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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, there's something terribly wrong with him [View all]karynnj
(60,978 posts)What is galling is that the Republicans labeled both Al Gore and John Kerry as not likable enough - and the media ignored the hundreds of stories that showed that they were both good decent men. Every time the Romney kids tell a story about there dad, I wonder if their dad were less powerful if he would have been labeled abusive. Compare this to the lovely supportive parent stories told by the Gore and Kerry daughters.
Where Kerry saved a young daughters' hamster, sparing them pain, Romney pushes a son's face into butter! (Not to mention Romney rather than save a hamster put the family dog on top of the car.) In 2004, the Republicans tried to make an issue of Kerry not being popular in high school - ignoring that he was asked into a rock band and formed two clubs still in existence and that he was dating Jackie Kennedy's beautiful step sister. Yet with Romney CNN questioned if it was fair to bring up Romney's bullying that was actually an assault. The fact is that one of these two was a well adjusted, thoughtful, well mannered boy - and the other likely would have have been expelled if he were not rich or the Governor's son.
There are now way too many UNDENIED stories that form a pattern of a man who really does not respect others. Most of the stories are outside what is acceptable.
- You don't have your friends hold down a boy while you cut his hair
- you do not stop people dressed as a state trooper when you aren't
- you do not smash a child's face into butter
- you don't put a dog on the roof
Every one of these is just not normal behavior. The pattern is of someone who is a bully, has no empathy and does not care whom he hurts. The fact that he got a kick out of using someone's wedding as a stage for a very middle schoolish joke shows that he is incapable of being a real friend.