For those who don’t know what the high school prank was, here’s Ed Morrissey explaining it:
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I guess the Washington Post ran out of stories based on Seamus the Roof-Ridin’ Dog. Despite demonstrating zero curiosity over Barack Obama’s college transcripts to check on just how brilliant the academic actually was, the Post now has a big expose on Mitt Romney’s high school career as … a practical joker:
“Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
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That is a pretty cruel prank. It’s one reason not to vote for a teenager for President. It’s not a story that will cover Romney in glory, but this took place almost half a century ago.
Yes and the story goes well with their reporting on Obama’s extensive drug use and .... Oh, never mind.
Cruel prank or not, it's pretty obvious that Romney wasn't some let-it-all-hang-out libertine.
Once a Bully Always a Bully.
Is this a joke?
Really?
Obama needs to apologize for EATING DOG!!!
Obviously orchestrated with Zero's evolution coming out yesterday.
Romney needs to respond with a strong defense of traditional man-woman marriage.
Apology is the wrong way to go with this. Romney's campaign has been pretty deft until now. They need to immediately go on the attack.
I guess I can never run for President considering the pranks I did in college—brought a bunch of geese into the school’s indoor swimming pool, hid a pair of dirty underwear in the bottom of a guy’s cereal box, put knives in the spines of the hymn books so during chapel when everyone was asked to open their books a thousand knives all fell to the ground at once.
Kids will be kids.
The Bible even says so.
When I was a child, I etc etc.......
But as a man, I put away childish things.
Quote from Paul the Apostle.
I would have said it isn’t relevant exactly because of that, and I wouldn’t have apologized, today, in a presidenial campaign, for an irrelevancy.
Now, about that Romneycare...
Do you suppose they could even locate this many classmates, dead or alive, even if they wanted to do so?
FWIW, an military buddy of mine grew up on the Wind River Reservation near Riverton, Wyoming. A popular sport for male bonding of the local cowboys and Indians was to go into town on a Saturday night, lasso longhairs and give them the sheep sheer treatment. Sometimes it was fueled by alcohol, sometimes it was just for fun.
The local law enforcement people were very worried one night when a gang of motorcycle hippies from Denver threatened to ride up one summer night and teach the whole town a lesson.
The local cowboys and Indians were waiting for them and a fight ensured. No injuries beyond a few scratches and bruises, but the final outcome was one broken storefront window and a motorcycle gang of newly minted short-haired hippies limping out of town southbound on highway #789 to the raucous singing of a combined cowboy and Indian chorus.
Shearing hippies was evidently a fairly popular pass time in that era, especially in Rocky Mountain ranching towns.
Amazing powers of recall. I went to high school in the late 1970s and I couldn’t tell you much of anything that happened back then.
This is ridiculous.
Boys are boys unless they are the unwanted child of an America hating mother and an African communist who was raised by a gay Indonesian nanny before being shipped off to prep school to hang out with his communist grandfather and communist bi-sexual “mentor” before being sent to college where he gravitated to marxists and foreign students and then disappeared into NY - a time that shall not be spoken of by the MSM.