Mitt's "near death" experience in France

[FightingIrish]

I just watched a CNN clip where Rmoney was interviewed about his “near death experience” while on a Mormon mission in France. He suffered a concussion and some broken bones in a head on collision with a Mercedes. I couldn’t help but think about all the young kids who couldn’t dodge the draft and had a real death experience in Vietnam.

[Kalidurga]

1. Well that is sad...

this tragedy could have been stopped a long time ago and Mitt would have just been a line in some paper in Michigan.

[monmouth]

2. Gawd, I was afraid he ran out of crepes..n/t

[LongTomH]

3. If this had been a 'real' near-death experience, he would have experienced a life review...

...that might have made him a better person and a force for good, not evil!

[nc4bo]

4. Something that really bugs me about his "near death" thing

Did he even try to try and show some sympathy to the family of the person that was killed? Or at least minimally express his sadness that someone he must have known fairly well lost their life.

I don't think he did. I think the only person he spoke about was himself.

That would have been an excellent way for him to show some damn humanity.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong......

[progressivebydesign]

6. from what I've read, Romney's family went out of their way to demonize the other people.

Tried to paint them as drunks... but it seems that romney was in the wrong.

[hedgehog]

5. If I was Mitt, I wouldn't be bringing that up......

Bishop Vilnet, then 46 years old by American count, was not drunk, not speeding, and not out of his own lane. He was driving along and Romney hit him.

That 1968 accident took place when Mitt Romney ignored painted roadway lines and went head-on into an on-coming left turn lane, opposite the post office at Beaulac, France. Concrete traffic separators were added later on. Good piece of engineering, that, but too late for Mrs. Leola Anderson. She died of her injuries as she was the sixth person in a five passenger car, so she had no seat belt.

Mitt Romney claims over and over that he was blameless for that accident.

Romney's view could well have been obstructed, particularly if a car or a truck ahead of him had slowed to make an acute right turn into Rue de la Poste. That is when being careful matters. Aggressive driving, guessing where the road goes can get someone killed. That is exactly what happened.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/29/1104487/-Romney-the-GOP-Cult-of-Lying


Anyone can make a mistake driving. It's lying about waht happened and blaming the other guy ("drunken priest?&quot that's the problem!