Romney on his Obama birther insult, "no no not a swipe". Mitt is such a disingenuous jerk.

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video of interview clip at link - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57500130/romney-says-birther-joke-wasnt-a-swipe-at-obama/

(CBS News) In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Friday, Mitt Romney played down the remarks he made about President Obama's origins, arguing that they amounted to a joke and not a "swipe" at the president.

"No, no, not a swipe," Romney said. "I've said throughout the campaign and before, there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S. This was fun about us, and coming home. And humor, you know -- we've got to have a little humor in a campaign."

Romney was on the campaign trail in his home state of Michigan Friday when he made a crack at the "birther" suspicions that ultimately drove Mr. Obama to release his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States.

"I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital," Romney said in Commerce, Michigan earlier Friday. "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised."



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and I wonder how many facials he has a week to keep himself from looking like the bitter old selfish curmudgeon he truly is? what a big ol' fibber he is for saying he wasn't taking a swipe!



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1. He always wants to have it both ways. Besides, he has zero sense of humor.

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2. That said, someone should be checking the birth certificate of every candidate,

certainly before they get Secret Service protection at taxpayer expense and before they are sworn in, but preferably before they go on any primary ballot. Senators and representatives too.

Age and being a "natural born" citizen are the only two Constitutional requirements for POTUS. The birth certificate shows both. And Senators and Reps have an age requirement and a citizenship requirement for a certain number of years (though they can be "naturalized" citizens).

I don't like any provision of the Constitution's being completely disregarded.


There has been controversy over a significant number of POTUS candidates, including, ironically, George Romney. Wiki has a list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause

I realize that the Obama-Kenya insanity was about Obama's being black, period. (I think Obama may have been trying to protect his mom, who was a very young and apparently unwed mother involved with a married man when she gave birth to him--and he hinted about that when he said publicly that Bristol Palin's behavior was not a legitimate basis for political comment, citing his own mother.)

The racism and insanity in this cases doesn't mean, though, that, going forward, we should not be more mindful of the few Constitutional requirements for POTUS, Senator and Rep.

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3. P.S. Per wiki, constitutional amendments have been proposed twice.

The first was to allow Henry Kissinger to run for President and the second was to allow Arnold Swartzenegger to run for President.

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