Is Mitt Romney a Real American?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Roger Ebert just linked to this great piece from Eric Liu:

Nobody's ever asked to see my birth certificate. But as someone of Chinese descent I have been asked plenty of times where I'm from -- and when I say "Poughkeepsie," I often get the follow-up question that's almost a cliché now among Asian Americans: "No, where are you really from?"

It's always disheartening to get that question, even though I've learned to answer it with equanimity and usually take care to make the inquisitor feel not-stupid. But it's always clarifying, for it reveals the default picture in the minds of some of my fellow Americans about who they are, who we are, and who I am.

That's why Mitt Romney's birther-baiting remarks today are, in a way, welcome. Let there be no doubt: He is the candidate for people who think the name Obama must be Muslim and its bearer indelibly foreign. He is also the candidate for the greater number of people who do not initially imagine that someone with my face, my eyes, my skin could be from this country.

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Romney may yet win in November. But he and this whole odious line of attack are on the losing side of history. The tide of demographics is irresistible, and soon enough it'll sweep up his birth certificate and mine into a new notion of who is truly from this country.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/ideals-make-us-american-not-origins/261551/

[Ilsa]

1. Isn't he an anchor baby?

Wasn't his father born in Mexico?

[Tx4obama]

2. Birthers should look at Mitt Romney's FATHER'S birth certificate - Mitt's father was born in Mexico

Birthers are always saying that for a president to be a 'natural born citizen' both parents would have had to be born in the USA.

Mitt's father WAS born in Mexico.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. You missed article 2, section 6, clause 2 of the birther constitution

Article 2, Section 6, Clause 2:

Please note that the United States birth requirement does not apply to white people.