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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (188945)5/10/2012 9:58:56 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 542970
 
Hello John, it has been a while.

I know you're not defending Romney but I think you place too little value on what this incident tells us about him.

The thing that strikes me about Romney's denial is that either he didn't even feel enough remorse to plant the incident in his memory or, almost as bad, he recalls the incident but he has such an impaired sense of empathy that he doesn't realize that his statement of no recall is a greater indictment of him than the actual incident itself.

The latter indicates that he's so tone deaf with respect to empathy that he can't understand how average people will view the "forgetting" of a teenage hurtful act that most of us would expect the perpetrator and the victim to remember with shame and embarrassment for the rest of their lives. How must that unfortunate man have felt when he read that Romney's act meant so little to Romney that he forgot it?

So I think this is pretty important in evaluating Romney as a candidate. I can take an opportunistic liar as a President but not a tone deaf president charged with operating in a complex world where relationships with international power brokers and foreign populations are critical and he has to measure them, understand them and push the right buttons.

But hey, maybe the haircut guy, like his all to willing cartop dog, habitually laid on the ground inquiring if every passer by was a barber? Ed
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