Exclusive: Mitt Romney, Student Protester Of The WORST Kind

[kpete]

Exclusive: Mitt Romney, Student Protester


The date was May 20, 1966. A group of students had taken over the office of Stanford President Wallace Sterling, protesting against the institution of a test that was among the first steps toward the Vietnam-era draft.

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"We were there to get an education and these people holding the Administration hostage was antithetical to that," he recalled to BuzzFeed in his first interview about the day.

As the roughly 150 counter-protesters held signs and chatted with passing students, a tall, neatly-dressed 19-year old Coulter had never seen before approached him.

"He walked up to me and said that he had some experience with the press, and that he would handle the press for me if I wanted him to," Coulter recalled. "I said fine, because I was busy running the demonstration."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/exclusive-mitt-romney-student-protester
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/mitt-one-of-empty-boys.html

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Most of the missionaries, though, were also relieved that their service meant a draft deferment.

"I am sorry, but no one was excited to go and get killed in Vietnam," Mr. Hansen said, acknowledging, "In hindsight, it is easy to be for the war when you don't have to worry about going to Vietnam."

Mr. Romney, though, said that he sometimes had wished he were in Vietnam instead of France. "There were surely times on my mission when I was having a particularly difficult time accomplishing very little when I would have longed for the chance to be serving in the military," he said in an interview, "but that was not to be."

While many Mormons -- and eventually, some of his fellow missionaries -- enlisted, Mr. Romney got a student deferment after returning from France. When the draft lottery was introduced in December 1969, he drew a high enough number -- 300 -- that he would never be called up. NY Times

MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/us/politics/15romney.html?pagewanted=printhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/us/politics/15romney.html?pagewanted=3&hp
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/mitt-one-of-empty-boys.html

[Scuba]

1. "There were surely times on my mission when I was having a particularly difficult time ...

"There were surely times on my mission when I was having a particularly difficult time accomplishing very little when I would have longed for the chance to be serving in the military."



Yeah, I'll bet he really wanted to be on a mission to Khe Sahn in the A Shau Valley. 'Cause he was having a "difficult time" there in Paris.

[Old and In the Way]

2. "I would have longed for the chance to be serving in the military,"

yeah, bullshit. You were a dodger, just like Dick, Newt, and George. The guy that did go - John Kerry - had his character assassinated by Republicans pols like yourself who love to war monger and war profiteer...as long as they don't have to put themselves in harm's way.