Romney was a bully as a teenager.

I believe people have second chances, and I would suspect Mitt's not the same person he was -- none of us are.  We all do stupid things when we're younger and we're all prone to group-think.  Still, this story about how Mitt led a group of young men in prep school to pin a fellow student down and cut his long hair, because he thought the guy looked gay, is a bit more than what most people would do.

Even though Mitt has apologized, he does not remember the incident.  That's a bit troubling for me.  Most of the time, we remember those types of incidents because we are plagued by guilt over our actions, which we realize as adults were wrong.  Not remembering such things, may be a sign of a lack of a guilty conscience.

It's telling that the first response came from his campaign speaking for him on the matter, publicly denying any memory of such an incident.  Yes, he eventually apologized during a hastily-arranged radio interview on a Fox News radio affiliate, but it was clearly a politically-motivated reaction to tamper negative media coverage, and it didn't sound very sincere.

"Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that."

Obvious?

Chickens lay eggs -- that's obvious.

The sun rises from the East -- that's obvious.

That Mitt would apologize for his bullying of a possibly gay young adult, 40 years ago -- is it unequivocally obvious?