(Video) Obama Campaign Releases Ad: “America Doesn’t Need A Birther-In-Chief”
Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney is insisting his birther joke about Barack Obama was nothing. He was only having some fun and of course he believes Barack Obama was born in the United States. But it reflects a pattern. And it’s clear the words didn’t just happen, and Romney didn’t look so pleased after he said it and got a laugh because it just slipped out. There was a political intent: to show he was one with his audience (born in the U.S.) and raise the issue about whether Obama was not (Obama was).
Now the Democrats have responded with this 15 second ad posted you You Tube:
Romney’s comments may not significantly hurt his chances with swing voters but it adds to a very dank, increasingly strong, political aroma coming from his campaign that suggests it’s increasingly clear that a President Romney would not challenge and stand up to the demands of his party’s far right or even to its conspiracy theory wing that makes you think of this song.
Rather, he’d try to placate them, prove he’s one of them to keep his Republican support intact and more than ever the person who would be calling a lot of the political shots since his opinion would matter most would be Rush Limbaugh.
There are many things that could be said about Mitt Romney that can be debated but this is not:
He won’t be included in any redo of the book “Profiles in Courage.”
Rather, he is a political version of THIS.
And, I suspect, a chunk of independent voters will conclude as much on election day.
If they haven’t already concluded it.
h/T: Huffington Post
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Spot on!
Rush wants to know how the (uptight) MSM comics could make jokes about the first black (narcissistic) president; he has no problems with it!!! If he thinks the Republican convention’s “delicious” Obama bashing is going to be news to the public, he really doesn’t understand what he’s been doing for four years. Diminished capacity?
The thing is, he might be right. This will not be a “Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth” kind of convention. This will be a “There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself.” kind of convention.
Pretty sad he had to stoop that low. The political ad in response is exactly right.
The spot will appeal to those who were going to vote for Obama anyway, but it’s hard to say how it will play to anyone else. To me it risks making Obama look petty and perpetuates a silly argument Obama thought he’d finished with. The far left sees Romney’s dumb joke as a much larger issue than it really is.
“Romney’s comments may not significantly hurt his chances with swing voters but it adds to a very dank, increasingly strong, political aroma coming from his campaign that suggests it’s increasingly clear that a President Romney would not challenge and stand up to the demands of his party’s far right or even to its conspiracy theory wing that makes you think of this song.”
Good grief, ..Liberals should get a grip. Obama’s people can insinuate Romney is a felon, murderer, etc – and nary a peep from Liberals blogs .. But Romney hives up what is clearly a joke, in his native Michigan which is the only place such a joke would make sense for Romney, and now he’s a birther, a lackey for right wings loons, blah blah blah. Maybe he said it to get far left blogs ..off the “rape” meme. Did you ever consider that??
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SJ
I guess I missed Romney’s calling out Donald Trump (Top CEO Birther). Maybe you can direct us to it? If you think “nary a peep” has been registered here, you haven’t been paying attention. As long as Obama can’t make the same joke in Hawaii, the “birther” meme won’t go away. Which makes the “joke” so offensive. As long as Ryan is the VP the “rape” meme can’t go away. As long as the Republican platform stays as it is, it can’t go away.
As long as Bain’s reputation of closing companies and decimating the employees’ pension funds and health care benefits, the results of that lack of health care will stick to Mr. Romney. It’s not murder, but it is unprincipled greed. The latest exposure of tax documents will tell us whether he is a felon or not.
Somebody call a Waaaaaambulance… It looks like smooth is getting a bit ruffled.
The ‘right side of the room’ seems to be unraveling now that the Democrat Campaign is starting to treat Republican Candidate like Republican Campaign has treated Democrat Candidates for years.
The “rape” meme? You mean stop mentioning that the Republican Party has put a plank in their Party Platform proposing “Christian Sharia Law” on ALL American Citizens… Christian or not?
Birthers are gullible morons with an axe to grind. That is an important reference point for what follows. Mittens “innocent” comment does not stand in a vacuum. He has been endorsed by Donald Trump and warmly accepted his support. If Romney wanted to, he could very directly say that birthers are crazy, Obama is absolutely a citizen, and the whole thing is stupid. The fact of the matter is he hasn’t done that. He has instead played nice with birthers to court their support. If Romney wants to win in November he is going to need all the gullible morons with an axe to grind he can get. Basically, Romney is being a giant pussy and trying to have his cake and eat it too. This comment if Romney’s merely proves that point.
As far as the “rape” meme, um, Akins said something roughly the equivalent of “I still think the sun goes around the earth” in its ignorance, and then asked me to vote for him. That one’s not going away for a awhile. He is an idiot, want to hold political power, more than he has now, and should rightly be made fun of for his now very public stupidity.
SJ, read the commenters’ rules. Stay to the topic, not other commenters, not writers, not the site, and all will be well. The commenters rules are at the top of the home page. Thanks.
archangel/ dr.e
We have seen worse from both sides. Heck, this isn’t even the worst thing that has been directed at Obama, I’m not sure why _this_ is something the Democrats think they can get mileage from.
When i lived in Zimbabwe they had a great saying, it’s English translation was bite and blow…,take a bite out of some one, then reach out and blow on it, as if to say, ‘ i really didn’t mean it.’