Posted by
Phil E. on Friday, December 21, 2007 1:14:05 PM
"I SAW my father march with Martin Luther King."
(But I dreamed the whole thing up.)
I TOLD you Mitt Romney was a Liberal
Remember when Hillary told us she was named after Sir Edmund? A little research
showed she lied.
Remember when Dick Gephardt told us how much his milkman dad loved the Union?
Dick's brother said that was a lie.Now Mitt Romney tells us that his dad (now dead and unavailable for confirmation) marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.
How could I have forgotten Al Gore and the Internet? Or how "Love Story" was written about him? (Do I need to supply links to remind you of this or is it common knowledge?)
A little research by the
Boston Phoenix proves Mitt Romney is lying.
Sorry, but that's the truth, as even he now admits. Sort of. (Through his campaign of course)
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.
Nor did Mitt Romney ever previously claim that this took place, until long after his father passed away in 1995 — not even when defending accusations of the Mormon church's discriminatory past during his 1994 Senate campaign.
But that account is incorrect. King never marched in Grosse Pointe, according to the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, and had not appeared in the town at all at the time the Broder book was published. "I'm quite certain of that," says Suzy Berschback, curator of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society.
Berschback also believes that George Romney never appeared at a protest, march, or rally in Grosse Pointe. "We're a small town," she says. "Governors don't come here very often, except for fundraisers."
In fact, King's only appearance in Grosse Pointe, according to Berschback, took place after Broder's book was published.
That was for a March 14 speech he delivered at Grosse Pointe High School, just three weeks before King was assassinated. But there was no march, and George Romney was not there.
See Saw Hee Haw
Mitt Romney's campaign
now says, after being pressed with the facts, that
"He was speaking figuratively, not literally," Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, said of the candidate.
So like Bill Clinton, when Mitt Romeny says he "saw" something, now you have to ask him if he literally saw or figuratively saw.
UPDATE: December 28, 2007. Just for completeness, after posting this,
The Boston Globe did some digging, and found that Mitt Romney had once claimed
My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.
But, in typical Mitt Romney flip-flop fashion,
much like John Kerry's "seared" memory of spending Christmas in Cambodia, it was all a lie.
Well, unless you're a lawyer like Mitt Romney. And Bill Clinton. Then it all depends on what the meaning of "saw" is. Mitt Romney even tried to invoke the dictionary definition of saw.
Here's the You Tube video clip from Fox News.How pathetic.
Of course, Hugh Hewitt points out later that some "witnesses" were found, claiming they saw George Romney march with Martin Luther King.
Despite the facts?
Too little, too late. Again, pathetic.
Like father, like son?
No, I'm not
talking about brainwashing, as did Mitt Romney's father, George. Although that's what cults do to you.
I'm talking about Martin Harris, one of the three supposed witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
Now, the Book of Mormon is a very unique book. If you believe Joseph Smith (and there's no reason to, except he says you should), he claims a dead guy's ghost (they call it an "angel." Sounds better that way.) appeared to him and told him where to dig up some gold plates that were engraved in an unknown language that were a history of an earlier people on the American continent. That's a lot of unsubstantiated facts to swallow. Not even the God of the Bible expects you
to believe without evidence.
In the first few pages of the Book of Mormon, we find this
"testimony" of three supposed witnesses.
That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken. And we also know that they have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us; wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true. And we also testify that we have seen the engravings which are upon the plates; and they have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man. And we declare with words of soberness, that an angel of God came down from heaven, and he brought and laid before our eyes, that we beheld and saw the plates, and the engravings thereon;
Believing is NOT seeing
The printer of the Book of Mormon was curious about these claims. The printer had a healthy dose of skepticism, per the Biblical instruction to "
Test Everything." (But that doesn't mean to pray about it to know if it's true. If you do, Satan can trick you.) So he asked some questions. In those days, asking questions about a man's faith wasn't "anti-Mormon bigotry." It was smart.
From a
Mormon friendly historian quoting the printer,
Nobody believes that there were any plates, unless Smith secured a few of the archaeological plates at a museum to show on extraordinary occasions to doubting friends. In that cave it is supposed they really went over the manuscript which had been stolen by Rigdon from Spalding's house, and, by incorporating it with Bible language, disguised it and made it the basis of their new gospel.
I knew that Harris was an honest man, and one day I asked him to tell me truly if he had ever seen those golden plates. Yes, he'd seen them, he said.
Do you mean that you actually saw the plates with your naked eye?
Harris' face fell and he was downcast for a moment. Then he said, "I saw them with a spiritual eye."
So, like Mitt Romney, he didn't really "see" anything. But he swore he did!
Mormonism 101
This is typical Mormon stuff. It's part of their culture. It doesn't matter what the facts are. As long as they sincerely believe something is true, that makes it true. That's how Mitt Romney could say
so sincerely years ago that he was all FOR murdering the unborn. You and I would call it "lying" when someone tells you something that's not true. But in the Mormon mind, there's just got to be another explanation. They can't even repent of lying, but have to claim silly stuff like "seeing" figuratively instead.
Mormons lie all the time. This is consistent with not being Christians. (Not that Christians never lie, but Christians
have the power not to lie.) See my previous post. about Mitt Romney lying about his temple oath. And that from a former, high level Mormon! I'm telling you, I know these people like I know the back of my hand. Do YOU?
But go ahead. Vote for Mitt Romney.
It'll be Bill Clinton all over again. It will depend on the meaning of the word "saw." Or
the meaning of "every word." (Of the Bible.) Or
the meaning of the word "at." You will never know when he's lying to you. Even if you "pray about it, to know if it's true." But if you're black, Mitt Romney will not be the second back President. I
n his religion, blacks will ALWAYS be second class citizens.)
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