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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TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
1:39 pm
Haha the vile Kenyan is so touchy about his kenyaness
kaycee
August 24th, 2012
1:41 pm
This kind of rhetoric is a very sad commentary on the quality of political discourse in America. Don’t facts matter any more?
Hoodwinked
August 24th, 2012
1:43 pm
Ahhh, the smell of GOP Desperation in the afternoon. He should have put Trump or Sheriff Joe on the ballot.
Xay
August 24th, 2012
1:43 pm
Since when is a joke about Seamus the roof surfing dog (which is true and was originally told by Romney in his book) the same as stirring up birther nonsense when you are going to have birthers speaking at the RNC?
Give me a break. Of course, I’m sure that most of the commenters here are going to eat it up.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
1:45 pm
You Lie
I’ve been struck by the baldness of Romney’s repetitive lies about Obama — that Obama ended the work requirement under welfare, for example, or that Obama’s Affordable Care Act cuts $716 billion from Medicare benefits.
The mainstream media along with a half-dozen independent fact-checking organizations and sites have called Romney on these whoppers, but to no avail. He keeps making these assertions.
Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, and half-truths. But this is another thing altogether. I’ve been directly involved in seven presidential campaigns, and I don’t recall a presidential candidate lying with such audacity, over and over again. Why does he do it, and how can he get away with it?
The obvious answer is such lies are effective. Polls show voters are starting to believe them, especially in swing states where they’re being repeated constantly in media spots financed by Romney’s super PAC or ancillary PACs and so-called “social welfare” organizations (political fronts disguised as charities, such as Karl Rove and the Koch brothers have set up).
Romney’s lying machine is extraordinarily well financed. By August, according to Jane Mayer in her recent New Yorker article, at least 33 billionaires had each donated a quarter of a million dollars or more to groups aiming to defeat Obama — with most of it flooding into attack ads in swing states.
In early August, “Americans for Prosperity,” one of the nonprofit front groups masquerading as a charity, and founded in part by billionaire right-wingers Charles and David Koch, bought some $27 million in ad time on spots now airing in eleven swing states.
So Romney’s lying machine is working.
But what does all this tell us about the man who is running this lying machine? (Or if Romney’s not running it, what does it tell us about a man who would select the people who are?)
We knew he was a cypher — that he’ll say and do whatever is expedient, change positions like a chameleon, eschew any core principles.
Yet resorting to outright lies — and organizing a presidential campaign around a series of lies — reveals a whole new level of cynicism, a profound disdain for what remains of civility in public life, and a disrespect of the democratic process.
The question is whether someone who is willing to resort to such calculated lies, and build a campaign machine around them, can be worthy of the public’s trust with the most powerful office in the world.
ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
1:47 pm
The way I see it is the leftist son of a maoist kenyan born in hawaii is no better then the leftist son of a maoist kenyan born in Mombasa. Its the blood line..and the horrible leftist upbringing.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
1:47 pm
Eau de Desperation
Mitt Romney: ‘No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate’
But we HAVE asked to see your tax returns, Mitt.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
1:49 pm
Robert B Reich? He is even shorter than Victor Hill! Can’t you repost from someone taller?
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
1:50 pm
Trisha – you got nothing.
Where are Mitt’s tax returns for more than a half year?
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
1:51 pm
No desperation here, Mittster is surging, Husseinco is fading..even the leftwing media polls are starting to reflect it (though the dems internal polling has for months)
Retired Soldier
August 24th, 2012
1:51 pm
Mister.Earl-
And we have asked to see Obana’s college transcripts, wonder what he is hiding there?
lovejones4
August 24th, 2012
2:00 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.
CC
August 24th, 2012
2:01 pm
Just highlights the fact that birtherism is racially motivated.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:02 pm
Retired Soldire – transcripts? please.
Ahhh birthers. You’re almost as entertaining as your bible thumping brethren. Beat those drums of hate! Keep going!
Due to the weather forecast the GOP has decided to move the convention back to 1812
Thomas
August 24th, 2012
2:03 pm
“No one ever asked me to see my birth certificate” quoted Governor Romney, guess his state does not require Birth Certificates at the DMV for license renewal but he never has to drive unless he’s driving a watercraft. He lives a life the average citizen only dreams about.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:04 pm
Birthers and Birth Control
The GOP has a sick obsession with women. They just cannot stop their insane focus on birth control, calling women s.l.u.t.s for voicing their opinions on contraceptive insurance coverage, enacting vagin.a.l. ultrasounds, and changing the definition of rape so that no woman could meet the standard. They worship eggs and sperm, and deny the rights of women in the process.
They should change their name to the GYN party.
bette
August 24th, 2012
2:06 pm
no one has ever asked to see Obamas tax returns. show us the tax returns romney
and seamus was tied to the roof of romneys car-that is TRUE . im sure dog lovers want to hear about the cruel and inhumane way romney DID treat his poor dog. this writer is making a false equivalency.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:07 pm
Hilarious How the Birther Thing Is Romney’s Best Response
Funny how — the minute it becomes clear that their draconian 16th century policies on abortion will cost them elections, suddenly abortion is no longer an issue that is important to the Republicans.
Yet, they have championed oppressive and invasive measures all across the deep south going so far as to give a zygote every right of an actual person. In Texas, they have banned the teaching “critical thinking” in public schools (and it shows).
But still they have the gall to tell us these aren’t the issues America cares about nor that the election will be decided on.
We’ve got news for the GOP. These are the issues the scare the bejeezus out of America.
Right into the voting booth.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
2:08 pm
Ok everybody, Type very slowly so the Bama grads can keep up
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
2:10 pm
bette..and obama did eat dogs in indonesia, its in his book
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:11 pm
President Obama: “No one’s ever asked to see my tax returns.”
“Fox News and other conservative outlets have repeatedly touted false conspiracy theories involving President Obama and his birth certificate. Fox’s opinion programs ran dozens of segments last year in which the hosts either espoused birther conspiracies or did not challenge or correct false claims about Obama’s birth.
Fox News also teamed up with birther Donald Trump — a current Romney surrogate — to repeatedly smear Obama on the subject. Fox’s flagship “straight news” program, Special Report, drew fire for treating birther conspiracies seriously even after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate last year.” – Media Matters
Romney turns whatever direction Fox News leads him.
They both are a sad excuse for original thinking.
All I'm Saying Is...
August 24th, 2012
2:13 pm
Yep, joking about a lie is the same as joking about a fact. Geez, speaks to the character of the man when he can’t even tell a good joke (when he should have plenty of material).
SBinF
August 24th, 2012
2:15 pm
“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?”
How are the two equivalent? Romney put his dog on top of the car on a long trip. HE ADMITTED THAT. There is zero evidence that Obama wasn’t born in this country.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
2:16 pm
Bring on the new OPSEC ads
I love this campaign season! Mittster is a MUCH better campaigner than Lame old Mccain. You fight fire with hotter fire, and the Romney/Ryan camp is proving very adept at replying to Husseinco ads and at getting under Husseinco and Husseinco enabler;s skins.
Partisanship! God help me, I do love it so!
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
August 24th, 2012
2:16 pm
A reasonable person would ask to see some evidence that Romney is a man, for nothing in his life suggests it.
dd
August 24th, 2012
2:19 pm
THERE CAN BE NO JOKING AND LEVITY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS!!!! Dang, take a chill pill, life is a lot more pleasant when you can laugh and not take offense at every imagined slight. And no, not every jab at your dear pres is racist. in fact, pretty much none of them are (except in your minds).
actually….please keep up the hysteria……really does point out what an uptight bunch of folks libs have become, and helps the normal folks see through your BS and how reactionary your thoughts have become.
cc
August 24th, 2012
2:21 pm
Mister.Earl:
“I don’t recall a presidential candidate lying with such audacity, over and over again. Why does he do it, and how can he get away with it?”
I agree! He started off lying at an early age and has carried it to monumental proportions through his presidency! I have NEVER seen such a liar!
“I’ve been struck by the baldness of Romney’s repetitive lies about Obama — that Obama ended the work requirement under welfare, for example, or that Obama’s Affordable Care Act cuts $716 billion from Medicare benefits”
Obama has ‘redefined’ the work requirement under welfare allowing such work as keeping a journal, etc. There are several equally ludicrous jobs now recognized as work. The $716 billion taken from MediCare is a FACT.
You better come with more than what the heavily biased Obama mainstream media has to say . . .
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:24 pm
cc – there is no such thing as mainstream media
only the truth
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
Obama and the truth are complete strangers.
“Ayers, you magnificent bstrd, I read your book!”
moose lewis
August 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
Over 8 percent unemployment still after billions of dollars of stimulus money poured out. The “clunker” program-come and gone. Massive outsourcing continues with no incentive for companies to invest in USA. Goods and even food imported from China- a nuclear world power. Why not tax imports? Repeal the Democratic NAFTA? No country on earth is solid economically without a strong manufacturing base. Economics 101. The money has to circulate in this country -not exported to other countries. You cannot blame Bush anymore. By the way, how is the closing of Gitmo working out? Oops-I forgot we cannot ask questions bout that. Anyway, if we have sanctions against Cuba-why does it not include a prison run by USA? Hmmm. I really don’t care about Romney’s tax returns-only mine.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:29 pm
Fear Of A Black President
Rmoney panders to the birthers…the lowest of all scum in the Republican voter base.
Way to go Ritchie Rich
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:31 pm
For The Romney Bunch
A college degree is not a requirement to be President. It does make sense to vote a smart person into office, so a college education is not a bad thing. It is not a requirement to show your tax returns either, but a precedent was set by his Dad George Romney.
People DO expect to see how a person running for President handles their money, how honest and fair they are in their dealings. after all this is the person we will entrust with leading the country.
Romney not showing his tax returns in one sense doesn’t matter….but it does lead people to wonder just how honest and fair – minded he really is. That is his dilemma.
Kris
August 24th, 2012
2:32 pm
Romney and snot nosed Ryan. I as a citizen of the United States of America (as certified by the US Government) I demand to see both of your birth certificates as well as your TAX returns for the last 20 years.
Re-elect President OBAMA
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:33 pm
Have we ever asked a pale male running for office to produce a birth certificate?
Mary
August 24th, 2012
2:34 pm
DishaWashaWarEagle, Sweetie, you are a Racist Mess! You need to stop before your co-workers figure out your identity and shoot you with a staple gun!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
2:37 pm
I have never mentioned obama’s race.. you must have the decoder ring?
I hate all leftists, red and yellow, black and white, they are putrid in my sight..Trisha hates the leftists of the world.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:38 pm
Birth Of A President
Funny how Repubs want to claim that Obama doesn’t want to talk about real issues, but give THEM a chance to talk and they talk about abortion, contraception, “legitimate” rape, and birth certificates.
Classy, real classy, Mr. Romney.
Yes, the Romney campaign has endless cash, but gaffes, poor execution and bad choices. A CEO in these circumstances would be fired. For sure, not a good indicator as to how would run are country if elected.
Think about it.
cc
August 24th, 2012
2:38 pm
Mister.Earl:
“Media Matters” is original thought? You can’t be serious . . .
“I’ve been directly involved in seven presidential campaigns”
I’ll bet you have. I’ll bet that I know what political party those presidential candidates represented, too.
What we don’t know is what “directly involved” means. Did you hand out campaign literature, or was the extent of your involvement a financial contribution? It is easy to claim anything on a blog, and I give your claim the weight it deserves – none.
“Ahhh birthers. You’re almost as entertaining as your bible thumping brethren. Beat those drums of hate! Keep going!”
Obama himself created this controversy and has done very little to ebd it. I am NOT satisfied that he meets the Constitutional requirements to hold the office of President. There are far too many unanswered questions that I will not point out here. Your answers would be just as suspect as all the others given on this subject.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:39 pm
Trisha – is Todd Akin on your Christmas Card list?
old school doc
August 24th, 2012
2:42 pm
of course no one has asked… old white men always get a pass.
But let a woman or person of color succeed… there must be a problem or they must have had special treatment in order to have done so well.
so sad this mentality still exists…
cc
August 24th, 2012
2:48 pm
Mister.Earl:
“Yes, the Romney campaign has endless cash, but gaffes, poor execution and bad choices”
You mean gaffes such as Obama speaking of his birthplace, Kenya? Or maybe the gaffe about his “Muslim religion”? There are many more . . . Biden didn’t corner the market on gaffes.
I believe Romney’s education is superior to the Affirmative Action graduate’s education. In fact, even if you give Obama credit for his ‘diplomas’, Romney’s education probably surpasses Obama’s. We’ll never know, will we? Obama had his records ’sealed’!
The only ‘bad choice’ I associate with this is the very bad choice made by the voters in 2008.
That will be rectified in 2012 . . .
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:48 pm
I want a birther to tell me why this short form Certificate of Live Birth produced by Romney is “real” and the virtually identical one (in form) produced by Obama in 2008 was not.
I want them to tell me why there has been no uproar over the fact that Romney’s father was born in Mexico and had Mexican citizenship.
I want them to tell me why there has been no uproar over the mistake in Romney’s mother’s age on the COLB.
C’mon birthers, tell us why you question President Obama’s but not Romney’s.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
2:51 pm
Old White Men
The GOP doesn’t care about women, Blacks, and Latinos. If the Civil rights movement hadn’t occurred it would still be illegal for Latinos to become citizens. That was the 1970’s. If it hadn’t been for liberals, men could still rape lesbians straight.
The GOP wants to go back to plantation style economics. A few very rich men controlling all of their subordinates.
That is why they want the rich to become richer and the poor to have less control over their bodies.
cc
August 24th, 2012
2:56 pm
Mister.Earl:
“I want a birther to tell me why this short form Certificate of Live Birth produced by Romney is “real” and the virtually identical one (in form) produced by Obama in 2008 was not.”
Uh . . . maybe because Romney never attended an American University registered as a foreign national?
“I want them to tell me why there has been no uproar over the fact that Romney’s father was born in Mexico and had Mexican citizenship. ”
Uh . . . maybe because Romney’s father had dual citizenship but was born of an American father and mother?
Marlboro Man
August 24th, 2012
2:58 pm
The guy is a pip, Romney that is.
cc
August 24th, 2012
2:59 pm
Mister.Earl:
I’m done with you. I now understand what you are about. Maybe Obama will invite you to visit him after January – if you can get a passport.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:00 pm
The Leader
The Republican Party is being led by the likes of Limbaugh.
The GOP started its slide into the dark side ever since Rush came into power on the air. Compromisers are RINOs etc. Why would anyone vote R again as long as Rush is the titular head of the GOP and follows his leadership?
400 million dollars buys a lot of influence
cc
August 24th, 2012
3:01 pm
Mister:Earl:
Be sure and print this out. I’m almost sure you’re paid by the post . . .
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:01 pm
Simple answer, earl..Romney was not born to a horrible vile drunken maoist
Lil’ Barry Big Ears was…
As for the GOP not being a home for women, well, wrong again:)
Compromise
August 24th, 2012
3:04 pm
“of course no one has asked… old white men always get a pass.
But let a woman or person of color succeed… there must be a problem or they must have had special treatment in order to have done so well.
so sad this mentality still exists…”
True for some but not all. Yet, I have to acknowledge that Obama has not succeeded as President in the mind of a lot of folks- irrespective of his color.
oldfart
August 24th, 2012
3:08 pm
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.” — Kurt Vonnegut
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:08 pm
Compromise is the filthiest word in the english language, It leaves neither side satisfied, and both sides seething with hatred for one another than eventually has to boil out.
For decades Detente was a for of compromise with evil (communism and socialism ARE, undeniably, evils). No one won, No one lost..nothing was accomplished
I much prefer Ronald Reagan style diplomacy We win, You Lose
BADA BING
August 24th, 2012
3:09 pm
Lost Dog
Wash DC Area
Last seen in the 1500-1700 blocks of Pennsylvania Ave.
Reward
tipster
August 24th, 2012
3:11 pm
TrishaDisha @ 2:16pm “Partisanship! God help me, I do love it so!”
God’s got his work cut out for him.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:14 pm
Imagine the Obama white house menu for a Korean delegation state dinner:
sweet and sour Shih tzu
Hound doggy fricassee
collie kabobs
Refried chihuahua
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:15 pm
A Proud American
Trisha – how did it make you feel when Cam Newton smiled in nThe East Room of The White House and presented President Obama with an autographed Auburn football helmet?
Kinda cool huh?
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:22 pm
Mister.Earl, I have a photo of myself being greeted by Obama..I can’t stand the man but you still don;t turn down a chance to meet the president, for the networking opportunities alone.
I am what other people often call a “user” in that I only care about other people as long as they further my own goals. Cam was the best QB AU ever had..and we got the crystal football thanks to him. Now he is on a team in the same division as my favorite NFL team so I root for him to “loose all his fancy foosball games”, as mama Bouche would say. Obamanomics is da devil!
BADA BING
August 24th, 2012
3:26 pm
The Pres can’t get a Greyhound because Michelle won’t allow him to have fast food.
BW
August 24th, 2012
3:27 pm
Political correctness is the issue here…let Romney and co spew whatever they want and let’s see how America reacts…you can only be shocked if you didn’t expect it
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:28 pm
good one Bada
sam
August 24th, 2012
3:32 pm
Who cares about this anyway? What I care about are all the people that I know personally who don’t have jobs and want them, and about the housing values in my neighborhood dropping like a brick. We need Romney because we need someone who will sit behind the desk in the Oval office for more than 10 minutes without running out to a golf game, or going out to campaign.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:32 pm
Trisha The User – what precisely makes The President of The United States repulsive to you?
Are you a fan of Todd Akin?
Just curious
Bernie
August 24th, 2012
3:35 pm
Mitt, However I remembered someone did asked to see the CARFAX! of your TAXES?
But ooh Noooooooo!
Ann says you are Golden….All We, Smell is “BIG BROWN”
Scott Fresno
August 24th, 2012
3:36 pm
For his next trick, Romney will wear the Donald’s hairpiece!
Bernie
August 24th, 2012
3:39 pm
Mister.Earl @ 3:32 pm – I know why, The broad and High forehead, eyes set very closely in the middle of the face, beady looking eyes that have long sessions of blank stares!
That is…. always…. the FIRST CLUE!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
3:42 pm
@Mister.Earl..
It is the presidents core values that make him repulsive to me. He believes that all humans owe all other humans a certain standard of living just because they exist. He believes it is never the individual that achieves anything, only the collective. he is a statist..he believes the government should be a benevolent dictatorial nanny for the sheeple. I am the opposite. I was not born to worry about any other human besides myself, unless i produce said human in my own womb.
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:42 pm
Scott Fresno – well done.
Donald Trump has advanced the level of discourse in this country to a second grade level.
Paris Hilton would be proud.
td
August 24th, 2012
3:43 pm
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:32 pm
Trisha The User – what precisely makes The President of The United States repulsive to you?
Are you a fan of Todd Akin?
Just curious
Please allow me to comment TDWE. Obama is at best the most leftest President this country has ever had. His philosophy is at best European social democrat and probably more a Socialist or Communist.
barry
August 24th, 2012
3:46 pm
Mitt, just show us the tax records
Mark
August 24th, 2012
3:47 pm
No one may have asked to see his birth cerfiticate, but we’ve damn sure been asking for his tax records beyond 2 years! Mitt Romney is scraping the bottom of the scum barrel now. He’s pathetic.
Bob
August 24th, 2012
3:48 pm
When asked how he likes dogs, Obama replied they’re pretty tastey!
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:48 pm
“Oh, Mitt. Never have I seen a fellow so direly in need of a teleprompter.”
- highly recommended Washington Post reader
“Maybe this will get chalked up to Romney’s awkwardness and get dismissed, but it looks to me like a major mistake. Coming just after days spent debating Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” remark, this is again a reminder of the extreme voices in the GOP, which Romney has at times been slow to denounce.
And it seems less than presidential, to put it mildly. The fact that uncomfortably large numbers still believe Obama has perpetrated an elaborate plot to fake his birthplace and ascend to the presidency illegitimately is a pretty damn big deal.
It will be easy for the Obama campaign to seize on this to raise questions about Romney’s judgment, temperament, and character. Wow.”
- The Washington Post
“Todd Akin should issue a statement condemning birther joke, just to be a dick”
Mark
August 24th, 2012
3:49 pm
to the td’s out there…..explain why the President is the most leftist President ever? Please Explain…..This should be good!
Mister.Earl
August 24th, 2012
3:50 pm
Just A Thought
If somebody was going to engage in a 50-year conspiracy to bring in this guy and run him eventually for president on a fake birth certificate, why on earth would they have chosen the name “Barack Obama?”
President Obama showed his birth certificate – where are Mitt’s tax returns?
SMMcMahon
August 24th, 2012
3:51 pm
The following is a poem written by a 92-year-old former Judge and World War II veteran in a video that has gone viral.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/18/4737067/romney-position-changes-recited.html
WHEREFORE ART THOU, MITT ROMNEY?
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
You flip-flop here, you flip-flop there,
You flip-flop almost ev’rywhere.
You ballyhoo what you’re gonna do
And then you pull a switcheroo;
You now malign what you found fine;
Seems like you’ve got a jellyfish spine.
Obamacare, by you begun,
Now you’d trash it on day one.
Gun control you did extol,
But now you’re preaching decontrol.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
We’ve got no clue what you will do
Or what new view you’ll pander to.
Time was you championed women’s choice,
But you no longer heed their voice;
On gay rights, too, guess you withdrew
Support they once enjoyed from you.
Global warming, EPA,
Immigration, minimum pay,
Roe V. Wade, also fair trade,
All joined your flip-flop cavalcade.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
So many things that you were for
You’ve turned against and slammed the door.
Stimulus and cap and trade,
Education, foreign aid,
Campaign reform, tarp rescues, too,
All victims of your switcheroo.
You take your stand on shifting sand,
We never know where you will land;
You vacillate, you fabricate,
A wishy-washy candidate.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney?
As gov’nor you let taxes rise,
Now ev’ry tax you demonize.
You say regardless of the facts
You’d take an axe to the millionaire’s tax;
You’d feed the greed of the richest few
The poor and middle class you’d screw.
Your tax returns you hide from view
What evil lurks there we’ve no clue;
If they’re not bad why hesitate?
Is it that they incriminate?
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney?
At Bain you plundered with a flair
And walked away a zillionaire.
You shipped off-shore, good jobs galore
To China, India, Singapore;
A job creator you are not.
And to boast you are is tommyrot.
As a total fraud, Mitt’s got no peer;
What we must do is crystal clear:
Let’s give Obama four more years!
Yes, it’s Obama – four more years!
FOUR MORE YEARS!
North resident
August 24th, 2012
3:52 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle wrote:
For decades Detente was a for of compromise with evil (communism and socialism ARE, undeniably, evils). No one won, No one lost..nothing was accomplished
Wrong. Our country ratcheted to the left (never to the right) with each and every compromise. At $16 trillion in debt, though, our country can no longer afford to ratchet to the left again. Better to stop at $16 trillion than to elect Barry Soetoro to office one more time and be $21 Trillion in debt by 2016.
George W. Bush
August 24th, 2012
3:58 pm
Next campaign stop, Mitt Romney jokes with the crowd about having the first Black President. “I know Black people. Many of my wealthy friends have them for household help and I know quite a few working at my country club.”
We may not need to see Mitt’s birth certificate, but we would sure like to see his tax returns for the last decade. This is the same guy who ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, after claiming to be Utah resident on his recent tax returns. He does own a big house in Park City, Utah that looks more like a luxury hotel than rustic mountain cabin. We know he owns at least four mansions/estates around the country. Probably owns one in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland, too.
Long Time Teacher
August 24th, 2012
3:58 pm
If Obama were a white man born in Hawaii this would never be an issue
zeke
August 24th, 2012
3:59 pm
first, if you can’t get in georgia, auburn should be easy. and wasn’t romney’s father born in a cult colony in mexico?
Charles M.
August 24th, 2012
4:02 pm
“Obama should ‘lighten up’”? That’s a pretty lame response to an offense made by Romney.
This is truly sad for America. Romney continues to air lies lies lies (the old Ailes-inspired lie about Welfare and work requirement — just a blatant, sick, lie).
Perhaps Romney might be elected. But NO ONE who is so craven, so mean, so deceptive SHOULD be president of a country. Unless it is in steep decline.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
4:03 pm
of course no one has asked mitt for his birth certificate….they don’t issue them to androids
td
August 24th, 2012
4:07 pm
“President Obama’s Twitter account has 18.8 million followers — but more than half of them really don’t exist, according to reports.
A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama’s crowd includes “fake followers,” The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.”
Some of us have known he has faked his whole Presidency.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UDfeB6CMrNW
Dirty Dawg
August 24th, 2012
4:08 pm
GOP a home for women? Sure if you classify Stepford Women, women…or if you count women that like the money and status to the point that they are willing to subordinate anything that resembles personal pride and the satisfaction of being an individual – a female individual – and relies on what a man thinks or demands from her to establish her status. Then again, that is a Stepford, ain’t it?
trime
August 24th, 2012
4:08 pm
when will barack come clean about his birth place? trump is still investigating this.
Latino Voter
August 24th, 2012
4:13 pm
The options are simple in this election:
If you want a Job vote for Romney
If you want a Handout for for Obama
June
August 24th, 2012
4:15 pm
“No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.” — uh, why do you think that is, Mitt? Do you have a clue? Apparently not. Hint: they’re not going to ask to see your college records, either – there is a reason why they don’t care about that. Wonder what it could be?
getalife
August 24th, 2012
4:17 pm
willie robme is a birther scared to show his taxes because our President will attack him.
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Mark
August 24th, 2012
4:18 pm
Romney’s the guys who would do or say anything to get elected. His flipped on virtually every conceivable issue you can think of. I mean, the guy’s got no core. Is he a dem, independent or a conservative… he’s not any of that – he’s what you want him to be. An Etch-a-sketch.
AmVet
August 24th, 2012
4:18 pm
If you want a Job vote for Romney.
Very true faux Latino.
But only if you live in Singapore, China, India, Malaysia or Bangladesh.
Because your severely conservative (LOL!) savior would love to send your job over there…
Mark
August 24th, 2012
4:20 pm
@ td
you remind me of the typical right wing nut who will try and find anything to prove a bogus point. Not only is Romney pathetic but you are also. LOL.
Obama 2012!
B. Thenet
August 24th, 2012
4:24 pm
Mitt Romney is the son of a wealthy auto executive, former Michigan governor, and former Presidential Candidate.
People don’t ask to see his birth certificate, they ask him he has any Grey Poupon.
zeke
August 24th, 2012
4:25 pm
pretty desperate move if you have to use the old birther card, since you cannot answer reporter questions about party planks and your tax evasion
or
guess he’s practicing for the smucks in tampa
Up Up and Away
August 24th, 2012
4:27 pm
Romney threw a bone to the “bithers”……….
Shazam
August 24th, 2012
4:29 pm
td
A tool for sure but certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed
Latino Voter
August 24th, 2012
4:32 pm
Romney is no one’s savior; however, he does have the business knowledge needed to turn this country around. As for outsourcing, you should discuss that with Jeff Immelt (Obama’s Job Czar).
zeke
August 24th, 2012
4:32 pm
check out the eligibilty section pertaining to mitt’s daddy…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romney_presidential_campaign,_1968
you’d think the mittster would not throw stones living in the shadow of his father’s glass house
Birther Headlines
August 24th, 2012
4:33 pm
I am a member of a forum that tracks every move of the birthers, from ballot challenges to Orly Taintz.
I’m not trying to spam, but I also have an aggregation website http://birtherheadlines.com that is a perfect tracker of all birther and birther-leaning politician’s activities. It contains feeds to every single anti-Obama birther blog and a lot of cool pics of Orly Taitz meeting with Reince Priebus, T-Paw, Newty, Rick Perry and plenty other GOP politicos. I put reports on ballot challenges against President Obama usually before anyone else as I have friends in most states who attend these hearings and many of them are actual lawyers, lol.
Depending on your perspective, my aggregator can be quite hilarious.
Please come visit at: http://birtherheadlines.com
zeke
August 24th, 2012
4:35 pm
Latino, what is your heritage? just curious, my heritage is northern europe
Jessi
August 24th, 2012
4:35 pm
Thou shall not bear false witness.
Amazing how many “Christians” forget that very important commandment when it comes to politics. God created the heavens and the Earth, don’t fool yourself into thinking He is so weak and feeble that he needs you to tell lies in order for what you belive to be God’s political party to obtain more worldly power.
Repeat after me:
The Lord does not need me to lie.
The Lord does not need me to lie.
The Lord does not need me to lie.
Kris Jones
August 24th, 2012
4:45 pm
Things are soooooo bad even Kenya is claiming that Obama was born in the U.S.!!!
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)
cc
August 25th, 2012
6:51 am
Izabel Regis-Gittings:
Do you have any idea how very stupid that dimocrat talking point sounds? Get on your obamaphone and call obamacare; maybe a brain transplant is possible (not that replacing it with another dimocrat brain will help!).
cc
August 25th, 2012
6:54 am
zeke:
“david farrar signature line should read, birther pos”
Your eloquence defies decription . . .
zeke
August 25th, 2012
10:49 am
cc after reading some of your posts this past week or so, you rank right up there with orly and david.
you birther nutjobs have had over 4 years to prove your case and have had big money (trump and others) to boot. what a bunch of losers and pos. but i don’t wish you dead. now off to enjoy this beautiful day.