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.
Tell Romney that it didn't happen, he's already apologizing:reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSBRE8491B220120510
And how do you know he never had that experience???
Nobody here denied it may be a bullying incident. What has been denied is that said bullying was motivated by sexual orientation.
Man, for someone who can’t remember 20 years of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, he sure has a good memory for what happened when he was in grade school.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:
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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.
Same apology as before. Nothing new in this.
Hatred is impervious to facts.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.
Yes, that is exactly what was being denied, scroll up.
He was eating dog then - a known brain food.Man, for someone who can’t remember 20 years of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, he sure has a good memory for what happened when he was in grade school.
I’ve read through the thread. I didn’t see it. Granted, the activity has been high, and I may have missed it perhaps you can point me to it?
Sound idea all around.
I deny that the facts here are far from certain, and that we should give Romney the benefit of the doubt. As I said before, we don’t know what Romney’s relationship with Lauber really was, or how the incident actually played out.
What does Romney’s relationship with Lauber have to do with it? We already have the basic facts. By all accounts the kid was bullied, assaulted and humiliated by Romney and his gang, left crying and screaming for help. Romney got away with it. What mitigating details are we waiting for?
“All” accounts? Really? It seems that Mr. White’s account was fabricated.
And it appears the Washington Post most definately has no idea how the incident actually played out.
Well, as SamH (I believe it was) since a big deal is being made of what Romney did when he was 17 or 18, and since one “witness” denied being one, perhaps more information will come out. Just because you like the story the way you put it doesn’t mean it will hang together over time.
All accounts, eh? Stu White has already come forward and said that the Post fabricated his statement about being there and regretting the incident. So that right there raises a huge cloud over the journalistic legitimacy of this piece.
I take it that your are referring to an incident that Obama related in one of his books:
Even more amazing when one of the five says he didn’t know it happened. Again not that he didn’t witness it, not that he only heard about it, but that he never knew it happened.Further, none of the actual description of the incident is attributed to any particular source. Rather, we get the reporter’s version, and a statement that “the incident was recalled similarly by five students”. If it were as awful and harrowing as that, why not describe it in an eyewitnesses own words?
I guess physical attacks are not bullying?