Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s birth certificate reference may have drawn sneers and huffs of indignation from President Obama’s reelection campaign, but that hasn’t stopped them from using the drawn-out birther controversy to raise money.
The campaign features Obama’s birth certificate stamped on items sold in the campaign’s online store, a flash of the sense of humor Romney said he was trying when he told Michiganders Friday, “I love being home, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford hospital I was born in Harper hospital. No one has asked to see my birth certificate, this is the place we were born and raised.”
The items are part of the campaign’s “Made in America” line that includes a $22.50 coffee mug, a $5 bumper sticker and a $5 button.
And now the campaign is hoping that the rest of the nation will be outraged with Romney’s comments to send $3 to the president’s reelection effort. Campaign Manager Jim Messina said in an email fundraiser:
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Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, just said this:
“No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”
Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney.
Then make a donation of $3 or more to re-elect Barack Obama today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/74-Days
Thanks,
Messina
Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
