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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-12 08:39 PM
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Donna Brazile: Romney has embraced the birther movement to avoid his own failings as candidate
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/opinion/brazile-romney-birther-line/index.html

With that comment to a crowd in Michigan, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney officially embraced the "birther" movement and touched off a firestorm of protest across the airwaves and internet.
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That he's following the Bush-Cheney-Rove "keep it vague, keep them afraid" playbook? Commentators and analysts have been pointing this out since Romney entered the campaign.
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The real story is that there's nothing unusual about the remark. It's no more in the gutter than a lot of things that have been said about President Barack Obama since coming into office. It's just one more insinuation designed to distract us from the most disconcerting weaknesses of Romney's candidacy -- that he fails to offer details about his policy proposals and stubbornly refuses to disclose more than two years of tax returns.
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His birth certificate dog-whistles are not just desperate, they are deliberate. Romney is campaigning as if he feels he is entitled to the White House -- that, like a feudal lord or European aristocrat, he does not have to answer questions, he does not have to be forthright, he does not have to be honest.



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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-26-12 05:43 AM
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1. This man has had more positions than the Kama Sutra, yet he became
the Republican nominee to be the most powerful man in the world.

Is it any wonder he sees no need to be honest about blatantly pandering to the looniest group of racists?
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