CNN gets it right:
“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.”
(via Mediaite)
Not too many now remember the deep seated fear that we all had of going to France in ’68.
I remember.
The mass protests, the insistence that we be allowed to go to Vietnam instead. Anything to avoid the risks of fatty cheese and cheap wine. But Romney was a man with guts. He skillfully avoided Vietnam expressly to weather the greater risks of France, knowing full well, as the documentary shockingly reveals, that he would be risking occasional interruptions of electrical service and slow arriving checks from home. One can easily see why he demonstrated in favor of the draft. Was it too much to ask his social inferiors to bear the lesser risks of Vietnam while he, almost alone, took on France?
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