Romney in danger, according to CNN

[ellie_belly]

In 1968 France, when he was a Mormon missionary, after receiving four deferments that stopped him from being in real danger in Vietnam. I can't begin to verbalize my feeling/thoughts on this.

From a piece titled "CNN Airs The Most Ridiculous Statement I’ve Ever Seen On Television" about CNN's documentary Romney Revealed.

The doc also notes, as an example of Romney “becoming his own man,” that he protested in favor of the draft that he so skillfully avoided, before moving on to the time he spent in France, a time that Romney once described as “tough” because the French were “not happy to see Americans, because we were in Vietnam at the time.”

Yes, you heard that right. Not only did Mitt Romney protest in favor of sending other people’s children to die in Vietnam, even as he avoided service himself, he then complained about how those dying Americans made it “tough” for him while he was in France avoiding service.

Perhaps to avoid charges of bias, the documentary steers clear of these contradictions, but then takes the whitewashing to blindingly absurd levels by introducing the next segment with the aforementioned most ridiculous statement I’ve ever seen on television. “In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American,” Borger says, “but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it.”

That’s right, in 1968, the year in which the highest number of American deaths in Vietnam were reported (16,592), France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American who was avoiding service in Vietnam. Aside from the constant danger of having one’s eye put out by an errant baguette, what hardships did Mitt Romney face while he was “in country?”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-airs-the-most-ridiculous-statement-ive-ever-seen-on-television/

[a geek named Bob]

1. All of that

wine, and existential philosophy...

[immoderate]

2. Dangerous?

I spent time in Paris during the Vietnam War. But I was allowed to drink the wine. It was about the time the French invented the discotheque, where you had to pay money to listen to recorded music.

--imm

[frazzled]

4. I spent a year in Paris during Vietnam as well.

I was 20 years old; it was 1970 (and May 68 was still in the air). It was in no way dangerous, and French people were always eager to talk to me about life in America--rock and roll and blue jeans and all that. And also "Free Bobby!"

Of course, I never knocked on people's doors trying to convert them to some religion. That could be dangerous ... anywhere. Otherwise, the French were very genial to this "jeune Américaine."

[burrowowl]

30. I was a exchange

teaching assistant at a lycee in Angouleme when Kent state happened, When I got up to go teach a first hour class, the whole school 2,000 students and teachers gave me the news and asked how could this happen?

De Gaulle was referenduumed out when in 1968 he thought about bringing in tanks to Paris!

[DavidL]

28. In Paris, two summers, 1967, 1969 it was SO DANGEROUS ...

for someone with a disability like me, it was dangerous to drink wine and local French beers and have to get back to my dortoire.

I had to figure out how drunk I was, could I take the metro back to my bed, and if I could show up at my job in refugee relief the next morning by 10AM.

By the way, parents could wire money to me in Paris for under $10 fee when the postal service closed, and I had a Master Card, recently issued, I could use it in most stores and tourist restaurants if I was short of French Fancs. I also could take trains to Switzerland and Holland for weekends away, no problem.

In short, it was SO DANGEROUS, I had a ball, as an American visitor on a work visa, as Romney must have been.

[PDJane]

3. Romney wouldn't know what danger was if it bit him in the........never mind.

What planet has this man been living on? I'm coming to the conclusion that he has some kind of odd mental disturbance....maybe premature dementia. Good Lord.

[Blanks]

11. My understanding is that it is the planet Kolob.

Although I admit I don't have all the facts.

[goclark]

12. nuts

[Stardust]

13. You're not the first one to notice Romney's odd behavior. A caller to the Norman Goldman Show told

how he had watched his father's decline due to Alzheimer's and that Romney is exhibiting the same symptoms. I notice there's something strange about Romney as well. He just doesn't seem to be all there.

[Cha]

16. Like his eyes are open but

there's nobody home?

[Stardust]

20. Exactly.

[SheilaT]

5. Do you have ANY idea how

dangerous a day old baguette can be?

Obviously you've never been to France.

[Heather MC]

6. this is another Mitt Romney flip flop

in 1968 he was for BIG government as long as it meant sending other people to die. what was the point of protesting for the draft. I was born after all of this nonsense so I really don't understand why someone would protest for the draft.

I fully understand protesting against the draft and I would have been out there with my flag and fist in the air protesting against the draft had been born.

[One of the 99]

7. Gloria Borger is a well known shill

for the right wing. CNN has no credibility employing people like her.

[freshwest]

15. +1

[TomClash]

8. Romney wasn't here

[coalition_unwilling]

21. Romney, like Cheney, simply had 'other priorities'. That's all

you people need to know.

Dripping (in case it's needed)

[TomClash]

23. Sarcasm understood

His negligence got a woman killed.

[JDPriestly]

9. Disgusting

[russspeakeasy]

10. they also claim to be a news station.

[SunSeeker]

14. Unfuckingbelievable. nt

[davidpdx]

17. He is such a coward

If Kerry got such bad treatment for his decisions, then Romney should be crucified.

BTW here is the entire documentary, feel free to edit your OP with it so people see it:

[dmosh42]

18. And he's ready to send our troops into Iran, but no Romney offspring riding the lead tanks!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Make sure Pubbies, Cons & Ts know Mitt Loves the French, speaks French, & Dodged the Draft nt

[cheezmaka]

22. If a Presidential Candidate EVER dodged "the draft"...

they should be automatically disqualified!

[Generic Brad]

24. Is Romney fluent in French?

I am having a hard time trying to figure out how he could convince anyone to convert if he could not fluently speak their language. And if he is fluent, I want to hear him utter a few sentences to make sure he was not just there to avoid the draft.

[Zen Democrat]

25. Yes, he does speak French, but he doesn't want his Franco-phobic base to know. Way too John Kerry.

[unblock]

26. i thought the french were in vietnam also...

we're allies, right?

i mean, french hostility toward americans then probably wasn't worse than american hostility toward each other in 1968.

[Major Hogwash]

27. Wow, that's absurd.

So, let me get this straight, Romney avoids the draft, but at the same time demands that others get drafted, and then claims that when he was in France he was in a dangerous place because of bad port wine?

Romney is a loser to the nth degree.

[NewYorkers]

29. Confused

What has 1968 to do with Romney now. Did now understand CNN article?

[LongTomH]

31. Well, he was trying to get the French to give up their wine!

That could be a bit dangerous!

[budkin]

32. Romney was on a mission!

And Gloria Borger was getting wet.

[ddavis195600]

33. excellent news

Hopefully it'll stay that way.