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Mitt Romney: Obama was born in the United States
CBS News ^ | 04/13/2011 | Lucy Madison

Posted on 04/13/2011 12:06:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday rejected the notion that President Obama was not born in the United States, emphasizing that "I think the citizenship test has been passed."

The former Massachusetts governor, in an interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, said he thought there were legitimate reasons to want Mr. Obama out of the White House - but that "birther"-inspired claims were not credible.

"I think the citizenship test has been passed. I believe the president was born in the United States. There are real reasons to get this guy out of office," Romney said, the day after formally announcing the formation of a presidential exploratory committee.

Despite the fact that disputes over Mr. Obama's citizenship have long since been discredited, the issue has been in the news lately as Donald Trump, the billionaire, reality television star and potential presidential candidate, has made the media rounds espousing his newly-adopted birtherist perspective.

Romney, however, chose to hit Mr. Obama on his economic record rather than his U.S. citizenship.

"Look, when it comes to the economy, the president has been incompetent," Romney t old Kudlow. "He just hasn't done what is necessary to get Americans back to work. You've got roughly 20 million Americans who stopped looking for jobs or can't find work, and that's inexcusable in a nation that's as productive and innovative as this nation."

"Overwhelmingly, his people come from academics and from politics," Romney continued, of the president's staffing choices. "He doesn't...he doesn't have the confidence in the private sector people that you need to give him the help on the economy that he needs."

When asked about the health care reform bill he enacted while serving as governor of Massachusetts, Romney reiterated his standard line of defense on the issue.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; chihuahuaromney; ineligible4obama; ineligibleromney; mexicanmitt; mittromney; obama; romney4obama; romneycare; themagicrinoromney; usurper
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Let us hypothetically grant that the claim that Obama was born in Hawaii is true.... does that prove thathe is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN as the framers understood the term?

People want to see the Birth Certificate not simply because they doubt his birth in the USA, but his being NATURAL BORN.

1 posted on 04/13/2011 12:06:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Well then, if Mitt says it’s true....it’s settled.

Pfffft....go away Mitt.


2 posted on 04/13/2011 12:08:13 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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3 posted on 04/13/2011 12:09:03 PM PDT by yantis
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To: SeekAndFind

I found out during all of these discussions that I am not a natural born citizen.

Mom was Canadian when I was born.

She became a citizen a year later.


4 posted on 04/13/2011 12:09:43 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SeekAndFind
Go away, Milt, ya bother me.
5 posted on 04/13/2011 12:09:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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“Mitt Romney: Obama was born in the United States”

Prove it ya “Ken Doll.”


6 posted on 04/13/2011 12:10:11 PM PDT by Grunthor (The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Mitt is from another world....


7 posted on 04/13/2011 12:10:11 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What, was he there when obama was born? Can he tell me where I was born?


8 posted on 04/13/2011 12:10:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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RE: I found out during all of these discussions that I am not a natural born citizen.

Oh well, you still have the chance to make Speaker of the House. Just be sure the POTUS and Vice POTUS don’t die. :)


9 posted on 04/13/2011 12:11:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“I found out during all of these discussions that I am not a natural born citizen.”

I regret you cannot become president since, even without knowing a thing about you (except that you’re a Freeper), I feel confident you could do a better job than our current POTUS.


10 posted on 04/13/2011 12:12:13 PM PDT by DrC
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To: SeekAndFind

how does he know?


11 posted on 04/13/2011 12:12:16 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Mitt is part of the McCain, Dole, GHW Bush old guard GOP:

Play nice, go along to get along, and wait your turn.

Sorry Mitt, we can’t afford to play that game anymore.


12 posted on 04/13/2011 12:12:32 PM PDT by brownsfan (D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

PetroniusMaximus: Mitt Romney was born without a brain.


13 posted on 04/13/2011 12:13:21 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Mears

We still love you.


14 posted on 04/13/2011 12:15:37 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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Mitt Romney on Tuesday rejected the notion that President Obama was not born in the United States,

Even if Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had been birthed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House he is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

15 posted on 04/13/2011 12:16:24 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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Good for you Mitt, why don’t you run as his VP in 2012?


16 posted on 04/13/2011 12:17:05 PM PDT by blondee123 (TRUMP=WINNING OBAMA=YOU'RE FIRED!!!)
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He check Mormon ancestry LOL this is heresy. Note: Check my picture maybe one of your birds I was refueling.
17 posted on 04/13/2011 12:18:08 PM PDT by boomop1
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How does Willard know? Did he deliver him?

Trump is the only one willing to stand up for the Consitution. A consitutional conservative.


18 posted on 04/13/2011 12:18:08 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: brownsfan

anyone but Mitt.


19 posted on 04/13/2011 12:18:29 PM PDT by rokkitapps
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To: SeekAndFind

I read somewhere that Mitt’s mother was born in another country, anyone know anything about that?


20 posted on 04/13/2011 12:18:52 PM PDT by blondee123 (TRUMP=WINNING OBAMA=YOU'RE FIRED!!!)
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