Ed Schultz last night said that Romney hit below the belt and threw a bone to the birthers when he said “when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American”, claiming he was suggesting that Obama isn’t an American:
That’s not at all what Romney was saying last night. Let me provide you the context of Romney’s comments:
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic baby boomer. It was a time when Americans were returning from war and eager to work. To be an American was to assume that all things were possible. When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn’t whether we’d get there, it was only when we’d get there.
The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on OUR souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.
God bless Neil Armstrong.
Tonight that American flag is still there on the moon. And I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
That’s how I was brought up.
He was talking about Neil Armstrong and the legacy of the American spirit; that we had just stepped foot on the moon of all places, something so difficult that no one had ever done it before. He was appealing to our sense of American pride. He wasn’t taking as shot at Obama not being an American.
Ugh!
But this is the kind of twisted analysis you get from the loons at MSNBC. What a joke these guys are. What a freaking joke.