Comments on: THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World

By: Wooly Bully

Wooly Bully — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:10:58 +0000

One more thing, I suggest that the writer Steve Almond should be the one to write the article I am suggesting. He appears to think he is morally superior to Romney, and is judging him publicly, so I also suggest that Mr Almond be the first to present his most shameful acts to the public, complete with his photo, and his political party.

Again, I await, patiently.

By: Wooly Bully

Wooly Bully — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:02:26 +0000

Not a single response to my challenge above! Perhaps this article is too old and not read much now.

Thus, I present a challenge to those who run therumpus.net: Write an article and ask your readers who think they are better than Romney, and who think they are without fault and want to judge him, to spill their guts publicly about their past mistakes. Please ask the readers to use their real name and post their photo and tell us the most shameful things they did in their past. Perhaps this challenge can be used to show that one side of the political divide is morally superior to the other. To assist in that, please indicate your political party.

This could be bigger than Facebook!

I await, patiently.

By: Wooly Bully

Wooly Bully — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:44:41 +0000

I would not believe every word out of a politician. If Mr. Romney apologized and said so publicly, and the man is not alive to confirm that he did, those who hate Romney (such as Rod above) would not believe him. He had no choice but to say he can’t remember the incident. Also he was correct to say he did not remember it because it has no relevance, whether he apologized or not! Those who hate Romney (such as Rod above) will never understand or admit this fact.

Once again I invite those who think they are better than Romney, and who think they are without fault, to say so here publicly and to spill their guts about their past mistakes that they regret. Please use your real name and post a photo of yourself and tell us some wrong doings you did in your past that you are ashamed of doing. I made the challenge 6 days ago and thus far there has not been a single response.

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:56:18 +0000

Maybe he apologized? Romney doesn’t even remember the incident, remember? That isn’t my guess; that’s what the man said himself. Listen, I don’t mean to insult you Wooly Bully (I really don’t), so instead I will suggest that a lack of empathy is very fashionable these days and there are far more people like you than those of us who see a connection between whom one was then and whom one is now. You are in vogue and the rest of us are hopelessly out of sync with the Zeitgeist. So you have that….I suppose.

By: Wooly Bully

Wooly Bully — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:14:02 +0000

No one would condone the grotesque sexual assaults described above. Do keep in mind those had nothing to do with Mr. Romney. Mr. Romney may have been an asshole when he was a kid; many kids are assholes; too bad but that’s life. I am sure Romney regrets the hair cutting incident, just as many of us regret mistakes we have made. But it was 50 years ago, and he cannot apologize to the dead man now; then again maybe he DID apologize to him before he died – we will never know and it is none of our business.

Mr. Romney isn’t perfect but neither is the writer or any of the commenters, or Romney’s political opponents, etc. The Romney of 50 years ago is totally irrelevant to the race for president today. If you would like to judge Mr. Romney please do so here publicly: write that you are better than he is, and that you are without fault, and that you go around looking to spill your guts about the mistakes you have made in your past.

By: Marite

Marite — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:36 +0000

Bruce – all ‘sadistic’ or ‘cruel’ behavior is rooted in the actual mental state of the individual at the time of the behavior. In adolescence, this can be a transitory situation. When the same behavior is exhibited in adults, it has become an intrinsic part of a persons’ way of relating to the world and is very unlikely to change. This is why we correctly give juvenile criminals a break and have to essentially throw the key away for some adults.

Rod…feel like what kiddo? a realist? These men as human beings are certainly worthy of respect within other areas of their lives, and they very likely are wonderful fathers/sons/etc. My assessment only pertains to their actions as leaders of the country where I, my friends and family spend our lives… certainly a good enough reason to me for looking closely at their way of interacting with the world around them. It is dangerous to be blind to the fact that external behavior always comes from the internal mental state. As for a terrible way to live…well, you haven’t tasted the blueberries and figs on our farm!

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:50:28 +0000

Marite – I am so sorry. That is a terrible way to live…feeling like that all the time.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:26:49 +0000

@Marite – the kind of person who does what Romney is accused of doing isn’t self-deceptive, insecure, narcissistic, juvenile, or shallow. They’re sadistic and cruel. And don’t compare him with Bush: we haven’t seen President Romney – yet.

By: Marite

Marite — Sun, 27 May 2012 18:51:36 +0000

If it is true that Romney led or even participated in this act, then his disavowal certainly reflects badly on his character. Perhaps he was a self deceptive, insecure, narcissistic, juvenile ass. Perhaps he still has a shallow personality, and lacks the ability to look inside himself with enough courage to face his faults and own up to them, but I find it difficult to believe that anyone with open eyes finds him worse than Clinton, with his oval office lap dancing (anyone yet know what the meaning of ‘is’ is?), or Obama, who is the living embodiment of narcissistic arrogance – both of whom have displayed this behavior as adults (Presidents, no less) without any remorse. Bush was dangerously imbecilic, but only an amateur narcissist (lacked the neurotic depth).

God (gaia, krishna, oprah – whatever floats you) help us all in November. I will again mark the box for ‘lesser of evils’.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:17 +0000

…roughly one in every one hundred humans is a full-fledged psycopath (Robert Hare, Without Concience,1995))…it is far more common among males…and the percentage of them is higher in corporations, where the attributes of psycopaths are highly valued (Snakes in Suits,2006)…if one believes in God (one that is omniscient and omnipotent, and that fits the definition of “psychopath”), it would make a lot of sense that God made man in his image, but only one in every hundred of us…precisely what we should expect a religious psycopath to believe (David Stamos-Postmodernism, Morality,and God, 2011). Now there is a dangerous pattern….