What agenda?

Obama already wrote 2 books and told the TRUTH about his younger years, something Romney would never do.

I love how conservatives keep repeating discredited lies from people like Glenn Beck that aided in getting him fired from Fox, and keep repeating debunked fantasies, regardless of how many times they have been proven to be the imaginings and suppositions of the diseased minds of right-wing hate propagandists.

Yeah, sure.

This is mitigation????? Do you actually believe I am naive enough to think that you would give Romney a pass if he "remembered".

People who inhale frequently hurt themselves not others. Usually men who attack gay men have secret fears that they are gay.

Romney does not even tell the truth about his record as governor.

That's the scary thing. Given his Mormon beliefs, he was undoubtedly stone cold sober. At least the frat guys can claim total inebriation to explain some of their moronic and infantile initiation rites. Romney is just another hater from a party full to the brim with them.

He is just a liar. Did you see the smile he tried to hide?

Too bad you have a double standard, didn't Obama go to an Indonesia Madras-a. Need I bring up he wasn't born in America, geez how soon you forget the attacks on Obama stated from birth!

Exactly Kenny.

Obama also wrote two books and did not hide anything in them, in fact they were so truthful it amazed me.
THAT...is the kind of President we need.

Not some lying bully who has made million upon millions of dollars by breaking apart and bankrupting companies putting numerous people out of work at the same time.

some people will never see the forest....

They don't want to see, they are Fascists!

And a whole lot more!

Sad little sock. Do you ever sleep?

I am picking no fights here with anyone, then there is you....and all of your insults when people are gone and sleeping like normal people do.

Kenny, you seem to be a liberal. If you want ANY credibility at all in what you say you cannot, absolutely cannot, throw double standard rocks at non-liberals.
Since he was not born in America, your words, I suppose you are finally admitting that he is inelegible to be president. Why do you support someone like this?
Oh, I heard some years ago Barry went to a muslim school in Indonesia but this is the least of the things wrong with him.

Glass house kenny

See, you've bought it hook line and sinker. All I'm saying wise guy is if you all on the right can use made up crap about Obama's birth certificate over 50 years ago, then anything, I repeat anything on Romney even when in silver spoon high school can be used against him in the court of public opinion. Now just get over it, you sided with the nuts on the right for 4 years you can't have your cake and eat it too :)

Its sad. Most likely true.

If he needs 'survival' mode to forget the actions he has taken, he may be psychotic in the first place. Remembering our mistakes is what makes us better in the future. We can't just do the wrongs and move along. We must learn from our mistakes. Or, we are the mistake.

sociopathic..

No one is squeaky clean. Not really.

We're all bad is a distraction. Some do things worse than others. Do we just give everyone a pass? Mitt Romney's crowd 'boo the Golden Rule'. Where are the boos now? Saving them for someone else? How convenient.

No one is squeaky clean, but that's not a reason to move along. The past is relevant.

Thanks for posting this, muse. Very important information, from someone who was there, and who now practices law.

This crap of trying to flush this window into Mitt Romney's moral values down the memory hole must be stopped. It was not an incident of 'hijinks' and if Romney really had forgotten about it, that, too, speaks volumes about his ethics, and lack of empathy.

Mitt sounds more unhealthy all the time. People with sever personality disorders probably should not get the keys to the kingdom.

Bookmarking your catch. Useful resource to keep discussion of this matter real.

I've seen some of the Romney apologists at work today spinning and spinning and spinning this.

Just a ploy to loosen up the wallets of the hollywood folks.

One would think that the liberals would see thru the smoke since they have that big brain thing going on. or so they say.

Which part of it exactly are you objecting to? Do you think this is a story that shouldn't have been told? It's a pretty violent, cruel incident, I personally think it's pretty newsworthy.

I'm not at all surprised his sisters didn't know about it. I was bullied a fair amount as a kid, it's not something I ever went out of my way to tell people about.. especially people that cared about me. It's humiliating and degrading, not something you want people to know.

It's hard to say what Lauber's family thinks he would have objected to about the article.. I think it's very possible that he wasn't really gay, and his eccentricity or "softness" was misinterpreted... so maybe that's it. Hard to say really, all speculation.

The Washinton Post article is really, really long... there are tons of stories and character examples of Romney in there, tells a lot about where he came from and who he was back then. All stuff that I think is pretty relevant when examining who Mitt Romney really is.

What part of what he did to John Lauber could possibly be mischaracterized? He's a psychopath, but a really nice one who is lots of fun as long as he approves of you? Are you kidding me....and what the hell kind of media bias misinterprets what he did to another human being....how the hell can you hang this on the media?

There were 5 sources from people who participated, 4 of them on the record. The CBS piece contacted at least one of them who confirmed the accuracy, except for which room it was in. Who is the "main source" that is refuting any of it? What details were corrected?

So which scenario are you advocating?

a) The Romney piece is newsworthy, and we should have more similar investigations into Obama..

or

b) Eating dogs and high school pranks are not newsworthy..

Ok, found this article about the corrections:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/washington-post-changes-romney-bullying-stor...

So, one of the 5 people was not actually present for the incident. There are still 4 other people who confirm the details are correct, so while it's a little bit sloppy reporting, I don't think that changes anything.

I don't think your characterization of Stu White as the "main source" is at all accurate. There were many sources, and many of them were much closer to Romney.. Friedemann in particular.

I think most people would think the Washington Post article IS the media doing their job.

Your examples of media bias were Obama eating dog and his compressing girlfriends in his biography. Do you really see equivalency with Obama as a child in a foreign country participating in socially normal eating habits, and Romney as the pack leader of 5 bullies violently assaulting and humiliating a weaker classmate? The girlfriend compression thing is a little weird, but pretty inconsequential.. not defending it necessarily, but having a hard time coming up with a reason that it's important.

That article was extremely long, there were thousands of facts to check. They screwed one up... it happens. The fact they screwed up had no bearing on the validity of the story, it was a small detail that didn't change any of the main points addressed in the article... I don't think there's anybody claiming that the incident didn't happen, not even Romney.

Who owns the media? Not the 99%. Media is the real 'sport of kings' in this era, and kings are the very few who control enormous corporate conglomerates. If the media has a bias, it is what Mitt's financial class makes it.

Who owns the media? Who pays the journos? Who fires them if they don't show the bias the owners want broadcast?

ROFL at the suggestion that 'the media' is free to promote any bias the very very rich don't want promoted. Any real reporting is done DESPITE the powers that be, and those powers are pretty much right-wing agenda.

No, that is not too much to ask....but let me be honest for a minute. The fact that his older sister did not know doesn't disprove anything for me. In high school, your friends and enemies tend to know more about what is actually going on in your life than your family does. If this had happened to my brother, and I felt his pain was being exploited for political gain, I would want it to stop too....but none of that changes the fact that Mitt Romney, GOP presidential hopeful, led the assault on this young man, and the story has been verified repeatedly.

Gee, I can't imagine that the conservative elements in the media had anything to do with the timing of the revelations regarding the secret service or the government agency that spent all that money planning and attending that convention in Las Vegas that have been in the papers the past few weeks. The point is that if the information is objectively verifiable the relevance of any story is up to the American people to decide.

I have managed large organizations. I have accepted blame for idiotic thing people have done in departments where i relied on others to manage operations - even though I was not informed at the time of the misdeeds and would certainly have quashed the behavior if I had. One can only focus on so many issues at a time in such an organization and can certainly not hold the hands of the supervisors he has hired to accomplish some portion of the organization's goals. One can only accept responsibility for putting the person in that position and perhaps for indavertently giving the impression that such misconduct was acceptable.

But Romney participated in his "hijinks" personally. He is not being blamed for the actions of some low-level manager at Bain when he was CEO. HE did these things - and freely admits to them. Let the people decide.

Damned straight, incredulous - well said.

How so John?

Obama has taken hit after hit and it's alright with you and others that he is compared to Hitler among other things?
Me thinks that the kettle is meeting the pot, here.

You are getting to be very redundant.

There are two books out written by Obama himself being very truthful about his life which was not always on the right track.
He never bullied anyone, nor did he break up and bankrupt companies to make millions for himself and put countless others out of work by his "business ethics".

Yes, I have heard less is more. So why don't you take your sock and go away? People are posting here on topic and your lines of personal attack are old and pathetic.

I'll post about the books as many times as needed to him to get it.
thanks for playing.

Republicans love bullies. So the Bankers, oil millionairs and others should really come out for this. Bullies like Rush Limbaugh and others are Republican icons.

I thought the birthers knew everything.

That's what bullies often do when you confront them about their BAD behavior; they'll often laugh it off, hoping you'll laugh it off, too.

It's disturbing to hear Romney's *nervous* laughter while he is apologizing for this past incident. Someone who is genuinely sorry doesn't laugh at something this serious.

Also, Romney claiming he "doesn't remember" is absurd.

It's obvious he's CHOOSING to forget it.

oh he remembers.....

I think so too. But I swear the guy seems to operate on RAM only and his staff uploads the day's data every morning. That would explain the flip-flops too.
Rememer Norquist said their President would only need "enough working digits to handle a pen". That would be Mitt.

ROFL....absolutely hilarious, and spot on....luv the upload the daily data imagery....too funny!

54 blinks in 43 seconds. And he is smiling all the way through. Looks like he is a condescending liar.

Good catch, bwdtp! Yep, it's a 'tell'.

He doesn't display any real emotion or empathy for others.

Thank you. I have been making the Mitt Romney sociopath argument for several months in my circles now. It really helps to see someone else make that argument... I believe it is valid.

Normally I am willing to forgive behavior in the early years of a persons life, as he has in a sideways manner asked for. However, the difference is that every other actor in these "pranks" has shown remorse, feeling for the victim, and growth in character. Mitt Romney has not.

We are starting to see a broad sweep of this mans life, from high school until now, and the defining characteristic of his history is the inability to understand how his actions make other living beings feel.

Well... sonuva... I was doing some research to link backup for our claim. Turns out Psychopath fits better...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

Psychopathy (/saɪˈkɒpəθi/[1][2] from the Ancient Greek ψυχή "psyche", -soul and πάθος "pathos" -passion) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others and the rules of society. Psychopaths have a lack of empathy and remorse, and have very shallow emotions. They are generally regarded as callous, selfish, dishonest, arrogant, aggressive, impulsive, irresponsible, and hedonistic. Despite this, psychopaths are often superficially charming with an intelligence higher than the average individual.

Sounds like Romney to me... (with the exception of the desire to be seen as acceptable overriding the impulsiveness...).

Thoughts? I don't think this is a simple "liberals think Romney is a sociopath" thing. I believe in this case there is legs to this story.

A coward who comes in the middle of the night to attacks the current community, while its *friend* remains stealth---The work of *REAL* bullies.

I see that myself. I would love to know why they allow that.

There is a staff member that has been posting on this page, I would like an answer as to why that is allowed here so often.

**Is why.

You "see" way too much when
you're ready to fight. Stay out of
on-line brawls. Your help is not needed.
Thanks.

What I see now is a pattern of YOU coming hours and hours after people are gone in a sock. Nobody is fighting here except you and your insults.
Nobody asked for help either. Check out the posting time stamps before you make a ridiculous statement like that.
I have been back and posting on topic, by the way for days.
YOU?? Not so much.

Take your meds and go to bed already.

Some people do live on the other side of the world, but you are not one of them and we all know it. C&P away...You like like a fool. Nobody is bothering you or talking to you.

I feel just fine. Love some comedy in the morning and you are just a bad joke.

I post where and when I want you see because I am not banned ANYWHERE.
You give yourself away too easily with your :suddenly reappearing after months" statement.

I have been on here often lately trying to post with some of the good folks here and you come in the wee hours to screw up someone's thread. Don't you think it gets old to the people who are on Current every day? Give it a rest along with your multiple personalities.

I also see the other sock was already zapped from last night. You need some sleep.

Lol!

Nothing wrong with that, although he'll be *wishing* he could forget. lol!

Just wondering