Mitt Romney’s campaign calls gay teen bullying report ‘exaggerated’

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meltzerboy said:
Was this an isolated incident on Romney’s part, or is there evidence of a pattern of behavior in which he often bullied students he perceived to be homosexual, or for any other reason?
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Now that the sources are denying they were sources for this story the single event is being questioned - let alone setting a pattern.
 
Et_Cetera said:
He was served it as child in a region where it was accepted. Bullying someone at age seventeen or eighteen is completely different. And five people are corroborating the story. Whatever. I have to go and meet some friends. I’m not going to argue this any longer right now. I’m too disheartened.
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No, the story quotes 5 people - one of whom says it never happened.
 
Et_Cetera said:
I do assume homophobic intent. You’re right about that. I’m entitled to that. Just as you’re entitled to believe that there wasn’t homophobic intent. But we do still have bullying behavior.
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You are entitled to it, but that doesn’t make it not unChristian. As to the bullying, we really don’t know the relationship between the people in question, whether it was in fact fraternal or otherwise.
Et_Cetera said:
Well, just because you were okay with that doesn’t mean that others should have to be. Was it malicious or were these your buddies?
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They were upperclassmen. They didn’t really hang out with me unless it was to haze me, but at the same time, if I asked for a ride home or something, they gave me one.
 
Et_Cetera said:
He was served it as child in a region where it was accepted. Bullying someone at age seventeen or eighteen is completely different.
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Really? What if “**ullying someone at age seventeen or eighteen” is acceptable in a region, or at a certain time? When I was in the south (SC and GA), bullying was far more common then when I had moved to WA. Apparently, the south was “a region where it [bullying] was accepted.”

What does the region have to do with it?**
 
Havard said:
You are entitled to it, but that doesn’t make it not unChristian.
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I thought the same thing. It seems some are assuming the worst in a person without actually knowing the persons heart. What’s that whole adage that people love to quote? “Judge not…” or something like that. :rolleyes:
 
SamH said:
Have the four remaining people been verified? If they made up one why wouldn’t they make up five?
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so far the other sources have held up to muster, we will have to wait for time to tell. It is damning that Mitt does not deny that it happened, merely that he doesn’t remember it. Then he says he remembers it but certainly it wasn’t because the guy was gay (because after all who was homophobic in the 60s?)
 
Et_Cetera said:
But if it had been done to you because of your race, RELIGION, or sexual orientation, I bet you would be thinking a little differently about that incident.

but really…there is no excuse for bullying, and no child should have to take it in stride.
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What???

I got hassled when I was younger for being Catholic; on a few occasions physically. (I live in the Bible Belt) Am I supposed to carry a grudge about that today? Some of those very kids are now my friends, even customers of mine. Am I supposed to condemn them as adults, and hate them and try to ruin their lives? I sure don’t. I have even helped some of them out of fixes they were in. Have I ever asked any of them to apologize, or even thought they should? No. Their later lives bear witness to their better selves, and that should be enough for any man’s expectations. They owe me no apology at all. I would have to have a viper living in my heart to expect it of them, let alone to demand it of them.
 
Birdpreacher said:
so far the other sources have held up to muster, we will have to wait for time to tell. It is damning that Mitt does not deny that it happened, merely that he doesn’t remember it. Then he says he remembers it but certainly it wasn’t because the guy was gay (because after all who was homophobic in the 60s?)
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So iif it turns out he spent his last two years in High school swilling beer and using drugs woukd that concern you?
 
Birdpreacher said:
so far the other sources have held up to muster, we will have to wait for time to tell. It is damning that Mitt does not deny that it happened, merely that he doesn’t remember it. Then he says he remembers it but certainly it wasn’t because the guy was gay (because after all who was homophobic in the 60s?)
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Actually they have not. Stu White whom the Washington post said “has long been bothered by the Lauber incident” actually knew nothing about the incident. Not that he wasn’t there, not that he didn’t witness it, but that he knew nothing about it. A close personal friend doesn’t even hear about an gang attack and forced cutting of another student’s hair (like a Rowdy Roddy Piper hair match)? I know how high school kids like to talk and you don’t do something like that and no one (including your close personal friend) knows that it happened.

If the Post lied about this - what else did they lie about?

Read more: dailycaller.com/2012/05/10/cracks-in-the-washington-post-story-on-romneys-pranks-emerge/#ixzz1uVVAKqJV
 
I wonder if Romney would have more compassionate and charitable views if he had any experience with being bullied, instead of a past as a bully. I wonder if Romney could have gotten away with leading a gang to assault and humiliate a kid until he wept and screamed for help, if not for his rich and powerful father who was slated to give the commencement address at the high school a few months later.
 
Jerry_Miah said:
I wonder if Romney would have more compassionate and charitable views if he had any experience with being bullied, instead of a past as a bully. I wonder if Romney could have gotten away with leading a gang to assault and humiliate a kid until he wept and screamed for help, if not for his rich and powerful father who was slated to give the commencement address at the high school a few months later.
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I wonder if you will apologize for this post.
 
Jerry_Miah said:
I wonder if Romney would have more compassionate and charitable views if he had any experience with being bullied, instead of a past as a bully. I wonder if Romney could have gotten away with leading a gang to assault and humiliate a kid until he wept and screamed for help, if not for his rich and powerful father who was slated to give the commencement address at the high school a few months later.
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The Washington Post was not honest about this story, so none of us even knows if Romney was a bully. Yet, you are commenting as though it is known fact. 😦
 
Barack Obama admitted to shoving a girl called Coretta in school, in his book Dreams from my father, and there has been no public apology:



thetalkofthetimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/obama-bullied-a-girl

If people are going to hold Mitt Romney countable for an incident nearly 50 years, if true, which is not even sure now since the Washington Post either fabricated or sloppily wrote about Stu White. But Barack Obama admitted what he wrote, so he should be held accountable too. :rolleyes:
 
_Abyssinia said:
Barack Obama admitted to shoving a girl called Coretta in school, in his book Dreams from my father, and there has been no public apology:

http://thetalkofthetimes.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/screen-shot-2012-05-10-at-11-55-46-am.png

thetalkofthetimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/obama-bullied-a-girl

If people are going to hold Mitt Romney countable for an incident nearly 50 years, if true, which is not even sure now since the Washington Post either fabricated or sloppily wrote about Stu White. But Barack Obama admitted what he wrote, so he should be held accountable too.
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So the half white boy attacked a black girl out of racial hate?
 
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