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Kepler
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: How does Mitt Romney define the word "together"? |
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In the most-watched speech of his political career, speaking on �Faith in America� at College Station, Texas, earlier this month, Mitt Romney evoked the strongest of all symbolic claims to civil-rights credentials: �I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.�
He has repeated the claim several times recently, most prominently to Tim Russert on Meet the Press . But, while the late George W. Romney, a four-term governor of Michigan, can lay claim to a strong record on civil rights, the Phoenix can find no evidence that the senior Romney actually marched with King, nor anything in the public record suggesting that he ever claimed to do so............
UPDATE: ROMNEY CAMPAIGN SAYS �TOGETHER� MAY MEAN DIFFERENT CITIES, DIFFERENT DAYS
A spokesperson for Mitt Romney now tells the Phoenix that George W. Romney and Martin Luther King Jr. marched together in June, 1963 -- although possibly not on the same day or in the same city.
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid53200.aspx
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Makes sense to me. Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, Billy Joel, George Foreman, Richard Gere and I all went to different high schools together. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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Although it goes against the grain of trendy contemporary atheism, people of faith have always wisely understood that you can be physically apart from others while (marching) together in spirit...
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Kepler
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Even if George Romney and Martin Luther King Jr. had marched together Romney could not have watched them because he was in France at the time. The explanation is:
"Mitt Romney�s campaign spokesman Wednesday said the candidate was 'speaking figuratively, not literally' about having witnessed the event."
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071220/NEWS06/71220047 |
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