Thanks for the reference. I have been noting that the march Romney was in was called an MLK march, but I didn’t have a link. But from your link:
“FACT: In The Summer Of 1963, Governor Romney Participated In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Freedom Marches” In Grosse Pointe, Michigan.”
That puts three of the original story claims to bed. 1) the march was NOT in 1967; 2) so Mitt was NOT out of the country; 3) Romney DID march through Grosse Pointe.
But it also shows that the march was one of Martin Luther King’s marches.
So if Romney had said “My father walked IN Martin Luther King’s march”, he would have been completely accurate, even though that might still make some people think he was saying that Martin Luther King was in the march with him.
It’s this kind of thing that makes history so interesting — people can’t remember what they did 4 days ago, but some people are getting upset over one word describing a story from 4 decades ago.
Well, in fact, they aren’t getting upset. The only people who are screaming about how “bad” this is are people who hate Romney already.
Romney similarly backtracked after telling a national television audience Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I received the endorsement of the NRA” in 2002 while running for governor of Massachusetts.
The gun rights group did not endorse either candidate, and gave a higher issues rating to his Democratic opponent.
Romney said Monday, “It was, if you will, a support phone bank, which is not an official endorsement.”
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7779853?source=rss
As many Mitt supporters have said when they dissed Fred Thompson on this forum for being divorced, “It’s a matter of character.”
What speaks more about a man’s character than his continuing failure to tell the truth?
In the role of commander in chief, what could go wrong if Mitt didn’t choose his words more carefully than he has in both the past and the present?
Mitt Romney is not presidential material.