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Letter: Donald's Attack on Obama's U.S. Citizenship is Self Defeating

Donald Trump continually questions President Obama about his birth certificate, when Romney, his own presidential candidate, is the grandson of a refugee who fled the states to avoid arrest for his polygamous relationships.

OK, lets just admit it: We live in a world where "stupid" is becoming the new “smart.”

A case in point is with Donald Trump claiming that President Obama wasn't born in America. Not only is this an assault on our collective IQ, but the message actually works against Republicans because it turns out they’re the ones whose presidential candidates are foreign born.

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Case in point, 2008, John McCain. McCain was born in Panama, and although there are likely a number of plausible explanations for his foreign-born status, McCain has never explained them—and quite frankly, I'm still curious to hear them. 

However, McCain wasn't the first foreign-born Republican candidate for president.

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Mitt Romney's own father, George Romney, was born in Mexico, yet he ran in the 1968 presidential election. The reason he was born in Mexico is because his grandfather fled the United States to Mexico so he wouldn’t be arrested for having five wives. George Bush was at least a real Texan who was born in New Haven Connecticut.

So the way I see it, Obama is a U.S. citizen, where Romney is the son of a Mexican immigrant who illegally tried to run for president. Seems to me that the issue itself works for Obama and against Romney.

So Donald, are you listening to me? Not only is the issue stupid, but even raising the issue works against your guy. You are totally ruining the illusion that billionaires are supposed to be the smart people who we trust are going to trickle down on us and call it rain.

I'm Marc Perkel - and I approve this message!

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