Whoa! Great Mitt Romney documentary on Netflix

I just watched MITT, the documentary done by NETFLIX.    It was excellent.  It showed a side  of campaigning which was fascinating but it also did a great job of showing Mitt Romney and his family as human beings.   I learned that Mrs Romney uses the horse to battle her Multiple Sclerosis, their sons and daughters are very thoughtful and have real pathos for their parents sacrifice of privacy during the campaign but believe their father is a great guy and he should serve the country.   Mitt Romney shows real emotion toward his family and even for "the other 47%" who have been dragged down by a poor economy. There were a few scenes where he showed real intellect when discussing taxes and  govenment; showed how some businesses can pay 65% of their income to government as taxes (added up gas tax, sales, income, etc). He states emphatically  how the problem is that  governemnt  is full of lawyers who do not understand the struggle of building a business.  The most humanizing scenes shows Mitt cleaning up trash.!  The guy is worth billions and he sounds injured when he notices trash blowing about outside his hotel room balcony and quickly goes out there, cleans up, carries the trash through his room and takes it outside of his hotel room passing his staff along the way.   Happened number of times so I don't believe it was scripted. His intellect and self possession were  on display when discussing his great respect and admiration for his father and his very humble beginnings in Mexico. Mitt showed pride and humility when it's guessing house father who was born in Mexico came to the United States, eventually  ran a car company without even a college degree, won for governor and ran for president.  Mitt Romney,  using his hands, showed how his father came a very long distance and how he only came a very short distance.  Mitt Romney showed real understanding and humility.

Pathos, respect, intellect, Street Smarts, humor, love for his family and wife,  all this was on display in this movie ....,

... And lLet me tell you how happy I am that this video or even snippets of this video we're not shown during the campaign.  I understand that some of it may have been planned to be used at the convention but Clint Eastwood went over in time and the video was canceled. Thank you Clint Eastwood for  going bonkers and talking to a chair!  If this video has been shown and Mitt Romney could have spent prime time tv time breaking apart the myth  that he was a rich, unfeeling, flip-flopping billionaire, who mocks the "47% who would never vote for him"and would do anything to get elected then Obama would've had a much tougher  time in this election. 

The documentary is worth watching because it showed that there are more layers to Mitt Romney and the Romney family then were presented by his campaign and by the media. I, for one, am glad the election went the way it did because 

Mitt Romney may be a great guy dedicated to his family and his country who has been suffering for over 20 years under a false public perception but Romney  Presidency would've been disastrous.  In the movie told us why. 

At the end he joked that Republicans have trouble with him because the republican party are a southern party , a babysit party and a party of the poor whites but Mitt Romney is a northerner, a Mormon and rich.  I'm glad he sees it that way because that means he's not focused on the real problem.  The real problem as I see it is that he's a good guy a top a party that is delaminating as we speak.  The prevalence of the tea party, the overt racism, the many antichoice morons in their ranks and the daily gushes of mean-spirited, venom laced idiocy shown by even their "intellectual" leaders shows me that Reagan's dance with the extreme right has finally begun to split apart his beloved Republican Party. Republicans do not even represent the military anymore since they are willing for 1% of the country to fight for the other 99%. Republicans represent big business exploiting environment, are going after a woman's right to choose and killing the poor. Where are the Republicans who have compassion?  Where are the Republicans who are willing to stand up and say "I believe in evolution, in science, in a woman's right to control her body. "Hell, where are the Republicans who stand with the  small business owner against the giant, rapacious corporations bent on creating monopolies, destroying markets and never paying taxes? 

We see that the Republican led Congress and the Republican-led state houses are now waging a real war against human and American rights. Nowhere are any of the positive statements or ideas that the Romney family showed in this movie prevalent in the Republican Party he feels. Pres. Truman Trumann used to joke that "he wasn't part of it organized party, he was a Democrat".  I will take the Democratic disarray anytime over a Republican juggernaut  bent on destroying American freedom for human beings because of their lockstep support of the fallacy of "corporations are people."   The crazies on the Democratic side  believe in free cannabis, single payer health care, abortions for everyone, but will lay down their lives to support some fascists' right of freedom of speech. Although  I worry that the Democrats are beginning to be co-opted by big monied interests thanks to the same Supreme Court to say that corporations are people but I will take our democratic crazies any day over the sexist, racist, fascist Republican separatist morons who don't believe in any science because they were told that their Bible tells them not to. Worse they don't even read the Bible for the positive lessons of Yahweh,  Jesus and the apostles instead they use the Bible as a way to go after peoples rights. 

If this documentary have been shown during 2012 I think many people who were on the fence over Obama because of his wishy-washy weak willed willingness to "work with his friends across the aisle". The allowed the Republicans to set the tone and we have torture, the NSA, so-called Obamacare instead of single-payer and a banking disaster to thank for it. These voters who were frustrated with Obama would have voted for Romney if they thought he was even a little bit of a human being.  And he could've won. 

The problem is that Mitt Romney could not control his own party and with the Republican staffers in the White House, Republicans running Congress and many state houses, our fragile democracy would've been seriously weakened.

   

It would have been a much closer race if this video has been shown during 2012. Movie made me want to have mitt run again but to run as a Democrat the way he should.  Maybe he can play a role in this country where his ideas on freeing up business could be implemented. Unfortunately we will never know because liberal northern Republicans are not going to be a voice in the Republican Party for a long, long time.

See the documentary, it's fascinating. Draft Mitt as a Democrat in 2016 !  

Bin Laden death, the lost trial & Eichman.

Tonight President Obama announced the death of bin-Laden. Much like the president who failed to bring us single payer health care, failed to close Guantanimo, failed to stop the travesties of the Bush administration, Obama has failed the American people and the people of the world with his speech. Read the article. His 2nd line states:

"Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world, the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent people,"

Huh? Was bin-Laden tried and found guilty of bringing down the Twin Towers in a court of law? Did I miss it? Did New York or the Haigue find him guilty? I don't think so nd yet you, Mr. President, made the statement that he was "a terrorist responsible for killing thousands". President Obama, why do you disregard the law? You attended Harvard, taught law classes. You've been called a "Constitutional scholar." I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that a person is innocent until PROVEN gulity. It's not good enough for the person just to "take responsibility." Hell, there are thousands who confess every year to the police that they killed Kennedy; it doesn't mean that it's true!

Even Nazi's got a trial...and they killed 6 million jews and MILLIONS of catholics, homosexuals, gypsies, communists, and others and were part of a war machine that killed tens of millions worldwide. The Nazis were brought to trial in Nuremburg at the end of the World War II.

Many were tried in abstentia. President Obama, you remember "In Abstentia"... That's a legal term that according to the wiki means:

"In absentia is Latin for "in the absence". In legal use it usually means a trial where the defendant is not present, and pertains to a defendant's right to be present in court proceedings in a criminal trial."

Hell, even Adolf Eichman received a trial.  Eichman was a Nazi, SS Lieutenant Colonel, the highest ranking officer at Auswitz and it can be argued he was responsible for millions of deaths.  He PERSONALLY killed hundreds, if not thousands.  He received a trial in Israel, the country founded by the families of his vicitims. Many in court had been tatooed at the death camp he controlled, they had watched their families be led off to the death chambers and had suffered beyond human reasoning.

Of course, Eichman was found guilty and after his trial put to death. Israel does not have the death penalty but they do have a law demanding that perpetrators of the holocaust face the ultimate penalty.

...but is being put to death the ultimate penalty? One could argue that Eichman got off easy...he got to die. He went to sleep. Unlike his victims he did not have to live his life alone, with the constant nightmares of friends and family murdered and with their bright futures turned to dust. Their tattoo their only companion.

Eichman got off easy. Wouldn't it have been better for the victims to have been able to know that Eichman was living in solitary confinement, without his family, suffering through his remaining years in squallor and confinement. Hopefully with his own nightmares that got richer over the years. Maybe his vicitims would have wanted to visit Eichman on Rosh Hashanna, new Years, and wish him another year of suffering or Yom Kippur, to see if he had remorse. Wouldn't it have been fitting for Eichman to live year after year looking to the families of his victims for his very existance, experiencing the pity he had not showed them.

Wouldn't the victims of 9/11 appreciate a similar fate for bin-Laden?   I've heard the victims families. Wouldn't a trial be excellent.   If he would have found guility, and he probably would have since the President said so, Bin-Laden could have lived out his final years in confinement, living with his failed kidneys and the almost daily dialyis and seeing that the country he so despised did not fall. By showing justice and mercy he would have to live with a daily reminder that he had failed.

Well Mr. President, you get your Sunday evening press conference, the praise from friends and the the hurried heckling from foes. Wouldn't REAL justice have been better? Was this not the duty of the US government? Justice. Not retribution, not revenge...but justice!