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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney Appeals To Hispanic Voters For Return Of Watch He Left On Dresser
MIAMIAt a hastily assembled press conference Tuesday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney reached out to the nation's Hispanics, asking if they would please return the watch he had left on his dresser earlier. "As I stand before you today, I wish to issue an appeal to my Hispanic friends all across this great land of ours: Please do the right thing and give me back my property," said Romney, adding that while he didn't want to accuse the nation's 21.7 million registered Hispanic voters of stealing the watch, he was certain that no one in his family stole it, and that watches don't just walk off by themselves. "I pledge to every single Hispanic-Americanwhether you came here from Mexico to start a new life for your family or fled the brutality of Castro's Cubathat if my watch is put back in its rightful place in the next two hours, I will consider the matter closed and no one will be the wiser." With the watch still not returned at press time, Romney begged the nation's Hispanics, "Please don't make me call thehow do you say it? El policío? La policía? The appropriate authorities."
http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-appeals-to-hispanic-voters-for-return-of-wa,27229/
Yep, from The Onion. But as is usual with Republicans, and given Mitten's latest statement that he "isn't concerned" about the poor, it could just as easily be real.
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Romney Appeals To Hispanic Voters For Return Of Watch He Left On Dresser (Original Post)
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Feb 2012
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FSogol
(45,487 posts)1. LOL. n/t
tularetom
(23,664 posts)2. Sadly, I can totally imagine him actually saying that
Just like I wasn't surprised when bush cleaned his glasses on the sweater of Letterman's assistant.
Nor was I surprised when bush sr. didn't know what a supermarket scanner was.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)3. It was probably an expensive Swiss watch worth several thousand.
Since he's worth $200 million, he says. It's probably higher.