Buckeye State Blog - Romney on 9/11: "Lighten Up" - Comments

Anonymous/Mr. Right sounds like.....

No Vested Interest — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:25:25 -0700

A junior high name-caller at recess. His comments are not the comments of a mature person. I'm too old to spend much time reading this. I believe he/she ought to go back to his/her studies for a few more years and then perhaps he/she will be ready to engage in reasoned dialogue. This is the unfortunate underside of blogging.

did you get your meds today?

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:49:21 -0700

You can lend some from Rush if you have run out of it.

no democratic presidential candidate has called Bush that

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:47:36 -0700

or posed with a sign in their hand saying that sort of thing. Your usual rethug spin will not work anymore.

yes, multiple-choice Mitt is always right

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:44:00 -0700

how can he be wrong when henever flip-flops?

please ask plastic Mitt to

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:41:59 -0700

hold more hate filled signs like this. I forgot that "the base" loves this and one solid reason to Mitt the nomination.

which democratic candidate was holding

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:31:30 -0700

a sign that had this thing written on it?

The days of rethug spin are over. The American people are smart enough to know the difference between Mitt's hate-mongering and your spin.

lets find out who worships Bin Laden

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:26:45 -0700

Bush let escape Bin Laden from Tora Bora mountains in 2002.

Then multiple-choice Mitt tells AP in April 2007 that, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person" when asked about whether its important to catch Osama Bin Laden.

So, figure out who likes Bin Laden!

he/she is just following orders from

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:21:30 -0700

his/her dear leader, multiple-choice Mitt. Thats all. When leader starts the hate-speech how can his sycophants not follow him?

republicans are getting super desparate!

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:17:37 -0700

no one is surprised!

republican mind at work again!

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:09:14 -0700

Don't try to think too hard, your brain may explode. Instead go and volunteer for your pretty boy Mitt who wears $300 makeup.

oh yea,

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:03:59 -0700

every sycophant should go on his/her knees before the 'dear leader mulitiple-choice Mitt'.

Jerid, how dare you ask question to Mitt! You are only supposed to say 'yes sir' like cult followers.

No to Romney - he's a hate-mongerer who does not want

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:58:40 -0700

to catch Bin Laden.

The republican "family values" at work!

ohio_observer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:55:20 -0700

The republican "family values" at work!

What fun

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:01:08 -0700

I wonder if Jerid is starting to feel just a little bit stupid over the fact that he made an @ss out of himself over a sign that references something Teddy said. Come on Jerid, get a sub and chill out. Can't you think of bigger fish to fry?

I really am late to reading all these comments.

Muffet — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:49:52 -0700

Seriously, is there something wrong with Anonymous/Mr. Right? Seems like maybe he needs to get back on his meds.

Romney on 9/11: "Lighten Up"

Jerid — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:27:38 -0700

UPDATE: I'm available for comment on my experience with Romney at Jerid@buckeyestateblog.com

I got up late; it was a Tuesday in Cleveland and I only had early morning swim practice MWF's. Showering, I heard Steve, another guy on the third floor of the "Tyler" dorm yell from his room, "holy shit!" From the pitch in his voice I could tell it was serious. In a blink of eye I threw my clothes on as I stumbled into Steve's room still fumbling with my flip flops. I remember their faces - Chris, Steve, Nate - jaws all agape as the four of us watched the first tower smolder. And right then I had that "sinking" feeling that still I get to this day; at the time it was the strongest it'd ever been, thousands of times worse than a few months previous when I'd broken up with my high school sweetheart - an event that I sheepishly admit still haunts me even in adulthood. The rest of the day I recall drunkenly; the haze that I walked through at the time permeates my memory. The clearest thing I feel now, six years later, are those tears that violently rolled off my face into my pillow the night of September 11th.

I don't understand how someone can compare any American to Osama Bin Laden, but pundits are still willing to prey on the emotions that everyone that lived through 9/11 feel, invoking images of the most hate man in America to describe the political opposition. It's a cheap, divisive, whorish move to make. It represents the worst of the politics of hate. It's a move that I expect presidential candidates of all parties to be above. But Mitt Romney is not.

So I asked him about it on Sunday at a townhall meeting in Exeter, NH. In the video, I'm angry. I still am right now. Please, watch this video.