Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Sadly, this would have been the perfect opportunity for him to take the high road and say nothing. Or point out that the birthers are only asking BO for the certificate because they are racists.
He did not take the high road and this undecided voter is still undecided.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow ... The echo chamber inside the beltway loves B O. Too bad the rest of the country is gonna deoderize .

For the love of God would you please spell check. You can't even spell deodorant. That's like a crackhead not being able to spell crack.

LOL! Panty sniffer is truly one of a kind, isn't he?
I just wish we could get a picture of him in his cave.

Oh so gross, but oh so on point.

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And with all due respect, Obama's father is from Kenya, Obama grew up in Indonesia, and most of his family here are illegals - naturally, people are going to wonder, some more than others, if he was even born here.

Releasing tax returns is not a requirement

Really? Who?

By most he means one uncle who came as a student and could be deported. He has an aunt who got asylum and many other relatives who are here legally but don't apparently make Fox News

Anonymous wrote:xenophobia. why are people afraid to use this word and call it like it is?
reminds me of when stupid people ask me where i am "really from" and why i don't have a foreign accent.

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And with all due respect, Obama's father is from Kenya, Obama grew up in Indonesia, and most of his family here are illegals - naturally, people are going to wonder, some more than others, if he was even born here.

Releasing tax returns is not a requirement

Really? Who?

I prefer to call it what it is: an appeal to racist bigots

xenophobia. why are people afraid to use this word and call it like it is?

reminds me of when stupid people ask me where i am "really from" and why i don't have a foreign accent.

Electorate wants to see his tax returns
so he talks about birth certificates. How can anyone ask him for his birth certificate when we already know what is meant by 'Maybe'....
Funny, he does not know that 'Maybe' is not a 'No'

Romney needs reality-based libertarian conservatives as part of a potential winning coalition.

Harping on birther issues is not the way to appeal to this sliver of the electorate. The true believers are either already coming out to vote, or they're too methed up to actually vote.

Agreed with PP who said this is something a proxy should be saying, not the candidate.

While I'm sure this wasn't his intention, Romney bringing this up only drive homes the point (again) that birthers are racist. After all, since Romney's father (like Obama's) was not born in the US, it's only fair that birthers should ask to see his birth certificate, too...

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Anonymous wrote:Wow ... The echo chamber inside the beltway loves B O. Too bad the rest of the country is gonna deoderize .

For the love of God would you please spell check. You can't even spell deodorant. That's like a crackhead not being able to spell crack.

LOL! Panty sniffer is truly one of a kind, isn't he?
I just wish we could get a picture of him in his cave.

Anonymous wrote: Unfortunately for the GOP, he was the only viable candidate from their primary field of morons (Perry), psychos ( Bachmann), clowns ( Trump), fanatics (Santorum), old cranks ( Paul) and bores ( Pawlenty). We are left with a haircut and an expensive suit who stands for nothing, and does not even know why he wants to be president.

LOL!!!!

Anonymous wrote:Obama's parents were executing the perfect plan; fake birth announcements, planting doctors in Hawaii, creating a fake birth certificate and everything. I think they got to arrogant with it and thought their plan was so full proof that they could go ahead and give their son a fucked up/non American name and get away with it.

All they had to do was give him a regular name like Charles. But no. They wanted to go with Barack. Sad really

Seems like an awful lot of work when they could have flown to the US to have the baby instead. It's not like she needed a visa or anything.