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Title: Breaking News: Preppy protester: The moment a 19-year-old Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft
Source:
Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html
Published: Jan 6, 2012
Author: Graham Smith
Post Date: 2012-01-09 19:42:39 by X-15
Keywords: chickenshit, Mormon, draft-dodger, coward
Views: 626
Comments: 4
Taking a stand: A young Mitt Romney holds up a placard at a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in May 1966 They say every picture tells a story. A newly-unearthed photograph showing Mitt Romney demonstrating in favour of the Vietnam War draft might leave the presidential candidate feeling somewhat embarrassed. The veteran Republican, then 19, can be seen picketing an anti-war sit-in at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1966. Mr Romney will no doubt be proud of his younger self taking what was at the time a very unpopular stance. However, he might grimace at his clean-cut appearance and preppy wardrobe. Taken at the height of the swinging Sixties, Mr Romney holds a sign declaring 'Speak Out, Don't Sit In' as, alongside like-minded individuals, he proclaims his support for Lyndon Johnson's ever-expanding draft. But, in a marked contrast to the relaxed dress sense associated with that decade's youth movement, he is wearing smart white slacks, a white buttoned-up shirt and a dark blazer. A newspaper clipping headlined 'Governor's son pickets the pickets' states: 'Mitt Romney, son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, was one of the pickets who supported the Stanford University administration in opposition to sit-in demonstrators.' The photograph was taken on May 20, 1966, shortly after a group of students had taken over the office of Stanford University President Wallace Sterling. They were protesting at the introduction of a test designed to help the authorities decide who was eligible for the draft. Mr Romney was one of approximately 150 conservative students who counter-picketed the sit-in. Carey Coulter was one of the demonstrators alongside Mr Romney that day. He told BuzzFeed.com: 'We were there to get an education and these people holding the administration hostage was antithetical to that. 'Mitt walked up to me and said that he had some experience with the press, and that he would handle the press for me if I wanted him to. I said fine, because I was busy running the demonstration. 'I don't recall ever seeing him again.' Poster Comment: He looks just like GW Bush "the preppy cheerleader" of the same time period.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
The preppy s'bag would have felt a whole lot differently if he was 1-A at the time of that photo.
And he still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. It is vital to understand that there is no truth without discernment and no wisdom without the truth. What then is “faith” but an effort to confound truth and wisdom?
And he and Newt are "outside the system".
S-s-s-s-s-s-s-Saigon. Saigon.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
But, in a marked contrast to the relaxed dress sense associated with that decade's youth movement, he is wearing smart white slacks, a white buttoned-up shirt and a dark blazer.
#3. To: angK (#2)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
The preppy s'bag would have felt a whole lot differently if he was 1-A at the time of that photo.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2012)
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