What did Romney’s birther joke really mean?
During a campaign event this week, Mitt Romney stopped in Michigan to discuss a few things and then the now famous ‘birther discussion’. But, what did it really mean?
CNN summed it up pretty well — that even though many of Romney’s far right supporters were un-phased at the comment as if it hadn’t even been made even though many took the comment as an unneeded jab towards President Obama who has for some time struggled to show residents of the United States that he is a citizen himself.
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“No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that I was born and raised.”
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