Romney fields questions on King (Campaign say claim "Not Literal")

[brooklynite]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.

On Wednesday, Romney's campaign said his recollections of watching his father, an ardent civil rights supporter, march with King were meant to be figurative.

"He was speaking figuratively, not literally," Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, said of the candidate.

The campaign was responding to questions raised by the Free Press and other media after a Boston publication challenged the accuracy of Mitt Romney's account.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071220/NEWS07/712200442

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There's a phrase that covers a multitude of sins.....

[Mz Pip]

1. How does one

remember something that someone did 'figuratively' years ago.

I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my mind around that one. :shrug:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Same way Gonzales can remember not knowing why DAs were being fired at a meeting he didn't attend.

Or how Bush can't recollect the CIA tapes or their destruction.

[brooklynite]

4. No, more like Reagan "remembering" scenes from movies...

[MilesColtrane]

2. Republican=Liar

That's to be expected.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Ain't gonna matter to the Republican faithful.

With them it's the thought that counts.

Well, not really the thought, so much as, uh...what you would have maybe thought if you had been thinking...

Well, you know, truthiness is pliable.