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By Jason Horowitz, Updated: Thursday, May 10, 7:02 AM
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasnt having it.
He cant look like that. Thats wrong. Just look at him! an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemanns recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Laubers look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the schools collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Laubers hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another. Four of them Friedemann, now a dentist; Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer; Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor; and David Seed, a retired principal spoke on the record. Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named. The men have differing political affiliations, although they mostly lean Democratic. Buford volunteered for Barack Obamas campaign in 2008. Seed, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan. All of them said that politics in no way colored their recollections.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html?hpid=z2
America has a clear f#%king choice this year!
Edit to add - This article reminds me of Republicans mocking Pres. Obama for saying he thought empathy was an important trait for a Supreme Court Justice to have. Clearly, a very unimportant - actually a negative trait - to Republicans.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)spanone
(135,921 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)This would be a Hate Crime in today's books.
lamp_shade
(14,850 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)PatSeg
(47,711 posts)people say if you met him in person and off camera, he is SUCH a nice guy!
I find it interesting that his campaign isn't denying the story, they're just saying that Mitt can't "remember" it. That sounds like a confirmation to me.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)poor guy so he couldn't talk about it. Too bad the other guys have fresh memories. This is going to do him in, I'd bet on it.
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)is apologizing for any "pranks" he may have committed when he was young and that he's quite sure he didn't think the guy was homosexual.
And Seamus LOVED riding on top of the car!!!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)plead 'youthful indiscretions' up to the age of 40 or so?
Members of the 'entitlement class'. ( Yes, they are a class!)
PatSeg
(47,711 posts)and the Bush family was much better at sweeping his youth under the rug than the Romneys. I was always amazed at how little we knew about young George, as if NO ONE remembered him.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)PatSeg
(47,711 posts)Whatever they did, its obvious many people were very afraid of the family.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)PatSeg
(47,711 posts)He even remembers things that didn't happen.
Some people call it LYING!
icarusxat
(403 posts)NOT a nice guy. I was on stage playing guitar, when he and C Amiguchi popped in for a photo op.(right after the SL Olympics) As he strutted up to me to give me a hand shake, he noticed I had a ponytail. His look went from "hi howareya" to total disdain. He crumpled his hand and walked away. It took me a few moments to realize what had happened. He came bopping on up like a rock star, took over my stage, ignored me, and dissed me. Jerk would be an insult to other jerks who are not even in the same league as this clown.
Zookeeper
(6,536 posts)He seems to be a rigid control freak, in addition to being a stupid upperclass twit.
That's pretty much what I would have thought. These surrogates who keep saying what a "nice guy" he really is look like they are choking on their words. So far I haven't seen anyone on television who really likes the guy besides his family.
Damn, you're lucky he didn't have a pair of scissors with him at the time. You just know he was itching to cut off that pony tail.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Mitt is a mean dude.
dwig3d
(22 posts)believing that this spineless mealy-mouthed wimp, who can't stand up to Rush, Ted or some rapid tea-bagger, could ever be a bully. What that say about his prep school?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I look forward to concomitant coverage of this episode from Mr. Romney's past, when he was a little older than 10.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)Goddamn liberal media bias
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)How did Mitt turn out to be such a creep? I actually respected his parents back in the day.
ashling
(25,771 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Rmoney keeps sinking. And people remember him from high school! Right winger have asserted no one "remembers Obama from high school, college or law school." Maybe they should have wished that for Rmoney.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)a "wayward teen" who drank beer, he was just a fucking asshole who bullied other students?
Anyone wonder why he grew up to become a job destroyer, preying on people?
This should be all over the MSM.
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)sadly for Romney's fans this probably makes him more of a regular guy
Tikki
(14,560 posts)anyway, it's a woman's job to shear the strength out of a man.
Tikki
adigal
(7,581 posts)I knew he was a bully from how he treated Seamus. You can discern what type of person one is by the way they treat the powerless among us. I am comfortable saying that Romney is a borderline sociopath, or at the least a really mean person and a bully.
lamp_shade
(14,850 posts)Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Romney is an arrogant, sadistic bully. His compulsion for conformity is pathological.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/us-iraq-emo-killings-idUSBRE8290CY20120310
At least 14 youths have been stoned to death in Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a campaign by Shi'ite militants against youths wearing Western-style "emo" clothes and haircuts, security and hospital sources say.
hatrack
(59,600 posts). . . a conformist asshole and a bully now.
bupkus
(1,981 posts)I wonder if he'll have the gall to say he's "evolved" or will he simply pull out his Etch-a-Sketch again?
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Cranbrook was infested with the sons of PRIVILEGE. I know. This is MY neighborhood ... was then and is now. I CADDIED for these elitist scum back "in the day."
FailureToCommunicate
(14,029 posts)"Resistance is futile"
The kind of kid in school most of us couldn't stand.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Resistance is futile.
enough
(13,268 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)The more I find out about Mitt Romney the more I grow to dislike him.
and young asshole bullies usually don't change,they just turn into older mean,asshole bullies.
if this happened today it would be considered a hate crime.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,029 posts)Or is that being redundant?
longship
(40,416 posts)It kinda works multiple ways, eh?
newspeak
(4,847 posts)better. After all, we must all be alike, think alike, no diversity allowed. If we are all alike, think alike, believe alike then there will be no wars. So, those who are different must be forced to assimilate or bye-bye.
So, a privileged bully boy, no surprise.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)but I would imagine if he were in a position where he had to defend himself, he would fold like a card table.
Renew Deal
(81,895 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)sociopath before they enter the voting booths in November.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)actually it isn't.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)But Friedemann and several people closest to Romney in those formative years say there was a sharp edge to him. In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, Atta girl! In the culture of that time and place, that was not entirely out of the norm. Hummel recalled some teachers using similar language.
Saul, Romneys campaign spokeswoman, said the candidate has no recollection of the incident.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Romney is not only racist, homophobic, elitist, is also a mysoginist as well. He called the boy a "atta girl" like it was a bad thing, meant to be a degrading insult. Very, very revealing.
DLevine
(1,788 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,398 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)...and would like to forget. However, assaulting someone and altering their appearance by force definitely isn't one of them.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)for going on Fox and lying to Sean Hannity, "This never happened"?
Lauber now has the most lucrative blackmail hold ever on somebody with limitless resources.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Mother Of Four
(1,716 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)-just look at cookie-gate.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Mitt Romney is simply an asshole, no two ways about it, everything that comes out about the man screams ASSHOLE.
malthaussen
(17,230 posts)I don't think it makes Mr Romney any less worthy of rule. Since that would be a mathematical impossibility.
Look, anyone fool enough to vote for Romney isn't going to be deterred by a little lynch mob in his past. And if any gay person were fool enough to vote for Romney... then I doubt this story would deter him.
-- Mal
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)expelled from my high school in the late 1950s. I lived in an extremely conservative area of the country.
Students were unkind. They often were cliquish, snobbish and quietly mean. But physical aggression would not have been tolerated.
I also think that the social consciousness of conservatives has deteriorated to the point that many Republicans will think that Romney's behavior was great. They will support him because of it.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)makes him more like "one of us" in their eyes.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)DocMac
(1,628 posts)Zookeeper
(6,536 posts)Ranging from "It happened 50 years ago" to "What about Obama? He went to school in an Islamic Madrassa, said in his book that he did lots of drugs, sold drugs, shoved a little girl, ate dog...blah..blah..Bill Ayers...Rev. Wright...blah..blah..destroying America..."
Apparently, there's nothing Romney could do that would outweigh their hatred of our President.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)The most important thing IMO is to be consistent in whether or not you are willing to overlook something in a person's past just because it happened when he or she was very young.
I do not forgive Mitt Romney for his assault and bullying.
Zookeeper
(6,536 posts)the posters saying, "50 years ago," extend the excuse to Obama eating dog meat served to him as a child.
There was nothing logical in their arguments, but plenty of rehashed vitriol.
Based on what we've learned about Mitten's character over the last few months, nothing he could say would end my dislike of him. However, if he had said, "I made a horrible mistake and I apologize to everyone involved. I have grown to understand the pain bullying causes to LGBT youth and others, and call for increased awareness and education about bullying," he would have at least looked like he has a clue.
tanyev
(42,663 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)What an asshole.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)catbyte
(34,517 posts)eShirl
(18,507 posts)karynnj
(59,508 posts)But, I assume that the voters who thought they would rather have a beer with a bully who branded pledges in college rather than a genuinely kind person who risked his life to save another - and to add insult to injury described the bully as more "likable" than both Gore and Kerry.
classof56
(5,376 posts)Dubya was beyond reprehensible (IMHO) his entire life, including the eight years we had to endure his presidency. It was painful, listening to all those who sang his praises no matter what. I once opined he could have been videoed having sex with a pig and his supporters would have said it was just part of his Farm Animal Enhancement Program. Rmoney will be accorded similar slack, I'm pretty sure, by those who need him in office. I'm still sick about what was done to Kerry. I shudder to think what will be our national destiny if President Obama suffers the same fate.
Obama/Biden 2012!
highplainsdem
(49,091 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)bonniebgood
(943 posts)all have a price. If we believe anything in the bible, it's so true. "its easier for a camel to get.... you know the rest. Its attitude my friend. Attitude is Everything. I feel your attitude is connected to your soul.
cali
(114,904 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)can't make heads or tails out of it.
valerief
(53,235 posts)catbyte
(34,517 posts)Unfuckingbelievable. Well, he must have just gained 5 points with the bagger base.
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)It might make an interesting ad for some PAC, too.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)to run for office of goppers. Mean spirited is the gopper evangelists way!
The insane party of no will probably give him a medal.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,210 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)ejbr
(5,857 posts)Botany
(70,635 posts)Get a hold of Mitt Romney and tie him down and tattoo Job Killer across his back?
I hope the student that Mitt did this to comes out now and confronts Mitt about what
he did all those years ago. I hope he does it in public with the cameras running so
Mitt can feel the terror that must have gone through his mind all those years ago.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)for when the pukes start using wedge issues such as Obama, Biden and Secretary Duncan's support for marriage equality.
When I heard about the Seamus story I just about cried. I would never, ever, under any circumstances place one of my dogs in a kennel and strap it to the top of my car.
But that incident gave me a strong feeling this guy is just mean. This story about his high school bullying antics just confirms this.
Yes, there is a clear choice here - someone with personal integrity and a spoiled, mean, animal-hating, women-hating, gay-hating-and-bashing rich bigot.
polly7
(20,582 posts)"One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, nicknamed the Bat for his diminished eyesight, was known to walk into the trophy case and apologize, step into wastepaper baskets and stare blindly as students slipped out the back of the room to smoke by the open windows......."
"As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of lifes indignities."
What kind of arrogance and sense of entitlement does it to do that to a 'teacher'?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,367 posts)... he responds to this.
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)will make Romney even more attractive to teabaggers. The only improvement that could be made is that John Lauber had dark skin.
Not to condone Romney, but this sort of stuff was standard fare in 1965. We've come some distance since then, thank goodness.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)Mittens or his friend, who BBQ a dog, or ted and his BS and bad hunting.
Which shall it be?
Marzupialis
(398 posts)As opposed to disliking his hair color. Which is an act of bullying for which he should be ashamed of. But like i said, it's unclear whether Romney did this because he thought the kid was gay.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)thinking - I like this guy, I really do - he is a no good bully just like me.
Chakaconcarne
(2,478 posts)Something in the back of my mind is telling me perhaps it may have been known by the administration this story was on it's way out before making yesterdays announcement? Think about it.
zzaapp
(531 posts)eShirl
(18,507 posts)boxman15
(1,033 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)cowards usually are.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)and it make me want to cry
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)C'mon. Would the great Mitt Romney be thrown in with the common rabble at a high school?
Seriously, maybe Romney would be different if his parents had not sent him away as a child. Kids need parents. People who are jealous of the multi-generation wealthy have no idea how miserable and intimacy-starved many of them are.
groundloop
(11,530 posts)From the linked article:
Anyone who knows Mitt Romney knows that he doesnt have a mean-spirited bone in his body, Andrea Saul said in a statement. The stories of fifty years ago seem exaggerated and off base and Governor Romney has no memory of participating in these incidents.
Doesn't remember it my ass.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Botany
(70,635 posts)Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that, Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.
snip
I dont remember that incident, Romney said, laughing. I certainly dont believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s, so that was not the case.
Asked specifically about having interrupting a closeted gay student in English class, Gary Hummel, by shouting, Atta girl! Romney said, I really cant remember that.
As this person indicated, he was closeted, Romney said. I had no idea that he was gay and cant speak to that even today. But as to the teasing or the taunts that go on in high school, thats a long time ago. For me, thats about 48 years ago. Again, if theres anything I said that is offensive to someone, I certainly am sorry for that, very deeply sorry for that.
*************
What a freaking weasel .... and I am sorry if I offended any weasels
One time is an accident two times is really bad luck but time after time of doing mean things
to other people is a pattern. Be it as a bully to gay kids in high school, having a sight impaired
teacher walk into a door, or laying off thousands of people so he and his friends can make money
Mitt has a pattern of being mean.
Aviation Pro
(12,224 posts)But they're not, you fucking mouthpiece, they're not.
Go fuck yourself you fucking ditch liquor drinking fuckwit.
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)surprised not very muchj
Kablooie
(18,645 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,224 posts)...is a fucking bully; a fucking motherfucker; and a fucking rolling shitstain asshole asshat assclown poser.
Just like Two Shoes, Shooter, and the Wasilla Fuckwit this wad of fuck should not come within sniffing distance of the White House.
$500 goes to the President's campaign today.
Go fuck yourself and the fucking dressage horse you rode in on, phlegm.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)DocMac
(1,628 posts)TBF
(32,118 posts)I would be more surprised if he hadn't been abusive to humans in one way or another through the years.
Great article from PETA about this topic -
Violent acts toward animals have long been recognized as indicators of a dangerous psychopathy that does not confine itself to animal abuse. "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives," wrote humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer. And according to Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the FBI, "Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids."
Animal abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuserit is a symptom of a deep mental disturbance...
Much more here: http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animals/human-animal-abuse.aspx
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)LetTimmySmoke
(1,202 posts)The problem is how the incident plays right into all the negative perceptions about Romney. When I read the WP article, my first thought was "Yep, that's Romney to a tee."
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I certainly have my share of high school regrets, and I suppose on some occasions I acted in a pack of guys and what we were doing was, point blank, bullying. I know that now, and if I;m honest, knew it then.
But at this level? Holding a person down (because he or she was gay) and actually cutting his hair. No way. That's a pretty extreme form of even run of the mill aggressive male bullying behavior.
The problem is indeed the incident itself, not because it "plays right into negative perceptions," but because it is symptomatic of a deeply flawed character. Remember that he was the governor's son at the time: he ruled the roost and brutalized those around him. It's quite shocking behavior in itself, actually.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Disgusting how SADISTIC (def.: taking pleasure in others' pain), conscienceless, empathy-challenged, pathologically lying humanoids are able to fool people and get rewards they don't deserve.
If only they had tentacles!! Then maybe the Great Moralizers would be able to fucking recognize them......
thesquanderer
(11,998 posts)These youthful incidents do tell you about the character of the person.
At least some (all?) of the other people involved in the incident owned up to feeling remorse as an adult, it ended up being somewhat traumatic for these people to even be a part of it. But Romney--the one who instigated it--can't even remember doing it.
Some on our side my be socialist, but over there, some of 'em are sociopaths.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)as in Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, the WWF wrestler known for "the struttin' and the cuttin'" -- as well as for his presumed homosexuality.
Initech
(100,129 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)alp227
(32,073 posts)Mitch the CON MAN, Paul VAMPIRE-MAN, etc.?
AnnieK401
(541 posts)I have already seen signs of the stress of the election getting ot Romney. I am betting he's going to have a meltdown before Nov. that will cost him the election.
Spazito
(50,565 posts)for anyone but himself. I am not at all surprised he did the things he did in his elite school, appalled and disgusted but not surprised.
The cruel 'jokes' he has made during this campaign has shown the man has NO interest in others unless they can help him get what he wants, what he feels is his right ie the Presidency.
What a despicable, ugly person he was, is and always will be.
young_at_heart
(3,774 posts)W has had a lifetime of bullying and loved to brag about his bullying abilities.
daaron
(763 posts)What's next? That's what I want to know.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)This is deplorable behavior, but sometimes young people do bad things they eventually come to regret and learn from later in life. But Romney can't summon the courage to admit his bad behavior and condemn it within himself and describe how he's changed (if he has). How can he claim he doesn't recall such a dramatic incident that remains so vivid in the minds of his fellow students? The further problem for him is that even if he says he can't recall the event, his lack of recollection, if true, is a sign that he didn't think (and still doesn't think) there was anything wrong with this kind of behavior. It's a reflection on his character.
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)What a jerk
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,356 posts)directed by Lindsay Anderson. Told the story of the harshness of English boarding school and how necessary it was to conform. However, the ending was something else again.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)along comes this article...
The man is un-electable.
polichick
(37,152 posts)...although Republicans will probably like him more.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)Last edited Thu May 10, 2012, 07:42 PM - Edit history (3)
The Choice IS Very Clear!
Guiding Principles
"President Obama recognizes that our civil rights laws and principles are at the core of our nation. He has spent much of his career fighting to strengthen civil rights as a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, Illinois State Senator, U.S. Senator, and now as President. He knows that our country grows stronger when all Americans have access to opportunity and are able to participate fully in our economy."
"IT GETS BETTER"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil-rights
No Integrity!
Check this out:
"How the Left Sunk the Swiftboating of Barack Obama"
"Alan Colmes radio show" "thanks to Alan Colmes for sticking it to this guy.
But will the people who need to hear this hear (or read) it? Or will people be buffaloed by this character as they were by the original Swift Boaters in 2004?
How do we get this article and the Colmes interview out to the people who need to hear it?"
http://www.politicususa.com/abandon-ship-how-the-left-sunk-the-swiftboating-of-barack-obama.html
Video at link..
TLM
(6,761 posts)He is the sadistic arrogant aristocrat bully. Religious fervor mixed with the inner belief of an almost royal birthright to rule over those he views as his inferiors. If you fail to conform, youll be made to conform. If you are too weak to fight back, you will be exploited and discarded. The unwashed rabble exist only for the enrichment of the elite.
In Romneys mind a long haired hippy queer was no more or less human than the dog he strapped to the roof of his car, and no more or less deserving of compassion or consideration. If you are not one of his class, you are nothing but an inconvenience you are not human. This core value is reflected when guys like Romney compare gay marriage to a man on dog marriage they do not view homosexuals as human beings.
This same outlook extends to anybody who is not in their class youre poor, youre gay, youre liberal, youre brown . To Romney, youre not human. Or at least you are some lesser form of human that doesnt warrant the same level of consideration as real people, like him and his wealthy friends.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)Where is Lauber now? Doing very well I hope!
This incident describes ASSAULT. Has the statute of limitations expired? Prosecute!
I lost a wonderful high school friend to this kind of HATE/Insanity. Keyboard cannot express my outrage
He needs to be strapped to a car roof and take a long drive off a short pier.
TLM
(6,761 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)can't get out, dragging the contents of someone's room out into the quad, or putting a horse in the dean's office. Assault is not a "prank." I didn't think anything could make me hold Mittens in lower regard. I was wrong.
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)Exactly. This is the description of a Hate Crime. Those laws may not have been on the books in those days.
I HATE bullies! They don't like me either because I will kick their ass if they think they're messing with me or mine.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Why this horrible individual shouldn't be within spitting distance of the White House. Stay tuned, I'm sure next week we will see yet another reason. Of course, that's what I said last week, too, when he did something equally horrible.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Who can justify this behavior? Will someone else end up as nominee?
patrice
(47,992 posts)usregimechange
(18,373 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)I know we all do stupid things as young students but this is not a prank - this the work of a sadist. Seamus knows too.
Brooklyn Dame
(169 posts)A bully who torments animals and people he considers weak.
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/04/bullying-not-just-a-lesson-for-kids/
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)They proudly developed swift boat and used it to destroy hero Kerry, they do not have any shame. Now they have lived by the sword they might just die by the sword. They lie and when the story turns on them they start whining.
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mahina
(17,734 posts)but in terms of academics, it is nothing special at all.
Much like some! (Willard and Dullard come to mind first.)
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)This guy need to go down
Tripod
(854 posts)spicegal
(758 posts)It's mean spirited bullying and shows a lack of empathy, regardless of the young man's sexual orientation. I find it remarkable that Romney would have no recollection. Sounds like he was "leader of the pack".
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)But then, so aren't most republicans?
banana convention.
(7 posts)(Hey, I coined that just now, I think, so give credit where it's due!)
Puleeze, stand in line, gay people. Next to the geeks, next to the chubbettes, next to the kids like me with upside down Nikes (some off-brand bought overseas in 1981). There are a million reasons people get bullied.