[Toshi]

Fantastic piece in The Stranger, Seattle's alternative newspaper: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/stuck-in-a-room-with-mitt-romney/Content?oid=14623016

Highlights:

A couple in the crowd behind me discusses the pluses and minuses of taking a shortcut diagonally through the park to our right. “If you think I’m walking through a park in the middle of the night, you’re ****ing kidding me,” she hisses at him. This park is less than a city block square, and brightly lit by streetlights and Christmas lights. You can see clearly from one side to another. It’s empty. It has maybe a dozen tall, skinny trees, and it’s ringed on all sides by squadrons of policemen, Secret Service, and the National Guard, not to mention the swarms of people leaving the convention, a couple thousand, easy, in my line of sight. And this woman is deathly afraid she’s going to get mugged, because muggings happen in city parks after dark—she’s probably seen it on TV a hundred times before—and she’d rather not get mugged.

I try to picture the mugger this woman imagines. He’s either black or Latino, he’s carrying a knife or a gun, he’s got gold teeth, and he’s stretching his body to something thinner than five inches around to hide behind one of those trees. It’s not crime this woman is afraid of, it’s vampires. It’s superstitious thought. It’s the kind of thinking that overrides logic in place of something you’ve seen on TV.

But you can see that Romney is uncomfortable with this positioning. You can see this isn’t how he wanted it. Every once in a while—when he’s momentarily startled by the raucous Republican response to one of his coded Obama-is-foreign lines, say, or when he gets heckled—you can see real fear in Romney’s eyes. It’s the fear of someone who suddenly realized he let himself get too drunk, or nearly got into a car accident because he was dopily roaming his hand around the floor of the car, looking for the sandwich he dropped. Someone who spent his whole life chasing something, only to find that he really didn’t want it. Not like this. Never like this.

They roar like monsters in the darkened halls of the Forum, but I look at the people around me, milling forward in the embrace of waist-high concrete barriers to their left and right, trying to get back to their cars, or their buses, or their hotels. They’re grumbling about the blisters caused by their good pair of shoes. They’re hungry. They’re tired. But they are unmistakably human beings. That bald man whose wattle hangs down over his shirt like a meaty necktie, that woman whose perm looks as arid and dry as a tumbleweed. These are peoples’ grandparents. Real human beings will weep when they die (and for most of this ancient crowd, the day that they die will probably be sometime soon). They’re scared of the imaginary world of the 1950s in their heads dying forever, and the problem is that scared people make dumb choices.

 

[Pesqueeb]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/13/former-mormon-explains-why-mitt-romney-should-never-be-president/

 

[dante]

tbh there are FAR more things that I'm concerned about with Romney than his religion/cult/fairy-tale.

 

[stevew]

fantastic....how?

 

[Westy]

Mitt is a muppet. At least with pres Bush/Rove you had a better idea whose hand was up his ass making him talk.

 

[Pesqueeb]

tbh there are FAR more things that I'm concerned about with Romney than his religion/cult/fairy-tale.

Well sure. But is it not fair to say to the uninitiated that if that kind of crazy BS defines who Mittens is, do you really want him to be president?

Mitt is a muppet. At least with pres Bush/Rove you had a better idea whose hand was up his ass making him talk.

The Church is. Possible I know but hear me out. I have a hard time believing that the current 12 apostles aren't sitting around holding their hands like Montgomery Burns waiting to see if Mittens makes it into office. White Horse Prophesy and all......

 

[$tinkle]

if i were in obama's corner, i'd have him wear a hoodie to the debates and walk out to "pussy crook"

 

[ohio]

"pussy crook"

looking this up was a good use of my time. no sarcasm.

 

[Pesqueeb]

looking this up was a good use of my time. no sarcasm.

I don't dare from a work computer.