It's good that you acknowledge this. Turning away from this distraction, how is Mitt Romney burying his head on the new issues of substance in our "different world" leading anyone to believe he can be a good president? http://www.cfr.org/global-governanc...or/p18985?co=C028801#/Finance/Overview Video/ On finance, climate change, oceans, human rights, and public health, Romney scores a big F in my books. Finance, especially. The international financial architecture needs to be reformed. A man who cavorts with Barclays after they have been caught engaged in massive fraud is not the one to do it.
If participation in the civil rights protests in the 60's is an important qualifier for someone aspiring to be president, Jesse Jackson would have been the greatest president of all time.
I think Goldwater, Nixon AND Reagan would be considered too left-wing for the current GOP, just on foreign policy stances alone.
If the Mitt Romney who was Governor of Massachusetts were alive today and not controlled by the insane right because it is the only way to win a primary in the GOP he would be embarrassed by the BS he is spewing.
Mitt Romney is not Anti-Black, but the Republican party is. Mitt Romney doesn't have the BACKBONE to stand up to the Tea Partiers, so he has ADOPTED their bigoted platform. He has RUN AWAY from his SIGNATURE achievement as Governor...the law that has been very effective. He STANDS for NOTHING, except for making Money and HIDING it. He doesn't care about people's jobs, it's all about the money.
What is bigoted about thenTea Party Platform ( to the extent there is a single unifying tea party platform.)
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Then why are you starting a thread with a 50 year old picture? You guys contradict yourselves so frequently ...well, it's fun to watch.
Sorry you pretentious, bigoted old man. My post was obviously a joke, unlike your condescending, mindless call out to black members of this board so we could look at a ******* .jpeg file.
Don't look at the policies I would enact, vote for me because my dad marched for civil rights. Mmmmkay...
He was busy being the Most Advanced Colored Person in Human History; he sent a lifelong member in his stead. Incidentally, a 40 year Senator like Biden being a life long member of NAACP is literally all you need to know about blacks and the Democratic Party. Republican leadership didn't understand or care about them in the '50s, they branded themselves against blacks in the '60s and now they're still ****ing clueless. Don't start pretending now that you want blacks anywhere near you professionally, socially or even residentially.
Mitt Romney has said several times that he saw his father George Romney march with the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. But the Romney campaign was forced to admit recently that Romney meant "saw" in the figurative sense after the Boston Phoenix , a weekly newspaper, looked into the claim. Romney said it was a figure of speech and that he meant he was aware of his father marching with King. (For the curious, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary also defines "see" as "to form a mental picture of," "to perceive the meaning or importance of," and "to be aware of.") Three newspapers have tried and failed to find evidence of the two men marching together. The Boston Phoenix first checked Romney's statement and concluded it was false. Subsequent examinations by the Detroit Free Press and the Boston Globe found no news stories linking the two men to the same event. We at Politifact.com reviewed the New York Times archives and found several mentions of Romney's support for King and several articles discussing marches that each participated in separately, but never a mention of the two marching together. The elder Romney was then the Republican governor of Michigan, which has a significant African-American population. King, of course, was the most celebrated civil rights leader of his day. It seems unlikely that the Times would have missed covering a march where the two appeared together. The Globe interviewed Susan Englander, associate director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, who said, "I researched this question, and indeed it is untrue that George Romney marched with Martin Luther King." We spoke with Englander on Dec. 28, 2007, and she said she stood by that statement and does not expect evidence to turn up to contradict it. The Romney campaign has pointed to a line in a history book ("The Republican Establishment: The Present And Future Of The G.O.P., 1967," by Stephen Hess and David Broder, p. 107) that says the elder Romney and King marched in Grosse Pointe. Two witnesses also told Politico, a political news web site, that they remembered the men marching together almost 45 years ago in Grosse Pointe. But newspaper accounts from the time and historians contradict these assertions. There is no other support for the contention that the men were in Grosse Pointe together. But it's also clear that George Romney, who served as governor from 1963 to 1969 and died in 1995, supported King's goals at a time when few politicians did. When King visited Detroit and led a rally of 125,000 people in 1963, Romney issued a proclamation and sent personal representatives. (The Times report noted that Romney was Mormon and did not make public appearances on Sundays.) Two years later, Romney led a march of 10,000 people in Detroit to protest events in Selma, Ala. (King wasn't there.) When King died in 1968, George Romney attended the funeral. "Romney, as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican party, was stalwart civil rights supporter," Englander said. "He consistently supported integration." Given the elder Romney's notable support for King's politics, we can understand how people might believe, many years later, that they did march together. And it's arguably a minor point: You could call it a coincidence of history that they never attended the same event at the same time. Mitt Romney, who would have been 16 in 1963, said recently, "I think the thing that's relevant is that my dad was a champion in the civil rights movement, that he aligned himself with Martin Luther King." That part is true. Nevertheless, Mitt Romney's statement that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King remains problematic at best. If he'd stopped at saying his father was a champion of the civil rights movement, he would have been on solid ground. Balancing the lack of evidence that the two men marched together against the elder Romney's well-documented support of Martin Luther King, we rate Romney's statement Barely True. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...orge-romney-and-mlk-marched-but-not-together/
Infelizmente... Tanto faz, cara. Look....I can do it, too! But I don't expect anyone to be impressed.
See that's just an intellectually lazy statement, and of course wrong. It's equivalent to just lazily tossing the race card because you don't care to think critically, but rather just be lazy and toss the card.
