Was he lying?
Before saying that Romney "envisioned" that, or that it was meant to be symbolic or figurative... please watch the short youtube clip. Then share your view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8GpZnJbjz4
2007-12-31 06:14:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Charbatch, Romney, himself, eventually admitted that it didn't happen.
2007-12-31 06:28:38 · update #1
Tiger, Noname... I tip my hat to both of you. I'm impressed.
2007-12-31 06:29:58 · update #2
Wormwar, how about a link?
2007-12-31 06:44:40 · update #3
Romney's statement is false although only he knows if it was a deliberate falsehood. The Broder book mentioned in another post does claim George Romney marched with King in Gross Pointe but the book is wrong. The Gross Pointe Historical Society website has a feature saying King gave a speech there but nothing stating that he marched there. George Romney did however strongly support civil rights. He would have made a better President than Tricky Dick Nixon. Unfortunately Mitt is more like Tricky Dick.
2007-12-31 06:29:56 · answer #1 · answered by Larry P 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A false statement, commonly known as a lie!
2007-12-31 18:31:25 · answer #2 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
hmmm, since LDS considered african americans as a lower life form in the sixties, that doesn't seem likely.
2007-12-31 15:20:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Harpers Magazine 1967
"When the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King marched in Detroit three years ago, Romney marched with him. He is proud that he helped"
http://www.harpers.org/search?q=romney+martin+luther+king+march+
2007-12-31 14:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So what if he did or didn't..
Don't you think this race issuse has been beaten to death.
Just keep dragging it out is the major contibutor to this thing you folks have titled Racism.
2007-12-31 14:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Innocent 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
he was said to be speaking figuratively..which is the same as what is...is
his Dad was a Liberal Repub..whose record on Civil rights beat the snot out of Al Gore's dad's anti-legislation record
2007-12-31 14:24:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7524.html
"He has marched with Martin Luther King through the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit and he is on record in support of full-coverage Federal open-housing legislation." (Stephen Hess And David Broder
Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.
With the cape still around her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.
“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”
2007-12-31 14:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by charbatch 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
In his mind.
Don't hold that against him -- Republicans don't like the "reality-based community".
2007-12-31 14:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
It was a lie.
Everyone knows that he would have been ex-communicated from the LDS at that point in History.
Romney has "flip-flopped" on this statement twice before these supposed books surfaced which highlight that the governor was there.
The books are simply made up.
Mormons and blacks both know that it was not possible... the church was on the forefront of the movement against Blacks - for religious reasons.
2007-12-31 14:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋
I think Romney's family did a lot of things in his dreams.
Does that make it a lie? only in reality.
But if he sleeps at the wheel like Bush did, his whole Presidency, it wouldn't be a lie in his dreamworld.
well as charbatch pointed out, since one guy was willing to take some cash to recall it, it must be true!
2007-12-31 14:21:57 · answer #10 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 4⤊ 6⤋