RMoney goes on TV to apologize for assaulting gay student

[uponit7771]

...but claims he "can't remember it"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/romney-apologizes-for-being-a-bully.html

Then why in the hell apologize then?!


This story has legs, if you've ever been picked on for being different at one time or the other during life...I mean picked on not just lightly hazed....this story will get your hair up.


Your take?

TIA

[SoutherDem]

1. This is another Non-Apology-Apology

When you need to say "if" during an apology save your breath.

[blm]

2. Cruelty comes naturally to Mitt - THAT should be the story. Pranks against BLIND man - really Mitt?

What lowlife does this to a BLIND PERSON and then laughs about it?

From the WP article:
"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 life’s indignities."

[FSogol]

3. Surely, there isn't just one bullying incident. Will more trickle out or will the floodgates open?

Enquiring minds want to know!

[jp11]

4. You have to be a heartless, soulless, bastard to not remember being a monster to another person.

Or you know he could just be lying again.

[cynatnite]

5. And yet...other students remember it clearly...most especially the victim

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 Obama’s 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

[MH1]

6. My take: Romney is a remorseless sociopath.

Explained in more detail here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002669170

[fishwax]

7. Yesterday Obama had a hastily-arranged interview to announce his support of marriage equality; today

Romney has a hastily-arranged interview to sort of apologize for engaging in bullying that he really doesn't remember but is positive it probably didn't have anything to do with maybe thinking the guy was gay.

[Politicalboi]

8. Oh Please

"Governorr Romney has no memory of participating in these incidents,"

He remembers marching with his dad as a young boy, but can't remember this. Someone who had hair like that, you remember from THOSE days. He remembers the Davy Crockett song, but doesn't remember this. I bet Rmoney raised a few monsters himself. Out of 5 boys who are "entitled" I'm sure one of them is a bully.

[renate]

9. I just posted this on another thread, but I think it bears repeating

His claim that he doesn't remember makes it WORSE. What kind of person gangs up with friends to attack another person, forcibly cuts his hair, and doesn't remember? Was cruelty like that a matter of routine to him? How else could it have had that little of an effect on him?

[Mutiny In Heaven]

10. He's been forced onto the defensive

That is good news.

[Odin2005]

11. Republicans like bullies, this will make them like him more.

[rhett o rick]

15. It takes a bully to love a bully and Republicans are bullies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=397558

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. "If anyone was hurt by that or offended by that, obviously I apologize."

Typical Republican apology, implying that perhaps it's the victims who are overly sensitive. Above all, never admit the behavior itself is wrong.

[sufrommich]

13. I just got home and read this.

What a horrid little weasel-man Romney is. Sickening.

[PearliePoo2]

14. He's a sadistic asshole who laughs about disgusting things.

He laughed when he made this "apology".
He laughed when queried about strapping poor Seamus the dog to the roof. He laughs about the humorous story of his Dad closing an auto plant. He laughs about liking to fire people.
That creepy laugh of his...heh..heh..heh.
Fucker.

[CBGLuthier]

16. That's funny. I can remember every single time a bully beat on me.

I always assumed such beatings were as important to them as to me but guess I am wrong.

[DearAbby]

17. It's great seeing a bully get his just deserts

It's a rare sight for someone who had been bullied. Yes, this has legs.