Romney cracks 'birther' joke, draws Obama campaign rebuke
Posted on AllSides August 24th, 2012
From The Right
Campaigning in his home state, Mitt Romney cracked an out-of-the-ordinary joke Friday about the so-called "birther" controversy.
While talking up his roots in Michigan -- both he and his wife Ann were born and raised here, and his father was a much-beloved governor -- Romney noted the proof behind his place of birth.
"Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital," he said to cheers from a crowd of several thousand at a local orchard and cider mill, before joking about the questions...