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Sat May 12, 2012, 05:14 PM May 2012

Even Bush knows more compassion than Romney the bully

As a sophomore at Yale in 1965, George W. Bush lashed out at a friend for calling a suspected gay student a queer, telling him "Shut up" and "why don't you try walking in his shoes for a while and see how it feels before you make a comment like that?"

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/20/opinion/oe-davis20

That's right, he DID NOT round up a posse of Taliban vigilantes and go after the guy with a pair of scissors. Yes, even George W. Bush shows a bit more character and compassion than Romney.

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