The "birther joke" explained.

[warrior1]

http://theobamadiary.com/2012/08/25/rise-and-shine-278/



Elspeth Reeve (Atlantic Wire): The recent direction of Mitt Romney’s campaign may seem perplexing — the candidate’s birther joke, those ads accusing Obama of gutting welfare reform, John Sununu’s jab that Obama needs to learn how to be American, and veep pick Paul Ryan’s s pride at bitterly clinging to guns and God — but it can all be explained with just one number: 61 percent, which is the share of the white vote Romney needs to win.

[MrScorpio]

1. Romney is assuming that 61% of white voters are both racists and idiots n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Nothing against white people...

....but, being in the majority can make one intellectually incurious and emotionally numb.

[Rectangle]

2. That is a good translation. The Obama team should go hard after the

Womens' vote to keep that number down.
Team Obama should also go Hispanics to get rMoneys 28%
even lower.

You are going to hear a LOT of subtle (and not so subtle), racism from now on.
The white vote is their best/only path!!! (
They've kind-of, burned their bridges with everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!

[Aerows]

3. Don't forget the LGBT community

You would have to be an idiot to vote Republican if you are gay.

EDIT: Thinking about it, I could have just left that sentence as it was before adding "if you are gay".

[Warpy]

5. "LOOK AT ME! I'M A WHITE GUY! I DON'T HAVE A FUNNY NAME!

That's what the "joke" was all about.

The sad part is that it will work on a certain type of ignorant American.

[Ohio Joe]

6. No... I don't think that is the sad part...

I think the sheer number of ignorant people out there for it to work on is the sad part.

[rasputin1952]

7. If you have to "explain" a joke...

it's not funny...I heard that from Rodney Dangerfield in a club in NY many years ago...