Note: I removed the earlier video with the extraneous segments. The video above is a longer segment from the "Morning Joe" show.
"I have to call you on this, Mr. Chairman,” Matthews said in an appearance with Priebus on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” as he responded to Republicans’ criticism that Obama is running a very negative campaign. “But they’ve both negative. That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful. It is an embarrassment to your party to play that card.”Thank you, Chris Matthews, for calling the Romney campaign on playing the race card. Chris is right. We all know what game the Republicans play, and it's ugly.
Matthews continued, turning the attacks up a notch:
"You can play your games and giggle about it but the fact is your side playing that card. When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you’re playing and everybody knows what game you’re playing. It’s a race card and yeah, if your name’s Romney, yeah you were well born, you went to prep school, yeah, brag about it. This guy has an African name and he’s got to live with it. Look who’s gone further in their life. Who was born on third base? Making fun of the guy’s birth certificate issue when it was never a real issue except for the right wing.”
H/T to Charles Pierce.
So, if Romney said at the beginning of the campaign, It's a dumb issue. It's a distraction. Just forget about it. Why didn't he take his own advice. If this is supposed to pass for levity it gives lightness of mind a whole new meaning.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone ever asked Mitt Romney's father to show his birth certificate. Of course not, he was a white male which makes his birthplace irrelevant. Except for the part about him being born in Mexico. Hmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteMy father was born in British Honduras of American citizens, and he always believed that he was not eligible to run for president. Otherwise, I'd surely be the daughter of a president. ;-) I presume he was wrong and that it is not necessary to be born on American soil so long as one's parents are US citizens.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that there is no bottom too low to which Romney will not plunge in his lust for the presidency.