Mitt Romney Hates Long Hair
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June 3rd, 2012

Mitt Romney Hates Long Hair

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  1. 21ccb says:

    Chaya, jade is a color. Lol

  2. ChayaFradle says:

    However, given the choice of a man who is naive and one who did a hate crime on a gay person, this is a no brainer.

  3. ChayaFradle says:

    President Obama I trust, but not his ability to get things done given a multitude of Republicans in the congress who stop him at every turn. Also, I think he's a bit naive to think we can "all be friends", type of thing. Government is cut throat sharking.

  4. 21ccb says:

    1) Jeff, I'm white and I don't trust white people, so I say good thinking to Obama on that one if that is truly what he said.
    2) I view this strip simply as a parody of the thought process that goes on within way too many voters.

  5. 21ccb says:

    1) Jeff, I'm white and I don't trust white people, so I say good thinking to Obama on that one if that is truly what he said.
    2) I view this strip simply as a parody of the thought process that goes on within way too many voters.

    • ChayaFradle says:

      I agree, 21ccb. In fact, I am white and don't trust white people. You never know which of them could harbor secret prejudices. Whoops. I guess that makes me prejudiced?

      • ChayaFradle says:

        Actually, I trust almost no one, of any color. Therefore, I'm not prejudiced. Just jaded.

  6. grapefruits says:

    Jeff, your brain is so hard wired to bigoted stereotypes that you didn't even notice that Clyde is going against the grain

  7. grapefruits says:

    Jeff, why aren't you celebrating the fact that Clyde is voting Republican?

  8. Jeff says:

    What was this strip supposed to be about? Are you seriously saying we should not vote for someone because of something done in his youth? If that is the case then shouldn't all the admitted uses of marijuana and cocaine as well
    as the statements made in his books about not trusting white people be counted against President Obama in his bid for re-election?

    • kenecollier says:

      A delightfully ironic response to a comic strip about clueless voters.

    • Tangerine says:

      Jeff, Doonesbury had an excellent weeklong series on this that addresses your question. It starts here:
      http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/2012/5/

      with the statement, "Folks, most of us have done something shameful, and we remember it forever precisely because it WAS shameful. So Romney's claim that he has no recollection of pinning down a terrified gay teen and shearing off his hair is both preposterous and cowardly."

      If Romney were to admit that he had done this and that he was wrong and felt terrible about it and take the opportunity to make a statement against bullying, I would respect that.
      If he were to make a categorical statement that this is something he would never, ever have done, I would take it pretty seriously. But claiming that he doesn't remember ever having done something so cruel, something that probably qualifies as a hate crime? Contemptible.

      Do you understand that maturity means owning your past wrongs AS wrongs? Refusing to admit them does not make you a better person, it makes you a stunted one.

      Some other points: I also wouldn't compare an assault on another person to smoking marijuana, or even cocaine use. I have to say, I wouldn't want a former drug addict or alcoholic in the White House, because what if he relapsed?–but wait. Bush was that, a former alcoholic! And while I didn't want him in the White House, that wasn't why, and I think it would be an unfair thing to hold against him.

      And, um, have you actually read Obama's two books? Because I did, and I don't remember any statements about him not trusting white people. I'm not claiming assurance that there weren't any, but it wasn't a theme and it doesn't stick out in my mind. There's a big difference, too, between, "at the time, I didn't trust white people [um, except for my mother and the white grandparents who helped raise me]," and "at that time, I learned that white people were not to be trusted", or "this is why white people are not to be trusted".