Short Romney: Obama is cutting the work requirement for welfare so he can get the shiftless Ns to vote for him. He's not even hiding his hood anymore.

This is not dog whistles. It's full out racism.

The racist attack is built on a lie. No one cut any work requirements. But it is not about reality. It's about whipping up racist hate to get votes.

Romney is the modern day George Wallace. America will retch his hate out. It is not 1968.



Romney defends the welfare ads as accurate, accusing Obama of offering state waivers as a political calculation designed to "shore up his base" for the election. He denies he was trying to stoke discredited questions about Obama's birthplace when he said at a Detroit rally Friday that no one had ever asked him for his Michigan birth certificate.