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Sunday 26 August 2012
Mitt Romney's Birth Certificate 'Joke'

Mitt Romney went there. Campaigning in Michigan on Friday, he made a joke about President Obama’s birth certificate. Here’s what he said:

“Now, I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born at Henry Ford Hospital, I was born at 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.”

As a literal statement, this isn’t true. People have asked to see Romney’s birth certificate, and his campaign released it, with little fanfare, earlier this year. As a “joke,” it isn’t very funny. And as a reference to the controversy-that-won’t-die over the president’s origins, it’s a venture into very perilous territory for Romney.

The most troubling part of Romney’s statement is the implication that Obama is somehow to blame for the birthers’ conspiracy theorizing — that there are some people you can look at and tell they were “born and raised” here, and others who make you wonder, for some reason.

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    The news says that Romney is innocent on this one because Obama himself has joked about the birth certificate issue many...
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    racist asshat
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