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For Romney (and Obama) is it time for a statute of limitation on controversies?
Yahoo! ^ | May 14, 2012 | Walter Shapiro

Posted on 05/14/2012 1:57:36 PM PDT by EveningStar

A presidential candidate’s high-school years have always been packaged as a sepia-toned time of paper routes, patriotism, and premature whiffs of greatness. The classic model is the brief torch-is-passed film clip unveiled at the 1992 Democratic Convention of a 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John Kennedy at the White House during a Boys State trip to Washington.

The sometimes-brutal realities of high school have always been far from these gauzy small-town clichés. In truth, you have to be made out of hardier stuff to be a winner in high school rather than a victim.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; romney

1 posted on 05/14/2012 1:57:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
film clip unveiled at the 1992 Democratic Convention of a 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John Kennedy

Was that 1962 ?

2 posted on 05/14/2012 2:05:56 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: EveningStar

Typical Yahoo liberal article. They talk about the statute of limitations on dredging something from Romney’s past; and use the article to explain the past incident in detail once again. They are so shallow.


3 posted on 05/14/2012 2:21:45 PM PDT by Brownie63
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To: EveningStar

It’s a trap. No talk of Mitt’s youthful years, no talk of Obama’s youthful years either.


4 posted on 05/14/2012 2:22:40 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: EveningStar

Everything on Obama is fair game. We are talking about a guy who has had someone write at least one, and maybe both of his fictional biographies for him. A little truth and exposure is called for.


5 posted on 05/14/2012 2:29:01 PM PDT by pallis
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To: EveningStar
Why not? What issues are left anyway? RomneyCARE?
RomneyDEATHpanels?
RomneyTAXES?
Romney Ineligibility?
Romney fawning for DNC/MSM Acceptance?
Romney/Obama Mutual Hatred for Conservatives?

Why not?

Romney Obama
What is the difference?


6 posted on 05/14/2012 2:33:58 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: jjotto

Exactly. Obama is far more vulnerable than Romney on that score. Maybe that was the real intent of the Romney hit piece by the WP. Now that the WP has made itself look foolish, let’s have a moratorium on all stories about the candidates during their high school and college days. Yeah, right.


7 posted on 05/14/2012 3:03:09 PM PDT by kabar
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Exactly they are trying minimize all the dirt on Obama that might somehow surface. I bet this is why the Obama regime
put out the Romney hair cutting story then the media comes out and says a persons youth doesn't matter they are just kids after all thereby diluting Obamas activist ways and upbringing.
8 posted on 05/14/2012 3:57:46 PM PDT by funfan
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