'when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American' ---mitt romney

[spanone]

Last edited Fri Aug 31, 2012, 03:35 PM - Edit history (2)

damn, and i thought the President was an American.

here's the full video....this quote is around :47




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[livetohike]

1. Yet more birther crap. I despise the Romneys more each minute

I didn't think it was possible.

[madokie]

2. I referred to that in an earlier post

robme is a birther as he made it pretty clear last night

[Enrique]

3. "...you need an Anglo Saxon" n/t

[Curtland1015]

4. For the sake of argument, let's say that wasn't a dog whistle to birthers...

...and I'm not saying for sure it isn't.

Even at FACE VALUE, what exactly is he saying? What big stuff does the world need us to do? Start wars? Borrow more of their money? Export television shows?

What the hell is he talking about?

[pinboy3niner]

5. Photo of him saying it:

[Curtland1015]

6. I know that's Trump's do, but he looks like Mitt Bieber.

[taught_me_patience]

7. I'd like to hear the entire quote in context

before making a judgment. It seems like he's not referring to the presidency.

[IggleDoer]

9. If I recall correctly ...

He was previously talking about Neil Armstrong. He was referring to American ingenuity, courage, moxie, etc.

[taught_me_patience]

10. The quote in that context makes sense

a little to nationalistic for me, but not "birther".

[Smilo]

8. As President you have to

be a diplomat - if this is Mitt's foreign policy we are doomed.

[hatrack]

11. Uh-huh . . .

[bluedigger]

12. I took it as a cry for American Exceptualism more than as a Birther thing.

Although I can see where they get pretty cozy with one another.

[Lucy Goosey]

13. I honestly didn't take this as a birther thing

I am not American, so that likely influenced the way I heard it, but to me he was basically saying that only Americans can do and have done the "really big stuff."

Which I find gross, not to mention demonstrably untrue, but not as bad as a racist dogwhistle.

Of course a lot of people heard birtherism, and I completely understand that; I'm just offering my impression.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. He was talking about Neil Armstrong

Here's the quote in full context:

"...God bless Neil Armstrong.

Tonight that American flag is still there on the moon. And I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

That’s how I was brought up. ..."


Considering the rampant birtherism in the crowd he was addressing, I don't understand why the speech would contain such a line. I'd think they'd want to avoid even the faintest trace of controversy in that direction.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. If there was no faux controversy about Obama's origins, one would still say "need an American".

Let's not make too much out of a statement by American who is proud of Americans while speaking to Americans about Americans.

There is so much other blatant lying and cheating and possibly illegal voting and tax fraud around Rmoney that it is a waste to get tied up in knots over something like this.

The Republicans are happy to have Democratic supporters spinning their wheels on this rather than the much more damaging stuff like Cayman Island tax shelters and his attitude calling Federal disaster relief immoral while there is a deficit created by relieving corporations.