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[Jun. 29th, 2007|10:46 am] |
warning : mild animal cruelty (very mild, animal is unharmed), politics.
Mitt Romney, in a fawning interview published by the Boston Globe, decided to offer to a reporter an example of his leadership qualities in action.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part4_main/?page=1
[my login is lietya@hotmail.com, password tasha1; feel free to borrow it.]
For a family vacation in 1983, Romney strapped the family dog's crate to the roof of his car and drove for *twelve hours* to Ontario. The dog was physically unharmed and the article is too busy praising Romney's brilliance and turd-miner upbringing to delve into whether it was emotionally traumatized, but at one point it did poop all over the roof (presumably, that was one unhappy dog!).
"As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management."
Honestly, for me personally, the damaging aspect isn't what happened - but rather that 24 years later, when asked in an interview, the first example that apparently came to mind was this. All those years as governor, not to mention the previous job as venture capitalist mentioned in this article, and the best thing he could think of to prove that he is gifted with "emotion-free crisis management" is that when a dog crapped on his car, HE WASHED IT OFF?! That's kind of sad, frankly. Not to mention the horrifying part where he thinks this is a cute story to be telling reporters. According to less-approving news coverage later on, he may have been guilty of animal mistreatment under Massachusetts law. Obviously he won't be convicted at this late date, but even so, bragging about crimes long after they would have gone unnoticed is a touch unfortunate in a political candidate.
On the bright side, this does show off one trait of his that MA residents are quite familiar with - a gift for shooting himself in the foot every time he opens his fool mouth.
(Apologies to Shash, from whose blog I borrowed this, and who is I suspect heartily sick of the whole conversation by now!) |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2007|05:52 pm] |
Happy birthday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wickedrad!
I'll be thinking of the cats, too - I'm sorry that's not the most fun thing to deal with on your birthday! |
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[Nov. 16th, 2006|07:33 am] |
Happy birthday, verbicide! May it be an especially perky day. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2006|12:39 pm] |
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Happy birthday, electricland! May it be filled with candy, of course.... |
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[Oct. 31st, 2006|08:13 am] |
Happy birthday, october31st! Yours is easy to remember, I have to admit. :) |
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[Oct. 27th, 2006|11:46 am] |
Happy birthday wyldegrey!
You'd probably kick me for telling you I was late posting this because I got bogged down dealing with a lawyer, I bet. :) But congratulations and I hope it's a lovely day! |
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[Sep. 24th, 2006|01:18 pm] |
Happy birthday, jandyle! |
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[Aug. 1st, 2006|07:45 am] |
Happy birthday to slammerkinbabe! By the next one, you should be even happier, or at least a lot busier. ;) |
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[Jun. 30th, 2006|01:17 pm] |
Happy birthday, erbie! You and Naughty both got the greatest present already...
(I, too, am "late"; I remembered it as the "last day in June".... and was patiently waiting for the 31st! Ooops.) |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2006|07:26 am] |
Happy birthday, llnaughty! I hope that your present is that Edgar gets to come home soon.... |
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[May. 13th, 2006|11:34 am] |
Happy birthday to gunthera1! May it be filled with snuggling and lovely cross-stitch gifts. |
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[May. 13th, 2006|11:21 am] |
Happy BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to rolypolypony! Yay! I hope you manage to have a wonderful day despite the rain and DH working. |
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[May. 8th, 2006|08:30 am] |
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Happy Birthday, anacrucis! I hear the party was a success. (sorry I'm late; I don't do much LJ on weekends.) |
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[Mar. 24th, 2006|10:39 am] |
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Let me say up front that this is in no way related to my current situation, and was inspired by conversations with friend(s) for whom I have enormous sympathy. Also, this poll is very long.
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Happy birthday, developer! I'm sorry I can't make the party, but I hope you have a wonderful time. |
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