Comments on: Romney’s little joke, heh heh: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate”

By: Ethics Bob

Ethics Bob — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:10:35 +0000

It could be, but given the circumstances it’s very doubtful. And did you notice, the crowd cheered the “joke.” They didn’t laugh. They got the reminder that Obama isn’t like us, he’s an “other.”

By: Todd Coburn

Todd Coburn — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:02:19 +0000

I disagree. That comment could easily be made by someone with a sense of humor that can laugh at life’s ironies, whether those ironies align for or against us. This is more in line with the character of Romney that I have witnessed thus far.

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Romney’s Birther “Joke”: Foul | Ethics Alarms — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:44:38 +0000

[...] Why is it unfair to mention it in jest?” My colleague Ethics Bob Stone has the answer. Bob writes, “How do you encourage the right-wing idiocy that Obama was born in Kenya and thus an [...]

By: Ethics Bob

Ethics Bob — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:00:46 +0000

Thanks. By the way, I don’t know anybody who said Romney was a felon. Stephanie Cutter said that his SEC filing said he was CEO of Bain post-1999, and either he was telling the truth to the SEC then or he was committing a felony by a false filing: nasty language but not quite an accusation.

By: Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:41:27 +0000

Yup. Part and parcel of the whole sequence, from “Romney is a felon” to “Romney is a tax cheat,”, and now this, which is arguably worse than either. Good call.