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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:46 PM Sep 2012

My number one reason to keep Mitt Rmoney from the White House...

How can someone who may potentially be in the position of sending men and women to war...

FORGET to thank them for their service and sacrifice?

I know there is a long list of reasons to keep him out of the WH. Good ones, too. But this got put at the top for me.

How unconscionable is that? As a veteran, I find this patently offensive. Thinking about it makes me livid.

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DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
8. Yes, Iris. Inhumanity and entitlement both.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:13 PM
Sep 2012

Those men and women are nothing to him. But they are nothings that he takes for granted as his right. Other people die FOR him and so what? It's just what he thinks he's somehow entitled to in his charmed life.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
4. I guess its possible when you are a narcissistic ass who equates serving your church as
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:56 PM
Sep 2012

a missionary in France with serving in COMBAT in Vietnam. Or someone who LIES about getting FOUR deferments after protesting against people who did not support the Vietnam War.

Mitt Romney thinks he deserves to live by a different set of rules and standards. Talk about a culture of entitlement.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47726501#47726501

Martin Bashir | Aired on June 07, 2012

Romney’s selective memory on his draft record

Salon.com’s Joan Walsh, the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart, and Mother Jones’ David Corn discuss an explosive new Associated Press report on Mitt Romney and the draft: four separate deferments and an almost equal number of contradictory statements on the topic.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
11. He would be even more in a cocoon of privilege than he is now.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:54 PM
Sep 2012

Whatever tiny bit of compassion he has would be gone. This is what happens to people who live life by the spreadsheet. Those soldiers are just lines or bars on a graph.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
13. Mitt was doing missionary work ... IN PARIS .. during Vietnam War.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:39 PM
Sep 2012

Yeah, Paris. Who knew they sent Mormons there to proselytize Parisians. So much for his military service.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
14. People of his "class" would feel it degrading to thank anyone for anything
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:48 PM
Sep 2012

they don't owe anyone a thank you.

lumpy

(13,704 posts)
15. Essentially Romney is uninformed, unqualified, unloving and lacking the intellect to be
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:25 PM
Sep 2012

the leader of this country. Did I mention that he comes across as stupid at times ?

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