Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, .. troubling incidents
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 Obamas 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.
It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me, said Buford, the schools wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was terrified, he said. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.
A year earlier, John Joseph Lauber died at a Seattle hospital.
Much more to the article. Romney was an over-privileged bully in prep school
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_print.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Apparently the victim was so insignificant to Mitt that he's not worthy of any space in Mitt's memory banks.
Or perhaps his attacking other boys was so commonplace it gets lost in the blur.
Or perhaps he's a lying asshole.
edcantor
(325 posts)But this incident that 5 people clearly remember was probably one of his most dastardly "pranks" if one calls assault and battery on a smaller child by an older child a "prank" at a prep school.
ashling
(25,771 posts)mutually exclusive of the others, so I would go with all three+
edcantor
(325 posts)This behavior seems to be a thread that carried through to Romney's career - organize a business posse, bully companies, take a razor to them, rinse and repeat. The futher lack of courage that Romney displays is that he takes classic GOP copout #1 when backed into a corner, "I don't recall... I don't remember...."
evalu8tor
(8 posts)This infuriates me....that he and those those little miserable bullying bastards did that to that young man! Being young or only in high school doesn't excuse anything! What happened to Rmoney and crew, how were they punished? Is this just another instant of being wealthy that anything goes.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)and he practically destroyed the USA,romney will complete dubya's work!