Notice Willard apologized?

He didn't deny it...

This time it's a bit too deep for even Willard to try to climb out of.

Guess his wife little orphan Annie was right about one thing...

Deep down Willard really is a wild & crazy guy who thinks nothing of assaulting a fellow studen!

These revelations speak volumes towards Willard's true character & it ain't a pretty picture!

Green beer - WTF does Teddy Kennedy have to do with Mitten's high school antics anyway?

Green That was way before even BUSH'S Bullying. LOL

I witnessed Mitt first hand "bullying" the works (most were volunteers) at the 2001 winter Olympics in Salt Lake. His vulgar rants and 4 letter words would have shocked his wife & his church. I did not trust him then or now. Total disrespect for anyone he deems beneath him.

Remember in an interview a few weeks ago Ann said he was funny and liked to play pranks on people.

So is Willard now on an "apology tour?" I wish he would apologize for his "dumb" idea that he thinks he would be fit to be President.

Sounds like we got a bunch of parrot re-regs here Feisty.

Reincarnation is real cause these guys have been here before.

"IF" I hurt anybody.

The great non apology apology.

In other words, if that kid was hurt, why gosh darn it, he just took it too seriously.

The problem with this story isn't the apologizing, MITT.

The problem with this story is the way you're trying to sell yourself.

Romney. Did he get suspended? Even once?

Most of our friends got suspensions for fighting/bullying. You know, the typical schoolyard fist fights or taunting of other kids. Suspensions. Automatically. It was called being held accountable for your actions. Pretty basic. For most of us. Except Romney evidently.

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greenbear, that was an accident. And because of it, he was never going to be president. He had a major drinking problem for years. Gee, I wonder why.

Meanwhile, as he grew older, he spoke for those who had no voice. He became an excellent Senator.

What Romney did was planned - humiliating a student like that. And he needed his friends to help him. It was planned out because Mitt didn't approve of the length of his hair. He went out of his way to humiliate this student.

Wow it is so funny that Govenor Romney does not remember these bullying incidents, but his friends remember how much of a choir boy he was. Will he make a great president if he has forgotten his high school days?

Not only can you join - I will personally appoint you a member of the board! ☺

Feisty - This is quite an honor. One question though. What the hell is a "sickophant?

Yes, I probably held down a lot of kids and cut off their hair with scissors, but I don't remember any of the incidents.

If they were offended, I apologize!

What a loser. Lost to McCain, lost his memory, and will lose to Obama/Biden. Get lost, Romneycare.

Romney cared about his classmates?!?

Which ones?

He went on Fox?

Gee, what a surprise.

He wasn't mean.

Really?

It's the hypocrisy from so many...they who taunt, rant and rage, their loyal followers and fawners, endlessly dragging thru the muck in order to prove their superiority. You are (all virulent posters) sad examples. The Kennedy correlation is how "your guy" did no wrong but he did apologize (A mea culpa for a young woman's death so many years prior to his national apology. And the media and democrats sang hosannas). Now Mitt is exposed as a bully in high school and it's time to rage

Does ANYBODY believe the "I don't recall" bullsh!t? I can categorically state without any doubt that I did not lead a group of boys in holding down suspected gays and cut their hair off. I would have remembered that very clearly... and I'm older than bubba Mitt.

He's nothing but a stone cold liar.

Feisty: a new fan! Where on earth do you come up with people like that?

They accuse you of all kinds of things, but it never ever occurs to them how ridiculous they look being that upset about a blog?

The guy that needs to get a life is elliot.

LMarcT --

I would have remembered that very clearly... and I'm older than bubba Mitt.

Maybe. Unless you were involved in a lot of those incidents.

He can't recall the incident but he does recall he wasn't thinking about the kid's sexual orientation.

This is typical of the jock, good looking, prom king-types who think being mean is funny. I personally have never been a big fan of the prankster types for this reason. They often don't know boundaries, which BTW is a social skill that like so many social skills Romney seems to lack (e.g., insulting cookies). Just because someone isn't being a jerk on purpose doesn't mean they aren't a jerk.

And the media and democrats sang hosannas).

Greenbeer -

Your memory is as bad as Mitten's. Kennedy was ripped apart by the press, and everybody else. It destroyed his chances of ever becoming president....

Fisted redhead is either a paid poster or a complete loser who thinks she has some sort of clout in swaying public opinion.

Whatsamatter Eliot, you jealous? That's it, isn't it? You're the guy that never got picked for anything and now that you have this wonderful thing called the internet, you can exact your revenge on those who you think were responsible. How pathetic.

I'd like to see him and the rest of the republicans apologize to all veterans for their cowardice during the Viet Nam war. But that would take up a whole news day there are so many chicken hawks in the republican party. Mitt is just one of many..............

Kennedy was ripped apart by the press, and everybody else. It destroyed his chances of ever becoming president....

that's partially correct, but I got to be truthful and say that Teddy didn't help himself either. That incident in 1969 haunted him for the rest of his life. Too bad, because I think he would've been a good one too.

Clinton too huh?

If this story is true, then it's what I would expect out of a GOP politician these days - a narcissistic, callous, bigoted bully who portrays himself and honestly thinks of himself as a saint!

TruePat --

Just because someone isn't being a jerk on purpose doesn't mean they aren't a jerk.

How right you are. Does it make it better or worse that he wasn't thinking about whether the kid was gay? That just makes him a random bully.

His apology left me cold. "If I assaulted and battered you, then I apologize."

And now comes no jo, so upset with the President for sins she makes up in her head, not the least of which is her delusion that he does not support the LGBT community. No jo, if you are not familiar with her, will call you a bigot with very little evidence.

Calling you out no jo: Mitt Romney brutally attacked and humiliated a young gay man. He brought in a pack of hyenas to help him.

Do you still support him for President, because if you do, it makes you a what?

Yes. A bigot.

"First of all, I had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. Going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. That's simply just not accurate," Romney said. "I don't recall the incident myself,"

How can Romney refute part of the incident if he doesn't remember? What a total fraud and liar.

no joe, no bo, nj

Know what liberals don't recall?

They don't recall dredging up some idiotic story from Rand Paul's college days, and trying to use it to derail his Senate campaign.

The real issue is not what happened in high school. The real issue is what Mitt says NOW. Does anyone really believe that he doesn't remember the incident? What kind of person does not remember such an incident? Let's make it multiple choice:

1. I bullied gays and others so often that this situation does not stand out in my memory.
2. This incident was so insignificant that I can't recall doing it.
3. The bullied person was so unimportant that I can't recall doing anything improper to him.
4. It is in my best interest not to remember.

Etch-A-Sketch didn't merely bully the boy, he assaulted him. He can pretend to refute it and he can apologize for it, but he cannot hide from it.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/05/mitt-romney-bully.html

Mitts World!

Trees the right height!

Hair the right length!

Cookies that do not come from 7 Eleven!

Corporations that are people.

Mitt is living a storybook life! I would love to give him a dose of reality.

It's the economy- and you're not just stupid, but idiotic, if you think it's anything else.

No it ain't honey. It's "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs". Or so it was in 2010 when the GOP were running.

Hey BTW,.....what ever happened to that?

Repubbies dropped that meme the day after they got elected. Then it became: "....make Barack Obama a one-term President."

Remember now? I do.

My, my, my the repubs sure turned on a dime didn't they?

Feisty,

Ann Romney is somebody suffering from M.S. and breast cancer and yet you belittle her in your 1.1 comment. Why would you do that, has she done something to you, or do you feel that you need to attack people who are not there to defend themselves?

This is like watching Peyton Place, first Obammy says his deal, his boy aplogizes, then the million dollar man gets slammed for being a D Head. Too funny.......

Cool Man. Real Cool.

Remember a few weeks ago when all the talk was about who was considered to be the cool candidate?

Now think back to when you were in school. Who were considered to be the cool kids then? In my day, it was definitely the bullies. They were the ones who decided who made the cut and who didn't. And being mean to others was imporant. That's why a lot of us didn't want to be their friends. They loved to beat other kids up or berate them in some fashion. Humiliating other kids was priority #1. That was not cool to most of us.

Romney obviously had no problem with himself being a bully.

Fast Forward To Now.

Because of President Obama, the definition of what cool means has changed. To be cool today means to be respectful, positive, loyal, friendly, encouraging, a believer in civil rights for all, and most important - strength in individuality. In other words, to be cool today is to be inclusive, not exclusive.

Big difference.

Feisty,

Because your mother did a courageous thing, why would you feel the need to belittle a cancer survivor? By your comment you saw the pain that a person with cancer has to go through, but because they are Republican or have money you can have no empathy for them?

My Father has cancer, my Mother-in-Law has breast cancer, my Father-in-law died from cancer so I would never put somebody down because of their political affiliation as cancer knows no politics.

Anna Molly

TruePat --

Just because someone isn't being a jerk on purpose doesn't mean they aren't a jerk.

The reason I said that is because the McCain's for example have defended Romney saying when you get to know him he's a decent man--that he's not a jerk.

No doubt Romney interacts with McCain differently, and the NASCAR owners, etc. than the "yes men" he surrounds himself with in business, or all the "peasants" out there in the 99%. This article did not surprise me.

jerry, I can only speak for myself but I understand where Feisty is coming from. I have a real problem with Ann Romney. She sits in an interview telling the world what a wild and crazy guy Mitt was. They're sitting there laughing.

Yet look at what his policies would be if he were to win. Nothing he would do would favor the working or middle classes.

They have their 5 homes and overseas bank accounts. They're all set for life, as are their 5 photogenic sons and grandchildren.

So I see a woman who has had a good comfortable life, and that's the only thing that's important to her. Mitt is just some wonderful guy in her eyes.

So I do find it quite uncomforting listening to her support a man who won't support the majority of Americans when it comes to health care, taxes, education, women's private decisions, gay rights concerns, student tuitions and a whole list of things.

She doesn't have to worry about those things. Their entire family doesn't have to worry about those things.

To her he's some wild and crazy guy. To the rest of us, he's a mean spirited out of touch wealthy Koch Brothers/Norquist mouthpiece and nothing else.

Jerry - I had cancer and worked every day except the two days every three weeks when I had chemo even when I felt like crap. I didn't have anyone to cook my dinners or clean my house or take care of my garden or my pets. Ann Romney is no hero because she had cancer. I resent people making her out to be some kind of saint because she has had issues to deal with. Sorry if I sound harsh but - I sympathize with anyone who has/had cancer but Mrs. Romney is no martyr.

Hey True Patriot, let me guess......

You were the Tuba player in the Marching Band....Right?

kimH, Ann Romney will always get the best treatment possible.

Her husband on the other hand, wants to outlaw Obamacare.

You weren't being harsh. I hope you're doing okay. It must have been very difficult for you.

I see the board is full of the usual Victims...errrr....suspects tonight.

no joe --

They don't recall dredging up some idiotic story from Rand Paul's college days, and trying to use it to derail his Senate campaign.

You mean the hazing story? Do you REALLY want to go there, no joe?

There seems to be a pattern emerging among prominent Republicans.

As many out here have said, once a bully, always a bully.

Being a rowdy teenager in the 60's? That's hard to imagine anyone ever doing that.

Pat - Thank you for your kind words. I am fine now and passed my 7-year mark last Fall. I am very lucky.

Oh sure Mitt Baby, during the 60's nobody ever made fun of "queers" or "lezzies." A boy's sexual orientation was never discussed back then. Ha ha ha. What a bunch of BS. Mitt was a mean bully, no surprise. He was a rich kid. He had power and money. No surprise he was a bully. Although most of the time Mitt the Mormon reminds me of the rich guy on Gilligan's Island, sometimes I see a dark side in his soul, a flash of the mean. Like the guy who almost became a successful politician in that book, The Dead Zone. Obama sucks too, but Romney is clearly a twit and a jerk.

BigATC - Being a bully is not being rowdy. If you believe that then you must have been a bully, too. Being a bully, particularly like the incident described in the article, is a sign of a cruel and insensitive person. I don't know if you ever get past that.

Congrats Kim on the 7 year mark!

The people getting on Romney for bullying, don't forget Obama admitted doing the same to a girl, middle school i think, in his book. If one condemns one, you condemn both.

I know about bullying, as i was bullied in the first grade. My dad tought me to stand up for myself, i did and was never bothered again.

Kim, did you make the same comments about Obama for bullying a girl in middle school? As he admitted in his book.

Really, AM? You, a card carrying member of the mean girls' club- as adults, mind you, not middle school kids- you want to go THERE?!?!

Sorry,pal, you're known by the friends you keep. The libsrus crowd- of which you were a member- beats everything. These are supposed to be adults? You are supposed to be an adult?

Spare me the sanctimony about things people did in high school. You engage in the same thing now, AARP card in wallet.

Mr.Mitt rich boy Rambo bullying and Flip Flopping on another persons hair is a assault, What's next with this loser !

BigATC - Thanks for your kind words, as well. Regarding your 2nd comment - pushing someone is different than a group of boys holding someone down and cutting their hair. Humiliating someone in public is worse than being mean. I think Obama took a pretty good beating for things he has done in the past.

We don't know the intensity or situation of the "pushing". That could have been a very scary and terrifying moment for the girl. Teenagers, including myself, do all kinds of stupid things. I don't disqualify Romney for cutting a kids hair, nor do i disqualify Obama for bullying a girl and doing cocaine. They were kids. All kids do stupid things. They are both adults far removed from those juvenille years.

Look! No jo is back! This same "expert" on what Obama ate as a child is now telling us that Romney's past is off limits.

Same old hypocrisy, same old lies.

I called you out before no jo: you claim to support rights for gays. How many of them have been bullied by Romney clones?

If you support Romney, you, no jo, are a bigot.

Didn't his FIRST response say that he was sorry if he hurt anyone's feeling for the 'dumb' things he did when he was a kid?

So... now he is saying that he 'doesn't remember' doing anything dumb as a kid? (like the things he apologized for earlier - maybe?)

I'm beginning to wonder if this guy is a pathological liar or if he really does suffer memory lapses from one hour to the next or one day to the next....

President Obama admitted it in his book. This is how we learned about THAT incident. President Obama WROTE about it.

Now we have Romney here saying he doesn't recall this hair cutting incident?

Lawrence O'Donnell just reported that today's Washington Post article was in the works for weeks and Mitt knew about it. And that the reason Ann Romney was on that CBS interview with Mitt last week calling her husband a wild and crazy guy - was just a cover for the story that was about to be released about the hair cutting incident.

He is a liar. Ann Romney's interview was planned to make Mitt look more humane that he actually is.

And he's saying he couldn't remember the incident when everybody else involved DID REMEMBER?

He's kidding no one. Neither is his wife.

TruePat --

The reason I said that is because the McCain's for example have defended Romney saying when you get to know him he's a decent man--that he's not a jerk.

I hope you know that I wasn't disagreeing with you. I just put it inartfully.

BigATC --

They are both adults far removed from those juvenille years.

Romney was an adult when he violated Massachusetts animal cruelty statutes by packing a dog in a crate on the top of his car. In that case, he tried to dodge responsibility by saying he didn't know it was illegal. Any fool has to know that what he did is a bad idea. So that also goes directly to his judgment, but at a much more "mature" stage of his life.

There is a disturbing pattern of insensitivity here that is very relevant to figuring out who Mitt Romney really is. To know, know, know him is apparently not to love, love, love him.

We have a lot bigger things going on such as a massive debt, extremists trying to blow us up, our fellow amricans out of work, etc. than to sensationalize Romney cutting a kids hair in the 60's or Obama pushing a girl and doing Cocaine as a kid. I'm fairly confident Romney won't run out on the street and clip someone's hair or Obama isn't doing a line on Air Force One.

And I'd be more sensitive to that if Mitt Romney had ever come forward with a single affirmative idea to create jobs or to fix any of the nation's problems. We all know tax breaks for Mitt and his friends don't work. And we also know that Mitt's idea for a privately funded, managed bankruptcy for the auto industry would have resulted in liquidation with disastrous results for at least a million workers and heaven only knows how much collateral damage to the economy at just the wrong time. He is lying when he says that what he proposed is what actually happened.

As for keeping us from getting blown up, the current CinC is doing just fine.

Romney, on the other hand, is a snake oil salesman, and not a very good one at that.

Romney, on the other hand, is a snake oil salesman, and not a very good one at that.

Bingo Anna.

Anyone hear what the administration is trying to do with people that are shy about peeing (i guess guys wth urinals?) in public restrooms? They are trying to include them in the Americans with Disabilities Act as a protected class. I'm not joking. I suppose to make all businesses put up partitions, at an estimated cost to businesses of up to $4 Billion. I'm more concerned with that than what our candidates did as kids.

And another .... under the "child labor laws" said kids under 18 can't work on their parents farms. So much for 4H and FFA projects.

Anna, predicting what any candidate will do when elected is close to impossible. The hard core from either side will demonize the other no matter what.

I could get behind a lot of the things Obama said when campaigning.........

No taxes under 250k

cut the deficit in half by his last term (he is 1 Trillion over)

no recess appointments, damaged goods

close guantanimo

immigration bill first year

renegotiate nafta

end no bid contracts over 25k

putting bills online for 5 days

no lobbyists in white house

KSM military trial

And all those promises above were not even attempted in any shape, form or fashion. So, would you call him a liar for not delivering on his promises?

There were others such as raising minimum wage, opposing nuclear, public financing, etc.

I'm not crazy about Romney, but i'm really not crazy about BO from what he promised in his first campaign and what he did. Mostly with the spending and the debt is where i am most concerned and disappointed.

Romney: "I don't recall" bullying incident

LIAR

Think about the Mormon religion, if you are not one of them they do not welcome you with open arms.

I have personally witnessed Mormon discrimination first hand but I was willing not to judge Romney on that. Then I heard about the dog thing and I said that's really bad, and now this….. THIS is just despicable! Besides being on the wrong side of every major issue in this country, lets face it, Romney is just one big walking character flaw.

Wait till people come forward talking about Obama when he was in high school. I mean, we know he wasn't very studious, unmotivated, laid back and smoked a little weed. Other than, he might as well not have existed, because no one talks about him....for some reason.

But as some have pointed out, Obama is cool. That's right, cool. The single most important character trait for becoming a world leader.

Unbelievable, Romney did something juvenile over 40 years ago. All I can say is WOW! Is there anyone out there that has not done something "back then" that they regret. For those of you who will cling to this like velcro, give us a break and get a life.

This "story" tells me one thing.....that someone is out there trying with all their heart to find something, anything, to try and defame him....you poor pathetic things! And this is the best you have - something over 40 years old. Well done morons. And this is also an example of exactly how low and ruthless politics has sunk. I don't care who is besmirched, even obama, it's time for us - the civilized public - to tell them...ENOUGH, stop! The medias promote it only for ratings. Are we all victims of or willing participants in the "reality tv syndrome" and we thrill and revel in all this expose'? Surely, there are issues that are far more important to the American public other than these idiotic news reports of no value that only serve to distract us from real issues.

AND on the lighter side: I see Feisty Redhead is again embroiled in controversy with a number of posters who are calling her/him (IT!) out on the tactics she/he (IT) uses. How many times does she need to be told how ignorant and hateful her logic is and to seek professional help - before she just goes away and leaves the posting area to rational adults......so sad & pathetic. The SHILL from IL needs to disappear!

Yep - Mitt should just take a couple of pages from the Obama play book:

1) I'm evolving on that issue

2) It's Bush's fault

3) Me it can't be my fault

The guy's family is saying that the incident was not the way the media is reporting it. Sad that the media is spinning this. Obama shoved a girl in his school days. Why doesn't the media talk about that incident?

You know ... I think I have figured this cult-like devotion to Romney despite all of the carp (deliberate mis-typing) he's done.

See, I figure that most people who are slavishly devoted to Romney and the GOP are evangelicals ... they BELIEVE in this whole "taken up to heaven when the anti-Christ comes" malarkey. So, they are anxious to bring about what to them are the "end times" so they can escape this horrible existence where people are actually supposed to be EQUAL.

Now, based on the evidence in front of us and the supposed descriptions of this "anti-Christ", doesn't Mitt just really fit the bill? He wants to return us to an era where you worked for the "Company" and everything has to be bought at the "Company Store".

So, their devotion to someone with questionable character the rest of us can CLEARLY see has only one conclusion ... they believe that he is the "anti-Christ" and are trying to hasten Armeggedon.

Now, I'm NOT a Christian, so I don't believe the "Left Behind" stories and I don't believe that they are really going to happen. I do believe that if Mitt is elected that our lives will be much more difficult since we're not in the 1% that will own the Company Stores.

So, he forgot his gay bashing days and his bullying, very convenient. What can you expect out of a modern politician? They can't be honest men or they would not be able to compete and the violent tendency is one of the requirements for the job.

I wonder if he ever pulled Obama's ears...

If this is how the Democrats are going to try and defeat Romney, they are in trouble... I don't care what Romney or Obama did 40 or 50 years ago - I care about what they will do as president.

Ron...

Thanks for a touch of sanity !

One thing is for sure, this isn't going to stop. The big question about this story is: What's more important, Romney cutting a kid's hair back when he was in high school or the state of the economy today and the fact that the current president is doing all he can to destroy America's greatness. We all know that he can't run on his record, so he and his thugs are going to be trying to divert attention from he total failure as a leader. Of course, he sees himself as a success because he is doing the exact thing that he wants, bring America to it's knees. As they say, with friends like this,who needs enemies. Only the left, which doesn't require RESULTS from those on the left, are interested in stories like this. But, they obviously realize that Obama is in deep doodoo too.

INIGIO: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

SIX-FINGERED MAN: I don't recall.

See guys. He's not really a flip flopper either. He's just got a bad memory!

Ron, what Rommey is doing today is denying his horrendous deeds of the past. Maybe you better care.

Is that the guy you want looking after you and your family for four years?

Is this the best the GOP could do?

I heard that once, in day care, he took a dump truck another kid was playing with in the sandbox and made the kid cry. Probably the most important issue to focus on when considering his qualifications to be president. This country has lost its ability to reason objectively. I think there are several reasons not to vote for Romney - this isn't one.

I am fine now and passed my 7-year mark last Fall.

Congrats to you Kim!

The SHILL from IL needs to disappear!

More wishfull thinking on your part! lol

See here's the deal - I am not going anyway, no matter how many times you click your ruby slippers together! ;o)

reports are already starting to surface that the Post created this piece instead of reporting it and some of the witnesses had no idea about it.

Eliiot (post 1.3)

Fisted redhead is either a paid poster or a complete loser who thinks she has some sort of clout in swaying public opinion

I have also noticed that Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL seems to be something of a "paid poster." She's either an employee of MSNBC, part of the DNC or just incredibly lucky to be able to have the FIRST POST is many of these political stories.

Makes you wonder just how "fair and balanced" MSNBC is when one single person, an Obama sycophant, has the FIRST POST in about 50% of the political stories on MSNBC. The way the liberal media fawned all over Obama in 2008, and how they're carrying his water in 2012, it's not surprising that MSNBC would allow a Democratic Operative to high jack the Newsvine in an effort to help sway public opinion.

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GT-2021701

Once a bully, always a bully!

Once a Drug addict always a Drug addict;

"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it," wrote Obama about what he would later say were "bad decisions." "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man."

Now the guy's sister doesn't even remember the bullying incident. Statement to be issued later today from their lawyers.

This is starting to look a lot like the crap the left pulled on Herman Cain last year.

Only this time its all hands on deck to get to the truth. You libies better hope you don't get caught on this one or you will all be screwed.

I really just don't understand Republican talk. Is this or is it not confusing:

First of all, I had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. Going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. That's simply just not accurate," Romney said. "I don't recall the incident myself, but I've seen the reports.

If he can't recall the incident how can he say that he has no idea about the individual's sexual orientation? I agree....he must have done it so often that no one incident stands out to him OR he has no conscience so the incident just didn't register.

It is sad that people from the left, like Fiesty Redhead and MANY others and people from the right (too many to name) use these blogs to rant and rave and do not recognize that THEY are part of what is wrong in this country. I am neither democrate or republican and see this whole story for what it really is.......a bunch of political crap coming from the left. Basically, they are using this to politicize the issue. !. the timing is certainly suspect, 2 the man who this supposedly happened to is dead, and finally, the man's sister has come out and said the facts of the story are incorrect and she is upset that the facts have been twisted to suit a political point.

Fiesty, people may reach out to you but it is no wonder, crap looks for other crap. AND before you righties applaud, YOU are no better

John...

I have to ask....do you really think that any single sentence that 'Feisty' has ever written on the website has the actual potential to "sway public opinion" ???

No...she can write puerile insults with the best of 'em...but I don't think any rational hearts or minds are in danger of being swayed.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree of eden. Right Robmee.

Televangelist Scandals Involving Drugs, Hookers, And Money

6:06 minutes, but the host and the scenes are hilarious to listen to.

Jimmy Swaggart "Forgive me for I have sinned" is more like dammit, I got caught with my pants down and using church money to buy my weekly hookers.

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL (post 1.8)

ONE MORE TIME for the short bus riders - we are all PAID by Newsvine, check your earning tab on your home page @!$%#!

http://feisty-redhead-roselle--il.newsvine.com/

WAIT A MINUTE... MSNBC and Newsvine PAY political activists to post things on MSNBC new stories to support their political agenda and help slant public opinion. I NEVER KNEW THAT.

GOSH, what type of lame Animal Farm type propaganda machine is MSNBC?

NOBAMA!

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I could care less about who votes for whom, but I really, really, really don't like this guy. He's a first-class A-hole.

I'm curious. Mitt says he doesn't remember the incident...yet he seems to remember he didn't know the boy's sexual orientation.

Ouch! My Balls

WOW! What a bunch of pansy liberal phucks. Digging through his life back fifty years and this all you can find. Really? What a bunch of phucking losers.....

You keep trying, but the fact is this....you will lose the election because of the economy and ObamaCare.....

This coming from one of the phucking losers who spent how much time trying to prove Obama was born in Africa? As to the election...I doubt most Americans are going to bend over for your corporate masters. Funny how some sorry phucks enjoy being a tool.

So now political candidates have to apologize for things that were done or said when they were kids? Must they apologize for peeing on the nurse at their first diaper change? Must they apologize for every word, every thought, every look that someone took wrong? Must they apologize for every offence taken when none was given?

No one is perfect. Although each party seems to pounce on the other party's imperfections. What does eating what was on your plate when you were a child or a childish prank have to do with making policy decisions that have actual consequences? GET BACK TO THE ISSUES AT HAND

This is ridiculous. Attack the other candidates for legitimate issues. Otherwise, stop wasting my time. As someone who thinks for myself, personal attacks (he looked at me cross eyed) off the wall, delusional insinuations (Grandmaster Wizard...really?)and unsubstantiated accusations (please provide proof or documentation that the other party wants whatever destruction). As long as campaigns consist of this nonsense, I have no confidence in your candidate being able to do the job they are fighting for.

Tony,

The only ones that she influences are people just like her. I just get tired of seeing her crap but I also get tired od seeing the same thing from the right. It is no wonder Congress is so screwed up. It is the too wings of the party that are the tail wagging the dog. Unfortunately, those of us (both left leaning and right leaning) do not seem to have a voice in government and very few take time to comment on these blogs.

"The day that I bullied you was the most important day of your life! For me, it was a Tuesday."

- M. Romney

Ol_Coqsucker,

This coming from one of the phucking losers who spent how much time trying to prove Obama was born in Africa? As to the election...I doubt most Americans are going to bend over for your corporate masters. Funny how some sorry phucks enjoy being a tool.

Is the barfly drunk again, and so early? WTF is this? Pull your head out of your azz, and come up with something that makes some sense...

This is starting to look a lot like the crap the left pulled on Herman Cain last year.

lol @ Elliot - yeah, the left made Cain cheat on his wife for YEARS with a series of fugly mistresses, all the while loudly touting his family values credentials. Shame on them.

Ol_Doc, How do you know "Ouch" was a "birther"? You know what they say about asuming.

It's pretty pathetic that the left has to go back to when Mitt was in high school playing typical high school pranks to find dirt. Wasn't that around the same time that Obama was smoking pot and snorting cocaine with Ayers and Dorn?

Feisty, It is obvious that you blog on a democratic website and say highly polarized statements (in line with the overall political leaning) for a boost in your self esteem. Since we see your statements dominate the early postings one can only assume you either work for MSNBC, or you have no life outside of this pathetic little forum.

Hey John and ouch, close your mouths when you breath , your attracting flies.

It's pretty pathetic that the left has to go back to when Mitt was in high school playing typical high school pranks to find dirt. Wasn't that around the same time that Obama was smoking pot and snorting cocaine with Ayers and Dorn?

If the right wing can rag on Bill Clinton for smoking pot in college we can rag on Romney for being a bully in school.

John and ouch, FOX watchin mindless morons. You betcha!!!

Bullying. This is a favorite technique of most Republicans. That it continues to be employed demonstrates that it seems to have some efficacy. Bullying and yelling works best on people who come to the conversation with a lack of confidence, either in themselves or their grasp of the subject being discussed. The bully exploits this lack of confidence by berating the opposition into submission or compliance. Often, less self-possessed people will feel shame and anxiety when being berated and the quickest way to end the immediate discomfort is to cede authority to the bully. The bully is then able to interpret that as a "win."

This is such a non-story. If it was obama, it would never even been mentioned. Who cares about a high school prank decades ago. For those of you who are young (and obviously obama supporters), people used to haze and tease kids in high school all the time. It is a little more strict now. The problem is that liberals can't think for themselves and are like sheep.

This alleged incident HAPPENED IN 1965!!!!!!!!!

The guy is dead. His family says the accounts are not accurate. What somebody might have done in high school should not be relevant in these days of true peril.

Where are all the stories detailing Obama's illegal drug use??? That's right, there are none.

Another non story by the silly media shilling for Obama.

Meanwhile, we have fewer people working than before Barry took office, a much smaller workforce than when Barry took office, four years of trillion dollar deficits. Anemic GDP growth. The worst "recovery" since the great depression. No action , no plan. Failure on the order of Jimmy Carter.

Obama can't run on his record. The only hope is to demonize opponents.

Gay marriage lost by 20 points in North Carolina. There is one state that Obama will not be carrying. The tea party senate candiate won by 20 points in Indiana. There is another state that will switch back to red. He is behind in Florida and Ohio. Nationally Romney has pulled ahead, despite the media and the power of incumbency.

Enjoy your last few months of delusion everybody. Can't wait until November!

Romney 2012!!!

Ok. Romney may or may not have bullied someone 50 years ago. Fine.

What is President Obama's nation fiscal budget plan? I need a real answer to that.

This is such a non-story. If it was obama, it would never even been mentioned.

If it were Obama the right wingers would be demanding a formal investigation and impeachment. More crocodile tears please.

Richard...

Mr. Obama's most recently submitted budget was not even put up for a vote by his own party's majority in the US Senate. Last year, his budget was defeated 97-0.

And folks on this site will scold you by saying "Romney doesn't have a plan".

Faux News is saying "Is it wrong that a guy holds down a kid in highschool and cuts his hair because his hair was long." Not because he called "him a her" or the fact he was "gay". It was because his hair was long (per faux news). And then every word after was Obama, Obama, Obama did this and did that.

What a frig'n joke.

God...the righties get furious when they get "outroved"!! LOLOL

I don't recall hearing anything about Obama's conduct as a 10 year old boy study the Quara in Indonesia.

what does studying the Quara, or ANYTHING, have to do with this?

Gosh, I wonder if HE ever got into a fight with someone.

a fight is much different than bullying but your total ignorance of fact and piss poor attempt to conflate entirely different actions say quite a bit about your intelligence, agenda and motive.

Instead, the media is feasting on a 50 year old story of high school silliness, lambasting Mitt Romeny for teasing and taunting someone when he was a teenager, as if that type of stuff NEVER happens in High School

most bullies, like Romney and apparently John the jackass like to pretend that bullying is a rite of passage, hijinks, silliness. Once a bully, always a bully, once a liar, always a liar, once a narcissist always a narcissist.....

Is Biden running Obama'ss re election campaign?

Another Demorat Flop. LOL!!

Obama bullied girl in middle school

most bullies, like Obama like to pretend that bullying is a rite of passage, hijinks, silliness. Once a bully, always a bully, once a liar, always a liar, once a narcissist always a narcissist.....

Demorats are making it way to easy for the Repukes.

Paul Begala on this story:

One can draw a straight line from the young man who pinned down a terrified teenager and walked a blind man into a closed door, to the adult who put the family dog in a kennel and strapped it to the roof of the car, to the businessman who laid off hundreds of people, cancelled their health benefits, and paid himself millions while their company went bankrupt. And the line continues: the governor who slashed education and raised fees on the middle class, and the possible president who would use his power to cut taxes on his fellow millionaires while pushing for the gradual demise of traditional Medicare.

Then there is the aura of someone who acts as if the rules don't apply to him. The Post reported that the abused boy was ultimately expelled from Cranbrook—for smoking a cigarette. Really. The victim got expelled for smoking a cigarette, but Mitt faced no sanctions for maliciously victimizing a vulnerable student and a teacher. It's good to be a prince. Maybe that's why Romney felt entitled to take a $10 million bailout for Bain, but opposed President Obama's bailout of the auto industry. He thinks there's one set of rules for the privileged, and another for the rest of us.

This story is directly attributable to "Mitt's" consistent inability to be genuine, authentic and truly interested in Serving the Public Good. I am certain he regrets his actions and is embarrassed that his past is coming back to bite him. This Country is in trouble because of 35 years of systematic degradation of the very institutions that provide the framework of our Democratic Principles. Those who are truly interested in Public Service are not interested in feeding their EGOS. Mitt Romney is the problem not the solution. John Huntsman, Ron Paul, Buddy Roemer, Tim Paulenty are all better choices for a traditional GOP Presidential Electorate. Romney purchased this, in return he has to take his "licks" however relevant or irrelevant. That is part of maintainig a "Public Profile" unfortunately. How many of you cried foul when the bogus swiftboaters misquoted, distributed doctored photographs, misrepresented fact in order to get GWB elected? What matters is how Romney grew (if at all) from his experiences.

As for Ann Romney? She has access to the BEST Healthcare in the WORLD...many privaleges most of will never see. She chose to insert herself into her husband's Presidential Campaign knowing that his life would be flayed out in public. The Romneys are privaleged in every way imaginable. It isn't wrong. Its what you do with your privaleges and your life that is important. LDS Members have a membership obligation to recruit and retain new members. It isn't that they shun everyone else away...they want to convert you to the "TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST." That is what Missionaries do in the LDS Faith. That is what Romney did in France instead of answer the Draft.

What public service do the Romneys actually participate in? Do they maintain any Philanthropic Endowments? No.

While so many of you are critical of President Obama's dedication to Public Service, do any of you know anything about being a Community Organizer for the disenfranchised? You are grossly misinformed if you think the MAFIA RUNS CHICAGO, IL. The MAFIA we need to worry about is the Political Advocates for Corporate Welfare and Personhood. While you are critical of the role of "Editor for the Harvard Law Review" have any of you read the Law review? Do you know what it means to edit the publication? Do you who criticize Pres. Obama for being a Senator know what that work entails? Do any of you who criticize the President for being a Constitutional Law Professor realize how much work goes into developing a curriculum, lesson planning, assessing the needs of your students & functioning as a faculty advisor for students of the Law? This is the job description of a "Professor." Each Professor must also maintain active licensure and work within their field of specialty. Each Professor must also publish two to four research articles within their discipline every year. I would rather have a POTUS who has a well developed mind using both hemispheres of their brain istead of the cerebrum and reptilian brain.

While many of you are quick to judge the President, look at yourselves. Do you participate in your own Democracy?

I have not read, researched or seen any evidence that qualifies Wilard "Mitt" Romney for President of the United States period. He is never clear minded about his Economic Policies citing not one single Contemporary Economic Theorist or for clearly stating a Federal Taxation Reform Policy Mandate. In my educated opinion (I constantly educate myself about voter issues.), I have seen nothing that indicates Romney would be an effective President...to the contrary he would be the puppet master for Grover Norquist, Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich's continued quest to deconstruct what's left of our Democratic form of Government.

Pedestrian-in-SF... Great post. Nailed it!!!

Drano (post 1.124)

most bullies, like Romney and apparently John the jackass like to pretend that bullying is a rite of passage, hijinks, silliness. Once a bully, always a bully, once a liar, always a liar, once a narcissist always a narcissist.....

Let's see how things work in the liberal leftist media today:

1. The White House tell the Washington Post the President is going to announce his support for gay marriage.

2. The Washington Post moves heaven and earth to find some type of "anti-gay" story about Romney to use to aid the reelection effort of Obama. Sure, it's 50 years old, when Romney was like 17 but it will just have to do, that's all they could find so far. Of course, the Washington Post holds the story until JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT (i.e., for maximum benefit for the Democrats).

3. The White House says "let's have Biden blurt out something about his support for gay marriage" and then have a Cabinet Official join in also, as a type of trial balloon. If there's not a huge public outcry, then Obama will proclaim his "evolution" is now complete and HE also supports gay marriage.

4. The White House tells the Washington Post that to prepare their "anti-gay" story for the day after Omama makes his announcement. That way the new cycle will be filled with 2-3 days of gay marriage stories and Romney anti-gay stories, anything to get the publics attention off the real issues confronting our nation.

5. The Washington Post releases the story, they just happened to have laying around. Something that happened 50 years ago to a person who's now dead. I mean, the media's well known for "spiking" stories, but here's an example of an "ambush" story, simply to support the reelection of Obama. Now we can see how the Washington Post and the Obama reelection campaign are working hand in hand. I've even heard many in the liberal media reporting the Romney encounter as an "assault"

Let's look at another example of "bullying". However this example was NOT featured on the front page of the Washington Post. This is an story of our President, as a teenager, assaulting a young girl. The girl did NOTHING to him, other than try to befriend him. Instead, Obama assaulted her (shoving her) and yelling at her, simply out of peer pressure.

The media didn't have to look hard for this information, it's in Obama's biography. Along with his admitted use of ILLEGAL DRUGS like cocaine. Here's the quote from the book:

“I’m not her boyfriend,” I shouted. I ran up to Coretta and gave her a slight shove; she staggered back and looked up at me, but still said nothing. “Leave me alone!” I shouted again. And suddenly Coretta was running, faster and faster, until she disappeared from sight. Appreciative laughs rose around me."

Where is Coretta today? Has the Washington Post dispatched reporters to locate her? What she traumatized? Has the Washington Post and the media circus asked the President to comment on this "assault"? Will Obama apologize for this assault? How many other people did Obama assault, perhaps while under the influence of illegal drug use?

So, maybe you're right Drano, "once a bully, always a bully". The difference is, Romney has grown up and been a success. Obama's grown up and is still a pathetic narcissistic bully. Funny how the Washington Post missed this story of Obama's character.

NOBAMA 2012

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It seems the left is so desperate they would run with a story that they were forced to admit was factually incorrect (translation: a story full of fabrications and distortions). They most likely thought that after almost 50 years and the supposed victim being dead for around 8 years that no one could prove their fabrications.

This desperation on the part of the left seems to now have delved into the realm of panic since the latest polls show Romney leading and pulling away from Obama.

Worse yet, the story was trumped up. The source wasn't there but "heard" about it. Yeah, when I was in H.S. there are lots of girls I heard were pregnant to, that weren't really pregnant.

So what you have is a witness that didn't witness it, family never heard about the incident (cutting off that much hair, they surely would have known the difference).

The GOP have alienated the Latinos, women, gays and lesbians, and now anyone who has ever been bullied will be against the GOP candidates. Who will they alienate next? If they keep this up, they won't get any votes at all. You do not win votes by being an elitist or a bigot or a bully! One must earn trust, and when that trust has been betrayed, it takes a lifetime to earn it back - that is if you actually try to earn it back.

Maybe the Mormon Church can make Romney's victim a postmortem Mormon and make it up to him by giving him his own planet to be the Savior of.

I don't feel like stalking Mitt Romney so I don't care about hearsay from 50 years ago.

I would much rather cast my vote for the one doing the bullying than the one being bullyed.

Remember those computer nerds in high school now rich, dating girls that would not be caught dead with them in high schools? Seems to me those being bullyed in high school have gathered in DC, Cantor, Reid, Boehner, Obama, etc... maybe Romney is who we need to knock some heads together and cut their hair to get something done like a budget?

Mitt Romney to his supporters: - ("Hey guys, who wants to help me pin down a gay kid and hack off his hair ! This violent attacking is a assault on all Americans, this flip flopper mitt was acting like a mad dog. What will this Nut Mitt do if he becomes President ? My vote will not go to a Nut like Romney, look what he did to his poor little dog. Put horns on the flip flopper's head and you have a Satan. I say lets flip flop this loser out on his butt !

I'll bet Romney's victim hasn't "forgotten" the incident. I'm sure serial murderers and child molesters sometimes forget about a particular victim as well. Yeah, Romney is the man we need to represent ALL Americans.

Not in this lifetime.

Obama/Biden 2012

Wet willy,

What polls show Romney leading? National polls? They don't mean squat. Look at the swing state polls, in every swing state except Missouri, Obama is winning. The electoral college is all that matters and on the electoral map, President Obama has a commanding lead.

How is this any different than Obama admitting in his book that he bullied and shoved a little black girl?

If the allegations against Romney are even true (the supposed victim's family doesn't recall the incident either), at least Romney was picking on someone of his own size, own gender.

Obama was picking on someone smaller than himself and of the opposite gender, the misogynist SOB.

David

I'm puzzled as to why you fail to see any difference. First, Mr. Obama was admitting to his action and expressing remorse. Secondly, it is clear that Romney's victim was not only smaller but that Romney was acting as leader of a pack.

Kids do dumb, and sometimes mean, things. As adults, those of us who actually have become responsible and caring adults regret those actions. Romney was either mean to so many people that he doesn't remember a single incident, OR the incident was not important enough to remember, OR it is in his best political interest to claim he does not recall. Which do you believe is true?

Barack Obama has clearly grown up as a compassionate, responsible adult who is cares about the rights of all citizens. Romney chooses not to "evolve."

Patriotic American USA (post 1.138)

I think your got your "talking points" wrong. Here's what you probably meant to say"

Barack Obama to his supporters: - ("Hey guys, who wants to help me shove and riducle this black "plump girl!! This violent attack is a assault on all Americans, this narcicist Barack was acting like a mad dog.

OH WAIT, you only hear 50 year old "news" about Republican's in the Washington Post and MSNBC.

Well, I invite you to simply read Obama's OWN WORDS about how he teased and humiliated this poor girl, who did NOTHING other than try to befriend him as the only other black student in class. However, this girl was "plump" and Barack must have been disgusted to have some fatty dare to try to speak to him, being the smooth talking, cocaine using narcissistic person Obama is.

Here's the link, where you can read Obama's OWN WORDS and then tell me how horrified you are of Obama's treatment of this poor girl:

http://www.russpage.net/barack-obama-cocaine-use-and-60-minutes/

NOBAMA 2012!

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The New York Post is reporting that Edward Klein's new biography on Obama titled "Amateur" states Bill Clinton mocked Obama as an "amateur" and "incompetent". I guess Bill recognizes what the rest of us do, the Community Organizer in Chief is ill-equipped to be President and the lack of results show that.

According to the Post, Klein's book says Bill apparently wanted Hillary to quit her Secretary of State gig and run against Obama in the primaries this year. I'm still puzzled how the Democrats bypassed Hillary in 2008 for the neophyte that's botched pretty much everything he's touched.

LIAR!

I'm a lefty who thinks this story is uttter nonsense.

Here are the facts you need to think about.

1. Do you want a man that admits his mistakes without having to find them out?

Or a man that Can't Remember being a school bully?

2. Do you want a man that saved the auto industry?

Or a man who revises history to try and take the credit for what the other guy did?

3. Do you want a man who can make up his own mind?

Or a man that his whole job is just to sign what is put in front of him (From Mr. Norquist's mouth)?

4. Do you want a man that cares about the suffering of others?

Or a man that doesn't seem to realize when he is cruel and causing suffering of others?

5. Do you want a man that has through his decisions had our armed services takeout our enemy leaders...making us all safer?

Or a man who insults our allies and tries to revise history by saying he would do the same thing...even though it's on record that he said he wouldn't?

6. Do we want a man who would put teachers, police officers, firemen, construction workers back to work?

Or a man that will take away help for the needy to give money to the rich?

The thing is....when you do something in your life should learn from it. President Obama has shown that he has learned from his past. He put it out there for all to see.

Mitt Romney has learned nothing from his past, except that he thinks he can say any lie and get away with it.

President Obama has my vote.

"Edward Klein’s new book, “The Amateur,” says Bill was so unimpressed by Obama that he strongly urged Hillary to leave her post as secretary of state and run against him, according to the New York Post. On Friday, the Clintons and the White House closed ranks, dismissing the information as fictional, created in order to sell books. Klein is also the author of “The Truth About Hillary,” which also came under fire." From the Washington Post.

Please use actual facts about things, not lies told by other liars.

Not as stupid as yo uthink

That is okay Willard... Reagan couldn't recall trading arms for hostages either.

Is this a GOP-TEA thing?

ROFL, That's what it looks like.

The late great Phil Hartman did great sketch on SNL playing Reagan saying "I cant recall" when asked by a census worker how many people lived in the White House.

Romney can't recall the incident but he knows for sure that he wasn't thinking about the kid's sexual orientation.

There is something sinister about Mitt. I think heis not revealing his true self to us.

Ding, Ding, Ding, We have a WINNER!

Anna Molly, Correctly Called it what it Was!

A LIE!

You Betcha!

Occupy SoggyBottom!

I wonder if he's also "forgotten" how many jobs and lives he destroyed or damaged from his bullying days at Bain Capital. And now he's a serious contender to become the next president - if that happens, I fear for the damage he could do to so many more people.

Romney would maybe make a good case study of what happens when a bully isn't stopped, and continues to gain power & prestige. He only bullied & hurt a few people in his high school & college days. Then, he joins Bain Capital and bullied & hurt thousands of people. And next? He becomes the next president and bullies & hurts millions of people?

Good point, Steve.

Romney: "I don't recall" bullying incident

Not good if you ask me. Do we really want a man in office with alzheimers. I think America had enough of the Regan years, we really don't want a repeat of that again.

jussayin-

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Willard, you either did or you didn't do this deed...simply "yes" or "no", no gray area. "I don't recall" is a woefully lame response.

Unless you have total amnesia or dementia, it's an act you should not have trouble remembering participating in or not.

So, 5 people corroborated the story, but poor Mitt just can't seem to recall the incident?

...I'm afraid I've got to say I'm sorry...

Why are you afraid to apologize for your actions?

Wasn't there just a story about letting terrorists out of Afghanistan detention centers and their recidivism? And Obama didn't get anything for it.

frank-1216711

There is something sinister about Mitt. I think heis not revealing his true self to us.

Oh, and obama has ? You are very naive.

And to the rest of you wishing and hoping for something bad to pin on or accuse Romney for - how about YOUR background? Is there anything in THERE we should need to know about - any dark secret (other than a 40+ year old prank!). And how inclusive is YOUR 40 + years ago memory? Glass houses people, glass houses. Find something more current and relative - this smacks of someone intentionally looking but having to go back 40 years to find SOMETHING, ANYTHING minutely off-color about Romney!

wtf...

They must stretch to find any dirt on Mitt Romney...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't even drink coffee, good family, educated, enormously successful. You'd think by now that something rotten about him would have been put forward. And the best they come up with is a story from his teen years.

The only tactic left is a simple one...coined by simple minds. In the next 6 months we are going to hear about 10,000 repetitions of "he wants to take us back to the failed policies of the past".

Yeah...that's a real strong argument ! And of course we'll keep hearing about the wealth that he earned...'til we're bored to tears.

Washington Post Quickly Redacting Sensational But Untrue Romney Story

May 10, 2012

Seems obviously Obama Controlled newspaper Washington Post created an untrue story about Romney and bullying that never happened just in time for Team Obama to use it (to vilify Romney) as part of the Obama’s calculated announcement of Obama’s personal support of gay marriage. This 17-page fabricated story by the Washington post should be a good warning of what we are in for this upcoming election season. Team Obama and their government controlled media minions obviously will say and do anything to make their point regardless of the truth. This should worry anyone and everyone who loves America and respects the Constitution and values any type of decency.

When we get to the point that the press cannot be trusted to do their job, tell the and are controlled by the government, the loss of freedom is right around the corner! The only way to correct that is to cancel your subscription and stop buying and reading the papers, magazines, or watching the news programs who do and have lied. The Washington Times (as well as Team Obama) has just proved again that they can’t be trusted or believed. How about a few of these news sources start by honestly vetting the President, which they didn’t do in 2008.

The only tactic left is a simple one...coined by simple minds. In the next 6 months we are going to hear about 10,000 repetitions of "he wants to take us back to the failed policies of the past".

Where's his long-form birth certificate?

• Is anyone really surprised that preppie Mittens was a popular bully? He grew up to be a corporate bully, and he wants to be president so he can bully the poor, the old, the young, the sick, and anyone else who doesn't rush to shine his shoes. He's so smarmy.

The ol - "I can't recall" defense. A real GOP technique. Cheney used it, Joe Arpaio used it 40 some times on the witness stand, now Mittens. It is called lieing and these people should be held accountable. public officials with selective alzhiemers. These people deserve to be ridiculed and challenged for their memory problems.

Pedestrian...

Your post is pretty "smarmy" too !

Faux News is saying "Is it wrong that a guy holds down a kid in highschool and cuts his hair because his hair was long." Not because he called "him a her" or the fact he was "gay". It was because his hair was long (per faux news). And then every word after was Obama, Obama, Obama did this and did that.

What a frig'n joke.

We have cutting a boys hair and even with the boy crying he would not stop, harassment by making fun of aother young boy when he spoke in class by yelling "that a girl", placing his dog in an "airtight" kennel (which never made sense) on top of the car, then hosing the dog down when he got sick, enjoys "firing people that he employees."

However, I would vote for him for "@!$%#" if he was running for that position.

Sorry about the double post, the other chain was collapsed then restored. I think that's what happened,

"I don't recall the incident myself, but I've seen the reports. Not going to argue with that. There's no question that I did some stupid things when posting and obviously if I hurt anyone by virtue of that I would be very sorry for it and apologize for it."

ssmithlg,

Washington Post Quickly Redacting Sensational But Untrue Romney Story

www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Romney-bully-hair-Lauber/2012/05/11/id/438800

So here is the story redacted as you stated by the Washington Post - what won't these crazy liberal controlled media liars do to keep a faltering liar of a prez in office! We can no longer trust any media with a liberal agenda to tell the truth or to keep from fabricating a bunch of lies. All you liberal "Blind Faith" zombies should see what is happening and feel ashamed of it AND the current POTUS for allowing it to happen......not too many steps left in the liberal march to a government controlled America and it's people - WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH all you blind obama followers. He needs to go in Nov.

Here's a teaser from the Washington Post article

Extracted and Quoted:

The New York Post slammed the Washington paper for ”laboring so mightily to
construct a huge mountain from such a tiny molehill,” and warns that the story
“points up why many potentially top-notch candidates decline to seek the
presidency — or even to enter public life in the first place. The notion that
one’s entire life can — and will — be subjected to microscopic deconstruction,
and the results hysterically magnified, would give anyone pause.”

“Shame
on The Washington Post,” the editorial concludes.

Read more on
Newsmax.com: Wash.
Post Under Fire for Romney Bully Story
Important: Do You Support Pres.
Obama's Re-Election? Vote
Here Now!

WTF...Sounds like you lack a total inability to see the entirety of our Democratic Mess. There are no liberals anymore. In fact, the Democratic Party has moved into the position as the more Conservative (meaning preserving the Constitution as written if you even posess knowledge of its meaning.) representatives of the Constitution of the United States of America. The GOP through Newt Gingrich's efforts to successfully divide the Government and the Dogmatic Religiousness of the Tea Party, has become a Fundamentalist Theocracy. There is absolutely no reference in our Constitution, to Christianity whatsoever. How else could people freely worship in this Country?

You are the apparent symptom of the greater problems dividing our Nation by refusing to look at issues objectively. You "drink the kool-aid" of the masses and that is exactly what the GOP appeals to...the lowest form of human functioning free from the burdens of utilizing the thought process, aka your emotions. Good luck crawling out of your self imposed ignorance.

Whitefeather

One word: HOGWASH.......intellectual bs from someone way out there. What are you some sort of pathetic atheist - what are you getting off on about religion, I said nothing about it. I think you need to good back to school and learn reading comprehension 101 I drink no ones kool-aid, I educate myself and prove my facts when the need arises. I am an "Unaffiliated" voter, I vote for the one that has more creditability....it might have even been Obama if he has provided solid plans, but I don't fall for empty words by some master orator - which he is, that's what got the German's in trouble in WW II. GOP - smopp. If you want to follow some flowery speaking idealist with meaningless and empty words and who is unable to rely on his own accomplishments but has to stoop to otter ruthlessness and despicable lies then YOU are the problem, not me.

All the self-righteousness that you display means nothing except to show off your total ignorance. You can't dispute my posts on the Washington Post redact, so as typical of your type you just attack.......now that I really look at your words I can see that it IS you who is the problem. Good luck crawling back under your rock in Nov.

I have finally seen it all - someone who is totally full of crap AND a perfect a$$hole, too!

Invoking the Christian God. With morality politics, the idea is to declare yourself and your allies as patriots, Christians and "real Americans" (those are inseparable categories in this line of thinking) and anyone who challenges them as not. Basically, God loves Fox and Republicans and America. And hates taxes and anyone who doesn't love those other three things. Because the speaker has been benedicted by God to speak on behalf of all Americans, any challenge is perceived as immoral. It's a cheap and easy technique used by all totalitarian entities from states to cults.

Hey wtfjes66, Most people know Rupert Murdoch bought the New York Post.

I would say they are about as trustworthy as FOX.

Chad

It used to be that the media were honorable sources of news. They brought to us honest stories and real investigative reporting, Watergate is a great example - so is the Iran Contra scandal. Today that integrity is missing from most news agencies. They now have adapted political ideologies and actively report/support them, I should mis-report, over-sensationalize......hyperbole and obfuscation are their main weapons. At best they are unreliable....all of them. The left have theirs, the right have theirs. Who do you believe anymore. People rush to judge based on news stories - totally ridiculous, medias depend on our gullibility to sell their stories and the benefit to them is more sales with the follow-up news stories they have caused. There is still real reporting going on, but you have to listen and verify with a open mind and then do your own homework.

Media - I do not trust any of them.

Assaulting a student isn't the same as pulling pigtails. Physically abusing a person is beyond bullying: it is criminal battery. Pretending to have temporary alzheimers is lying. Romney is a cynical, dishonest, and violent person who is not morally nor ethically equipped to hold the office of dogcatcher, much less the office of president. Furthermore, those who would spin lies on Romney's behalf are at least as bereft of a moral center as ol' Etch-A-Sketch himself. Shame.

Was MittTaxPittance a bully in school??? Well, This IS What he did as chief axeman at bain corp....ruined a lot of families and lives. And! And!! AND!!! Some of you angry voters want to vote for this guy??Here’s the rundown on Mitt Romney’s devastating record as CEO of Bain Capital, a
tenure marked by bankruptcies, bailouts, and mass layoffs — all while Romney and
his partners raked in billions of dollars in profits for the firm and Romney
himself amassed a quarter-billion dollar fortune.
Romney’s Bain Capital
Caused Mass Layoffs, Sent Jobs Overseas
Thousands of Americans were laid off
by Bain Capital at companies it purchased, managed, and, at least a quarter of
the time, drove into bankruptcy. Here this guy wants YOU Voters to give him a free hand for his Carnage. This is what is calmly and truthfully stated about this republicanCrimeCartelMonster Feisty RedHead...Do Not get Obsessed with this republicanCrimeCartelHitMan, Just Expose him and let the people make up their minds about this guy.

He also has said meeting Ann changed his life and made him grow up. Yea, they met when he was in 4th grade.

Anna Molly - I graduated from HS in 1967 and it was definitely something people thought about back then. We had a teacher who was fired when they discovered he was gay and a friend of mine killed himself his senior year because of the bullying he had to endure. Fortunately, we have "evolved" somewhat since those days. Romney is a liar.

then it's a good thing Kim that you know Romney remembers the incident and can inform us. tell us again how you know that he remembers the incident from 50 years ago in the 60's.

BigATC - you remember being bullied in 1st grade, don't you? If he forgot holding someone down and cutting their hair but can still say that he is pretty sure it wasn't because the kid was gay, then excuse me for being skeptical.... Perhaps he has early on-set Alzheimer's...

KimH -

Actually, I'm beginning to wonder if he really is experiencing some kind of memory lapses. I just cannot see how he can reverse himself so often on such a wide variety of things and not have the kind of problem that you mention...

My rebuplican friend told me that I should Romney more seriously instead of dismissing what he has to say 'out of hand' (if that's what it is...), so I decided to do that. And right now, after these statements made at different hours of the days, I'd say he's either experiencing some kind of Alzheimer/dimentia problem or he has already gone over the wall....

@KimH and AlexTheBlade

It could just be that Romney was/is such a callous and shallow human being (I mean you have seen him try to interact with people right?...) that he honestly doesn't remember the humiliation he and his cohorts visited upon this person.

Because to Romney that person's feelings and well being never were and never will be a consideration. For Romney's purposes that person existed for nothing more than to give him and his buddies a chuckle,what do they care how he feels about it?

That would be my guess as to why he doesn't remember. Because it would simply never register with a person like Romney.

I mean do you remember every bug you have ever squashed?

Now what this says about the character of such an individual (if my aim is true...) I leave for you to decide.

I know what it says to me,but then I have had Romney pegged as an insincere,lying,born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple,shirked his duty to his country (pedal that bike Frenchy...),callous,gasbag twit for some time now.

It might not have been something that was "talked about" but you better believe if a boy in high school displayed anything other than crotch-grabbing machismo, the jocks would immediately label and hound him. This scenario is totally believable - it also speaks to a distinct lack of moral fiber that Romney would pretend not to remember and actually chuckle when talking about this incident.

The real problem here, and I'm sure someone has noted it, is that he was a teenager, not a nine year old. Teenagers are making moral decisions every day, it is key to growing up with integrity. Obviously, Romney lacked moral fiber.

I don't know how old you are, but when I was in high school in the late 80's, I knew what gay was, but nobody was "out". When my mom was in high school in the late 50's she didn't know what gay was. One's sexual orientation was not openly addressed at a young age until recently.

Is it within the Human Experience to judge anyone? The issue is so far removed from Christianity's intent the Theocrats of the GOP need to look long and hard at themselves and exactly what the Constitution states as originally written. Civil Rights belong to every human being regardless of how you socially identify yourself. The "Two-Spirited" people have always existed and only in a Theocratic Society are they judged and ostracized. We are not a Theocracy but the Tea Partiers woud have you believe that we are. Religious Fundamentalism from all angles of the spectrum is an impediment to growth. It is 2012. Apparently we have lost our collective sensibility when we can no longer look at history and learn from its mistakes and apply its wisdom.

elliot...why don't get off your lazy rant and google the National Archives? If Pres. Obama were a crack addict, he would be able to function on a daily basis, he would not be able or capable of speaking without severe neurological deficits, and at his age he would begin showing signs of physiologic decline in his skin, eyes, hand tremors would be obvious as would head tremors. Everything Pres. Obama has written is available to the public. That is part of being the President. You are just incensed that there is nothing deviant about this man. You bring it up, you do the research. That is what the Internet is for. It was President Obama that made the National Archives available to the general public through the Internet. The Republican Party, through a House and Senate majority, wants to close that informational access to the oublic and have a plan to close it as soon as they have the votes. FYI: A Candidate for the United States Senate MUST BE A U.S. CITZEN. Sorry to rain on your parade but he had to produce his "LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE" when he filed his candidacy for both the U.S. Senate and the Presidency of the United States. Birther Issue closed unless you choose to live in denial. Where is your Birth Certificate...or do you even have one? Put some of your hatred energies to good use and do some research. Obviously you have access to a computer but do you have access to your higher level brain functions?

Romney sounsd a lot like Reagan did with his selective memory about events "I don't recall"

coke head

Speaking of coke heads - you might want to stop sampling the goods...

When are we going to vet Obama's past?

Anyone who wasn't living under a rock in 2008 KNOWS President Obama was the most vetted candidate in history!

What the MSM didn't dig up - the Clinton machine did.

Sorry they didn't find anything you could stick your fangs into...

When are we going to vet Obama's past?

Try reading. Try reading the "Audacity of Hope" or other records of the President's life.

If the GOP had anything other than a fake birth certificate controversy they would have brought it by now. You think it's because a lack of their trying? If you do you're either painfully naive or halt of mind. The republic party moved heaven and earth in the attempt to dig up something on the President.

Fail.

Hey dips*&^, Obamas life has been raked over the coals for the last 4 years or dont you remember. hes a muslim no he goes to a church that hates people. he wasnt born here. and lets not count the lies and distortions faux news makes up

Where are the headline sews storied and week long media circuits discussing his admitted cocaine use?

Where are his papers he wrote at Harvard?

elliot -- Do you understand the difference between recreational drug use and recreational thuggery?

As if elliot would know what is required to get into Harvard or graduate Magna.

But the topic, elliot, is Romney brutalizing a younger student.

Why the obsession with his written papers from Harvard? Have you asked to see other Presidents for theirs. When you have nothing, you grasp at straws.

elliot -- Do you understand the difference between recreational drug use and recreational thuggery?

Hey Anna why don't you enlighten us?

For extra points, explain how Recreational drug use is a positive trait in a President, but recreational thuggery is not.

Elliot - DON'T YOU KNOW? I hear tell his birth certificate isn't even REAL and that he wasn't actually born in America....

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAHHHHH! Sorry, mate - I coudln't hold it!

White Collar:

Because one of the LAST THREE recreational drug users we had as a president saw one of the most prolific modern golden ages of our time.

Must have been because he didn't inhale..... just guessing.

WCA --

For extra points, explain how Recreational drug use is a positive trait in a President, but recreational thuggery is not.

One is evidence of an authoritarian attitude and violent tendencies, and the other is not.

Or do you think those are GOOD things in a President?

Oh, that's right, you're a conservative, aren't you? Enough said.

Wait, wait! Boy do I know some stuff about Romney.

I know for a fact, a
fact I tell you, that Mitt Romney, the likely Presidential candidate in
November, actually stuck his chewing gum on the bottom of his desk in the 8th
grade! Gasp!

And, And (breathless) he was seen scratching "Becky &
Me" on a column in the front of his high school with a jack knife!

Elliot3020456...

Did you just wake up from a multi-year nap or are you playing the tool (yes, a tool) again?

Based on your comments, it's better than even money it's the latter.

The Gold Medal of Blather has just been won folks...no reason for anyone else to take their shot at the title !!!

And the winner is ( drumroll, please !)..."PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS THE MOST VETTED CANDIDATE IN HISTORY"

Who'd a thunk it !!!

BHO says something that he thought was in private and a CBS microphone picks up his conversation and guess what? CBS decides not to air it. If it was Bush, they would have stopped regular programming and played it.

The parents of the kid deny the episode ever happened. Didn't see that in the Wa Post story

The guy who told Wa post the story said that he's a Democrat so he won't vote for Romney but that he feels Romney is "honest and would probably make a good president." Didn't see that in the Wa Post story.

Look, I'm an independent and I don't know who I'll vote for yet but if the MSM keeps up this sh*t, I may vote Rep just for spite.

Once a bully, always a bully!

Obama/Biden - 2012 -

GT,

In President Obama's book he discusses while in middle school pushing a little girl, so how far back does your comment go "once a bully always a bully".

Oh for gosh sakes, pushing a little girl in middle school is gawkish middle school boys' idea of flirting. It's a far cry from holding someone down, cutting their hair and humiliating them.

What I read was that she TACKLED Obama, and weighed more than he did. After he got up, he gave her a small shove to get her away from him. She had it coming.

geo-me

Progressives may worry about character - right wingers don't care.

One word Geo: Clinton. Don't care? Really? Still wan't to go with that one?

Giving into a temptation we all experience is not good, but outright bullying and using your status to deliberately hurt someone is, perhaps, a little worse.

My cousin teaches at Cranbrook Institute now. Pricey joint. Nice joint. Place is dripping with money.

Cranbrook is in an extremely prestigious Detroit suburban neighborhood: Bloomfield Hills.

Romney (nor his wife) have never suffered or wanted their entire lives.

If Romney doesn't remember this incident then maybe is was because he was the hammer and not the nail. If he has that kind of limited recall, then maybe we don't want this guy as president.

He apologized. What do you want? His blood? Let's see your past. Better be flawless after this.

In the real world, apologizing for assault and battery usually occurs at the sentencing hearing.

I know I don't have any assault and battery in my past. But you don't sound so sure about yours.

tricas mind:

Mine certainly isn't "flawless" - but then, I'm not running for a national high office , either.

How did he apologize... for not remembering what he did? I hope you will be bullied the rest of your life... so you can experienced to be one... !!!

Wait, wait! Boy do I know some stuff about Romney.

I know for a fact, a
fact I tell you, that Mitt Romney, the likely Presidential candidate in
November, actually stuck his chewing gum on the bottom of his desk in the 8th
grade! Gasp!

And, And (breathless) he was seen scratching "Becky &
Me" on a column in the front of his high school with a jack knife!

Romney says he can't recall - that means either:
1) He does recall, but doesn't want to admit it, or
2) He's done that kind of thing so often that he can't tell one bullying instance from another.

Either way, it is a very bad trait for a presidential candidate.

It is really strange that he has held two press conferences on this supposed 'non-issue' today already.

Eventually, he will flip flop and admit it. One of the five witnesses that recounted the story was a good friend that was in the same dorm. One of them is a dentist, another a lawyer, another a former prosecutor, and another a former principle. Sounds like a street gang, allright.

Romneycare is doing the kind of rush damage control that you only see when someone has gotten too close to the truth and a nerve has been struck. We have seen the supposedly 'changed' Romneycare get testy with the media, similar to Sick Rantorum. He hasn't blown a gasket yet, but he will, soon. Then, he will have to go back to one of his many houses in one of his many home states and ride up and down in one of his wife's Cadillacs in the car elevator. Can't wait until he gets sent packing in November.

Goodbye, Romneycare.

Star, why do you bash him? Doesn't that make you just as guilty of bullying as you accuse him of being?

It's not unusual at all that someone wants to set the record straight or make amends.

It is interesting though that you went on and on with such clever insults all the while pretending to be offended because he insulted someone 47 years ago.

How does that hypocrisy taste?

He didn't "insult" someone, he apparently physically assaulted them as he insulted them. There is a pronounced difference. It's mind-boggling how you fail to see this.

tricias-mind - I am 74 years of age and I remember the bullying I received in high school

Not because I was gay but because - my parents were Lithuanian in a mostly Irish Catholic school

Bullying comes in all forms - predudices have all faces - why because you are not like me

What Romney did is disbicable - because he knew he could get away with whatever he did because his father was the Governor and he was protected

Need I say more - a spoiled brat - who knew he could overstep the bounds and he was untouchable

D E Davis

wow...all morning he's been apologizing or can't remember cutting someone's hair while his thugs held the kid down?...must be true.....what do they call it?....damage control....too late Mitt....even all the scouring by Fox , they couldn't come up with dirt on Obama....so they used'assumptions'.....but this is no assumption!

What a ignorant moron you have shown yourself to be. The Washington Post has redacted the original article on Romney. As it turns out he had nothing to apologize for, it did not happen as they reported it.....that should show you what a "real man" will do, he will stand up and do the right thing - I admire Mitt Romney for his courage - and he does not blame the current administration for this. So much the better for his honor.

Find some more lies that you all can use to distract the nation from the REAL issues of importance with. OMG you lefties are so pathetic.

Now gone on about your blind faith zombie way and try not to believe everything you read in a liberal paper that is quick to spread lies that they know morons on the left will believe as God's truth......how totally gullible your idiots really are!

Wow tricia...In your defense, you're not the only one I've seen today trying to downplay what Mitt did. This went well beyond taping a "kick me" sign on someone's back and it is people like you that brush it off with a "boys will be boys" attitude that are just as responsible as the perpetrators. This was a humiliating assault and that is exactly what Romney intended it to be.

My guess would be that Romney had to cut the boy's hair because he couldn't deal with the crush he had on him. By degrading him and making him more masculine, Romney was able to suppress the feelings he was having that were making him uncomfortable. How else can you explain such viciousness?

Romney could have turned this around by simply saying that it was a cruel action that he is ashamed of and that he has learned from his errors to appreciate that all people have worth. He could have then led (you know...like a leader would do) the discussion towards a condemnation of bullying and the very real and serious affects it has on people - the perpetrators and the victims.

No...Instead he insinuates that homosexuality was never thought of...um...until when? The disco years?? that he does not remember the incident (leaving open many more questions than answers) and gives the an insincere "blanket" apology to all that may have been offended by his actions over the years.

The man demonstrates extremely poor judgement when called upon to respond quickly to a situation. He obviously showed poor judgement in his youth and, apparently, has never grown out of it. We demand much more from the leader of the free world. You should to, tricia.

wtfjes66,

You should really do your homework. Only one paragraph of the story was changed and it wasn't even a major change. None of the witnesses that were actually a part of the incident has recanted their story, in fact, only a statement by a guy that wasn't there was changed, and that's because he neglected to tell the Post that he only learned about the incident 2 weeks ago. Here's another Washington Post article that I doubt you read:

Mitt Romney bullying story holds up to scrutiny
By Patrick B. Pexton

The ombudsman is being bombarded by input from readers, via e-mail and phone calls, about the story that Post reporter Jason Horowitzwrote on Mitt Romney’s teenage years at the prestigious Cranbrook School in Michigan.

The story leads with an anecdote about Romney and some of his friends in his dormitory tackling and pinning to the ground an unpopular classmate and forcibly cutting off his bleached-blond, longish hair. The boy, John Lauber, was frightened and in tears, Horowitz explained, and the boy turned out to be gay.

The rest of the deeply reported story provides extensive context to Romney’s years there, what the school was like, where Romney fit in the boys’ hierarchy, and the fact that a lot of people liked the son of Michigan’s then-governor, George Romney.

Conservative Web sites have criticized the piece on several grounds.

The first is that The Post changed the text of one paragraph from the online version published on Thursday to the print version published on Friday without telling readers. It’s a description of how one of Romney’s high school friends, Stu White, felt after hearing about the hair-cutting prank. White was not present at the prank.

This is the original online paragraph:

“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 has long been bothered by the Lauber incident [emphasis added]. “But I was not the brunt on any of his pranks.”

This is the new paragraph as it appeared in print and now appears online:

“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 changed the story after talking to White again and discovering that White only learned of the prank in recent weeks after being told of it by a Cranbrook classmate.

Kevin Merida, national editor of The Post, said on Friday that “We should have updated it with a note.” I agree with Merida. I would have used strike-through text online to make it clear to readers that that part of the online story was changed. I think that’s just the better part of candor. There is now an editor’s note at the very bottom of the story. The Post is not calling it a correction. I think it is a correction, but not germane to the central theme of the story.

This part of Horowitz’s story is tangential at best. It is only about how one person, who was not an eyewitness, felt about the incident.

Four of the five witnesses to the forcible haircut cited by the Post are on the record, by name, and remember it well. Their accounts remain unchallenged. I also think it’s important to point out that Romney quickly apologized after the story was published, and although not a detailed apology, I think his demeanor in the apology seemed genuine.

The other criticisms are that this story was published knowing that President Obama was going to announce his shift in favor of gay marriage. The allegation is that somehow The Post is working with the White House to time the story.

Do I think The Post took advantage of the timing? Yes. Vice President Biden had telegraphed the president’s position on gay marriage just days earlier. This story on Romney was in preparation for three weeks. It is part of a series of biographical stories on Romney being written by Horowitz and others and edited by The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor, David Maraniss, who is known for his best- selling biographies of major U.S. political figures.

If I were an editor I might have sped it up a little, too, to take advantage of the national discussion on gay marriage. Does that mean Post editors are timing stories with the White House? I hope not, and I doubt that is the case.

Merida said they held the printed version for a day because they didn’t want it clashing with the Thursday front page coverage of Obama changing his mind on gay marriage.

“It just happened to coincide with the time when President Obama made his statement. We factored it in and that was the decision not to run it in print on Thursday,” Merida told me.

Merida also said they wanted to give the Romney campaign enough time to respond to the story. Merida said he and Romney officials had had back and forth discussions on the story for a couple of days before it was published.

The Post got its final response from the Romney campaign Wednesday night at around 7 p.m., Merida said, the story was copy-edited that night and published online Thursday morning and in print on Friday.

“We’re a competitive news organization,” Merida said. “In the real-time journalism environment that we operate it in, we felt it was best to publish when we had it ready. You always run the risk that people have heard about it and someone else will publish before you.”

Conservative Web sites also are citing a statement that the Lauber family evidently made to New York Times reporter Ashley Parker about The Post story. Parker reported some of it in her story and tweeted other parts.

“Mr. Lauber’s family said in a statement that they were ‘aggrieved that John would be used to further a political agenda,’ Parker wrote in her story. In a tweet she also wrote that the family said “ ‘The portrayal of John is factually incorrect,’ but they would not elaborate on how it was inaccurate.”

Jason Horowitz talked to all three of John Lauber’s sisters for the story and carefully explained to them what the story was about, Merida said.

The Post has received no specific complaint of inaccuracy from the Lauber family, Merida said. “We stand by the story. It’s a full portrait. It’s the story of Mitt Romney’s years at Cranbrook.”

“Our intention with this story and future stories about both Mitt Romney and President Obama is to give people the fullest possible portrait of the men who are running for president. We will continue to explore their biographies, their decision-making, and their full lives.”

I think it’s worth noting that Maraniss is publishing in June a long biography of Barack Obama. He also wrote a lengthy piece on Obama’s formative years in Hawaii, including his high school years at the prestigious Punahou School.

I think biographical stories on presidential candidates are fair game even if controversial incidents contained in them are far in the past. Of course we all change and mature. But these stories give clues to the character of the flesh-and-blood human beings we pick to lead us. These men and women all are flawed; none is perfect. But I think it’s the media’s job to describe them and report on them as accurately and as in depth as possible. I think the story was interesting, compelling and well documented.

ByPatrick B. Pexton | 05:02 PM ET, 05/11/2012

President Harry Truman in 1948: "The Republicans … will try
to make people believe that
everything the Government has done for the country
is socialism. They will
go to the people and say: "Did you see that social
security check you
received the other day—you thought that was good for you,
didn't you? That's just too bad! That's nothing in the world but socialism. Did
you see that
new flood control dam the Government is building over there for the

protection of your property? Sorry—that's awful socialism! That new hospital

that they are building is socialism. Price supports, more socialism for the

farmers! Minimum wage laws? Socialism for labor! Socialism is bad for you,
my
friend. Everybody knows that. And here you are, with your new car, and
your
home, and better opportunities for the kids, and a television set—you
are just
surrounded by socialism! Now the Republicans say, 'That's a
terrible thing, my
friend, and the only way out of this sinkhole of
socialism is to
vote for the
Republican ticket." And that was 64 Years
Ago!!!, the republicanCrimeCartel is still doing the same exploitation of people
THEY ARE NOTORIUS FOR. Now, according to KingGeorgeTheVacuumBrained, it is
called "free market" capitalism; with families in the streets and 21%
Unemployment.......

Remember Fellow and Sister Americans: A vote for ANY
republicanCrimeCartelSoldier, Rommel, is a vote Against Yours and Your Family's
WellBeing

I am NOT a Ron Paul supporter, I will be a proud part of President Obama's reelection. That being said, there is a slight chance that Mitt Romney will not be walking out of the convention with the nomination. Voter fraud is a serious issue, just ask any Republican/ Teabagger. They've been on a desperate search to find examples of voter fraud. To date, they've not found a single example of a fraudulent vote being cast by anyone anywhere, except one. Who cast that fraudulent vote? Why don't they want to talk about it now? Well, that's because the person that committed voter fraud is none other than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Willard Romney.

In January 2010, Mitt Romney cast a vote in the historical election to replace the late Ted Kennedy. Mitt was proud to cast his vote for Scott Brown. What's the problem with that? Well, in 2010, Mr. Romney did not live in Massachusetts, did not own property in Massachusetts and lied on the voter registration form, putting an address located in his son's unfinished basement as his place of residence. Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter registration purposes as "where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life." Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years behind bars and a fine of $10,000.

So Mitt may actually be disqualified as a presidential candidate, especially if Massachusetts decides to prosecute.

Christy? Got any evidence? Just curious. Or do you always react like this when you read an accusation about one of the presidential candidates?

Pretty quick to start the tongue lashing for someone who claims to be offended by bullying....

So when rookie football players have their hair cut off by the "old guys" as an initiation that would be considered assault? Then everyone in the NFL should be arrested.

When I was initiated into Key Club. We were pelted with eggs, covered with shaving cream, made to hold hands and skip through the McDonald's parking lot chanting, "I love Key Club" and driven through a vehicle wash (in the bed of a pick-up) at local paper mill. The same thing happened to the guys before us and after us. No one considered this assault, of course, we were among the most respected students in the school and no one thought less of us because this happened. This occurred in the mid 70's.

I think a high school incident 40 plus years ago is not something to judge someone by in 2012. Especially when the standards of what is acceptable behavior have changed.

There were people who were the school troublemakers that I would not have socialized with in the 70's. When I saw them after graduation they changed, they were friendly, got respectable jobs (one was even a police officer by our five year reunion planning meeting and he had threatened to beat up a kid three years younger than us for stealing his girlfriend.Note: Steve did not bully people he just sometimes got in trouble) and become good citizens.

Wait, wait! Boy do I know some stuff about Romney.

I know for a fact, a
fact I tell you, that Mitt Romney, the likely Presidential candidate in
November, actually stuck his chewing gum on the bottom of his desk in the 8th
grade! Gasp!

And, And (breathless) he was seen scratching "Becky &
Me" on a column in the front of his high school with a jack knife!

joe

And your point is that you are defending a bully like you or your point is bullying doesn't matter Which is it?

Or maybe no child - teenager takes their own life because of bullying

Are you aware this kid with the out of order blonde hair was expelled because of a cigarette - and Willard son of a governor was given a pass for assaulting an underclassman

Big question - are you OK with that?

Neither of them had a job? That is sad. Both he and Mrs. Romneycare deserve the dignity of work!

Michelle Obama, "I can now say I love America". I can write quotes and stories too. You keep sipping the kool-aid. Your government checks will be stopping after November....

"Pond scum elitest" says the guy who's shattered that someone got insulted 47 years ago.

Wow, you guys don't even THINK before you post , do you?

You can't go after someone in a hateful tone if you're trying to make a point that bullying is wrong LOL!!!

"Pond scum elitest" says the guy who's shattered that someone got insulted 47 years ago.

Insulted, that's what you call it? I call it criminal assault. Romney is a flip flopping pond scum elitist with not one shred of empathy or character. You can't change that fact.

ROTFL at how the cons make such complete fools out of themselves.

Perhaps all you cons defending the indefensible despicable behavior of your nominee should read the article. He moved on to bullying his entire life just in different ways.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html

And Willard's "if I offended anyone non-apology" doesn't mean anything because the guy is dead.

I hate to tell this but legally a corporation is considered the same as a person. Our business law professor taught us this. By taking on the liability for those who incorporate the corporation basically becomes a person in the eyes of the law. Ford Motor Company was even convicted of manslaughter in a criminal case involving the Pinto fires. The corporate charter was not thrown into a jail cell; however, the company was fined.

OMG...how totally vain and empty-headed this man is. I can only imagine what will happen to our country if he is elected. It would be a very sad day for this country, indeed.

Don't forget Romney committed voter fraud by voting with an address from his son's basement

I guess for Romney laws don't pertain to him - why? Hey guys see his take in his white pants and saying Republicans live with pools and democrats want to take them away from you

Romney - you are a tool for the Mormon Church - Wall Street - Corporate Raiders and Sir you sold your soul a long time ago - Chuckle on that - He He He!

Simple, maybe it didn't happen. There are all kinds of stories in the news to date where people are being accused of things they haven't done.

I'm fairly certain you can't and won't name for us every circumstance when you made a bad decision.

Can you?

Um, tricia, it did happen. This reporting is accurate and many people came forward and told the truth. perhaps you should read the entire article prior to commenting. It's here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html

And yes, most people would remember involvement in an incident like this, both the victim and the lead perpetrator.

Your defending Willard's indefensible behavior and making a fool out of yourself.

The word is "you're". And I can accuse you of anything and get a few people to jump on the bandwagon with me. So don't even try to pull this "it's on the Washington Post so it must be true" line with me. Many other people have said the story is bogus.

You're choosing to believe it. And that's your right. But my response was to Forrest Gump who claims to remember every unkind thing he's ever said or done to every individual during his lifetime. I call bull.

My response isn't because I'm making a political stance for one candidate over the other.

My stance is that none of you here know what happened for sure so to fire up your emotions and act like you were there at the time is ridiculous.

It is likewise ridiculous that people are reacting to this story by namecalling and more accusation. THAT is what bullying is. It makes no sense to do that if you truly despise bullying.

It's Grump not Gump, and I did not say I remembered every unkind thing I ever said or done, if I had a memory that good I would be playing blackjack for a living. I said I remembered the violent fights that I was involved in, I told you a thousand million times don't exaggerate tricia.

tricia: I have read what you have posted. That you are supporting a person like Mitt Romney who attacked a younger student, and brought in his thug friends to help him, who held that kid down and CUT HIS HAIR is so without merit, that I must suggest that you are the exact person that Romney is.

That anyone could be that divorced from the terror, the pain and humiliation suffered by the victim says much more about YOU than you realize.

Quit being an apologist for a bully, and SHAME ON YOU for suggesting that anyone is wrong but Mitt.

So ....Tricias - do YOU KNOW what happened?

Just wondering, because you sound like you were there.....

Um Babima, while you are getting all righteous on Tricia's case about this incident and the "facts"... you can't say the "victim" was involved in this article. He passed away from cancer eight years ago.

Fedup...

Nice try. Journalists are going to find stories, that's what journalists do. Anyway, if Romney had answered it directly instead of looking like a lying toad (what a surprise!) it would have been a one-day story. I mean, in the last campaign, Obama had to deal with birth certificate questions, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers. And you know what? He answered them emphatically. Speech on race, long-form birth certificate. Don't blame the media for the fact you are backing a candidate who can't help but present himself as lying, shady, pandering opportunist. That's on Romney.

There is plenty of time for debates over the economy and Obama's record. No one is going to forget about it. Anyway, it is not as though this was originated by Obama's campaign.

Another thing, I would not be sure about Obama not being reelected. Mitt has a number of issues to convince people on, including his tax returns, Bain years and his time as Governor of MA. There is a long way to go.

Excuse m, fedup! Wasn't it just a few weeks that you guys were making a huge deal out of Obama being fed dog as a child (6-10 years old). Give me a friggin break. I don't know how things were in your household but I was growing and when I was raising my children, they ate what I put in front of them. In this case, Romney was old enough to know better and chose to bully others. It speaks to his character.

Speaking about his time as a Governor - why did his staff spend $65,000 to remove the hard drives from their computers? Could it be a violation of Federal Law by campaigning for his presidency while working for the state of Mass?

This stinks to high heaven - same as Walker's tribe in Wisconsin are being accused of

Hey one of you guys - you know you could make millions with the tabloids by turning over one of these hard drives

Why not Willard would do it!

Doesn't he say money is all that counts?

I'm afraid the misery will not end with the election my dear.

Maybe he needs a clean pair of Miracle Underwear for the remembering to happen...

Exactly, Susan. "IF" the great qualifier. If you were offended, it was your fault, why I never meant any harm. I'm just a good fellow.

Susan, if you are being accused of something and don't recall doing it are you really going to apologize to the world press? Somehow I doubt it. Although we'll watch you on the blogs in the future and see just how 'loving' you are. Because IF you lose it, it's egg on your face. :)

Leroy, I'm quite sure 47 years later there are plenty of people who could remember things you said that hurt them...and you won't have a clue that you did it.

Like him as a candidate or not, people need to put the stones away on this one. There's not even proof this story is factual.

I certainy have "said things" that hurt people, Tricia, especially in my teens. I remember most of these things that I said and probably have forgot a few of them. I have not, however, EVER led a group of classmates in a despicable assault on a kid, or cut another kid's hair while he cried and screamed. These things, I would definitely remember because they bother me; I care about others. I can only recall two or three guys like Romney in school. It takes a particularly unempathetic, callous, and cruel person to do this and anyone who could do this and forget about it has no compassion at all.

Leroy, you really don't even know that Romney lead anyone. You know as well as I do that the press gets a hold of a story like this and adds piece after piece of dirt until all sorts of people come out of the woodwork claiming to remember 'exactly' what happened.

I would hope as a society we're smarter than this. We read a story and immediately determine that someone is guilty, in spite of this being just a few months before elections? We all know what happens during elections.

Right?

Wrong. I would suggest you do some soul searching as to why you minimize the result of bullying.

Geez, Tricia five people who were there when it happened said Romney was the one that held the scissors and repeatedly clipped the kids hair. You keep trying to defend Romney he knew better he was old enough to know better, if it was no big deal why did they have to tackle the kid and hold him down. You know if you have to have a group of people hold somebody down who is crying and screaming for help, while you cut at their hair it is not a prank. If you have daughters I'll bet you hope to hell nobody ever "pranks" them. Too bad somebody did not pull a little "prank" on Romney and kick his spoiled brat ass. I guess republicans will leave that task to Obama.

Right you are, Forrest!

Romney doesn't remember but Obama does.

I like that Obama put in his book that he bullied girls in collage, at least he remembers, but that was less than 30 years ago and he did it frequently, so the more you have done things the easier it is to remember. What I didn't like was his excuse that he did it because he was high, but can't remember if he was high on pot or cocain. So we have a president with long term memory loss from drug ediction.

One of my best friends from childhood has told me that I was involved with a crowd bullying incident with her as the victim. This would have been very unusual because I normally stood with her and was bullied along with her, and I have no memory of the incident-however, she has no reason to lie to me about it. Therefore, I believe her even though I don't remember the incident at all. I suspect that the trauma of the incident along with my remorse caused me to block the whole thing out. I'm not saying at all that this would have been the case with Mitt Romney, especially if he was the leader of the group; and I'm certainly not defending him if he is in fact guilty of bullying-I'm just illustrating that it is possible not to remember an incident of bullying someone else without it being because you did it all the time or because you didn't care about the person being bullied.

Romney doesn't remember but Obama does.

I like that Obama put in his book that he bullied girls in collage, at least he remembers, but that was less than 30 years ago and he did it frequently, so the more you have done things the easier it is to remember. What I didn't like was his excuse that he did it because he was high, but can't remember if he was high on pot or cocain. So we have a president with long term memory loss from drug ediction.

The problem is they have nothing. i wasn't going to vote for Romney, but I am now. If this is all the Obama dirt machine could dig up after a year of looking, this is the cleanest guy around.

As for Obama at least I give him credit for writing in his own book that he bullied girls in college. The best part is when his excuse was he was high. But he couldn't remember if it was pot or cocain he was high on, and that was less than 30 years ago.

Mark - sorry you lie, you where never going to vote fo Obama - you see I read posts and I say to you sir you lie

And actually if you really read the book it was in middle school and not in college - again caught in a lie but nice try

Actually Barbara why don't you go REREAD THE BOOK because it was when Obama was in college, highschool, and middle school.

How about his membership in his HIGH SCHOOL yearbook refering to him as a member of the Choom Gang? Go read the stuff that's in the man's OWN BOOK! Go read public records. Then make comments...

kama - the topic was about Willard and not Obama - and teasing is not bullying - all boys tease girls and all girls tease boys

I have not read one incident where Obama gathered a group to take down a girl and cut her hair - have you?

Oh those laughable libs. They praise Obama for "evolving" his views on gays over a matter of years; but Romney is painted negatively for something he may have done in grade school. Pathetic.

What matters is not what Romney did almost 50 years ago. What matters is what he does today. And, today, he denies any recollection of the event. That's a character flaw.

wayfarer - Grade School is 1 to 8 - which is 5 years to thirteen years - high school is generally 13,14 years to 18 years I believe today the voting age is 18 - did we make a mistake and consider these people adults?

If we didn't then Willard was considered an adult and if so in today's world he would have been charged with ASSAULT possibly with a deadly weapon a sharp scissors

Comprende?

Actually he wouldn't have gotten in any trouble at all because boys will be boys. Which is something they understood back then, now they arrest you for bringing nail clippers to school FOR BRINGING A DEADLY WEAPON!

But it's all a moot point, if we can use things that happened 5 decades ago to describe a person regardless of what they've done SINCE then then i think Obama's continual and regular drug usage when he was in his twenties is totally open for debate. I mean seriously Obama's drug use was more recent and done when he was older, so why shouldn't we call Obama a druggy?

I mean if one past action can define a person why can't we point out Obama's own book mentions he did lots of drugs often?

No Kama - one past action does not define a person - but a history of actions - like I don't care about the poor

However - why was this poor soul expelled from school for smoking a cigarette and Willard was not at least chastised - pure and simple Daddy-eo was the Governor and whatever Willard did he knew he could get away with it

Walking a blind professor into a door - harassing another fellow student by saying "you go girl"

And his lame excuse about not knowing about homosexuals - the government was running ads about young men beware of the "sicko's" out there

Willard knew full well about students that did not conform to his standards of behaviour

Might I add - the Mormon Church also was doing their preaching - so your excuse doesn't hold water

The words were around but people were generally chastised for being nerds long before they were accused of being gay.

So, tricia...What is your point? Being humiliated for being different is OK and that Mitt behaved in a very normal, red-blooded American kind of way?

Shame on you. I truly hope you are not a heartless as defending someone like Mitt is making you sound.

can't deal with the issue at hand MesaMax....only way you teapublicans communicate is through "deflection"!

What exactly does Obama have to do with Mitt being a homophobic bully?

well them stay on topic

Romney doesn't remember but Obama does.

I like that Obama put in his book that he bullied girls in collage, at least he remembers, but that was less than 30 years ago and he did it frequently, so the more you have done things the easier it is to remember. What I didn't like was his excuse that he did it because he was high, but can't remember if he was high on pot or cocaine. So we have a president with long term memory loss from drug addiction.

Nice work, Humm. You just posted quite a rant there. Insult after insult from someone (yourself) who is pretending to hate bullying.

Quite the rant from someone who has no evidence that this news story is even true...

It wasn't the claim that struck me -- it was the moral vacuum of the response. "IF I did something bad..." If it didn't happen, say so. If it did, own it and move on. That I can respect, even if our politics differ. But the casual use of a throwaway blanket apology by a man who claims to represent the high moral ground shows a lack of interest in the consequences of his actions that I just can't get around.

AC