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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/for-romney--and-obama--is-it-time-for-a-statute-of-limitation-on-controversies-.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/for-romney--and-obam&hellip;</a><br>
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      <![CDATA[Further reading: "Old School," novel by Tobias Wolff
        
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      <![CDATA[good times...<br>
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      <![CDATA[Romney's phrase "pranks and hijinks" doesn't begin to express the reality of what he did, if all those witnesses' recollections are accurate. It's the kind of way-over-the-top bullying that, these days, seems to have preceded several cases of suicide by the victims.<br>
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Yes, Mitt is a fine-looking fellow.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's one thing to be uncomfortable with the subject of homosexualty because it is foreign to you. But it's quite another thing to gang up on an "effeminate" classmate.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bruce: What bothers you bothers me as well. And his laughing about the incident on "Kilmeade And Friends" was really disconcerting.
        
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      <![CDATA[In the greatest political novel ever, "All the King's Men," Judge Irwin did a wicked thing long ago and Jack Burden uncovers it and confronts the judge, who kills himself rather than support Willie Stark. <br>
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At the other end of the spectrum, is there a stature of limitations on wedgies?
        
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      <![CDATA[Mitt tormented a classmate, tormented the family dog, and, if things don't go right in November, will torment all of us. Stay classy, Mittens.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm also roughly of Romney's era, and I remember all the euphemisms John cited and the repressive, juvenile attitudes we grew up with. When I was 16, there were no gays in my lexicon, only fags and queers.
        
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      <![CDATA[It sounds like his excuse for Romney is that Romney is from an older generation and came from a privileged background. That just doesn't work for me.  We all did things we are ashamed of but we all aren't running for president either.
        
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      <![CDATA[Whether or not this is meaningful, I think, depends on whether or not you see the event as a youthful prank or as an assault. Perhaps an experiment in forced hair cutting is in order?
        
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      <![CDATA[Finally an intelligent and well reasoned view. Thanks John for getting this one right while everyone else is peeing their pants with revisionist posing bull.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a kid Mitt terrorized a classmate; in 1983 he drove the countryside for half a day with his dog Seamus attached to the roof of his car. Yeah, adulthood really changed him.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's a mixed bag....some folks change tremendously, others not at all. I had more than a few lapses in judgement as youth and even as a young adult, but have managed to learn from my mistakes and am hopefully a better person now.
        
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      <![CDATA[It only means that we have to decide what we are willing to overlook. I will overlook youthful indiscretions but I will not overlook major character flaws.
        
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      <![CDATA[The issue here is not what Romney did, it's what JB says at the beginning.<br>
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"There should be a statute of limitations on stuff we did in our youth, or else no one with any qualifications beyond a beating pulse will run for public office, much less the presidency."<br>
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This is becoming a big problem for our country with the information age. A lot of people who would be very good for political positions in our country won't get involved because they know they have a skeleton or two that they don't want out in public.<br>
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You limit the candidate pool significantly, and we end up with Romney and Obama as the two best choices.
        
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      <![CDATA[But do people really change that much from their teens into adulthood. I can tell you that my core values haven't changed.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well I have to admit I did some stupid things as a kid. People do change, but it has been my experience that popular crowd thugs usually don't, especially if they remain in the popular crowd after high school.
        
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      <![CDATA[JBran: shame on you for defending the behavior of someone whose character was well-formed by the time of this incident as nothing more than a youthful indiscretion. Bill Clinton's smoking marijuana (whether or not he inhaled) would qualify as a youthful indiscretion, but this, in idiomatic terms, is a horse of a different color.
        
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