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#1662873 - 02/09/12 07:06 PM The Real Romney...
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On Romney's character....

Sometimes, this facet of Romney’s personality isn’t so subtle. In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone.
That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.”
So, here’s my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can’t help himself. He sees a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn’t do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that’s just how he’s wired.
Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary for three years, and wouldn’t use an expense account. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp
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#1662879 - 02/09/12 06:57 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
waits for the obligatory "gee, he has soo much money he doesn't need to be paid, he sure must be out of touch with reality" comments...
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#1662912 - 02/09/12 07:37 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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I thought this was a pretty interesting story.
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#1662938 - 02/09/12 07:57 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Quite amazing.
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#1662949 - 02/09/12 08:07 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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#1662955 - 02/09/12 08:27 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Romney impresses me as a man of character. I hope he's our next President.
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#1663010 - 02/09/12 09:21 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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I guess this trumps (no pun intended) the fact that he put his dog on his roof, he loved firing workers and getting rid of workers pensions, lying on presidential race financial disclosures, claimed he was a lifetime hunter but never owned a gun (or had a hunting license), medicare fraud, hiring of illegal immigrants, never served in the military, and hired people as security to his campaign that pulled people over and said they were police officers in order to intimidate people.

Oh, and let's not forget his biggest campaign contributer is Goldman Sachs.... just like Obama.
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#1663013 - 02/09/12 09:24 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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#1663014 - 02/09/12 09:24 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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What's sad to me is that people would actually vote based on whether somebody was a hunter or not. Not exactly an indicator of whether somebody's qualified to be President.
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#1663016 - 02/09/12 09:12 PM Re: The Real Romney... J2C
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Originally Posted By: jennyfromthebloc
I guess this trumps (no pun intended) the fact that he put his dog on his roof, he loved firing workers and getting rid of workers pensions, lying on presidential race financial disclosures, claimed he was a lifetime hunter but never owned a gun (or had a hunting license), medicare fraud, hiring of illegal immigrants, never served in the military, and hired people as security to his campaign that pulled people over and said they were police officers in order to intimidate people.

Oh, and let's not forget his biggest campaign contributer is Goldman Sachs.... just like Obama.



But he is a good person
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#1663019 - 02/09/12 09:26 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Is serving in the military a requirement to be President? confused Or did Romney supposedly duck wartime service?
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#1663021 - 02/09/12 09:15 PM Re: The Real Romney... raitchjay
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Originally Posted By: raitchjay
What's sad to me is that people would actually vote based on whether somebody was a hunter or not. Not exactly an indicator of whether somebody's qualified to be President.


Cheney is a hunter (not a good one) I do not believe he would be elected over any of the curent candidates including rosanne. laugh
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#1663022 - 02/09/12 09:16 PM Re: The Real Romney... raitchjay
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Originally Posted By: raitchjay
Is serving in the military a requirement to be President? confused Or did Romney supposedly duck wartime service?


duck wartime service

Another hunting pun? smile
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#1663023 - 02/09/12 09:16 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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I was a hunter for a number of years, i never owned a gun, i never had a hunting license. You see, I was a minor, so I couldn't own a gun (i had one, but legally it wasn't mine) and no one under 18 is required to have a license in Louisiana. Haven't hunted in almost 30 years, but if someone asked, i guess i'd say i used to be but i'm not any more
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#1663025 - 02/09/12 09:30 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Local elections around here are so silly....guys being shown out hunting. Like we're so impressed..."geez, this guy can shoot a deer at 500 yards, i bet he can rebuild our infrastructure too!".
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#1663027 - 02/09/12 09:31 PM Re: The Real Romney... edAudit
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Originally Posted By: raitchjay
Is serving in the military a requirement to be President? confused Or did Romney supposedly duck wartime service?


duck wartime service

Another hunting pun? smile


Unintentional. whistle
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#1663031 - 02/09/12 09:21 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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I one work for a sporting goods store who ran a promo to hunt with a famous tv hunter (I do not remember the name) this was told to me by a co-worker who drove up with him. On the way over to the hunt he hit a deer with his truck. He prompty got out of his truck put a slug in the deer and claimed he got the first kill of the hunt.
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#1663032 - 02/09/12 09:35 PM Re: The Real Romney... edAudit
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Originally Posted By: EdAudit
I one work for a sporting goods store who ran a promo to hunt with a famous tv hunter (I do not remember the name) this was told to me by a co-worker who drove up with him. On the way over to the hunt he hit a deer with his truck. He prompty got out of his truck put a slug in the deer and claimed he got the first kill of the hunt.


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#1663037 - 02/09/12 09:26 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Goldman Sachs is probably the only similarity of note between him and Obama.
One is rampant capitalist, one is over the top socialist....

I'll take the capitalist that helped find the girl and pass on the egomaniacal socialist.

But its a long time till November.
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#1663041 - 02/09/12 09:29 PM Re: The Real Romney... J2C
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Originally Posted By: jennyfromthebloc
I guess this trumps (no pun intended) the fact that he put his dog on his roof, he loved firing workers and getting rid of workers pensions, lying on presidential race financial disclosures, claimed he was a lifetime hunter but never owned a gun (or had a hunting license), medicare fraud, hiring of illegal immigrants, never served in the military, and hired people as security to his campaign that pulled people over and said they were police officers in order to intimidate people.

Oh, and let's not forget his biggest campaign contributer is Goldman Sachs.... just like Obama.



what is sad is how effective these things are? Jenny has picked up exactly what his opponents wanted picked up from these items, but failed to get the full story i.e likes firing workers.

I would relay the context but what would be the point since she and many others like her, who only follow these things from a distance, already "know" the context and anything that explains it is just "spin". Also why the media bias is so critical.

Dog on the roof much bigger story than Obama's pastor spouting anti-american rants for 20 years.

Just to be clear, not slamming Jenny on this, slamming the whole slimy process and BS media that makes these things the story rather than substance.
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#1663045 - 02/09/12 09:32 PM Re: The Real Romney... J2C
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Originally Posted By: jennyfromthebloc
I guess this trumps (no pun intended) the fact that he put his dog on his roof, he loved firing workers and getting rid of workers pensions, lying on presidential race financial disclosures, claimed he was a lifetime hunter but never owned a gun (or had a hunting license), medicare fraud, hiring of illegal immigrants, never served in the military, and hired people as security to his campaign that pulled people over and said they were police officers in order to intimidate people.

Oh, and let's not forget his biggest campaign contributer is Goldman Sachs.... just like Obama.



Aweful lot of accusations but little proof. Here is my take.

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put his dog on his roof


What are you talking about, who cares? Obama attended a church for nine years with someone who openly hated America, which is worse?

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he loved firing workers and getting rid of workers pensions,/quote]

He loved it? How so? So what did Obama do?

[quote]lying on presidential race financial disclosures,


False. Full disclosure has been made and no flaws found yet.

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claimed he was a lifetime hunter but never owned a gun (or had a hunting license),


Who cares? If you are counting lies then I think Obama has lied about quite a few things of more importance.

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medicare fraud,


Do you make this stuff up?

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hiring of illegal immigrants,


Oh well! Sure beats trying to give them citizenship so they will vote for you.

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never served in the military,


So what? Which branch did Obama serve in?

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and hired people as security to his campaign that pulled people over and said they were police officers in order to intimidate people.


Well that sure beats trying to appoint numerous tax frauds to your cabinet... who were lobbyists when you said no more lobbyists in administration.

They trying to intimidate interviewers, foxnews, the Gov. of Arizona etc. The list goes on and on for Obama.

After reading your list of complaints it seems like you are informed about some negatives on Romney (which I am sure he has), but seem blind to those by Obama.

Let me ask you this. Do you think the country will be better off with Romney or Obama. I think my couch could run this country better than Obama has. So I will go with Romney.
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#1663050 - 02/09/12 09:49 PM Re: The Real Romney... raitchjay
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Originally Posted By: raitchjay
What's sad to me is that people would actually vote based on whether somebody was a hunter or not. Not exactly an indicator of whether somebody's qualified to be President.


Elmer Fudd for president.
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#1663054 - 02/09/12 09:41 PM Re: The Real Romney... straw
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Originally Posted By: straw
[quote=jennyfromthebloc]
Just to be clear, not slamming Jenny on this, slamming the whole slimy process and BS media that makes these things the story rather than substance.


*like*
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#1663059 - 02/09/12 09:55 PM Re: The Real Romney... MB Guy
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Before joining college, Romney had received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon missionary. Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies.

When he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual draft lottery and at that time no one drawing higher than 195 was drafted.

Very similar to my personal situation in the Vietnam era. I had student deferments until the draft lottery got me, my number was 100.
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#1663067 - 02/09/12 10:01 PM Re: The Real Romney... Pale Rider
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Originally Posted By: Pale Rider
Before joining college, Romney had received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon missionary. Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies.

When he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual draft lottery and at that time no one drawing higher than 195 was drafted.

Very similar to my personal situation in the Vietnam Spanish American war era. I had student deferments until the draft lottery got me, my number was 100.


Fixed laugh
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