- how wonderful gay marriage is, depsite intense media propaganda /p>
- that Romney's pranks 50 years ago are an issue
Coach Kevin Collins wrote that this was a panic move by Obama.
I agree.
No one in their right mind would do a move like this. Clinton wouldn’t.
Maybe there is something to James Taranto’s thought that he came out
to deflect his potential loss in November. In his concession speech,
“But I went out fighting for
human rights! civil rights! Even though he loses, he can be “historic” figure.
He always was attracted to the Civil Rights Era. The problem is that he was
born too late. The Civil Rights heros were ordinary citizens, preachers,
church folk, and he doesn’t get it.
Those of us who post here on FR, listen to Rush, Hannity, etc. know that the media is in the tank for Obama. What this 50-year old "non-story" did was make it obviously clear to millions of other Americans with less political interest that the media is in the tank for Obama. That this story was a manufactured hatchet job was so obvious to everyone. Even many of the denizens over at DU were predicting that the reaction to this story wouldn't go the way as it was intended.
Actually; Romney has always been sort of a cardboard cutout to me. Hearing that he was high school prankster has actually made him seem more human. Definite Obama/MSM backfire there.
The fact that we may see his actions as the all-evil ‘bullying’ today, is just chronological cheuvanism. 40 years ago when he did this, it was just good, clean fun with no lasting physical damage (hair grows back). Taken in context for the time it happened, with Romney in his late teens, and with the ‘victim’s family denying the more sinister overtones, it’s a break-even proposition for the Obama/MSM team *at best*.
IMHO, *anything* that can be done to humanize the automaton image of Mitt Romney is a good thing for the Romney campaign, and a major blunder for the Obama/MSM team.