Romney: High School Bully

UPDATE: Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes
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The Washington Post attempts to take out presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney by having its lead story be an expose on Romney's behavior when he was a HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR.

Read the EXPLOSIVE revelations:

Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

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.

This is pathetic.

The Washington Post goes back to Romney's senior year in HIGH SCHOOL to attempt to smear him.

That is laughable.

The liberal media consider Romney's alleged high school antics to be a significant issue, giving it front page status.

They have to be kidding.

Did the Washington Post put Obama's bullying, as PRESIDENT, on its front page as its lead story?

Obama, the PRESIDENT, went on national television and mocked Special Olympics athletes.

The guy wasn't a high school kid, like Romney. He was the freaking president of the United States when he demeaned them!

That's news.

Let's revisit Obama's disgusting bullying, cruel behavior while he was PRESIDENT.

When Obama was Jay Leno's guest just about two months after his inauguration, Obama made a terrible remark about his bowling skills and the Special Olympics.

Here's the transcript of Obama's very uncool exchange with Leno:

MR. LENO: Now, are they going to put a basketball –- I imagine the bowling alley has been just burned and closed down.

MR. OBAMA: No, no. I have been practicing all –- (laughter.)

MR. LENO: Really? Really?

MR. OBAMA: I bowled a 129. (Laughter and applause.)

MR. LENO: No, that's very good. Yes. That's very good, Mr. President.

MR. OBAMA: It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something. (Laughter.)

MR. LENO: No, that's very good.

MR. OBAMA: No, listen, I'm making progress on the bowling, yes.

Obama was forced to apologize for his remark.

After comparing his bowling to the Special Olympics on "The Tonight Show" Thursday, President Obama called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize before the program even aired.

“He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, in a way that was very moving,” Shriver said on ABC's “Good Morning America.” “It’s important to see that words hurt, and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seen as humiliating or a put-down of people with special needs do cause pain, and they do result in stereotypes."

Obama told Shriver he wants to have some Special Olympics competitors over to the White House for basketball or bowling.

I don't know if Obama ever made good on his promise to Shriver.

I do know that four months after Obama's cruel remark he hadn't found time to host Special Olympics athletes at the White House.

From The Guardian, July 9, 2009:

Previously an academic specialising in the social and emotional factors of learning, Shriver probably knows better than most that it can be counterproductive to preach — particularly when addressing your country's new commander-in-chief: "It was a tough experience for all of us in the field of intellectual disability, and Special Olympics in particular, because nobody wants to be in a situation where we're scolding, or perceived to be scolding, the president of the United States or a major political figure."

Obama offered to have some Special Olympic athletes to visit the White House to play his favourite sport, basketball, or bowling, one the president has perhaps had enough of — but to date nothing has happened: "We have not had a specific event yet where the president can interact with Special Olympics athletes yet, but we're hopeful. He has been busy."

Obama hadn't been too busy to find time for his excessively publicized "date nights" and to host several events highlighting celebrities performing at the White House, but he was too busy to host Special Olympics athletes.

Obama exhibited his cruelty and coldness and his utter disrespect for the mentally challenged when he was being interviewed on national TV as president of the United States.

If Obama talks like that on TV when he knows the cameras are on him, what does he say in private?

His mockery of Special Olympians isn't Obama's only disgrace.

Remember when Obama mocked Nancy Reagan?

On November 7, 2008, then president-elect Obama screwed up during his first news conference by making what was later referred to as a "careless joke" at Nancy Reagan's expense. At the time, Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter called that an "offhanded remark."

Yeah, right. Those "offhanded remarks" can be very hurtful, not funny.

No, Obama is cruel. As an adult, his sense of humor reveals his lack of compassion and his cold heart.

I'm sick of the Leftists attempting to depict Mitt Romney as a soulless monster.

Obama's behavior as an adult, as PRESIDENT, is dramatically more disturbing than what Romney did as a senior in high school in 1965.