Republican challenger Mitt Romney, at a rally today in Michigan, alluded to doubts raised by some of Barack Obama’s opponents that the president was born in the U.S.
“No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate,” Romney, standing with his wife, Ann, told the crowd in Commerce after noting he was born in Harper Hospital in Detroit, about 25 miles away. “They know this is the place that we were born and raised.”
Obama, the son of a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya, has provided a long-form birth certificate showing he was born in Hawaii in 1961.
The birthplace comment marked a departure for Romney, who previously kept his distance from questions raised by so-called birthers who question whether Obama was born an American citizen and thus may not be qualified to serve as president. The comment also sparked a response from Obama’s campaign linking Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, to the birthers.
“Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail. “But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”
Romney’s campaign played down the candidate’s comment.
‘Repeatedly Said’ “The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States,” Kevin Madden, a Romney adviser, said in a statement. “He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised.”
Romney’s comment capped a week of distractions from his economic message as he prepares to officially claim his party’s nomination next week at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Romney and other Republican leaders failed to persuade Senate candidate Todd Akin to step aside after an uproar over the Missourian’s comment that “legitimate rape” doesn’t often lead to pregnancies. And the posting of hundreds of pages of investment and tax documents from Boston-based Bain Capital LLC, fueled Democratic criticism about the private-equity firm Romney helped create.
Appearing today with his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan of Wiscosnin, Romney tried to return to the issues of creating jobs and sparking economic growth.
’Wrong Direction’ “This president tried,” Romney said at the Long Family Farm, Orchard and Cider Mill in Commerce, Michigan, about 20 miles away from companies such as General Motors Co. (GM) and Chrysler Group LLC. “He was headed in the wrong direction. I want to get America on an entirely different track. And I know how to do it.”
Obama is using the federal rescue of U.S. automotive companies as a selling point in his re-election campaign while Romney has criticized those efforts.
Ryan, speaking before Romney, took a dig at Obama for saying during the 2008 campaign that some voters “cling to their guns or their religion.”
“This Catholic deer hunter is guilty as charged and proud of it,” Ryan said.
Obama carried Michigan by 16 percentage points in 2008, and led Romney by 6 percentage points in a Detroit News poll taken Aug. 18-20. The last Republican presidential candidate to win the state was George H.W. Bush in 1988.
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Why isn't anyone checking?
His father was born in Mexico because his grand father was running from American law...
I guess his skin tone gets him a pass
No need to show your papers Mitt
Maybe I'm crazy but I don't see anything there that shows he's alluded to be a birther. He was asked the ridiculous question and just pointed it in a positive light towards himself. That's nothing like saying Obama wasn't born here. SMH!
ha ha... this is great (and you should all know, I've never jumped on the birther wagon)
Quoting _Kissy_:
Of course, no one is gonna ask if your pasty ass is an American.
except Sweet-Akins...
Quote:
Because he's white
Why isn't anyone checking?
His father was born in Mexico because his grand father was running from American law...
I guess his skin tone gets him a pass
No need to show your papers Mitt
Quoting 4kidz916:
Maybe I'm crazy but I don't see anything there that shows he's alluded to be a birther. He was asked the ridiculous question and just pointed it in a positive light towards himself. That's nothing like saying Obama wasn't born here. SMH!
How about telling her it is a ridiculous question, just like McCain did when he was asked questions like these. This type of hate atmosphere has gotten a lot worse in the last 4 years, and the politicians have followed.
Research shows that anyone who lives in Hawaii for a year can get a certificate of birth saying they were born there. It do NOT say the mother gave birth to the child in Hawaii.
Therefore, it is highly doubtful obama was actually born in Hawaii or any part of the United States.
need some tinfoil for your hat?
Quoting gsprofval:Research shows that anyone who lives in Hawaii for a year can get a certificate of birth saying they were born there. It do NOT say the mother gave birth to the child in Hawaii.
Therefore, it is highly doubtful obama was actually born in Hawaii or any part of the United States.
Sarah
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Oh my goodness. Some need to take the stick out of their ass. He was clearly joking. Even Obama has made birth certificate jokes. It was once a hot topic. Worthy of jokes, today.
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- _Kissy_
on Aug. 24, 2012 at 2:55 PM