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Mitt Romney's son tells dumb birther joke at campaign stop
By EJ DicksonDecember 31st, 2011, 9:00 pmComments (18)At a campaign stop in New Hampshire last Thursday, Matt Romney — one of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney's thirteen or so monosyllabically-monikered sons — caused a nationwide controversy by joking that his father would release his tax return forms only if President Obama released his grades and birth certificate. "He has not said that he will not do it, he has also not said that he will," Matt told an audience at a Concord senior citizens home, when asked whether Romney would release his tax records. "He's certainly not afraid of anything, not hiding anything...but you know, I heard someone suggest the other day that as soon as President Obama releases his grades and birth certificate and sort of a long list of things, then maybe he'd do it." After the joke failed to get any laughs from the senior citizen residents, Romney then remarked what a tough crowd he was working with that night, before launching into a routine about the poor quality of airline food.
After President Obama's campaign manager caught wind of the joke, he accused Romney the Younger of "pandering to the dead-ender fringe of extremists" in the birther movement, who continue to speculate about the President's eligibility for office even after he produced a copy of his birth certificate in April. Romney later opened a Twitter account to apologize for the statement, retweeting a post from Politico's Emily Schultheis and adding, "I repeated a dumb joke. My bad." No word yet on whether he and his brothers will also apologize for making left-leaning feminist atheists like myself feel guilty for thinking they're sexy.
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Its alright, the whole family is from a non religion, they just don't know any better.
Leave it to Nerve to take a non-story and turn it into a headline.
Why don't you publish a story about how the Obama's current vacation is costing taxpayers $4 million dollars (why does this not spark absolute OUTRAGE?), and yet the Queen is still asking for donors to cough up cash for her husband's upcoming re-coronation campaign? (Which will, of course, distract him from all real duties for the next nine months.)
I think it's strange that Obama won't release his transcripts. What's the big deal? Seems like tax returns for other information is a reasonable trade.
My, such hatred for a president that's gotten a lot of good things accomplished. Is that why you guys have to reach for non-issues (vacations, school transcripts!)? The whole birth-certificate thing was a red herring from Day 1. Get some new material.
Good things accomplished? Every night I cry myself to sleep, longing for the salad days of the Bush presidencies.
@ Kel: what good has this putz accomplished other than to feed us all a bunch of cock & bull about hope and change and whatnot, and then get into office and continue Business As Usual.
All of you libtards are so delusional that you can't see that Obama is Just Another Politician (TM). Just like the Republitards are delusional that they have even a vaguely appropriate candidate gunning for the nomination. (And they still can't seem to get rid of Hot Twat Palin, either... next thing you know Christine O'Donnell will be in the running for Secretary of State.)
Are you all officially insane... you're asking about a $4 million vacation number which has long been debunked and wish for the salad days of the Bush administration, who in fact, too more vacations at whatever amount you want to attach to it than any other? You're not even providing a solid argument against the man's politics, you're just barfing out inaccurate facts. Now, think about it hard... start over, and present an actual argument against his accomplishments like big boys and girls and maybe we'll take you serious, otherwise, we'll let you get back to calling into Rush.
DUDE I fucking LOVE Rush.... yeah man.
Well, no, the $4M figure is pretty accurate. Probably a little more but basically correct.
Here's one for you: Bush would stay at the WH for Christmas so that his personal protection detail could spend time with their families. Why doesn't Obama do the same thing? Does he think he's better than them?
Yup, the Obama's holiday vacation is estimated to cost about $4 million, give or take. And considering that Mrs. Obama can't seem to take the same damn plane as her hubbie the cost will only be more. Can't wait for her to be an ex-First Lady.
Bush took more vacations than any other President, but more than half of those were working vacations at the ranch (where he put in a full day in his office there just as he would in the White House). He wasn't sitting around taking it easy, playing golf or basketball, etc. This is all well-documented. He was a fuckwit of magnificent scale, don't get me wrong, but when push comes to shove Obama has taken more leisure vacations in his first term than Bush, and at a cost that boggles the mind.
Then again, Obama may feel entitled to take certain small liberties, as he didn't start a $1-trillion war.
Yeah but he's doing a pretty good job at making sure we lose one of them while keeping the other going.
Turn it into a headline? What headline? More like a side note, which is what it is.
But of course no self-respecting Obama hater would ignore a chance, no matter how unrelated, to trash him.
Here I will try it; George Bush got less votes than Gore.
Wow! Magical huh?
He sure did. And thanks to the absurd Electoral College system, he was elected anyway. Completely legit, there was no fraud, but the EC system needs to go. We also need to change our method of voting , as we use a mathematically misrepresentative method:
http://discovermagazine.com/2000/nov/featbestman/?searchterm=voting
Great idea! That way we will ensure that candidates address the priorities of all voters. As long as they live in New York, California, Florida and Texas, that is. All the rest of us will be SOL.
If you're referring to the Discover article posted above, you should probably re-read it because those methods would do nothing of the sort.
Don't sweat it. Observer's been known to insert his foot into his mouth before.
Been known to be accused of it by people who are masters of the illogical fallacy and entirely missing the point. Of course, I never have anything to add of any substance.