Posted on 12/20/2007 3:38:02 PM PST by pepperhead
FORT DODGE, Iowa Mitt Romney found himself deluged by questions from reporters after a campaign appearance Thursday about whether he actually saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr., as he claimed in a speech on his Mormon faith earlier this month.
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Mr. Romney said today that he had been using the word saw in a figurative sense.
If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term saw includes being aware of in the sense Ive described, he said. Its a figure of speech and very familiar and its very common and I saw my dad march with Martin Luther King. I did not see it with my own eyes but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great effort.
This sounds like Clinton speak.
It was pretty "Clintonian."
I see the media has gotten carried away yet again.
OK, I did not actually see it, but I see what you are talking about.
“It depends on what the meaning of the word is is. If theif heif is means is and never has been, that is notthat is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement .Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
Kind of depends on what the definition of “is” is...
Unfortunately he has since misplaced the glasses and can no longer "see" things as clearly.
My question would simply be, "Did Romney's Dad march with King?"
Now mind you, that would not be a badge of honor from my perspective. King was a marxist sympathiser and womaniser who happened to be a good orator.
Just the same, asking whether the young Romney was actually there and parsing his words like this is pretty lame to me. If his Dad did march with King, then as a youth, his use of thew word "saw" could easily be understandable in the context of having been around at the time when his Dad did this...even if he wasn't personally at the march.
But that's just my opinion.
I differ with Mitt on his historical record on issues that are too critical to trust to what is essentially a "Johnny come lately"...except if it came down to a vote for him or Hillary or something like that.
My question would simply be, "Did Romney's Dad march with King?"
Now mind you, that would not be a badge of honor from my perspective. King was a marxist sympathiser and womaniser who happened to be a good orator.
Just the same, asking whether the young Romney was actually there and parsing his words like this is pretty lame to me. If his Dad did march with King, then as a youth, his use of thew word "saw" could easily be understandable in the context of having been around at the time when his Dad did this...even if he wasn't personally at the march.
But that's just my opinion.
I differ with Mitt on his historical record on issues that are too critical to trust to what is essentially a "Johnny come lately"...except if it came down to a vote for him or Hillary or something like that.
Yes indeed, very Clintonian.
They had it on Fox earlier. Someone could make a very devastating commercial against him with this.
Perhaps he is using the word “see” as if it were a mystical experience, as in the first chapter of Revelation. But I rather doubt it.
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Just the same, asking whether the young Romney was actually there and parsing his words like this is pretty lame to me. If his Dad did march with King, then as a youth, his use of thew word "saw" could easily be understandable in the context of having been around at the time when his Dad did this...even if he wasn't personally at the march.
But that's just my opinion.
I differ with Mitt on his historical record on issues that are too critical to trust to what is essentially a "Johnny come lately"...except if it came down to a vote for him or Hillary or something like that.
Exactly it reminds me of the whole is is situation.
Was King there? Did Romney and King march together? The papers say no.
Keep tryin’ betty.
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