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Romney: No One's Ever Asked To See My Birth Certificate
b]Mitt Romney: No ones asked for my birth certificate
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It sure seemed like it Friday morning as he made remarks before a crowd of more than 1,000 here in Michigan, the state where he was born and raised.
I love being home, in this place where both of us were raised, Romney said as his wife, Ann, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) stood next to him on the podium.
No ones ever asked to see my birth certificate; they know that this is the place where both of us were born and raised, he said.
more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/24/mitt-romney-no-ones-asked-for-my-birth-certificate/
Romney Jokes: No One Ever Asked To See My Birth Certificate
At a camoaign stop in his home state of Michigan Friday, Mitt Romney made a joke referencing the continued doubts about President Obama's birth certificate raised by Romney supporters like Donald Trump.
"I love being home, where but the both of us were born," Romney said after introducing his wife, fellow Michigan native Ann. "No one asked to see my birth certificate. They know this is where we were born and raised."
An Obama spokesperson watching the speech tweeted Romney was "keeping it substantive & classy" with the line.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-jokes-no-one-ever-asked-to-see
ProSense
(116,464 posts)It's too late: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021192287
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I think it's baseless, weak and stupid but I wonder if that is the motive for this messed-up misplaced mass of fail.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)If he needs to go birther right before the convention to keep the Akin revolters in line, he's in trouble.
It probably wasn't by design though. He's a gaffe factory to the point of self destruction. It's quite a marvel.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)from Ryan and Romney.
papa3times
(150 posts)Donald Trump and Joe Arpaio are giving speeches at the convention. What does that tell us? having those two on your guest speaker list says it all.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)do when being raped when he starts to break bad
then he might save himself from these gaffes
VWolf
(3,944 posts)(I'm not)
Going birther will do nothing to help Rmoney's cause and will likely alienate even more voters.
I think he just made another in a long, long line of incredibly dumb comments.
I liked your "misplaced mass of fail" comment, BTW
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Because -- if he was born and raised here, why doesn't he recognize his income and pay his taxes on it here?
The records of some of the companies he owns or invests a lot of his money in suggest that he is taking his income in the Caymans, and then letting it sit there until he can list it on his American tax forms as capital gains which are taxed at a very low rate if at all.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)If this is the best he can do, I guess he should keep going.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Where are they Mittens?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)A birfer candidate, or at least one that gives credence to this embarrasment of a movement.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu . . . certain sections of this country are goddamned idiotic.
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)and probably racists.
If Rmoney wants to hitch is waggon to such nonsense - then please, by all means - go ahead! Mittwit!
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)He showed up in a very Red area, I live around here.
1,000 is all he could draw?
Kinda telling on how much "we" love him.
This event has been publicized heavily here.
Most of my Repub friends think he's the worst thing to happen in a while.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)mwb970
(11,299 posts)We're going to need a smaller boat.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He said that on Andrea Mitchell's show with a smile on his face.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Birferism is a national embarrassment led by the same coneheads who may as well be saying "President Ni&&er", like Donald Trump and Sheriff Joe, for example. Sounds harsh? The whole insane hateful lot needs to be treated harsher. These people are assholes and Mitt has just thrown his hat in Sheriff Joe's arena.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)She's covering it. Her show's teaser just said Romney may now have taken all the focus off the upcoming convention with this controversial birther comment.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)So where are they?
Loki
(3,825 posts)I don't know that Mitt. Just because you say so, I never saw you there. Wow it's so easy to use their idiotic logic. He's just painful to watch, he's such a toady little man.
Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)Fucking IDIOT.
Vasmosn
(29 posts)....and I'd like to add I bet no one has referred to him as "that one" in a debate.
....I'll bet no one has shouted "you lie" at him while he was speaking to members of Congress.
...I'll bet no one ever made it their priority to make him a one-term governor.
...I'll bet no one has ever asked to see his tax ret-- oh wait, forget that one.
...I'll bet no one has called him a communist or socialist.
....I'll bet no one has said he was born in Kenya.
...I'll bet no one has referred to trying to defeat his candidacy as "taking back America."
rateyes
(17,438 posts)awwyeah
(17 posts)Javaman
(62,442 posts)retreading old bullshit is never a good tactic.
The response from the Dems should be, "is this the best you got?"
the beads of sweat on lost mittens upper lip has turned into a running stream.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)or pays his income taxes.
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Now it's time to grill Romney, Ryan and all of their surrogates about WHY the front runner of a major party ticket would make such a fringe issue comment. That he thought that it was important enough to imply that the President's own birth certificate needed to be questioned.
With this, plus Hurricane Akin, it should derail their party messaging going into the convention big time.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I think that's why Mitt is afraid to show all the dependants he's been claiming!
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Ther convention will be quite a hate fest....................
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)didnt laugh, they cheered. It was not a joke. It was said in a matter of fact manner.
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adicortez
(47 posts)and nasty that a Romney Presidency would leave the vast majority of American's truly UNREPRESENTED. Mitt only cares about the upper crusters I am amused by the the blue collar supporters- he has no need for them other than their votes.
stanchaz
(50 posts)Yeah sure fella.
We just love your off-the-cuff "humor".
But tell us more, Mitt.
Why don't you explain to us
how and why your More-mon-ey Grandpa
left the US to live in Mexico...
in order to evade the oh-so-harsh
monogamy laws back here in the good ole USA?
Hmmm...it sure seems to me that YOUR family
has a long history of various kinds of offshore
or foreign evasions of various types,
whether they be birth-er,
or marital,
or tax-related.
Whatever.
Why dont you
show us THOSE birth certificates,
AND foreign tax shelters,
AND secret Swiss accounts,
AND tax returns?
People like you Mitt,
who live in multiple glass houses,
should be very careful when they start
slinging attack-humor stones, dear boy.
They could backfire...
stanchaz
(50 posts)Yeah sure fella.
We just love your off-the-cuff "humor".
But tell us more, Mitt.
Why don't you explain to us
how and why your More-mon-ey Grandpa
left the US to live in Mexico...
in order to evade the oh-so-harsh
monogamy laws back here in the good ole USA?
Hmmm...it sure seems to me that YOUR family
has a long history of various kinds of offshore
or foreign evasions of various types,
whether they be birth-er,
or marital,
or tax-related.
Whatever.
Why dont you
show us THOSE birth certificates,
AND foreign tax shelters,
AND secret Swiss accounts,
AND tax returns?
People like you Mitt,
who live in multiple glass houses,
should be very careful when they start
slinging attack-humor stones, dear boy.
They could backfire...
stanchaz
(50 posts)Yeah sure fella.
We just love your off-the-cuff "humor".
But tell us more, Mitt.
Why don't you explain to us
how and why your More-mon-ey Grandpa
left the US to live in Mexico...
in order to evade the oh-so-harsh
monogamy laws back here in the good ole USA?
Hmmm...it sure seems to me that YOUR family
has a long history of various kinds of offshore
or foreign evasions of various types,
whether they be birth-er,
or marital,
or tax-related.
Whatever.
Why dont you
show us THOSE birth certificates,
AND foreign tax shelters,
AND secret Swiss accounts,
AND tax returns?
People like you Mitt,
who live in multiple glass houses,
should be very careful when they start
slinging attack-humor stones, dear boy.
They could backfire...