Mitt Romney: ‘No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate’
From the Associated Press:
COMMERCE, MI — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney Friday raised the discredited rumor that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and thus ineligible to be president.
The presumptive GOP nominee, joined for a rally outside Detroit Friday by running mate Paul Ryan, joked that he had been born in a nearby hospital and that “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. ”
The president’s reelection campaign swiftly responded that Romney was directly enlisting himself in the discredited “birther movement” and that “should give pause to any rational voter,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt.
Obama has been dogged throughout his presidency by question about his birthplace. He released a long form copy of his birth certificate last year, showing he was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Romney grew up in Michigan and his father, George Romney was a popular governor of the state.
Last week, Obama got in a quip about Romney’s long-ago practice of transporting the family dog on the roof his car. So now they’re even?
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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zeke
August 24th, 2012
4:46 pm
your sheets are ready at the laundry
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
4:57 pm
Mitt Romney is Sarah Palin in pants
Of all the idiotic and, yes, race-based thing for Romney to say, this one wins top prize.
The transformation from moderate republican to fright-fest Tea bagger is complete.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
5:00 pm
zeke – I do not understand what you are so proud of?
Northern Europeans were still living in caves while Africans were attending Universities.
Have you ever seen the Pyramids?
They are in Africa too.
Bama 1986
August 24th, 2012
5:00 pm
Alabama grad here, chuckling that almost every AJC poster with an auburn name in their tagline has borderline racist/right wing views. Not surprised but chuckling nonetheless at the predictibility of it.
I am a Bama grad and had the priviledge of voting for Reagan twice. Not racist, just trying to get my country back
honested
August 24th, 2012
5:03 pm
The proof is in.
The second tier party has once again provided us with third tier candidates.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
5:04 pm
mister earl, i realize we are all descendants of africans, i was offering it to latino as i was asking his heritage ie cuban, mexican, other…
thanks again, if i want any ship from you i’ll unscrew your head and dip it out….
The Inner Meaning
August 24th, 2012
5:10 pm
What Mitt meant was the unsaid general assumption: “Of course no one asks for my birth certificate. I am white, so I must be an American, see?”
Aptly tells what’s wrong with Arizona’s SB 1070, Georgia’s similar law and so on: the assumption “Of course he’s brown, so he must be an illegal alien – until proven otherwise. So he better carry his papers at all times, even if he is a US citizen – just in case, so that he may avoid himself being thrown in. And if he’s a naturalized citizen, in which case a passport may be the only document that proves his US citizenship, then he better carry his passport at all times, even though a US citizen may not be required to even own a passport while living in his own country, or at any time except when living in a foreign country.
So, a naturalized brown US citizen is required to possess a passport to live in Georgia and Arizona. Looks like these two states officially seceded from the United States and became “foreign countries” for him.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
5:11 pm
“Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them.
It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”
Don Abernethy
August 24th, 2012
5:17 pm
I understand his college records have finally been released and they show that he got foreign aid and that his real name was (or is ) Barry something. If this is true why doesn’t Romney use this information??
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
5:58 pm
No time for crybabies
Don Abernathy – It’s funny because the GOP is always crying like Momma’s boys that Dems are trying to distract voters and then Romney brings up the birther issue again. Sad that they have to sink to these levels because they can’t run on their policies that Americans object to like forcing women to have the child of their rapist that has Americans outraged.
Just like the schoolyard bully, Republicans cannot handle being hit back.
td
August 24th, 2012
6:03 pm
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
5:11 pm
“Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them.
It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”
Right off the Obama campaign website. How much did you get paid to cut and paste this one?
Bernie
August 24th, 2012
6:13 pm
We Can ALL Imagine all of the Birth Certificate Jokes that Mitt ” The Proud ONE” knows and finds ….awww! so funny!
However, The American People are going to have the last Laugh…..and its going to be on Mitt!
Double Zero Eight
August 24th, 2012
6:21 pm
Willard needs to win all the debates in order
to stand a chance at getting elected. The chances
of that happening are slim.
td
August 24th, 2012
6:32 pm
Double Zero Eight
August 24th, 2012
6:21 pm
I guess you have not been paying much attention to what has been going on in the country lately? If food and gas prices continue to rise, jobless claims and unemployment continue to go up and we have a 0 or negative economic growth report in October then Romney will will by a landslide.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
6:36 pm
companies raising revenue thru price increases? why don’t they just cut costs.
Corey
August 24th, 2012
6:41 pm
Sure Trish, but you only throw hissy fits and foam at the mouth when it comes to minorities on the left. Tsk, tsk, some of us have been following your glaring rants over time whenever the topic remotely relates to minorities and when it provides you the opportunity yell gawd awful blacks in coded messages every chance you get.
Corey
August 24th, 2012
6:45 pm
Trish, you are the type who wonders why blacks look at you as if you have a bolt sticking out your neck when you speak in code in public about blacks and think they aren’t in tune to where you are coming from. When all hell breaks loose you wonder what are they angry about.
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
6:49 pm
Watch out puppy dogs…Biden is going to put y’all in chains and Obama’s gonna eat cha!
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
6:54 pm
Corey…one of my black friends clued me into a “code” white girls do to piss of black girls…the hair toss. I’ve tossed my hair before, but never to piss off anyone. I was clueless that I was dissing anyone. Assuming everything done and said is related to you and yours is not identifying racism it’s practicing narcissism.
hiram
August 24th, 2012
7:02 pm
Why hasn’t anyone ask to see Romney’s magic underwear? If the Republicans nominated Lucifer, the holy rollers would give him a free pass – political mind control seems to be kicking religious mind controls butt.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
7:06 pm
http://www.good.is/post/conservative-darling-ayn-rand-died-loving-government-handouts/
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
7:14 pm
Post Racial?
The election of President Obama only proves how far the un-United States needs to travel to deal with the pre-existing condition of race. How can one-half of Republicans not trust that Barack Obama is NOT an American Citizen, where no other President in HISTORY has been questioned in such an insidious and vile means for over three freakin’ years?
Gimme a break.
hiram
August 24th, 2012
7:15 pm
@zeke
Ayn Rand’s simple minded philosophy is easily digested by simpiltons – sort of like the flat tax.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
7:16 pm
sheesh
td – I wasn’t paid a thing. My oversight in not providing the source of the quote as indicated.
The whole birther thing is just too crazy for words or style checking.
So sue me.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
7:26 pm
Corey, I just call them like I see them..Obama..is a vile disgusting leftist first and foremost to me..then an unlikeable DB as a person..then the offspring of a maoist and a leftist slut..its not till way down the list i even come to oh yeah, and he’s black.
As Racist as I am, it must be amazing how I willed myself to vote for Herman Cain for senate, huh. it is ALWAYS about ideology to me. It is not my fault that a majority of some races and socio economic levels have been enslaved by the collectivist handout Ideology. I didn;t create them I just comment on them.
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors — between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.,,You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle — and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world: I swear — by my life and my love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine” John Galt 1957
hiram
August 24th, 2012
7:28 pm
@ mister earl
The 2012 Republican party is a blend of the John Birch Society and Bob Jones. I think the hole in the ozone is effecting people’s brain function.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
7:38 pm
Tricia – Auburn must be the most backwards thinking and ignorant college on the face of the planet.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
7:49 pm
@Earl Like any University, Auburn has it’s mediocre students..those most often reside in soft majors, like education and the so called humanities. Then you have the really smart kids in the College of Engineering.,like myself
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
7:56 pm
Trisha – nice try. Unfortunately, your admitted self-serving, “me first”, and narrow thinking only puts a harsher light on Auburn as an institution of “higher” learning.
The world is an expansive place where people speak multiple languages, and strive to understand other cultures. Confining points of view into “left” and “right” as you insist, is about as enlightened as using a rotary phone. No, you are not so smart after all. Better to keep quiet and not expose yourself with naked glee.
As Mister T would say, “I pity the foo’ who attends Auburn”
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
8:04 pm
I always keep an open mind, other peoples points just never carry the logical weight sufficient to change my mind. There is only one morality…enlightened self interest..that makes rational sense. Only one moral economic system..Laissez Faire capitalism. Rationality trumps sentimentality always. I thank the blessing of my high IQ that I have always used logic to decide what it correct and what if incorrect, and not something as unpredictable as emotion.
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
8:12 pm
@ zeke – really, that’s awesome research dude. Ayn Rand O’Connor took Social Security and Medicare when she was elderly. While administrated by the government, these are programs that she definitely paid into, as she had income. So technically she took the money the government had been socking away for her, for HER rainy day. Just because the government took it and administrated it, does not make it less her money. I love the spin of how she took it under an assumed name…as in her MARRIED name. Ooooooh, heavy conspiracy dude.
Corey
August 24th, 2012
8:20 pm
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
6:54 pm
You opine, which means you know what the hell I’m talking about. Hair tossing does not remotely resmeble what I’m getting at. Words, my dear words.
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
8:29 pm
Corey – you miss the point for seeking shadows.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
8:30 pm
i did not write, just reported it. bet she got out more than she put in. and you need to get ryan straightened out. he is for her or against her. mitt must be rubbing off on him.
“Paul Ryan says that he read her books as a youth but was not influenced by her. In April, he gave an interview to National Review in which he repudiated Rand entirely. In the interview, he called reports of his adherence to Rand’s views an “urban legend” and said that he was more deeply influenced by his Roman Catholic faith and by Thomas Aquinas.”
Entirely….hmm
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
8:39 pm
Zeke, what makes you think she got more out than she put into the program? Do you have some records, or is this just more smearing of those you don’t understand or with which you disagree.
Frankly Mr. Ryan’s affinity for Ayn Rand is much less concerning than Mr. Obama’s affinity for the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. One is an idealist, one is a hate monger.
Big Hat
August 24th, 2012
8:44 pm
Which one of Mitt’s wives will be First Lady? …and which one Second Lady…and Third…and Fourth?
Ayn Rand was right
August 24th, 2012
8:50 pm
Big Hat…nice smear effort. Do you have a prairie dress for Mrs. Romney to wear on Tuesday? Idiot.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
8:51 pm
Moromons outlawed plural marriage in 1890..Obama’s father was a bigamist as of 1962..obama was born to a bigamist father. he had a wife in Kenya and Stanley ann Dunham. Truth hurts eh?
I love pointing out that obama is so flawed by the lefts own words.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
8:54 pm
Marx, Engels, and obama’s communist big daddy Frank Marshall Davis are dead and buried..John Galt is eternal.
The only good marxists are those who ARE dead and buried, btw
zeke
August 24th, 2012
9:05 pm
i am betting based on probabilities. why don’t you tell us. but it really is not big deal. point is she was a hypocrite, she railed against the sysem yet collected. some of her peers shunned ss & medicare .
by your moniker i assume you think rand right; well i guess ryan repudiates you too. of course we know that is not true because there are numerous youtubes where ryan appears before the atlas shrugged group and touted rand. could you provide us with some youtubes of obama touting wright and not edited by some low life like james o’keefe.
i have early morning, i’ll repond if needed later.
big hat
August 24th, 2012
9:13 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle….. Ooogah booogah ungahwah juju, Simba…and see if I don’t.
cc
August 24th, 2012
9:16 pm
TDWE:
“Trisha – nice try. Unfortunately, your admitted self-serving, “me first”, and narrow thinking only puts a harsher light on Auburn as an institution of “higher” learning.”
You would expect that comment from someone who hasn’t a prayer of making it at AU in a REAL field of study. You continue with your “me first” attitude and your narrow thinking which permits you to define and identify winners and losers. You’ve got a cheering section here!
cc
August 24th, 2012
9:20 pm
TDWE:
“The only good marxists are those who ARE dead and buried, btw”
. . . and buried so deeply there is no chance for the recovery of bodies to be stuffed and worshipped by their followers.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
9:55 pm
cc, yep..although last i heard, V I Lenin is looking as scruffy and moth eaten as a stuffed animal prize at “the mexican circus” as we used to call those Mcnair amusements places in the kmart parking lot growing up..
cc
August 24th, 2012
10:13 pm
TDWE:
I loathe (Nay, hate is the word!) commies whether they are foreign or domestic, sitting in high government office or just posting on these blogs. They are the failures in society looking for a free ride at the expense of everyone. Far too many bleeding hearts never learned the difference between ‘charity’ and ‘entitlement’, although liberals love to be charitable – with someone else’s money.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
11:20 pm
CC..yep with OUR money, liberals are very generous..but as study after study has shown, Liberals are stingy with their own money when it comes to charitable donations
David Farrar
August 25th, 2012
1:17 am
Romney has just slapped Obama across his face with his own birth certificate and is now challenging Obama to either put up or shut up. And what does Obama do, he runs away with his tail between his legs, hollering ‘racism’ rather than try and bring his two phony birth certificates into court — pathetic!
If Obama wanted to put an end to this charade, he could have done so on any number of occasions by simply bringing his real birth certificates in to court. But that’s not his game. His game is to stoke the dying embers of racism in this country so he can use it for his own political gain, as you see it being played out here in these posts.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Izabel Regis-Gittings
August 25th, 2012
3:19 am
True, Mr. Romney, No one’s ever asked to see your birth certificate, HOWEVER, WE ALL WANT TO SEE YOUR TAX RETURNS, OK???? Because WE KNOW WHERE YOU WERE BORN, BUT, WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOUR SECRET BUSINESSES IN SO MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS AND WE NEED TO KNOW THAT ABOUT A MAN BEFORE DECIDING IF WE WILL HIRE HIM TO BE OUR PRESIDENT.
zeke
August 25th, 2012
4:12 am
david farrar signature line should read, birther pos
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 25th, 2012
6:37 am
lol @WE NEED TO KNOW THAT ABOUT A MAN BEFORE DECIDING IF WE WILL HIRE HIM TO BE OUR PRESIDENT
Like the people knew anything about Hussein , or as if the press even wanted to look, other than he was the second coming of Jesus Hussein himself, the worlds greatest orator (even though he stutters with uh uh uh 30 times a minute) and basically had no open past records academically or professionally, in all his post-racial glory (halo photoshoped photos,etc etc)