"Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them," Obama campaign spokesperson Ben Labolt said in a statement. "But Governor Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America."
At best, Romney’s joke was a tactical blunder because it undermined his promise to run a substantive campaign about big issues and took the focus of the campaign away from what voters care about most – jobs and the economy.
When you run around for 17 years allowing yourself to be marketed as being born in Kenya, is it any wonder folks start wondering where you were born when you change your story after declaring that you are a candidate for the office of the President of the United States?
Oh, you mean like the SuperPACS on the right have done?
You mean like the SuperPACS on the left which Obama has no more control over than RMoney has over the SuperPACS on the right? (nudge, nudge, wink, wink...)
It just sounded like a cornball Romney joke to me.
But in this atmosphere everything gets dissected to death and over analyzed. It seems a bit too subtle of a way to go after Birthers. Plus, he'd be doing it everywhere, not in just one place and in one speech.
It's tied.
Obama made a Seamus "joke" last week when he was responding to Romney's comment that you can't put a windmill on a car
Romney made a birth certificate "joke" this week.
C'mon O'Wily one, we can't allow the contest to be limited to important topics - there are way too many bright shiny objects with which to distract and ridicule available for that to happen. When your whole re-election campaign strategy is Fear & Smear, you can't expect the Obots not to assist in the effort, can you?
I personally don't give any value to such silliness. The important stuff will happen when folks are really paying attention. Most are not yet. I look forward to the debates
