Romney makes Birther joke

[minionofmidas]

Oh stop it was just a joke.

Why joke about this?

To drive home the message that while Barack Obama was technically not born a hateable furriner, he might as well be for all that the Republican electorate, and thus Romney, cares. "Nobody doubts my Americanness - I'm a clean whitebread Protestant Ur-American! (Apart from actually being a Mexican Mormon, of course.) Now Mr Obama, on the other hand... he's a Black, you see, and a Black Exotic at that. He's so Unamerican we needed to see his birth certificate."

[minionofmidas]

The 24 hour news cycle is officially out of control.

Yeah, it is the media fault that Romney can't help himself from saying stupid ****.

This is not stupid inks. This is a pretty clever way of saying (read-my-post-above) without actually being presentable as endorsing birther positions, which would effectively end his campaign. Expect much more of this. Do not expect anything more than this.

[minionofmidas]

Half the people posting on this thread need to eat razorblades.

That's a joke, by the way.

But true.