May 29, 2:10 PM ET | By Jillian Rayfield
The Obama campaign went up with a new web video today knocking Mitt Romney for his embrace of birther Donald Trump. As a Romney surrogate, the Donald has been raising cash and taping robocalls for Mitt and spending his down time spewing nonsense about the president. "Look, a publisher came out last week and had a statement about Obama given to them by Obama when he was doing a book as a young man a number of years ago in the ’90s: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia.'" Trump told CNBC Tuesday.
The Obama video pounces on Trump's most recent birther tear, contrasting Romney's attitude to that of John McCain, who during his 2008 presidential race with Obama "stood up to the voices of extremism in his party." After a clip in which a McCain supporter calling Obama an Arab at a campaign event, McCain is seen calmly but firmly responding: "No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with."
(Trump quickly responded to the Obama video with a tweet: "@BarackObama is practically begging @MittRomney to disavow the place of birth movement, he is afraid of it and for good reason. He keeps using @SenJohnMcCain as an example, however, @SenJohnMcCain lost the election. Don’t let it happen again."
"Why won't Mitt Romney do the same?" the video asks, before jumping to a jaunty reel of some of Trump's most birther-tastic comments.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/obama-campaign-video-hey-everyone-donald-trump-is-still-a-birther-and-a-romney-surrogate-20120529
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