    58   12:26am Tue 15 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says Did George Romney know his son was wandering around his high school with hair dresser sheers, leering at boy's hair dos and leaping upon them and re-styling their hair? And that his son was a cheerleader? ROFLMAOMFAO

40. jacnikelsen Follow Befriend 3 comments

    59   8:27am Tue 15 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Hazing is a good idea, keeps people from going in the wrong direction. If anything, this will send even more people to Romney's side.

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