Posted on 08/31/2012 2:50:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Pat Oparowski at the Republican National Convention. Romney family friend Pat Oparowski spoke about how Romney helped her and her family when her son was dying. This is the story that had rivers of tears on television, on the convention floor last night. This man and woman went out and talked about their teenage son, 14-year-olds, who came down with terminal cancer in Massachusetts. They told the story of how Romney went to visit him often, and they became friends. Romney and the young boy became friends. Actual, real friends.
The young boy knew he was dying, and that's where Mrs. Oparowski picks up the story...
OPAROWSKI: Together, they made David's will. That is a task that no child should ever have to do. But it gave David peace of mind. So, after David's death, we were able to give his skateboard, his model rockets, and his fishing gear to his best friends. How many men do you know who would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs? David also helped us plan his funeral. He wants to be buried in his Boy Scout uniform. He wanted Mitt to pronounce his eulogy, and Mitt there was to honor that request. We will be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern.
CONVENTION: (applause)
RUSH: Now, that's the tail end of it. The whole story is Ted and Pat Oparowski are a couple who lived in Medford, Massachusetts, in the seventies. They knew Romney from church. When their 14-year-old son, David, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1979, Romney, because of the church connection, visited the boy regularly. And they developed a loving, genuine friendship. And Pat Oparowski recounted the many times that Romney came to see her and her son. His cancer was terminal. During one visit, Ms. Oparowski recalled, David -- knowing Mitt had gone to law school at Harvard -- asked if he would help him write a will.
RNC 2012: Church Members Share Moving Tale of Son's Tragic Death
"During one visit, Mrs. Oparowski recalled, 'David, knowing Mitt had gone to law school at Harvard, asked Mitt if he would help him write a will. He had some prize possessions that he wanted to make sure were given to his closest friends and family. ... it gave David peace of mind. So after David’s death, we were able to give his skateboard, his model rockets, and his fishing gear to his best friends. He also made it clear that his brother Peter should get his Ruger .22 rifle. How many men do you know who would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14 year old and help him settle his affairs?'" And there were no dry eyes to be found.
And then another story. This is a woman named Pam Finlayson, a Romney family friend. She spoke about how Romney helped her and her family when her daughter was born prematurely.
FINLAYSON: As I sat with her in intensive care, consumed with a mother's worry and fear, dear Mitt came to visit and pray with me. As our clergy, he was one of very few visitors allowed, and I will never forget how, when he looked down tenderly at my daughter, his eyes filled with tears, and he reached out and gently stroked her tiny back. I could tell immediately that he didn't just see a tangle of plastic and tubes and wires. He saw our beautiful little girl, and he was clearly overcome with compassion for her.
RUSH: She was born prematurely. Keep that in mind, as Ms. Finlayson continues.
RNC 2012: Church Member Says Mitt Romney Devotes Life to 'Quietly Serving Others'
FINLAYSON: When Thanksgiving rolled around, Kate was still struggling for life. Brain surgery was scheduled, and the holiday was the furthest thing from our minds. But that morning, I opened my door to find Mitt and his boys, arms loaded down with a Thanksgiving feast.
RUSH: Hmm, for a family and their daughter born prematurely. You know what they always say, "Character is what you do when nobody's looking." And nobody was looking. Nobody was paying attention. Nobody knew about any of this 'til last night. Ms. Finlayson one more time.
FINLAYSON: After 26 years of both miracles and struggle, she passed away just a year and a half ago. In the midst of making the final decision to run for president, which had to be the most difficult of their lives, when they heard of Kate's passing, both Mitt and Ann paused to personally reach out to us and extend us sympathy and express their love. It seems to me when it comes to loving our neighbor, we can talk about it, or we can live it. The Romneys live it every single day. (applause)
RUSH: Dare I mention -- again, we have here a little girl born prematurely, dare I mention the nation's number one supporter of infanticide in Illinois. I don't know, should I do that? Barack Obama was the leader in the state of Illinois for making sure that if a baby survived an abortion, that a new doctor be brought in to finish the job. That's what Obama's known for. And his party, he, too, is a hero. He's a hero for a different reason. Woman intended the abortion, by God, bring a doctor in here, if the first one botches it, we're gonna bring another one in to finish the job, take the pressure off the original doctor and off the mother. Now, after what you've just heard, let's go back to Obama Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, talking about Mitt Romney. OBAMA: Governor Romney promised that sometime between taking the oath of office and going to the inaugural ball, he'd sit right down, grab a pen, and kick seven million young people off their parents' plan by repealing health reform. Day one, that's what he says he's gonna do. Maybe we should call his plan "Romney doesn't care," 'cause I do care.
RUSH: Right, there you go.
OBAMA: I do care.
RUSH: Mitt Romney doesn't care. Exactly right. What Romney wants is for people to have health care, and he knows that Obamacare is not how that's gonna happen.
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RUSH: Where are all the acts of generosity by Obama? Look at what we heard about Romney all week long. Quiet, compassion, generosity. Where are the similar stories about Barack Obama? I mean, you would think after nearly four years in the presidency we would know about these stories. There's a Wall Street Journal editorial today -- I think I put it at the bottom of the stack -- something about somebody might have learned something about his time at Columbia, but they're not sure. Somebody might have learned something about his time at Columbia University, but they're not sure.
We don't know anything. In fact, we do know that the brother who lives in the hut called Dinesh D'Souza. George Onyango Obama's son needed some medical care, a thousand dollars worth. He called Dinesh D'Souza, who had interviewed him for his movie that he has out now, 2016. And Dinesh said, "Okay, look, anybody can call here and make this up." He found out it was George Obama and it was a legitimate medical issue. So he gave him the money. He didn't call his own brother. He didn't even think to call. My brother is not gonna get me anything. Obviously not. His brother is still living in a hut. And yet, automatically it's just assumed, "Yeah, there's real compassion there." Real compassion. That's true. He has compassion for his cronies at places like Solyndra.
See, there's a real difference between caring for people and being seen as caring for people. There is a real difference between real compassion and being seen as compassionate. And with the left, it's all imagery.
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Dennis Prager described them as Mormons, these people, as seemingly in every case of Bishop Mitt helping someone, are fellow cult members, not non-Mormons.
My Gold star sister in law says this, “See, there’s a real difference between caring for people and being seen as caring for people”. about G.W. Bush.
Miss ya Wroblow
Even the guy whose daughter was missing who worked for him?
I hear somebody overheard Obama ask why Romney was in Louisiana and if he really had to cancel his money grubbing go too.
I guess you are going to be happy if that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is reelected and finishes his destruction of this great country
Obama has spent millions—sealing all his acts of charity and kindness.
They are all humans.
Are you anti-Mormon?
Mormonism may have some strange beliefs, and may fit the technical definition of a “cult”, but the majority of Moromons are good, decent, hard-working Americans with strong family values, and don’t deserve to be dismissively referred to as cultists.
Yes.
So far every story told that Romney is charitable, the charity receivers are Mormon.
It is necessary for Mormons to be so called “good, decent, hard-working Americans with strong family values”, because they must work for their salvation, with the men also working toward godhood.
Isn’t it strange that we never had these types of stories about Obama, nothing about the great things in his past, his past friends, great deeds.
All we know about is Rev. Wright, Rezko, Ayers, and his commie mentor in Hawaii.
Are there any links for this?
Yep
Of course I’m not anti “Mormon” meaning individual Mormons, but I am against Mormonism, Mormonism is a cult, an old fashioned cult, well known cult, and it always has been, just like Scientology.
Being against Scientology, or The Children of God, or the Hare Krishnas, or Mormonism, or the Branch Davidians, isn’t to be against the individuals but the cult itself.
I know Howard Hughes would allow Mormons to work for him because of their honesty, but I don't believe for a minute that a Mormon would only be charitable to other Mormons. You people are really nuts.
Yes, they are all human, but when a guy is covering himself in glory for helping named individuals and donating 10s of millions of dollars to ‘charity’, all in an effort to sway Christians to his nobility.
Then it makes a difference for them to know that all of it is devoted to his anti-Christian cult.
Romney Badger don’t care. He just takes what he wants.
So what? My family has been charitable to many others, focusing on fellow Church members. I don't see much difference in Romney's case.
Yes, even the guy whose daughter didn’t come home, she must be the only teen that ever left home for a few days, because it is the only time that Mitt spared no expense or effort to do that. Her dad is powerful in Mormonism, and Mitt has milked it in ads.
Here is the truth about his other “heroism” regarding the teenage daughter of a fellow Mormon Bishop, Melissa Gay, that you mentioned and the ad he has used to promote it.
This one time effort for a powerful, wealthy fellow Mormon leader and executive has never been done again by Mormon Bishop Romney, it was Mormon insider stuff by the elites, way over the top for a teen girl that went to a rave and stayed with her friends for a couple of days.
Mormon Bishop, Robert Gay, the Bain executive is at the top among Mormon leaders, On March 31, 2012, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
“But several acquaintances of the teen who knew her well at the time and have not spoken publicly before told The Daily a different story: one of a rebellious adolescent in a moment of high-spirited escapism who hid from her parents in relative safety in an upscale New Jersey town.
And they credited the group of new friends she made during her disappearance, including a boyfriend, as the ones who ultimately encouraged Melissa Gay — daughter of Romney’s colleague at private equity firm Bain Capital — to head home to her panicked family.”
“Did Mitt Romney ‘save’ this girl? No,” said Doug Becker, the then-boyfriend and now a 32-year-old pastor in the same town of Rockaway, N.J. “But I do think what spurred her going home was the kind of coverage it was getting, and I think [Romney] was pretty responsible for that.”
“Another childhood friend, speaking anonymously, was more blunt. “I think the ad is incredibly misleading. Dishonest is the word for it,” the friend said. “She wasn’t saved, she ran away to go to a rave, and got lost and wound up in New Jersey. She paged a friend to come get her.”
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