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Romney birth certificate joke blasted as ‘racism’ and ‘gutterball politics’
From
Muriel Kane – The Raw Story
republished by Paddy Ryan
Obama
spokesperson Jen Psaki issued a scathing criticism,
telling MSNBC, “This is the kind of gutterball politics that
will and should turn the American people off. This is a pattern. Mitt
Romney has questioned repeatedly over the last several months whether
the president understands America, whether he understands freedom —
he’s wrapped his arms around Donald Trump, one of the originators
of the birther movement, so we’ve seen a pattern here.”
Rachel
Maddow made a similar observation, pointing
out on Twitter, “Today’s remarks follow 5 straight Romney ads
about Obama being the president of lazy welfare recipients taking
your $. Not subtle.”
However,
the harshest
words may have come from Andrew Rosenthal at the New
York Times
editorial page.
“Politicians
sometimes think they can get away with saying something profoundly
offensive or just plain stupid by acting like it was a joke,”
Rosenthal wrote. “It never works, just like it didn’t work today
when Mr. Romney shamelessly played the birther card in what seems
like an increasingly desperate campaign against President Obama.”
“Today’s
crack was way over the line,” he continued. “His audience laughed
and applauded, probably not because they thought Mr. Romney was doing
hilarious stand-up comedy, but because they knew exactly what he was
up to. … It’s racism, pure and simple.”
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