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Posted on 08/24/2012 12:14:37 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
The Obama campaign looked to capitalize on Mitt Romney's joke about the president's birth certificate Friday afternoon, with campaign traveling press secretary Jen Psaki denouncing a "pattern" of comments from the Republican challenger.
"This is the kind of gutterball politics that will and should turn the American people off," Psaki told MSNBC. "This is a pattern. Mitt Romney has questioned repeatedly over the last several months whether the president understands America, whether he understands freedom — he's wrapped his arms around Donald Trump, one of the originators of the birther movement, so we've seen a pattern here."
Earlier Friday, Romney joked about the controversy surrounding the president's birth certificate during a campaign stop in Michigan.
"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," 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."
Romney aides quickly looked to downplay the remark, insisting their candidate did not mean to question the president's birthplace.
"The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States. He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised," a Romney spokesman said.
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Hope Romney camp knows what they are doing here. It was a predictable response from Axlerod. Let’s see what Romney’s 2nd move is.
What a breath of fresh air it will be when Obama and his hot air (socialist bad breath) is shown the door in November.
Obama made some dog joke the other day. This is pretty funny. Trump supposedly has a really big surprise for the convention.
Romney is doing just fine and frankly, with Obama's notoriously thin skin - this is what comes from living a life of free passes - he is very vulnerable to a little tweaking from the Romney campaign that could easily set him off and make him lose his oh-so carefully crafted image as the 'cool' guy. Let's hope that happens.
I dont get the joke...
Willard has mocked and maligned us birthers all along and demanded that we leave Obama alone...
Willard has declared that he knows Obama was born in Hawaii....
Whats funny about his hypocritical utterance now ???
I think he is phony and pathetic...
No, he threw it at Obama’s head.
Which one of those two was the Obama spokesperson?
We should all take a lesson from Obommie and take the highroad...cough cough choke choke.
However today they do not appear to be in the mood for jocularity. Wonder why.
Whoa! The next thing you know, Romney will be showing us his college transcripts - imagine how the Obots will scream about that being a low blow!
Husband just received the bumper stickers he ordered:
VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN!
Go vote for Obama and leave the rest of us alone.
The Emperor has very thin skin. It’s almost not even a challenge to get under his skin. Yawn.
Basically I see no outrage at the Republicans outside of conservative circles targeted against the RINO GOPe leadership faction, and the retarded far Left radicals, therefore the Democrats have to try to provoke that which doesn’t exist naturally. THAT is what I see in this article with what the Press Sec. Jen Psaki is attempting to do. She’s attempting to invoke, provoke, and promote dissention.
Creative ire if you will.
Do you know why Obama doesn’t make jokes about himself? Hmmmm?
Well, THAT would be racist!
I think he is phony and pathetic...
The sad part is he is an improvement over Obama. Of course, a dead guy would be an improvement over his O’liness.
Doncha just know the Mormon genealogists have been busy, busy bees working out O’s true bloodlines.
Bwahaaaaahaaaahaaaa
Not my choice, but this was a nice shot.
On a wonderfully clear day with a perfectly functioning bomb sight. (Sigh) I guess I’m just going to have to send Mittens some more money.
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