Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is this week’s “Fool of the Week” for jumping onto the birther bandwagon.
Ramsey responded to a question when he said, “I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not.”
Ramsey went onto say this is not the issue Americans are concerned about and called it an unwinnable issue for the Republican Party. However, Ramsey was not questioning the veracity of birther charges, he was only emphasizing that people are concerned about other issues with two wars and an economic downturn.
Ramsey’s campaign advisor Brad Todd immediately tried to undue his client’s words by suggesting that the comment was taken out of context.
If you want to see the full context, including the question directed to Ramsey by a birther, those words are in this earlier article by Foolocracy.
There’s nothing taken out of context. It is a full sentence, backed up by other comments like “I don’t know the full deal there” or “I’m not saying you’re not right.”
The only out of context going on is what Ramsey’s spokesman is trying to create.
