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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I dont know why we go off on these tangents.  Mitt was playing to the local crowd about how strong his Michigan roots are, and he used a dumb joke to emphasize the fact.  We should be used to Mitt's lame sense of humor by now, and not get tied up it it.

He deserves it as retribution for the way they twisted "You didn't build that." and the welfare flexibility for the states.  But those are significant issues, and I hate to see this distracting from those more fundamental faults.[/quote]

The Romney campaign has now clearly decided that being unable to attract blacks and Hispanics, it must drive a wedge between Obama and working class whites. On the one hand it is doing that with the welfare ads, which now make up the bulk of Romney's advertising. Accompanied by statements such as "Obama removed work from welfare to play to his base", the message is that Obama is taking tax dollars from white people and giving them to minorities. The birth certificate "joke" is just one more way to emphasize that Obama is "foreign", along with the remark that he doesn't understand the American system.

If Romney's statement were simply a dumb joke, I'd be inclined to agree with you that it should be ignored. But, given the evidence that it is part of a cynical ploy to exploit racial divisions for political gain, I don't think we can afford to ignore it.
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