Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.
Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.
His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.
READ MORE: Romney’s birth certificate evokes father’s controversy
We’ll just leave this here.
Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? Mitt Romney’s son Matt was on the campaign trail for his dad the other day when he made an Obama birth certificate joke, in reference to Mitt’s own tax return issues. The joke, and we quote: “I heard someone suggest the other day that as soon as President Obama releases his grades and birth certificate …then maybe he’ll do it.” This was so toxic that Matt joined Twitter just to apologize for the joke:
I repeated a dumb joke. My bad. RT @emilyrs Romney’s son Matt made an Obama birth certificate joke on the trail in NH
— Matt Romney(@Matt_Romney) December 30, 2011
» Worst reason to join Twitter ever? Perhaps. Most people quit Twitter over saying something stupid. source
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal releases his birth certificate: Hey, Bobby, this was last week’s news. But in all seriousness, someone was probably thinking, “Hey, this guy might be vice-president someday.” Might as well get this out of the way now. Jindal’s case is slightly rougher than Barack Obama’s was, because neither of his parents were citizens when he was born, and one of the senators from his state wants to limit birthright citizenship. Both of Jindal’s parents had green cards at the time of his birth, by the way. Anyway, here it is, in case anyone needs it.
Today in how coverage of stupid stories has usurped stories you should actually care about.
Orly Taitz’ last TV appearance: We cannot imagine she’s going to get on TV after this takedown by Lawrence O’Donnell. (She didn’t get the last word.)
President Obama’s decision to release his long-form birth certificate is a reminder of the handicaps under which rational people labor when confronting the irrational.Wendy Kaminer at The Atlantic • Giving us some perspective on this birth certificate madness. Obama has both reason and empirical evidence on his side, but those are useless against an opponent who rejects reason and empiricism. source (via • follow)
Fox News knows how to remain impartial on Breaking News: White House Releases What It Says Is President Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate
Can you feel the quotations around what it says?
“scare quotes”
Strange, strange day in news. We’ll keep you updated here.
Now we’ve seen everything. Cannot believe this is still a thing.
» Fun fact: In announcing Trump’s new gig, Fox amusingly referred to the billionaire TV star as “The Donald.” Admittedly, this nickname format rolls off the tongue much better with Trump than with other 2012 contenders (The Mike, The Mitt, The Newt, etc).
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Daughter of Slaves Won’t Be Recognized as Oldest Woman.
Rebecca Lanier celebrated her 119th birthday this week. Born to parents who were former slaves, she believes she’s the oldest person in the world, and her family has documentation to back up the claim, in the form of a letter from the Social Security Administration.
But the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that because she was born in the 1890s, when it was commonplace for African-American babies not to be issued birth certificates, she doesn’t have the documentation Guinness World Records requires to be honored for her record-setting life. So they refuse to acknowledge her.
Lanier has witnessed more than 20 presidents and lived through two world wars. She’s outlived her husband and daughters. And after all this, she’s still suffering residual effects of the racial inequality that existed more than a century ago, when she was born.
“It’s quite a rigorous process that you go through because the birth certificate is a crucial matter,” a Guinness World Records spokesman told MailOnline, explaining why Lanier’s age won’t be recognized.
There have to be other ways of figuring out this woman’s age, right? This seems wrong.
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