Oh hell. You really can’t trust even the most sincere, heartfelt speech. It is truly amazing the depths these critters will go to while trying to reach the “heights”.
Did the Boston Glob ever run a headline pointing out that Jean Kerry was NOT really Irish as he claimed in the Congressional Record?
Doesn’t excuse Mitt’s claim. Just checking for how much such claims mean to The Boston Glob, a newspaper that ran porn photos as “proof” of US military “rapes” in Iraq.
Also have to ask if the Boston Glob ever pointed out that Bill Clinton COULDN’T have witnessed any black church fires in Arkansas when he grew up.
Even worse, he thinks the Pats may not win the “World Series”. Now if that isn’t a John Kerry moment, I don’t know what is.
A slick, telegenic LIAR or a totally naive NITWIT, particularly on complex, dangerous, zero-sum, high stakes foreign relations issues.
Entertaining hopeless , fait 'd accompli thoughts of retiring to a beachside hut in Costa Rica.
I’m no Romney fan, but it’s totally believable to me that he simply and sincerely misremembered.
I stood beside Ronald Reagan in his fight against the Evil Empire. Did I really "stand" beside him? No. I saw my parents fight against the evils of communism in their homeland. Did I actually see them do it? No. It is a figure of speech. I saw someone step up to the plate. I saw someone do the right thing. I saw how one person can make a difference. Is this seeing it literally with my own two eyes or seeing it in my mind's eye?
You people cannot be this daft, are you?
I think you better plead the 5th.
OK. So now we know that, in 1978, Mitt Romney told someone he and his father marched with MLK.
That goes along with all the other stories, including the Broder book, that put Elder King in a march with MLK.
But we also seem to know that MLK was not in the march that the Elder Romney was in, even though they call it an MLK march.
Since in 1978, Mitt wasn’t running for anything, it seems that even in 1978, he thought MLK was in the march with his dad and him.
Still making the “saw my father” march literally true, but the “with MLK” not literally true, but only true in the sense that you are marching in concert with or in support of MLK.
That use the the word “with” is also common. How many times do candidates tell us to “walk with them”, or “talk with them”, or “join with them”, when they really mean for us to do things on our own that HELP them?
Fred Thompson even asked me to join with him on something. I didn’t think it was a lie.
Mitt’s problem is he COULD have marched with MLK. Since there was the possibility, using the term causes confusion, and he should have been more accurate.
Still, I don’t think something he said in 1978 is really going to be an issue in the campaign.
This marks another error by the mitt-haters.
Earlier, they were claiming that Mitt never said anything about his father marching with King until after his father's death -- implying that he knew it was a lie and waited until his father couldn't correct the story.
Now we see that Mitt told this story decades earlier, while his father was still alive.
And there is no evidence that his father corrected the story -- his father might have well believed the story by that time, and might have been telling it.
When you are 31 years old, and your whole family has the same recollection of something you did when you were 16, it becomes part of your reality.
A few days after that march, George Romney joined a civil rights march through the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, but King did not attend,
This brouhaha is ridiculous. Mitt's father marched in a civil rights parade, but didn't participate in the exact same march with King, since he didn't feel it would be right to march on Sunday. That's close enough for a 40-year-old remembrance.
Why would you say you marched with MLK if you didn’t? That’s not something private that no one else could disprove.
“Holy prevarication, Batman! The Mittster is a worse serial liar than even “Cambodia John” Kerry.”
Given that Romney’s entire recent conversion to conservatism is in doubt, being caught in this lie is a serious problem for Myth.
So try to hang someone in there 60's for not always having the perfect of recollect!
I have to do timelines many times of which came frist or where I was at which point and maybe confuse one occasion with another, so let go after all those 60's years for being so sure!
I have hear young people tell about events and the parents would correct it because to another person it sounds so real!
Libby was having trouble with memory of a few years as well as Karl Rove etc.
So what is your point Josh Painter for spending so much time on this the bottem line was Mormons were being accused of being anti black this is how this got started not your wild googse chase Josh Painter!
Mitt's father was always a part of the Civil Rights movement
I don't understand all the hubbub. So Romney Sr. didn't actually march WITH King. He did attend a civil rights soon after, also in Detroit. And Romney Sr. rightly declined to march on Sunday, which conflicted with his faith. I am a Thompson guy, but I think this is much ado about nothing.
Uuuuugggghhhhh....
I may have to hold my nose and vote for Fred Thompson, after all.
Uuuuugggghhhhh....
I may have to hold my nose and vote for Fred Thompson, after all.
PS: Can anyone give Duncan Hunter some quick, heavy-duty lessons in campaigning for president?
