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  3. 3.

    bemused

    Maybe I’ve missed the explanation but why in the world are all the Republican candidates meeting with Trump? It’s one of the weirdest things in this whole freak show.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    destiny farted.

    I can never place the lyrics you young people post.

    Last week Donald Trump was on the Today Show, I assume pimping the next season of his silly show that I can’t believe people watch, and for some reason they asked him about politics, and he responded “Blahblah Obama sucks somethingstupidandselfagrandizing did you know I’m a billionaih Obama sucks” (Paraphrase). I don’t know which ‘bot was interviewing him but it really doesn’t matter. Just one more symptom of how badly our media sucks, and keeps getting suckier. “Matt, we’ve got a new season of Trump coming up, so be sure to ask him about Obama’s jobs plan”

    What triggered the moderation?

  5. 5.

    Zifnab

    He didn’t “Go Birther”. He’s hedging like mad, but that’s as explicitly non-answer as you are going to get from a Presidential candidate.

    “I don’t know.”

    “I don’t know.”

    “I don’t know.”

    translates to “Please stop asking me this question or you’re going to get me in trouble with my base.”

  6. 6.

    Certified Mutant Enemy

    Has anybody asked Romney about his father not being born in the USA or about his grandfather’s polygamy? If Obama’s birth certificate is fair games, then these questions about Romney are as well.

  7. 7.

    joes527

    Going birther and trying to avoid saying anything that would annoy the birthers are 2 different things.

    He is not a birther. He just thinks that there are more votes available to him by avoiding making clear and honest statements.

  8. 8.

    geg6

    @cleek:

    And this makes that less likely how, exactly?

    Myself, I’m cheering for Herman Cain. Obama needs another Alan Keyes to smack around and remind people of just who and what the GOP is.

  9. 9.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    n an interview with PARADE Magazine, Perry said that he recently met with Donald Trump and discussed the issue.

    Is PARADE still a CIA front group or was that Reader’s Digest?

  10. 10.

    General Stuck

    Nothing more stranger than reality as a floundering wingnut POTUS campaign. One of them screws the pooch on an issue, the others stand in line. I figure by the time this thing winds down, Obama can walk around on what is left of these buffoons after carving each other to pieces trying to be the meanest spirit, king of the hill. The lot of them spiraling into some kind of vortex of hate.

    Reporting from Washington—
    The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.

    Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.

    Romney is now blaming it on cosmic space dust and his successor for this abomination occurring on his watch, after Romney called Perry a sissy for letting illegal messicans go to college for in state tuition, and other illegal MESSICANs getting over on Uncle Sam and patriotic real white murricans.

    How could anyone call themselves a part of such a thing, and register, let alone vote republican. The party of death and ignorance for any of those among us without proper papers and from strange tribes of color. They want the borders secured, fine, but that is not an excuse to dehumanize those human US persons on our soil, that are already here.

    Pay attention minorities, these people want you dead or rounded up and herded into feed lots, out of sight and mind. At some point, having the stamp of citizenship won’t even matter, if you don’t look like them.

  12. 12.

    Southern Beale

    @General Stuck:

    Romney’s lame attempt to appear to be one of the tribe is especially ironic, considering he’ll never be included in the club as long as he wears that funny underwear.

    But let’s face it, this stuff is always incredibly selective. I mean, in what universe can candidate Obama’s citizenship be questioned when his rival was actually born in Panama? Hollywood couldn’t write this and make it believable.

  13. 13.

    shortstop

    Please. Is this how low our standards have fallen? That we can give someone some sort of “he didn’t actually say he believes it” credit for NOT pushing back against a lunatic cult of spite whose only purpose is to emphasize the first black president’s Otherness?

    This crap is unreal. As far as I’m concerned, any national figure who at this point doesn’t clearly dissociate himself from these freaks is as bad as those who go around actively suing for the president’s “real” birth certificate. I get that I’m not the base, and that the base is insane and Must Be Placated, but could we at least preserve our sense of outraged wonderment that this conversation could even be happening and take the appropriate smacks at the wink-wink candidates who are enabling it?

  15. 15.

    Calouste

    @Southern Beale:

    I mean, in what universe can candidate Obama’s citizenship be questioned when his rival was actually born in Panama?

    You’ve never heard of “Karl Rove” and “projection”?

  18. 18.

    Brachiator

    Desperate Rick Perry Goes Full-Tilt Birther

    . Heh. Kinda reminds me of a variation of dialog from the movie, Tropical Thunder.

    Kirk Lazarus: Everybody knows you never go full birther.
    __
    Tugg Speedman: What do you mean?
    __
    Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Mitt Romney, 2008, look birther, act birther, not a birther. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho’. Not a birther. You know John McCain. Slow burn, yes. War wounds. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain’t birther. Sarah Palin. Infantile, yes. Birther,no. You went full birther, man. Never go full birther. You don’t buy that? Ask Donald Trump. Remember? Went full birther, went home empty handed…

  21. 21.

    gbear

    OT but does anyone know the current status of Lisa Simeone and the World of Opera program. Has NPR dropped the show? All the info I’m seeing on the google is at least a couple days old.

    I’m having a bit of an argument about it with MN Public Radio’s PR department.

  29. 29.

    mclaren

    Counting down to Perry’s endorsement of a flat earth in…3…2…1…

    Stick a fork in him. He’s done.

  30. 30.

    Cacti

    @Certified Mutant Enemy:

    Has anybody asked Romney about his father not being born in the USA or about his grandfather’s polygamy? If Obama’s birth certificate is fair games, then these questions about Romney are as well.

    I’m honestly surprised that none of his opponents have brought up the fact that Mitt is the grandson of a polygamist. Esp. with Warren Jeffs being in the news.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    Perry didn’t go full-tilt birther. He went full-tilt coward. He was thinking, in that slow-on-the-uptake way of his: “Gee, if I say the birthers are full of crap they won’t vote for me. If I say they’re on to something, then no one else will vote for me. OMG, what do I do?” And the answer that fell from his lips was, “I don’t know.”

  32. 32.

    Thymezone

    I keep hoping that Perry makes a comeback, and gets nominated. He is unelectable in a general election. But the Koch Brothers have their hand-picked stooge, Cain, doing so well in the polls right now … Poor Rick has no air.

    Does Romney plod along like the Tortoise in the race and end up coming in first next summer in the GOP Sweepstakes? Okay, then we will have to beat him. I don’t think it will be that hard to do. Mister Wall Street/12,000 square foot beach house for president, Mister Healthcare Mandate? Mister Evangelicals Hate Him?

    Yawn.

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