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Mitt Romney Plays the Birther Card
The New York Times' Taking Note ^ | August 24, 2012 | Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor

Posted on 08/24/2012 1:22:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Politicians sometimes think they can get away with saying something profoundly offensive or just plain stupid by acting like it was a joke. It never works, just like it didn’t work today when Mr. Romney shamelessly played the birther card in what seems like an increasingly desperate campaign against President Obama.

Speaking in Commerce, Mich., about his Michigan roots, Mr. Romney said: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

Get it? Everyone knows he’s from Michigan, but nobody is really sure where the president is from.

It’s not like Mr. Romney has shunned the birther crowd. He took the stage earlier this year with Donald Trump, who ranted about Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Mr. Romney’s son, Matt, said during the primaries that his father might consider releasing his tax returns if Mr. Obama released his birth certificate and his grades.

In April 2011, Mr. Romney himself used the “well if he says so” dodge that many Republicans love. “I think the citizenship test has been passed,” Mr. Romney said. “I believe the president was born in the United States. There are real reasons to get this guy out of office.”

Citizenship test? Barack Obama did not have to take a citizenship test. And why couldn’t Mr. Romney cut out the “I believe” preamble? The president was born in the United States.

But today’s crack was way over the line. His audience laughed and applauded, probably not because they thought Mr. Romney was doing hilarious stand-up comedy, but because they knew exactly what he was up to...

(Excerpt) Read more at takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birther; certifigate; hitanerve; naturalborncitizen; obama; romney; squealingpig
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21 posted on 08/24/2012 1:39:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Not that there is anything wrong with it, but some people have speculated that he might be a flaming homosexual as well.


22 posted on 08/24/2012 1:39:23 PM PDT by TBall
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To: The Sons of Liberty
" Hussein will break out a new deck of race cards. "

They maybe a new deck of race cards, but, they are all moldy and used up.
23 posted on 08/24/2012 1:39:35 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More howling from the leftist loons in the comments following the NYT piece. I love it!!!

Romney using Alinsky tactics against the foremost practitioner of Alinsky is too rich!!!


24 posted on 08/24/2012 1:41:20 PM PDT by astounded (Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: frogjerk
There's so much truth to the cut.
The truth runs deep and wide.

This disgusting Curse on our Nation named Barack Hussein Obama II, aka Barry Soetoro, has a real birth certificate, with his right footprint on it.
All you have to do is look for it.

Here's some critical sources and FACTS.
People can go to www.scribd.com and read their pages 20 thru 32 ,
For those of you who don't know, remember this:
8 Congressional attempts from June 2004 to February 2008 to alter Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution, proves to meRead it for yourself.
Then look at these links.
Just before the 2008 election Barack Obama's election team spent $1.4 million blocking access to all of Obama's records.

Barack Hussein Obama II is UNCONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED.
There were 8 attempts by Democrats to try to "Change the Qualification Rules" BEFORE Obama was elected.
They KNOW Obama's ILLEGAL ... AND .... UNQUALIFIED!

Obama's record is hard to find.
Check this link out Sunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate.

Think about this.
Here's something to ponder. Now think about those facts,and statements.
The forgeries I'm aware of, are the three Birth Cretificate Barack Hussein Obama II has forged.
I don't trust evidence put forth by Obama supporters.
The disappearance of too much evidence on Obama is strong enough for me to know that he was born in Kenya.

Read INS DOC FOUND: U.S. CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO ONE EAST AFRICAN-BORN CHILD OF U.S. CITIZEN IN 1961!
The documents provided in that article are very damaging to Obama, and well worth your time.

Most of these early "supporters" of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF were party to the Communists "spooks".
There's a great volume of history you have to go through to understand this, and it goes back to about 1850.

Read these three articles on one of my earlier post:


Now go back and read The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals.

Are you getting the depth of this Fabian Society takeover?

You wouldn't believe the information here

It's deep, it's ugly, and most people WILL NOT ... CAN NOT ... accept the truth.

Anybody recall a press release telling the masses about federal intelligence notes sent warning police about this cabal?





25 posted on 08/24/2012 1:42:10 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just heard a clip of Limbaugh profusely exclaiming “Right on, right on, right on!” after playing the clip of Romney making the Birther quip. Rush sounded cathartic, like he may actually be banned from discussing it and he is encouraging Romney. If Romney goes birther he will get my vote.


26 posted on 08/24/2012 1:42:51 PM PDT by kreitzer
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To: madison10

Then why is it that all Obama can produce is a photoshopped BC?


27 posted on 08/24/2012 1:43:01 PM PDT by 353FMG (The US Constitution is only as good as those who enforce it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A question for the NY Slimes...a few years ago the dust jacket of one of Osama Obama’s book claimed,in big bold letters,that he was born in Kenya.More recently he’s claimed to have been born in Hawaii.Was he lying *then*,or is he lying *now*.And assuming your answer is “then” can you tell me on what *other* occasions might he have falsely claimed to have been born in Kenya? Perhaps on his Columbia application? Or his Harvard application? Or,perhaps,both?


28 posted on 08/24/2012 1:43:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Word Is Out,Harry Reid's Into Child Porn.Release All Your Photos,Harry!)
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To: comebacknewt; frogjerk; The Sons of Liberty; Patrick1; madison10; JennysCool; BuckeyeTexan; ...

WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: How Mitt Romney Mentally Castrated The Obama Campaign
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/07/31/white-house-insider-how-mitt-romney-mentally-castrated-the-obama-campaign/


29 posted on 08/24/2012 1:43:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama may technically be American In Name Only, but his ideology is purely foreign, post-colonial 3d World Marxist Liberationism.


30 posted on 08/24/2012 1:43:33 PM PDT by Argus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My inner Breitbart reaction is to say...

....so?

31 posted on 08/24/2012 1:44:17 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In before the little kid saying, “dat be racist!”


32 posted on 08/24/2012 1:48:15 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I find this really interesting.

So far, I’ve been impressed with the focus of the Romney team. Quick rebuttals. Sharp ads. On top of it.

Seems to me that this, too, may have been scripted. Calculated.

What does the Romney camp know, or how worried do they think 0’s guys are? Was this an off-the-cuff joke or an intentional poke in the backside?


33 posted on 08/24/2012 1:50:16 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hasn’t POTUS himself made birther jokes>


34 posted on 08/24/2012 1:50:32 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just leave Obama alone!
35 posted on 08/24/2012 1:54:27 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 353FMG
Then why is it that all Obama can produce is a photoshopped BC?

I was born many years before Osama...in Massachusetts,which is an "open records" state.That means that *anyone* can go to the Massachusetts Vital Records Archive in Boston and,if they had my full name,DOB and city of birth,would be able to see and touch,in a bound book,my *original* BC,which contains,among other things,the doctor's actual signature (the very piece of paper he actually signed) and,for a fee,can get a certified copy of that BC with the official state seal on it.

Yet Osama,born long after me (when such records were even *more* diligently generated and preserved),cannot seem to do the same.

36 posted on 08/24/2012 1:57:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Word Is Out,Harry Reid's Into Child Porn.Release All Your Photos,Harry!)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
obama once again ADMITS he was Born in Kenya..!
37 posted on 08/24/2012 1:57:40 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Awesome if true!!


38 posted on 08/24/2012 1:58:11 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re taking his remark and flipping it, like the did Dan Cathy at Chick-fil-A.

Dan Cathy said that he “believed in traditional marriage”...the gays and the press reported that he is “against gay marriage”.

Romney said he’s never been asked to show his birth certificate, from the left they said Romney is a “birther”, not believing obama has a birth certificate.

So far, obama hasn’t shown one...one that’s real, anyway.

I think Romney hit a nerve...


39 posted on 08/24/2012 1:58:46 PM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Obama, just produce the dang birth certificate and put the issue to rest. I can do that. Mitt can do that. Freepers can do that. Why not you?


40 posted on 08/24/2012 1:58:57 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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