Originally Posted By ecdc Mitt Romney makes a lame joke, to which I reply: 1) That's because we're not a bunch of racist delta-bravos like the birthers, 2) You should be the last person cracking wise about asking to see documents, 3) Is there anyone this whore won't pander to?
Originally Posted By utahjosh It was a funny joke. Pandering would be "No One's Asked to See My Birth Certificate, and those who are still demanding more from Obama's proof of citizenship should continue the valiant fight!"
Originally Posted By Dabob2 No, that would be actually taking a stand. What Romney did was try to wink at the birthers while still being able to deny that's what he was doing. The man is a phony and a weasel.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>It was a funny joke.<< No, it wasn't. Funny would be if he were mocking the ridiculousness of it. But he's not doing that. Even if he's not a birther per se, he's playing into the belief by many that Obama is an illegitimate President (which is why the phrase, "I'm not a birther, but" is so common). There's nothing funny about racist people not believing a Democratically elected President is legitimate, unless you're making fun of them. Romney's not - he's making fun of Obama. Stay classy, Willard.
Originally Posted By dshyates No one has asked to see MY birth certificate", said the obviously white guy. (wink, wink; nod nod)
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Obama should come back with "No one asked to see my tax returns for last 10 years"
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Obama should come back with "No one asked to see my tax returns for last 10 years"<< LOL!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney True that! I don't have my long for birth certificate either. Maybe I'm from Europe...or Canada. Heck, maybe Romney is from Canada, eh. Better check that white-boy's birth certificate. If it's going to be standard for one, it should be standard for all; otherwise it's just racism. And he better come up with his LONG form, or I'm going to assume he's Canadian.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>It's the name of a baseball glove.<<< I don't usually do this but...LOL!
Originally Posted By TomSawyer How is the joke funny? Who is it supposed to be making fun of? Is it making fun of Obama because he has a funny name and because he has the tainted black skin of a Lamanite, and that somehow his dark skin and name made him something other than American?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "It was a funny joke. Pandering would be "No One's Asked to See My Birth Certificate, and those who are still demanding more from Obama's proof of citizenship should continue the valiant fight!" What bullsh-t.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Here's how you know that it wasn't a joke, or intended as a joke. Nobody laughed. Instead, the crowd cheered. It wasn't intended as a laugh line, but as a cheer line. Check out his inflection. It was the same inflection as if he'd said "And we're going to win the white house with the help of the people of the great state of Michigan!" (cue cheers). That was the inflection, and if that isn't enough to convince you, his smug little face after he said it and was basking in the cheers ought to. It was clearly a planned cheer line, and he clearly said it to appeal to birthers and the far right just before the convention. He's still scared to death of that crowd. Somebody on TV made an interesting point, too. He may well have said it exactly to raise the hackles of liberals. Because although the far right has never really warmed to Mitt, one thing they do like is people who drive liberals crazy. In other words, if liberals can't stand you, that makes the far right like you more. So according to this theory (which makes some sense), he did it partly to raise a reaction out of liberals, including possibly charges or racism - and since nobody likes to believe they're racist any more, that can cause a particularly strong counter-reaction; i.e. "those liberals think I'm racist - I'll show them!"
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder If Romney was truly interested in avoiding the gutter, had any class, or wasn't a pandering simp, he would never have gone near the topic, much less uttered the lines. Period.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<He may well have said it exactly to raise the hackles of liberals. Because although the far right has never really warmed to Mitt, one thing they do like is people who drive liberals crazy. In other words, if liberals can't stand you, that makes the far right like you more.>> This describes Donny perfectly. So much of what he posts on these boards is obviously framed to drive the liberal posters as crazy as possible. Donny has never been interested in honest discussion or debate. He posts in WE for one purpose and one purpose only: to p*ss off the liberal and progressive posters on the boards. He gets all kinds of warm fuzzies watching liberal heads explode. This definitely wasn't a joke on Romney's part. And anyone like Josh who wants to believe it was a joke is just drinking the Romney kool-aid and believing Mitt is someone he's not.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, Josh will defend Romney because he has a vested interest. I don't really expect him to do otherwise.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I get why you say that, but evey once in a while you hope that josh would do the right thing. However, this guy's Mormon, and josh will stoop to new lows to get a Mormon elected.
Originally Posted By utahjosh And doing the right thing means doing what you want me to do, what you want me to believe.
