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Mitt Romney’s campaign for president has featured loads of rhetoric — on his own part and that of his surrogates — that seeks to portray Barack Obama as the dreaded “Other,” a “foreign” interloper who’s not really American.
“I don’t think he understands America,” Romney said of Obama last winter.
“I wish this president would learn how to be an American,” said Romney campaign chairman John Sununu this past summer.
Obama’s political philosophy “does not comport with the American experience,” Romney said a few weeks later.
Ian Reifowitz of the Huffington Post has aptly characterized Romney’s rhetoric thusly:
By calling Obama “foreign” he taps ...
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