So he says:
http://todayonthetrail.today.com/...
what romney said about nobody ever asked him for his birth certificate, it's just something that slipped out, and these things are going to happen if you are on the campaign trail day after day.
IF what christie says is right, then there is a meaningful way romney could take it back.
he could say, the other day i meant an unfortunate comment about my birth certificate. let me make it totally clear. president obama was born in hawaii. he has shown his birth certificate to the world. he is an american, born in hawaii, and anyone who says anything different is contradicting established, documented fact.
also, i should apologize for certain other comments i made, using the word 'foreign' to describe the president of the united states. these comments were, like the birth certificate comment, something that was ill-stated and not expressing my views. this campaigning for president is hard business, and i am sure the president would agree that it is not always possible to express oneself as well as one would want.
this is a close election, and both the president and i have a lot of supporters. we are all americans, and we don't all agree, and we are going to have to accept and respect each other. we are all americans, but clearly we do not all agree as to how we should govern ourselves.
i would like to make this a campaign of ideas and not mudslinging. i pledge to you all that i am determined to do all i can to promote that sort of campaign. i will apologize when i slip up, and i will count on the president to apologize when he slips up. but i can only control my own thoughts and actions, and i absolutely do not want to play into the unfortunate narrative that some have developed accusing the president of not being an american.of course he is, just as i am.
but he can't say anything remotely like that, can he, Mr. Tom Brokaw, Ms. Mika Brzezinski, Mr. Joe Scarborough, etc. Because Chris Matthews is right. The whole goal of the campaign is to portray Obama as foreign (he ain't), black (well, that he is, besides being Irish), and soft on welfare slackers (he ain't).
he can't and won't say anything that will confront birtherism, because he is counting on the people who love that theory to give his campaign energy