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Romney counters notion he bullied gay classmates
Associated Press ^ | May 10, 2012 | KASIE HUNT

Posted on 05/10/2012 11:39:51 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Thursday countered the notion that he bullied high school classmates and insisted he didn't know some were gay.

The Republican presidential candidate apologized to anyone he may have offended by what he said were "hijinks and pranks during high school." His comments in a hastily arranged radio interview followed a Washington Post report Thursday that he had held down classmate John Lauber and cut off his bleached blond hair when they were classmates at a prestigious boarding school in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

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1 posted on 05/10/2012 11:39:52 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Does anyone know anything about what Obama did in high school?


2 posted on 05/10/2012 11:41:55 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Washington Post report Thursday that he had held down classmate John Lauber and cut off his bleached blond hair when they were classmates...”

That’s not a prank, that is assault.


3 posted on 05/10/2012 11:42:13 AM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama did cocaine and admitted it. Who did he buy it from?
4 posted on 05/10/2012 11:42:44 AM PDT by tobyhill (Conservatives are proud of themselves, Liberals lie about themselves)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So if he had known the guy was gay he’d have held off on the haircut stunt?

Wonder if Mitt found himself on the wrong end of other brawls.


5 posted on 05/10/2012 11:42:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, if he was holding down any male classmates, I doubt it was to cut off his hair in a prank.


6 posted on 05/10/2012 11:42:50 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Uncle Slayton

It also didn’t happen. And I’m no Romney supporter as anyone here can attest.


7 posted on 05/10/2012 11:42:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, is John Lauber Gay, or not?
8 posted on 05/10/2012 11:43:44 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well done GOP Elite. Thanks SO much for giving us this ... “thing” as the nominee.

Santorum 2012


9 posted on 05/10/2012 11:43:56 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Does anyone know anything about what Obama did in high school?


Crack, kicked puppies (and ate them)...

Your not suppose to ask such questions of the Won..


10 posted on 05/10/2012 11:44:25 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Don’t be silly. That was long ago and far away.

So what do we have now, Romney was a homophobe
and a bully, I’m sure there is more coming.


11 posted on 05/10/2012 11:45:04 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Be that as it may, I hope if Mitt becomes president he gives a haircut to a lot of liberals.


12 posted on 05/10/2012 11:45:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If you have ever attended a private boarding school, you know that pranks like this are done all the time. It seems to go with the territory. When I was in a boarding school, we turned on the fire hoses on another dormitory. We competed with other classmates all the time and at times in not so nice ways. We were kids and kids do crazy things.


13 posted on 05/10/2012 11:45:46 AM PDT by RC2 (Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
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To: Uncle Slayton
I think the statute of limitation expired a few decades ago. I remember giving a wedgie to a kid in the 70s, that's assault, isn't it?
14 posted on 05/10/2012 11:46:20 AM PDT by tobyhill (Conservatives are proud of themselves, Liberals lie about themselves)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And Ayers wrote in Obama’s book how Obama admitted to bullying a little girl named Coretta.waiting for the media to investigate that one


15 posted on 05/10/2012 11:47:34 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Headlines to come...

“Romney Still Calls Dodgeball Smear the Queer”
“Romney Gave Gays in School Atomic Wedgies”
“Romney Gave Gays Titty Twisters”


16 posted on 05/10/2012 11:49:08 AM PDT by albie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

you have got to be kidding me...high school? sigh


17 posted on 05/10/2012 11:49:45 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Cowboy Bob

He died in 2004. So we don’t know and his three sisters didn’t say. But the Left needs him to be. So he is.


18 posted on 05/10/2012 11:49:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

OBAMA’S SORDID HIGH SCHOOL PAST

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/Obama-High-School-Drugs

“During his high school years, Obama hung out with communist radical Frank Marshall Davis; in 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that during his high school days, “he felt the first stirrings of anger toward whites. He says he also delved into black nationalism.” He was “offended or even enraged when white classmates adopted black street slang or revealed their underlying consciousness of his race by going out of their way to tell him how much they admired a black musician or athlete.”


19 posted on 05/10/2012 11:49:55 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Exactly. I’m going to write the Washington Post with this Breaking News.


20 posted on 05/10/2012 11:50:48 AM PDT by tobyhill (Conservatives are proud of themselves, Liberals lie about themselves)
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