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"Ubiquitous" |
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11 May 2007 08:42:49 AM |
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Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
In what may be his strongest public statements against the Bush
administration, presidential candidate Mitt Romney says his fellow
Republicans in the Bush White House made mistakes in Iraq that the country
is still paying for. Romney also deplores the polygamy his ancestors
practiced in the 19th Century in a 60 MINUTES interview with Mike Wallace to
be broadcast Sunday, May 13 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television
Network.
"I think the administration made a number of errors," he tells Wallace. "I
don't think we were adequately prepared for what occurred. I don't think we
did enough planning. I don't think we considered the various downsides and
risks," says Romney.
He says President Bush isn't the only one to blame. "He's the person where
the buck stops, but it goes through the secretary of defense and the
planning agencies, the Department of State -- it's the whole
administration," Romney says. "They made mistakes... and we're paying for
those mistakes."
The president's "surge" policy of putting additional troops into Iraq may
never work, says Romney, but it deserves a chance. "We're going to know in a
matter of months if it's working or not working."
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past that I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
Romney's wife, Ann, who converted to the Mormon Church before they were
married, is also interviewed. When asked whether they broke the strict
church rule against premarital sex, Romney says, "No, I'm sorry, we do not
get into those things," but still managed to blurt out "The answer is no,"
before ending that line of questioning.
Developing...
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The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too
skeptical, but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind when it
suits the agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every Republican
president a Nixon.
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| User: "umar" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
12 May 2007 09:42:46 PM |
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"Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> writes:
The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too
skeptical, but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind when it
suits the agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every Republican
president a Nixon.
Bush is no Nixon.
Bush isn't even Mussolini.
umar
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| User: "choking hazard" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
11 May 2007 11:42:42 PM |
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Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past that I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
I guess he can't imagine fag marriage.
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| User: "David Weinshenker" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful ThanPolygamy' |
12 May 2007 11:13:23 AM |
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choking hazard wrote:
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past that I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
I guess he can't imagine fag marriage.
But what's so awful about that? I mean, is it
really _that_ much worse than het marriage?
-dave w
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| User: "Victor Velazquez" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
12 May 2007 12:12:08 PM |
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"David Weinshenker" <daze39@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:4645E896.EA11631D@earthlink.net...
choking hazard wrote:
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past
that I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed
before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather.
They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he
took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
I guess he can't imagine fag marriage.
But what's so awful about that? I mean, is it
really _that_ much worse than het marriage?
The only thing worse I can imagine[1] than being married to one woman would
be being married to more than one. Being married to a dude? I don't see
how it could be any worse. At least he couldn't withhold sex.
[1] Apart from genocide, slavery, gamma ray bursts, rogue asteroids, and
bubblegum pop.
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| User: "Sean Walsh" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
11 May 2007 09:14:11 AM |
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Didn't Mike Wallace retire?
And personally, I think Romney should've grilled Wallace on his sexual
life. Let's see a reporter asked these idiotic questions. Plus nothing
would bring in the ratings like an old man describing his sexual
escapades during the days before the Great Depression...
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Sean
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| User: "rst" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
11 May 2007 10:12:23 AM |
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On May 11, 10:14 am, Sean Walsh <seanoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Didn't Mike Wallace retire?
And personally, I think Romney should've grilled Wallace on his sexual
life. Let's see a reporter asked these idiotic questions. Plus nothing
would bring in the ratings like an old man describing his sexual
escapades during the days before the Great Depression...
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Sean
And let's have Bill Clinton interview Shill O'Reilly on the same
subject, please.
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| User: "William December Starr" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
11 May 2007 09:29:03 PM |
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In article <0tmdnfp3t6RE79nbnZ2dnUVZ_jOdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> quoted:
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his
religion's history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the
church's past that I understand is troubling to people," he
says. The practice, outlawed before 1900, is equally troubling to
him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build
a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional
wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
Seven letters, begins with S-L, rhymes with "mavery"...
Genocide sort of sucks too, I hear.
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William December Starr <wdstarr@panix.com>
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| User: "=?utf-8?B?2KfZhNmI2K3ZgNmA2YDZgNi0ICAyMDA3?=" |
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11 May 2007 10:14:25 AM |
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On May 11, 4:42=C2=A0pm, "Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
In what may be his strongest public statements against the Bush
administration, presidential candidate Mitt Romney says his fellow
Republicans in the Bush White House made mistakes in Iraq that the country
is still paying for. Romney also deplores the polygamy his ancestors
practiced in the 19th Century in a 60 MINUTES interview with Mike Wallace=
to
be broadcast Sunday, May 13 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television
Network.
"I think the administration made a number of errors," he tells Wallace. "I
don't think we were adequately prepared for what occurred. I don't think =
we
did enough planning. I don't think we considered the various downsides and
risks," says Romney.
He says President Bush isn't the only one to blame. "He's the person where
the buck stops, but it goes through the secretary of defense and the
planning agencies, the Department of State -- it's the whole
administration," Romney says. "They made mistakes... and we're paying for
those mistakes."
The president's "surge" policy of putting additional troops into Iraq may
never work, says Romney, but it deserves a chance. "We're going to know i=
n a
matter of months if it's working or not working."
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past tha=
t I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
Romney's wife, Ann, who converted to the Mormon Church before they were
married, is also interviewed. When asked whether they broke the strict
church rule against premarital sex, Romney says, "No, I'm sorry, we do not
get into those things," but still managed to blurt out "The answer is no,"
before ending that line of questioning.
Developing...
--
The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too
skeptical, but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind when=
it
suits the agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every Republican
president a Nixon.
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| User: "mg" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
13 May 2007 01:15:12 AM |
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On May 11, 7:42 am, "Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
In what may be his strongest public statements against the Bush
administration, presidential candidate Mitt Romney says his fellow
Republicans in the Bush White House made mistakes in Iraq that the country
is still paying for. Romney also deplores the polygamy his ancestors
practiced in the 19th Century in a 60 MINUTES interview with Mike Wallace to
be broadcast Sunday, May 13 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television
Network.
"I think the administration made a number of errors," he tells Wallace. "I
don't think we were adequately prepared for what occurred. I don't think we
did enough planning. I don't think we considered the various downsides and
risks," says Romney.
He says President Bush isn't the only one to blame. "He's the person where
the buck stops, but it goes through the secretary of defense and the
planning agencies, the Department of State -- it's the whole
administration," Romney says. "They made mistakes... and we're paying for
those mistakes."
The president's "surge" policy of putting additional troops into Iraq may
never work, says Romney, but it deserves a chance. "We're going to know in a
matter of months if it's working or not working."
Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's
history of polygamy. "That's part of the history of the church's past that I
understand is troubling to people," he says. The practice, outlawed before
1900, is equally troubling to him. "I have a great-great grandfather. They
were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took
additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
Romney's wife, Ann, who converted to the Mormon Church before they were
married, is also interviewed. When asked whether they broke the strict
church rule against premarital sex, Romney says, "No, I'm sorry, we do not
get into those things," but still managed to blurt out "The answer is no,"
before ending that line of questioning.
Developing...
--
The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too
skeptical, but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind when it
suits the agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every Republican
president a Nixon.
If I were Romney, after answering the question about premarital sex, I
would have asked Wallace the following questions:
1. Did you or your wife ever have premarital sex?
2. Have you ever stepped out on your wife?
3. Have you ever thought about stepping out on your wife?
4. Has your wife ever stepped out on you?
5. Is it true that you've been married 4 times?
6. Were your other wifes virgins when you married them?
7. As a Jew, do you believe in multiple marriages and divorces?
8. How old was your son, Chris, when you divorced his mother?
9. Why did you divorce Chris' mother?
10. Why did you divorce your other wifes?
11. Do you still find your current wife sexually attractive?
12. Do you have any problem with impotency at your age?
13. If so, how has your wife adjusted to your impotence?
14. Have you asked God for forgiveness for your attempted suicide?
15. How come your surname was changed from "Wallick" to "Wallace"?
16. Were the game shows you hosted in the 1950's honest?
17. Do you regret doing commercials for Parliament cigarettes?
18. You've been accused of using deceptive or "ambush" techniques in
your interviews. Are these accusations true?
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| User: "William December Starr" |
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| Title: Re: Romney on 60 Minutes: I Can't Imagine Anything More Awful Than Polygamy' |
16 May 2007 09:33:02 PM |
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In article <1179036912.089770.317300@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
mg <mgkelson@yahoo.com> said:
If I were Romney, after answering the question about premarital
sex, I would have asked Wallace the following questions:
1. Did you or your wife ever have premarital sex?
2. Have you ever stepped out on your wife?
3. Have you ever thought about stepping out on your wife?
4. Has your wife ever stepped out on you?
[ *snip* ]
16. Were the game shows you hosted in the 1950's honest?
17. Do you regret doing commercials for Parliament cigarettes?
18. You've been accused of using deceptive or "ambush" techniques
in your interviews. Are these accusations true?
To every single one of which the answer is: "_I'm_ not running for
President, Mr. Romney."
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William December Starr <wdstarr@panix.com>
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| User: "tomcervo" |
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12 May 2007 12:23:27 AM |
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On May 11, 9:42?am, "Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
And I must admit, I can't image
anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.
And yet his favorite novel is "Battlefield Earth". I doubt the man can
imagine anything.
But I need say nothing. As Republican frontrunner, the GOP oppo groups
will eviscerate him, starting with Marriott's providing sexual
explicit programming in their hotel cable while he was on the board.
Never mind about his underwear.
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