Mitt Romney Makes Birth Certificate Joke

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Mitt Romney made a joke about his birth certificate at a rally in Commerce, Mich. on Friday.

Speaking about his Michigan roots, 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."

The joke was received with hearty applause by the audience. Still, it was an awkward moment for the candidate to play on the birther conspiracies that have plagued Barack Obama since he ran for president in 2008, even after the president released his "long-form" birth certificate in 2011.

The Obama campaign quickly responded, with spokesman Ben LaBolt saying that Romney was embracing the most extreme elements in the conservative movement.

"Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them," he said. "It's one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America."

A Romney spokesman played down the joke in a follow-up comment to CBS, saying, "He was just illustrating he was born and raised here in Michigan."

Mitt Romney's own birth certificate was released by Reuters on the same day when the candidate appeared with Donald Trump, who loudly amplified doubts about the president's birthplace.




Romney's son Matt joked earlier this year about Obama's birth certificate, a quip for which he later apologized. Referring to his father's tax returns, he said, "I heard that someone suggested that as soon as President Obama releases his grades, and birth certificate, and a sort of a long list of things, then maybe he will."

Romney has said that he believes that Obama was born in the United States. "I think the citizenship test has been passed. I believe the president was born in the United States. There are real reasons to get this guy out of office," he told Larry Kudlow in April 2011. ""The man needs to be taken out of office but his citizenship isn't the reason why."

 

[kinglickk]

"this guy"???

 

[Spectrum]

does all the crying about the tax shit but he got birther jokes

 

[cb71109]

mane fuck that dude

 

[Laughing Man]

NI-CLANG!!!!!!!!!!!

And fuck you to the media trying to equate this fuckery to Team Obama making jokes about the dog on the roof

Dog-on-roof is fed from Romney being a fucking cruel dumb ass, and Birth Certificate is fed from racism, but hey, both sides do it, right?

 

[Gods_Debris]

lol, he could NOT be anymore of a MORON! The face he makes after the comment, the way he moves, his body language. This guy is completely clueless!

 

[Hotlantan]

Romney's father George was born in Mexico, so Mitt might want to fall back with the birther jokes before they bite him in his Anchor Baby ass

 

[LordSinister]

Damn these dudes are stupid as hell.

 

[Teknique310]

Easy softball for PBO . Start making tongue in cheek tax jokes with very formal follow-ups

 

[TheFuser]

i hate people who can dish it but cant take it

 

[Laughing Man]

 

[Laughing Man]

And like a bitch, he's walking it back

Romney Makes a Birth Certificate Joke While Campaigning in Michigan
By ASHLEY PARKER

COMMERCE, Mich. — Mitt Romney, who has decried the nasty personal tone of the presidential campaign, made playful reference to the controversy surrounding the authenticity of President Obama’s birth certificate here on Friday.

Speaking in his home state of Michigan, with his new running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, by his side, Mr. Romney said, “I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born.

“Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised,” he said, to knowing chuckles from the crowd.

Mr. Obama, who was born in Hawaii and shared his birth certificate with the national media, has long faced “birther” rumors, from those who falsely question whether he was actually born in the United States.

Aides to Mr. Romney, whose father, George Romney, was the state’s governor, scrambled to walk back his comments, saying he was simply sharing his Michigan pride.

“The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States,” said Kevin Madden, an adviser to Mr. Romney, who served as governor of Massachusetts. “He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised.”

But few in the crowd interpreted the comment that way, and as voters were still streaming out, Mr. Obama’s campaign blasted out a critical statement.

“Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” said Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the president’s campaign, in an e-mail statement. “It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”

 

[BKF]

This is how you know that the Obama team strategy is working.

 

[smiffnwessun]

wasnt he just complaining that obama was being spirited to him what a hypocrite

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[RAY V.]

Easy softball for PBO . Start making tongue in cheek tax jokes with very formal follow-ups

exactly...Obama need to hire him a comedy writer for a few romney tax jokes
when he's delivering his campaign speeches...

 

[Spectrum]

All Obama is gonna do now is say:

" No one has asked me about my tax returns because I've released them"

then it gets back to the tax issue. Mitt can't win that type of war...he should just leave it alone.. he is gonna lose another news cycle on jokes..

 

[Spectrum]

exactly...Obama need to hire him a comedy writer for a few romney tax jokes
when he's delivering his campaign speeches...

cosign..was just writing the same shit...

 

[Hotlantan]

Romney's birther remark wasn't a joke

I'm sure all of you have seen Romney's birther comment by now, but I'm going to reproduce it here for easy access:

Now, I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital, I was born in Harper Hospital. No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

Here's the thing, though. I see almost everyone referring to it as 'a joke'. It's not a joke. He doesn't say it in a joking tone. Some in the audience may have found it funny, but he was making an aggressive, affirmative statement: I was born here. I'm a real American. Obama isn't.

Romney's embrace of racist identity politics is sickening, but it's not unexpected. He has had King-Birther Donald Trump as his top surrogate for months, and in recent weeks he's been running with false, racially-tinged attacks against Obama's welfare reform waivers. The only surprise is that he's decided to stop using surrogates and insinuations, and instead do it himself.

Watch the video again. That's not how you joke. I suppose you could try to brush it off as Mitt being uncharismatic, but even he knows how to change his tone when making an attempt at humor. He's making a firm comparison, complete with forceful pointing. He's a Michigan born and raised white American. Obama is a possibly Kenyan-born black man who has spent his portions of his life in far away foreign places. Obama isn't like you, Romney is telling his mostly white crowd, but I am.

In Romney's tale, Obama is the 'other'. The other that can be blamed and the hated. The other who is causing all the world's troubles. Obama doesn't understand America. He might have been born in Hawaii, but it's easy to see why people think he wasn't. He's foreign in mindset if not in in reality. He wants us to be like Europe. He doesn't understand how hard you work for your money, and he wants to give it to greedy welfare recipients. He doesn't look like you.

Of course, all this ignores the fact that Obama's life story is quintessentially American: born to a single mother in Hawaii, he worked hard, earned a good education and rose to the highest levels of success. Romney, on the other hand, has lived his whole life in privilege, dodged the draft by going to France, and has spent his 65 years completely distanced from the struggles of most Americans.

None of this matters, however. Obama is black. Romney is white. Romney knows that there's a vein of racial resentment that can be tapped, and he's now shown that he's very willing to do it himself.

I wish people would stop calling Romney's remark a joke. It wasn't a birther joke. It's far beyond that. It's an embrace of those who seek to paint Obama as substantially un-American, and a blatant attempt to rally racists to his side.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/24/1123779/-Romney-s-birther-remark-wasn-t-a-joke

 

[jokekofi]

Dumb ass !! Mitt the twit indeed!!

 

[mk23666]

All Obama is gonna do now is say:

" No one has asked me about my tax returns because I've released them"

then it gets back to the tax issue. Mitt can't win that type of war...he should just leave it alone.. he is gonna lose another news cycle on jokes..

Bingo!

 

[smiffnwessun]

:facepalm: here we go again.

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[woodchuck]

All Obama is gonna do now is say:

" No one has asked me about my tax returns because I've released them"

then it gets back to the tax issue. Mitt can't win that type of war...he should just leave it alone.. he is gonna lose another news cycle on jokes..