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Mitt defends MLK march remark
Boston Herald. ^ | December 21, 2007 | Jessica Van Sack

Posted on 12/22/2007 7:04:49 AM PST by Leisler

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To: Ron in Acreage
I’ve never seen so many freepers side with the leftist media while doing a hit job on a fellow republican. Witnesses are coming out of the woodwork and they still don’t get it. Thanks for your article.

You've got to be kidding me. 1963, read the newspapers. What these "witnesses" now say happened never happened. The organizer of the Grosse Pointe event which George Romney did show up for is still alive and has spoken about it. The story you guys are peddling is a falsification of history. Hit job, schmit job - this is about reality.

181 posted on 12/22/2007 9:06:24 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: David In Staten Island

They quote the book? Come on, not this ____ again. Papers at that time say there was two separate marches on different days. This proves nothing.


182 posted on 12/22/2007 9:08:10 AM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
and 148 is also photoshopped?

It doesn't appear to be. You've got eyeline matching with the girl, the cast shadow behind MLK's chin seems appropriate to where a flash would originate, though the highlights are somewhat strong compared to the women but he's black and the women may be wearing foundation. That one is tougher to judge/easier to fabricate because of the blank space behind him, his shadows cast onto a white wall, theirs cast onto a dark wood panel, etc.

I'm not saying any picture with a Romney and MLK is fake. But, blindly believing everything we see, no matter how preposterous, in order to validate what we believe is beyond the pale.

183 posted on 12/22/2007 9:10:06 AM PST by Squeako (Clothespin Republicans: Holding our noses for lousy candidates since 1988.)
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To: Ron in Acreage
They were HAND IN HAND. HE WAS THERE

And George Washington chopped down the cherry tree. Is this where myths begin?

184 posted on 12/22/2007 9:11:04 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: Edward Watson
Now the truth comes out that George Romney really DID march with MLK in Grosse Pointe, with actual participants of the march giving their statements to the press and demanding apologies from those pundits who said it didn’t happen.

This is absolute baloney. MLK was not at Romney's Grosse Pointe event, and Romney was not at MLK's event six days earlier. The accounts written in 1963 by the people who were there establish this, and after claiming he marched with MLK in Detroit, Mitt Romney now admits that never happened.

Just how is Mitt worth all this twisting and fact-bending?

185 posted on 12/22/2007 9:15:50 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Reminds me of someone else who remembered the black church burnings as a child.....

And the only ones who got burned were us.

186 posted on 12/22/2007 9:25:17 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: Ron in Acreage

Nope.


187 posted on 12/22/2007 9:28:21 AM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
That is a photoshop joke picture!

OMG! You’re too funny.

188 posted on 12/22/2007 9:38:05 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: Leisler
And, did you hear? Mitt landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong, too. Of course, he really didn't physically land on the moon but he figuratively envisioned himself landing there as it was happening.

A liar like this can only destroy everything he associates with as Bill Clinton did. He will, justifiably so, destroy the reputations of the conservatives that defend him.

189 posted on 12/22/2007 9:45:33 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: Petronski

You do a pretty good job of it yourself.

Go Fred.


190 posted on 12/22/2007 9:56:20 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

I attack the candidate. They attack the poster.


191 posted on 12/22/2007 9:57:21 AM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: SpringheelJack

Let’s wait and see, shall we?

One thing we both can agree on is neither you nor I were there so we really don’t know for sure. Now that two people have popped up saying they were there and participated in the march; the issue now becomes who is right, two eye-witnesses or the present manager of the town’s historical society, who, btw, wasn’t there either in 1963.

One thing’s for sure, this story will continue to grow and more and more people will eventually speak up and say yea or nay, one way or the other.

Frankly, Mitt Romney’s statement about seeing his father march with MLK is so minor, especially when he clarified he was only speaking figuratively. How much worse is that than Huckabee’s outright lies about his actions as a political leader in Arkansas that prove he’s a liberal in disguise? At least with Huckabee, the threat of another Jimmy Carter with a Bill Clinton charm is a very real danger. The same cannot be said about Romney, who bears a terrible burden of needing to be a moral example for the sake of his faith.

I suspect a picture will eventually be found to validate the walk, but the fact remains George Romney was a fierce advocate for civil rights during a time it was extremely unpopular among many whites, especially those “Christians” in the South who did their best to keep the black man down.

My, how the kettle calls the pot black!


192 posted on 12/22/2007 10:02:11 AM PST by Edward Watson (Fanatics with guns beat liberals with ideas)
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To: David In Staten Island
Romney campaign backpedals on MLK march claim

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Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press ( 1d 23h ago)

...Free Press archives, however, showed no record of King marching in Grosse Pointe in 1963 or of then-governor Romney taking part in King's historic march down Woodward Avenue in June of that year. George Romney told the Free Press at the time that he didn't take part because it was on a Sunday and he avoided public appearances on the Sabbath because of his religion.

Romney did participate in a civil rights march protesting housing bias in Grosse Pointe just six days after the King march. According to the Free Press account, however, King was not there.

Full Article Here

193 posted on 12/22/2007 10:06:59 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: Edward Watson
“I suspect a picture will eventually be found to validate the walk”

Let me know which is found first. That picture or some archaeological evidence supporting th BOM.

By the way. According to some here, that was a bigoted statement.

194 posted on 12/22/2007 10:25:39 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: Edward Watson
One thing we both can agree on is neither you nor I were there so we really don’t know for sure. Now that two people have popped up saying they were there and participated in the march; the issue now becomes who is right, two eye-witnesses or the present manager of the town’s historical society, who, btw, wasn’t there either in 1963.

That issue's already been resolved. See post 193. News reports from the time say that Romney did not appear on the June 23 march, and King did not appear at the June 29 thing.

Mitt's "clarification" only creates bigger problems now that his 1978 statement that HE marched with Martin Luther King in the streets of Detroit has turned up. He now admits that never happened. If he wasn't speaking "figuratively" then, and it's too specific to be read that way, it's absurd to claim he didn't really mean it when he repeated essentially the same thing in 2007. Mitt was a liar in 1978, and apparently he hadn't changed 29 years later.

195 posted on 12/22/2007 10:35:51 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: JCEccles
Do you happen to know if George Romney ever marched with Dr. King, regardless of where or when, or appeared on the same stage with him anywhere, or had any communication with him? Anything to show indisputably that he was publicly associated with Dr. King? Just trying to determine the degree of closeness he may have had with him that could justify the 'figuratively' remark.

Thanks.

196 posted on 12/22/2007 10:45:16 AM PST by Eastbound
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To: JCEccles

Cancel my request. I mis-read the statement.


197 posted on 12/22/2007 12:22:10 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: rickomatic
Let me know which is found first. That picture or some archaeological evidence supporting th BOM.

I've got nothing on the 'picture', but as for archaeological evidence supporting the BoM...

Newly Found Altars from Nahom

199 posted on 12/22/2007 7:37:28 PM PST by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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To: Leisler

Liberal news coming out of Boston is now gospel....very lame.


200 posted on 12/22/2007 7:43:10 PM PST by TheLion
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