UPDATE: Huffington Post reports, dog whistle heard loud and clear:
Romney drew gasps from reporters when, during a speech in Michigan, he said, “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”Romney was unsurprisingly criticized by the Obama campaign, but [Rush] Limbaugh clearly loved it. He played the soundbite twice, shouting, “”Right on, right on, right on!”
He added that he thought Romney was “test-driving” the line for further use, and connected it to the upcoming Republican convention…
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Mitt Romney appeared to joke on Friday about debunked claims over President Obama’s citizenship, telling a crowd in his native Michigan that “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.” Romney reminded the crowd in suburban Detroit that he and his wife, Ann, were born in Michigan. “They know that this is the place where both of us were born and raised,” he said.Romney had generally avoided getting into the debate over Obama’s birth certificate, which has become a prominent issue in some conservative circles. Friday’s comment appeared to be a nod to those who continue to question whether Obama was born in the United States even though he has released a birth certificate showing that he was born in a hospital in Hawaii.
In a later interview with CBS News, Romney said the comments were meant as a joke, and he was not questioning the president’s citizenship.
“Of course, a little humor always goes a long way,” Romney said. “It was great to be home, to be in a place where Ann and I had grown up. The crowd loved it and got a good laugh.” [Pols emphasis]
There’s really not much we can add to this other than the title, folks. Whether meant as a ‘harmless’ joke, or the subtle but very much intended nod to the xenophobic underpinnings of the theories about President Barack Obama’s perfectly well-documented citizenship this ‘joke’ seems to represent, the GOP’s nominee for the presidency has taken the 2012 election season to an embarrassing new low–after several weeks of embarrassing new lows.
Like bringing in Paul Ryan to defend the GOP on Medicare, or having Tom Tancredo carry the de facto Republican flag in the 2010 gubernatorial race, it’s almost like some kind of pre-emptive headfake–a way of desensitizing voters to the worst of the GOP’s recent history.
We know that sounds crazy, but if you’ve got a better explanation, we’re all ears.
Because it’s either eight-dimensional mind games, or the compounding disaster it looks like.
I mean the guy does have a bizarre and mean spirited sense of humor. I don’t think he ever claimed to work as under cover police in Kansas…I’m getting them all mixed up though.
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me has been killing lately. (I’m in the car on the way home for registering voters- gotta listen to something.) Two weeks ago they had SImon (a Brit famous in some circles for Minecraft videos on youtube) on- and he was HYSTERICAL. (Greatest Fight Club punch line ever.)
Today they had some Brit diplomat- also killed.
But they asked the diplomat what he thinks about American politics because he’s been in the US the past few months. He pointed out that he was here in the 90′s when we were busy trying to impeach our president, so it’s not exactly new to him.
Then he reminded everyone that we revolted against what he described us unflatteringly calling “tyranny” and then designed a form of government that intentionally ….doesn’t really work.
And in large measure he is right.
Idiots and fools get to vote, and In large number apparently. I hate our politics sometimes. (And while I hope no one Akin knows or is related to, nor Akin himself, is ever legitimately raped, I hope he does pray on the subject enough that he figures out rape is rape.)
But all you can do is organize. Organize. Organize. (yeah- I stole that from Joe HIll) And then, voterreg and GOTV.
Meanwhile- I would like to see MItt’s birth certificate. ANd his dad’s. and his grandfather’s. How exactly do you get to emigrate to Mexico to maintain a plural marriage and then emigrate back to the US?
I’d like to see his marriage certificate. He’s seem proud of his marriage – show the documents, civil and official.
Likewise baptismal certifcates upon which he is named. I’m not sure the bishop or priests sign them in the Mormon church – but I’d like to see.
Speaking of baptism, I’d be curious to know his view on post mortem baptism. I think it should be illegal. In my family, the parents get to choose the style and place of baptism- and a few family have chosen again one way or another as adults. But I would have huge issues with anyone deciding for my family after I’ve died unless they got the Pope to say tutto bene, con la mia benedizione.
I’d very much like to see some other documents of his – tax returns, voter registration docs (how could he run for gov in MA when he was a citizen in UT? or how could he take the resident’s property tax exemption in UT when he was a resident of MA?)
I’d like to see th eforeign donors list and the list of large donors to
hisPACS supporting him.I’d like to know if he still has any police uniforms and if not how did he dispose of them?
I could go on- but you get the point.
And, dysfunctional republic or not, dog whistles are never cool.
the way our system works, if someone wants to challenge him on that, they should file a complaint in federal court.
if nobody is challenging him in court to prove he was born in the USA, he gets a pass on the question.
put your money where your doubts are, birthers.
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In my estimation, the Obama birth certificate furnished 2 years ago was phonier than Dan Rather’s “evidence” that GW Bush was a deserter, or whatever that was about.
I would have been interested to see it challenged in court. The fact that it wasn’t maybe says more about the case than anything else could.
….to whine and be paranoid over the intertubes. Accountable to no one.
In between those black helicopter fly overs.
She is a lawyer, as I recall.
“Laughed out of court”, I believe is the expression.
What is it with these righties inability to do simple research?
It explains why such seemingly intelligent people can believe such STOOPID things.
There is only one appropriate response to the question…”was Obama born in the USA”?
The answer is, “yes, of course he was”.
Any equivocation is a duplictious, dogwhistle answer. Romney was just stooping to his usual standard.
they were hoping they could get to the Supreme Court and that since the Court had given them the President they wanted in 2000, the Court would take away the President they didn’t want.
than why bother giving them the funds and resources to hunt down terrorists? It must be obvious to you that they are incapable of even the simplist tasks.
If Obama fooled the DHS, FBI, NSA and CIA with his fake birth certificate than it’s either the best con of all time or they’re all incapable fo doing their jobs.
Or…you know..it’s real.
Hawaii came in as the most racially diverse state in our union. It is the state’s responsibility to verify a birth certificate – Hawaii has done it over and over again….and the State Department issues Obama a passport on the basis of that verification….a passport he used to verify citizenship when the Electoral College met to vote after the 2008 election…
It is not just the republicans who are patronizing toward Hawaii….I remember Cokie Roberts on a Sunday morning talk show in 2008 criticizing Obama for “vacationing” in Hawaii….she opined he was wrong to go to someplace as exotic as “Hawaii”….he should have gone to some American place…like Myrtle Beach.
Sadly, Obama’s trip to Hawaii was not a vacation, he went to say good-bye to his dying grandmother. She died in July of 2008…..the ugly, “foreigners” started their attack on his birthright, the following month…once the only family member who was present when he was born was dead. Orly Tates was born in the Soviet Union….who let her in?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
You link to the Washington Post’s publication of Obama’ birth certificate from Hawaii. It certainly appears to be in order.
So I have no idea what your comment “just sayin’” means or refers to….
I have no idea what you’re sayin’
and if you are I take back what I said about you not being a loon. I didn’t have you lumped in with the troglodytes.
What’s so stunning to me is that as many of 90% have a terrible opinion of congress. The House is firmly in Republican control while the Senate has a large enough GOP majority to carry out, in conjunction with he GOP House, their stated strategy of ensuring, no matter what, to block any successes that could help Obama get re-elected, the more miserable the country is the better for them. Even so the generic preference remains at a statistic dead heat with people failing to connect the craven behavior of congress with the party in the driver’s seat.
Here’s what we have to look forward to if Romney is elected and the Senate also goes GOP majority. Committees in both houses headed by people whose junk science beliefs are every bit as ignorant and non-reality based as anything Akin has said. Please check these 6 GOP held junk science beliefs out and if your reaction is, sounds right to me, God help us that any intelligent person could possibly think so:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
In sadness more than anger.
and officially worried about your health . . .
. . . how about knockin’ off the Chick-Fil-As for just this one week? Let’s re-evalutate your condition after Labor Day . . .
The recent Democrat tactic of clutching pearls and crying offense at everything a Republican says is going to backfire. You can’t keep the outrage going until November.
Especially when all you have is harmless jokes. Romney has said he knows where the President was born, Hawaii, so many times he is blue in the face. Everybody in that crowd got the joke. Obama himself makes jokes like this all the time.
Keep the outrage going as long as you can. You’re going over the top.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to church.
Forever
is a new talking point? Or is it just something Bozo thinks sounds clever?
. . . (unless God takes out The Dangle State) . . . just ArapaGOP’s little homage to Granny Bush.
He doesn’t remember the whining put up by Rmoney only a couple weeks ago.
According to the fact checkers, Obama tells as many lies as anyone in this campaign.
Prove it, tool.
like every other brainwashed fool in your feudal society. Lord Rmoney cried like a baby ’cause the hated Democrats wouldn’t stop talking about Bain Capital and his tax returns.
Yet you repubs continue to misquote the President on that “you didn’t build it” thing, and deny that it is a bald faced-lie. Wouldn’t you like to have a little credibility someday, grasshopper?
the gopher is so American he is going to church while this sinner is not.
I am also tired of just snarky stuff by both campaigns. While I don’t think the snark will backfire on either I just think it is boring, but Rmoney is not “blue in the face” from rejecting birtherism and his remarks re his birth certificate and birth location are intended to focus the attention of neanderthals to President Obama’s birth. If they were not he would not have made them. Everything Rmoney says is calculated to obfuscate, mislead and confuse.
Trying to tell everyone what a good Christian you are to boot. Though, you are really more like a Pharisee.
The political ones going right in hand with the religious ones.
No surprise to me.
Everyone knows “that guy”. 5 other people you know could make a joke about something and, even if it’s inappropriate, you’ll laugh.
Then there’s “that guy” who can’t help but make any joke he tells sound unfunny, creepy or just asshattish.
Romney is “that guy”.
it’s a CEO thing — you 99%ers are never gonna get it. (ArapaGOP doesn’t get it either, but he is paid to laugh.)
Only $5,000,000 left to raise.
Let’s raise money for laughter!
People don’t change their basic nature and Romney’s basic nature is that of some entitled a-hole who thinks it’s funny to get a posse together to gang up on the terrified kid who’s different and chop his hair off. When my son was High School and college age, it never in a zillion years would have occurred to him to do such a thing. Just not in his kind nature. Not so much boys will be boys as nasty SOBs will be nasty SOBs.
At least one or two others involved felt badly about it afterwards, in fact one felt quite haunted. Mittens claims he doesn’t even remember it. Who doesn’t remember something like that? The kind who hoses the terrified dog down and puts him back on the roof? At least he remembered that.
If we take Mittens at his word it can only be because ring-leading gang violence against a weaker, helpless, “different” kid was such a typical kind of thing for him it doesn’t stand out in his memory. In any case, even in retrospect, what’s the big deal seems to be his attitude. Or that it was funny. This isn’t normal for a decent person of any age. Creepy for sure.
that when they were passing out empathy he thought they said hemorrhoids and skipped that line.
First psychopath or maybe sociopath (or both) President wouldn’t be so cool.
……at least in modern times. Perhaps other prez’s pre-Freud, but we can’t know.
I think GW’s just a garden variety tool and fool born into a powerful political family. Nothing more interesting than that.
we have not yet elected our first Black Prez.
African-American, maybe,
mixed race, OK,
but not Black.
http://www.upi.com/blog/2012/0…
And anyway isn’t the degree of Obama’s blackness or lack thereof a very old and no longer very interesting subject?
The things you choose to respond to these days! You hardly ever respond to me on anything of substance with anything of substance.
Maybe Dave’s right to just say goodbye to this site at this point. Besides being a place for picking up the occasional local nugget before it appears elsewhere, it’s mainly just us issuing opinions and then high fiving or trashing with no interesting back and forth discussion between opposing viewpoints. Maybe we regulars have run our course here.
Where’ the one drop rule when you need it?
Probably not many, if any, American descendants of slaves are still 100% Negroid. There are probably some native born Americans from recent African immigrants that are 100% Negroid.
And before anyone gets their panties in a knot, “Negroid” is the accepted anthropological term for peoples of a certain geographical origin and their genetic characteristics.
If I had said it, you would have “your panties in a knot.”
You see, I can very much differentiate between your rabid political beliefs without foundation, and errors from verifiable, actual facts.
If you had stated what I did, or that “There are three race/DNA groups recognized by anthropologists: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid,” that would be impossible to argue against.