Good Read -Willard's multiple realities in three overlapping dimensions

[malaise]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/07/romney_and_bain_1999_2002_his_retirement_is_just_another_flip_flop_.html
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Mitt Romney says the attacks on his record at Bain Capital are petty. They’re just another diversion, in his view, from the election’s real issues. But the controversy over when he left Bain captures something much bigger. Together with Romney’s equivocations on other issues, such as abortion and the individual mandate, the Bain episode exposes a pattern in Romney’s character. He keeps his options open, often maintaining multiple alternative realities. Then, in retrospect, he streamlines his autobiography.

Here’s Romney’s airbrushed story, as he presented it to ABC News on Friday:

I had no association with the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999. That is when I left the firm. … As everyone knows, I went on to run the Olympics for three years. I was there full time. After that, I came back and ran in Massachusetts for governor. I had no role with regards to Bain Capital after February 1999.
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Romney’s problem is that during those three years, Bain filed—and Romney signed—documents that maintained the alternative realities he now dismisses. The documents, submitted to regulators, name Romney as the firm’s "sole shareholder, sole director, chief executive officer and president,” and, for good measure, its “controlling person.” In a round of interviews Friday and Sunday, Romney and his surrogates tried to explain away these documents. But their explanations only underscore his double life.

What’s intriguing, looking back at this period, is that Romney was living multiple realities in three overlapping dimensions. Geographically, he was positioning himself to run for office either in Utah or in Massachusetts. Politically, he was preparing to present himself as either a pro-lifer (in Utah) or a pro-choicer (in Massachusetts). And financially, he was preserving his option to resume full-time management of Bain, even as he took on the Olympics and considered a political career. Chief executive of Bain was just one of many things Romney was and, at the same time, wasn’t. It didn’t define the man. Nothing does.

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R Thank you malaise! Now THAT makes sense. I hope rMoney doesn't

read this. I bet their are many in the country who could excuse his
'inconsistencies' with a meme of keeping his options open. Many
could understand that. He's a fence sitting manipulator in my book.

[malaise]

2. A first rate rogue a greedy mofo

He can be defined

[snappyturtle]

6. LOL! perfect. nt

[annabanana]

3. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there . . .

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...


Antigonish
by Hughes Mearns

[RagAss]

4. Thanks for posting this.

A fine work of nondual thought.

[malaise]

5. Freaking perfect