Via the Union Leader, Joe McQuaid asked the right question at the Red Arrow Diner in New Hampshire:
Still, I asked him, why give the media and political foes raw meat right now by filing for permits to tear down a La Jolla, Calif., beach house and quadruple its size? That was the wire story we had run the day before, and it was all over the Internet.
It’s not accurate, Romney said, simply. The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling’’ was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.
When McQuaid asked Willard if he’d ever corrected the press, Willard shrugged off the question. As McQuaid points out, accuracy would serve us all well, whether it’s in the media or by a presidential candidate, “rather than to have the story fit a preconceived notion.”
We sure cannot afford to pick any more of our Presidents based on assumptions.
Of course, most of us can’t relate to Romney’s doubled living space either, nor do we feel he can even begin to relate to us. That’s worth a mention, too, for, you know, accuracy’s sake.
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