Mitt Romney couldn’t have remembered Detroit milestone; he wasn’t born

[Astrad]

DETROIT—When Mitt Romney regaled a Michigan audience this week with childhood memories of a landmark moment in Detroit history, it was a rare instance of emotional candour.

And, perhaps, an even rarer example of time travel.

Romney recalled he was “probably 4 or something like that” the day of the Golden Jubilee, when three-quarters of a million people gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American automobile.

“My dad had a job being the grandmaster. They painted Woodward Ave. with gold paint,” Romney told a rapt Tea Party audience in the village of Milford Thursday night, reliving a moment of American industrial glory.

The Golden Jubilee described so vividly by Romney was indeed an epic moment in automotive lore. The parade included one of the last public appearances by an elderly Henry Ford.

And it took place June 1, 1946 — fully nine months before Romney was born.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1136834--mitt-romney-couldn-t-have-remembered-detroit-milestone-he-wasn-t-born?bn=1

[spartan61]

1. Did he not think someone would check the date???

Each day he digs himself in deeper and deeper.

[Happyhippychick]

2. He's no longer pandering. He's lying. He lied about his dad marching with MLK and claimed

Faulty memory or something like that. He's pathological.

Lord I hope he's the nominee!

[trusty elf]

11. Cereal Lier?

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[Richardo]

13. If that's your graphic, at least spell 'liar' correctly....

....and re-think the Comic Sans font while you're at it.

[trusty elf]

15. ......

[K Gardner]

14. I think "lier" is a play on words.. because Romney

is lying (as in lie down) in the cereal.

I think its cute

[butterfly77]

18. Beat me too it..

i think its cute too.

[Richardo]

21. Ah well

[Richardo]

22. Bit of a stretch

Different strokes, I guess.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. This could be a false memory that he thinks is true

He could have been told about the event when he was young and later imagined that he was there.

That's fairly common with what seem to be childhood memories.

This could actually be one of those rare instances where he's not lying!

[David__77]

8. No, I prefer to think he's consciously lying.

His whole persona is premised on consciously lying - at all times.

[marybourg]

4. Well, he *was* a "person" even then

and "persons" have sight and memory
so . . .

[Skinner]

5. The gaffes never stop with this guy.

[tanyev]

6. Aha! Proof that consciousness begins at conception!!!

[Snarkoleptic]

7. The mittbot is one of the most disingenuous models ever mass produced.

[Politicalboi]

9. Mittens was in the

Donner party too. Still on his mothers teat but survived by eating the family dog. LOL!

[treestar]

16. rofl

good one

[starroute]

10. I suspect he's remembering Detroit's 250th birthday celebration in 1951

That would fit with him being four years old. But it's still part of his general tendency to inflate things and paste himself into historical events when he wasn't there.

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=82

The 250th Detroit birthday in 1951 was marked with a long list of celebrations during the year, including the beginnings of the downtown Civic Center. Planning began for a new convention center which was later named after Mayor Albert Cobo. The new City-County Building, the new Detroit Historical Museum, the International Institute, and the Kresge Science Library at Wayne State University were dedicated or formally opened during the festival year.

On July 28, the final day of the 250th birthday bash, President Harry S Truman spoke at City Hall. Afterward, a parade began at 2:30 p.m., and the last unit passed at 7:30 that evening.

Floats depicting Detroit historic events were sponsored by local firms: Briggs, Cadillac, General Motors, S.S. Kresge, Buick, Pontiac, Burroughs, Detroit Edison, Saks Fifth Avenue, Booker T. Washington Trade Association, Ford Motor, Lincoln-Mercury, Kaiser-Frazer, Michigan Consolidated Gas, Oldsmobile, Hudson Motor Car, Dearborn Motors, Chevrolet, Chrysler, AFL and CIO, Nash-Kelvinator, and J.L. Hudson.

[butterfly77]

19. Isn't that..

Family Dollar in the corner of the picture?

[KharmaTrain]

12. Trying Too Hard...

Millard reminds me of the kid in the neighborhood nobody liked cause he was an arrogant asshole...then one day he runs for student council and tries to make everyone like him. The harder he tries to be "cool" the bigger of a fool he becomes. In Millard's case he keeps perpetuating the circle as he keeps trying to show he's a "real" person...and sticks his silver spoon in his piehole.

I have to admit I expected Noooooot to be bombastic and Rectorum to be a total asshole but I didn't expect Millard to be the gaffe machine...totally disconnected with not just the "little guy" but totally tone deaf on how his image has come across.

[morningfog]

17. Here is his exact quote:

“I think my dad had a job like being the grand master or whatever of the 50th celebration of the automobile in Detroit. They painted Woodward Avenue with gold paint… my memory is a little foggy here…. so I was probably four or something like that, and had the cars go down Woodward Avenue. I know they still have the parade of cars every year."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/romney-gets-his-groove-back-in-michigan/

[starroute]

20. George Romney was managing director of the National Automobile Golden Jubilee Committee in 1946

So Romney is definitely having a false memory here -- possibly by conflating an event he was only told about with that 1951 Detroit anniversary parade (which I mentioned above) that he might have seen at the age of four.

[gregladen]

23. Is Romney on to something?

People do argue over how early your first memory can be: http://goo.gl/mJSsM

Maybe he is on to somethign!