[afraidfortherepublic]

The second half of this article is about what Obama does for his destitute relatives in Africa -- NOTHING.

FTA: That is why personal stories about Romney and Obama, before they were candidates, are crucial. Voters want to understand what kind of man they are electing.

[napscoordinator]

FTA: That is why personal stories about Romney and Obama, before they were candidates, are crucial. Voters want to understand what kind of man they are electing.

We already know...LIBERAL...either way.

[stylin19a]

The second half of this article is about what Obama does for his destitute relatives in Africa

that's cause he waits until they sneak into the U.S...THEN he takes care of them.

[scram2]

"I wish my parents cared enough about me, to do something like this for me."

How sad is this?

[allendale]

That is a nice story. Very few people on this forum need to be convinced that Romney is clearly superior to Obama. However these stories of Romney having off shore bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands are very troublesome. Already the Democrats are producing and airing attack ads. Unless Romney has a credible and prompt explanation his candidacy will be severely damaged. Many voters ,especially in critical swing states, will not vote for a millionaire who hid his assets to avoid taxes. The story has “legs”. Romney may be forced to withdraw and allow the Republican convention to select a candidate. The country may not survive four more years of the Obama clown parade.

[Tennessee Nana]

What about the other girls who go missing ???

Has Willie Mitty gone out looking for them ???

1. The girl was from a Mormon family..

2. Willie wasnt the only one out looking for her

3. The story has been enlarged a lot with the telling

[svcw]

You may have missed that this story has been posted dozens of times.
The attempt to make Romney some kind of savior here is disgusting.
Did he participate in looking for the run away girl, absolutely, however he was just one of many and the girl returned on her own.
Find the original story not the PR story, you may learn something.
This story as presented is as trumped up as Romney raising from the dead in France when he was in a car accident.

[SoFloFreeper]

No way did Romney help someone in need. I have heard over and over here on FR how he is the devil incarnate.

[altura]

I wondered how many posts it would be before the people who are literally killing Free Republic would come on to make nasty comments and ruin the good feeling from this wonderful story.

Well, it was two posts.

I read no more.

[Tau Food]

Which man do you trust with our country?

Neither one.

[SoConPubbie]

FTA: That is why personal stories about Romney and Obama, before they were candidates, are crucial. Voters want to understand what kind of man they are electing.

What this article forgot to mention was Romney's documented record of consistent lying.

[Kazan]

This notion that Romney has character has to be the biggest pile of steaming cow manure I've read in a long time. Even Romney cheerleaders like Ann Coulter admit he is a masterfully liar, one that lied to liberals in Massachusetts to get elected.

Men with character don't govern out of political expediency, flip flop on multiple issues and determine their position on life and death matters like abortion by the polls, which Romney did when he was running for and as governor.

That so many can stick their heads in the sand and pretend Romney is something he never has been and isn't is both sad and laughable. This why Republicans keep winning elections and the country keeps drifting to the left.

[Kazan]

Romney has all the character of a Nazi sympathizer:

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, January 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has been dogged by allegations that his shifting positions on abortion have been politically opportunistic. That perception will be bolstered by a new book that reveals Romney consulted polling data before deciding to campaign as “pro-choice” during his 1994 Senate race.

In the book Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, Ronald Scott wrote that Romney commissioned former Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin to survey Massachusetts voters on key issues. Wirthlin showed Romney a poll indicating any candidate describing himself as “pro-life” was unelectable in the state.

Before initiating his campaign against then-incumbent Senator Ted Kennedy, Romney informed the elders of his church about his decision to run as a supporter of abortion rights. In November 1993, Romney, Wirthlin, and Scott (all Mormons) presented their case to the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a courtesy. Romney, then a Mormon leader in his state, explained his would label himself personally opposed to abortion but would take no action to outlaw it, a view he later described as “effectively pro-choice.”

[Colofornian]

Romney and character?

What about "pro-abort" Mitt?

Or, imagine you're a "devout Mormon." You've been offered cozy occasional directorship position for a local theater for $25,000 per year.

You find out that the theater shows family-rated fair. But there's a "back entrance" for their XXX showings. You also find out they give $ to Planned Parenthood.

Would you, as an alleged "devout Mormon," continue to take the position knowing that a portion of your salary comes from their porn industry intake? What would you feel knowing that this theater's $ goes to the largest child-killing organization in the world (Planned Parenthood)?

Well, that's Mitt Romney for you. He's done the exact equivalent of the above!!!

Oh...and Mitt's additional tie-in to ensuring Planned Parenthood has been funded? Well, look who's boycotted Marriott due to $ gifts to Planned Parenthood:
Life Decisions International

According to David Rosen at ix.netcom.com, "Romney received an annual fee of $25,000 and stock options while serving on the Marriott board. He also received a campaign contribution of $80,000 arranged by J.W. Marriott. Romney left the board position at some point in 2007 but rejoined after the campaign was over. During the first decade Romney was on the board (1992 on)

So, here was Marriott, offering its rooms as the "theater of choice" to the film distributor, On Command Corporation. And even more recently, what has On Command Corporation, which has since become LodgeNet, offered as titles for Marriott? According to this article -- Marriott Boycotted Over Porn -- published in Oct, 2009: The groups [AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross Foundations] organized a "porn-in" last night at the Marriott on Figueroa Street downtown to launch the boycott. As we speak, the organizations contend, some businessman in a dark Marriott room somewhere across America is watching Just Explicit Sex, Naughty Office Workers, Mothers Do It Better, or Daddy's Girl Takes it All -- titles they say are offered by the chain, titles that feature condom-free sex.

Btw, even the Mormon-church owned Deseret News jumped on Romney in '07 for the Marriott-porn connection:

Even the Mormon church owned Deseret News wrote a July 10, 2007 editorial against Romney's open linkage to the porn industry: Romney caught a bit of flack last week because he spent nearly 10 years on the Marriott board and yet never tried to reverse the company's policy of providing pornography on demand, something J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr., defended in a 2000 letter as being economically important. The corporation controls only a few of the hotels with its name on them. For a presidential candidate who has railed against pornography, this is not entirely insignificant. Even if the subject never came up at a board meeting, one can argue that at least part of the $25,000 plus stock he was paid annually for his board membership came from the money some hotel guests paid for access to the films.

[Kazan]

28 Flip flops by Romney:

http://mittromneysflipflops.com/

Men of character lead by conviction, not by the polls.

It's time "conservative" or Republican operatives stopped trying to deceive the gullible about the Republican nominee.

[sockmonkey]

Believe it or not, I hadn’t heard this story before. Unfortunately, I read the comments..well, not the usual cut and pastes which I thought were going to be relegated to the religion forum. I wish there was an ignore button on FR.

I wish all the religous/ class warfare drama around here weren’t so thick one could cut it with a knife.

I will vote for Romney in November, not so much because of any admiration for him, but because I truly believe Obama is determined to destroy our Nation, and in fact is well on his way to doing just that at this very moment, and every moment the past 3.5 years.

[Pasadena2k]

The truth always comes out.

The hatred of Mitt has less to do with his political positions and more to do with his religion.

It’s no different than the Sunni vs Shia battle in the Middle East.

Religious extremists have crucified more than one famous guy.

[Jim Robinson]

Sorry, but the abortionist/homosexualist STATIST, Myth Romney is morally bankrupt.

[Elsie]

I was 32 years old when my GOD changed his mind.

I'm quite sure grandpa was pleading to Heaven to get Him to do it...

I went along with what my GOD said BEFORE I was thirty; and by Kolob's rings I do it NOW!!

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"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.

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Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'

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August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."

"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."

"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)

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1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

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We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.

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Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."

(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

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When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

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When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."

(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)

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Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

 

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

 

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

 

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[Elsie]

I went along with what my GOD said BEFORE I was thirty; and by Kolob's rings I do it NOW!!

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Did you know I was a BISHOP in TCOJCOLDS?

I might STILL be one; but you'll never hear it from ME!

[Finny]

Excuse me, but what about the character of a politician who knowingly, willingly creates law to force adoption agencies to cooperate with homosexual couples who want to adopt children?

What about the character of a politician who says that if a minor girl wants an abortion but her parents object, she should be able to go to a judge and have him overrule her parents?

What about the character of a politician who proclaims and endorses a homosexual group in its "outreach" to 12-year-old kids?

Romney has done ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS, and that's just scratching the surface of the real quality of the guy's "character." It is low and destructive, and America not only deserves better, she NEEDS better. She NEEDS people with the courage to reject politicians of low character.

Afraidfortherepublic, courage means "being afraid but saddling up anyway," according to a man of REAL character, John Wayne.

Character COUNTS. That is why I refuse to vote for Romney. It doesn't count as much for you -- otherwise you'd deny him your vote as staunchly and rightly as you do Obama.