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RandySF

(60,353 posts)
Thu May 10, 2012, 07:39 PM May 2012

Romney classmate: 'To this day it troubles me'

“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” Cranbrook wrestling champion John Buford told the Post. He later apologized to Lauber, who he said was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.” Another classmate ran into Lauber, who later came out as gay, and apologized in the 1990s. “It was horrible.” Lauber told him. “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.” The bullied classmate died in 2004, with his thinning hair still blonde. “He never stopped bleaching it,” his sister told the Post.


http://www.salon.com/2012/05/10/mitt_the_prep_school_sadist/
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Romney classmate: 'To this day it troubles me' (Original Post) RandySF May 2012 OP
When Romney's wife Ann said that he did have a sense of humor, was she talking about this? aint_no_life_nowhere May 2012 #1
So Ann fell for the alpha bully? RandySF May 2012 #2

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
1. When Romney's wife Ann said that he did have a sense of humor, was she talking about this?
Thu May 10, 2012, 07:44 PM
May 2012

Ann Romney, talking about Mitt always playing jokes on people and having a sense of humor in private:

"You know, it is so funny to me that that is the perception out there. Because he is funny, he is engaging, he is witty,” said Ann Romney. “He is always playing jokes. When I met him as a teenager, he was the life of the party. And yet, he is also a very serious person and an accomplished person. And I think a lot of times, people see him in the debate setting.”

Yup, the life of the party. Anyway, Ann made Romney's youthful hijinks relevant when she tried to refer to them as a positive character trait.

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