Comments on: Romney chokes up again

By: choke

choke — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:52:03 +0000

choke…

I think you have a valid point here….

By: WasatchMan

WasatchMan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:59:17 +0000

This may be a cultural misunderstanding. Mormons meet regularly in “fast and testimony meeting” on the first Sunday of each month. There, they express gratitude for their blessings, which include the atonement of Jesus, and their families. Emotions are discreetly shown, which occasionally involves tears. What Romney did here in talking about his father, and earlier talking about the priesthood revelation in 1978, could be seen as carrying over from the LDS practice of “bearing testimony.” It would take a hard heart indeed to look down on a LDS person who once in awhile shows a little emotion about the things that are most important to him.

By: DagneyT

DagneyT — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:13:09 +0000

“in the wake of Hill’s surprise win in NH”

I can’t help it, I just do not believe the Clinton machine won that contest honestly…it worries me as we near the general elections. I’m in the middle of Gary Aldrich’s book “Unlimited Access”, and I just don’t trust those two as far as my 5′ frame can throw them!

By: Radiojoe1470

Radiojoe1470 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:42:49 +0000

Not to try to speak for Michelle, but for me my problem is the timing. Hillary’s getting killed, tears up on stage, and wins. Whether her tears were contrived or not, it did help her. As a consequence if someone else – especially someone who’s trailing – cries, it’s going to look suspicious.

By: Clinton and Mccain the comback kids - Page 2 - Volconvo Debate Forums

Clinton and Mccain the comback kids - Page 2 - Volconvo Debate Forums — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:52:04 +0000

[...] George, former Michigan governor and CEO of AMC. �He was a great man and I miss him dearly,� said (Mitt Romney), choking up."– Jan. 2008 And I seem to recall John McCain having "an emotional [...]

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:28:59 +0000

Thunderbird 1 said:
Is that as in the dinosaur, Rubbble, Fife or Stenson (”How I Met Your Mother”)?

hahaha – I did have the purple dinosaur in mind there, Bird!

The age of Rubble and Fife (both non-criers, heh) is gone. Don’t know about “Stenson”, I rarely watch the telly these days. Probably every show insist the stars sob away now, lol. I stopped appreciateing that phenom long, long before even the cryin’ Anna Nichole judge. Yiiii. Suck it up!

By: Thunderbird 1

Thunderbird 1 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:41:16 +0000

Unfortunately we live in the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil and Barney

Is that as in the dinosaur, Rubbble, Fife or Stenson (“How I Met Your Mother”)?

By: dakine

dakine — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:02:10 +0000

Weak take Michelle…you whiffed on this one.

By: PowWow

PowWow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:07:54 +0000

And for the record I don’t cry at the drop of a hat. Not a touchy feely guy in touch with my emotions type.
No offense if you are though.

By: PowWow

PowWow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:05:56 +0000

My father died in 1967 when I was 6 years old. I barely knew the man. I have a picture of him in my room in his army unform from WW2. He had quit HS to join. That’s what he and his friends did back then. What I know of him has mostly been told to me by family and friends of his. I get choked up sometimes when they talk about what a good man he was.
One thing I do remember vividly is the Red Sox that year. We watched them together. Father and son. The Impossible Dream of 67. He wasn’t supposed to live that long. He passed away 3 days after the series was over. So I began an obsession with the Sox. Ups and downs no matter what, it continued, for both of us. in 04 they won. It wasn’t for me, but yeah I got choked up again for him. He didn’t live to see it. I went to the victory parade with a sign that said “This one’s for you dad.” There were a lot of grown men with tears in their eyes that day. And with very similar stories and signs.
I give Mitt a pass on his dad. And I don’t usually give politicians a pass on anything.

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:36:04 +0000

zorro said:

“Look, I hate to sound harsh, but we live in a time of war.”

Exactly right. We need someone steely eyes, not teary eyes.

Indeed, Zorro. A candidate should have better control of himself. To publicly turn on the waterworks every time someone mentions his father isn’t a good sign. He should learn to steady himself, if someone says “your dad was a great guy”, he can learn to say “Thank you, my family appreciates that.” If he needs to break down, he can do that later in private with his family.

Unfortunately we live in the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil and Barney. Among other things, it’s being demanded that men “get on touch with their feminine side”. Now it’s become politically trendy and expedient to bawl since it impresses the emotionally-led voters. Now that’s something to cry about – but keep the sobbing personal and private, please.

By: Thunderbird 1

Thunderbird 1 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:20:17 +0000

I’m crying, too, on this one: crying “foul.”

My wife met my father only twice before he died within 3 months of being diagnosed with a brain tumor, the second time during his final days in hospital. I have an 8 year old son who would have made my father so proud who said just before Christmas how much he looks forward to meeting his grandfather in Heaven. I do not have the joy of seeing my own son reflected in proud appreciative smiles from my father.

Thursday, I tuned in for Cal Thomas’s insightful political analysis on the local station that carries his daily commentary and instead was treated to this loving tribute to his late father on what was the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Real men are entitled to wax nostalgic about their fathers, and yes, if so moved, get a little misty-eyed about it, too. Come on. Let’s not be so cynical that we become suspect of every emotion in any national figure. I won’t tell you I’m not disappointed by this post.

By: TexasTiger

TexasTiger — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:47:57 +0000

Ah think it’s so un-fay-uh that Bubba nevuh had the chay-unce to shed a tee-yuh for his miss-tuh-ry Dad.

By: maisy

maisy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:17:26 +0000

If I were under the stress these candidates are under..(except Thompson) I would be in tears too! Lack of sleep, constant traveling, constant cameras covering their every move…..I would need a padded room about now……….

By: Bill C

Bill C — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:12:49 +0000

My father died when I was 21 in 1989 and I still miss him. He had cancer and went very quickly and I have so many regrets about things I wished I had said. An emptiness because he was a great man and we never really got to spend a lot of time together when I was a man and could appreciate him.

I don’t know why Michelle is making such a big deal out of a man’s love for his father and his emotional reaction to it. A man and his father have a very special relationship because we want to be that man when we are young. Our father’s are our models for living in the adult world. They are us. So I have no problem understanding why Gov. Romney teared up. I am doing the same as I write this and remember my dad.

I am a pretty big Fredhead but I would not want to see Mitt Romney hurt by this incident. In a perfect world it would be ok for a candidate to have a small show of emotion. So I ask all my fellow Fredheads to lay off of this. To be decent.