[BITList] yes, it's racism

[x50type at cox.net]

It’s crystal clear now; the US presidential race is not about the economy, not about jobs, not about the deficit, not about making the rich richer and not about health care for all – its only about race.
Defeating the black president of the USA simply because he is not anglo-saxon is all that matters to republicans.
This is nothing new, the republican leader of the house and republican leader in the senate have openly stated this since Obama was elected president.
However Romney is now more strident about it and openly racist.
The republican party convention next week in Tampa will be dominated by Obama haters – we’ll hear and see their speeches on TV – the world can see.
Hard to believe this is the USA in 2012.
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      What to Make of Mitt Romney's Birther Joke?
      —By Adam Serwer
      | Fri Aug. 24, 2012 12:46 PM PDT66a.. a.. Mitt Romney made a birther joke.  

      "Now I love being home, in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born," Romney told a campaign rally in Michigan. "Ann was born at Henry Ford Hospital I was born at Harper Hospital. No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate they know that this is the place we were born and raised." The crowd at first laughed, then cheered. Here's the video:

      Romney is not himself a birther. He was engaging in ironic post-birtherism—showing solidarity with birthers by making a humorous remark that can be plausibly denied as a joke later. This is a necessary device for a Republican politician who wants to rile up the base without seeming like a lunatic, because the belief that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States is still held by nearly half of self-identified Republicans even after the very public release of the president's birth certificate. Birtherism remains the most frank and widespread evidence of racial animus among some of the president's critics. As Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in The Atlantic this month, the birthers, strapped in their waxen wings, aim for nothing less than the sun: "If Obama is not truly American, then America has still never had a black president."
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