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?
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!