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Mitt Romney: No Apology for 'Osama, Obama' Sign
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is refusing to apologize for posing with a sign that said "No to Osama, Obama and Chelsea’s Momma," lumping two Democratic rivals with the Sept. 11 mastermind. "I don’t look at all the signs when I’m having pictures taken. I have a lot of pictures taken with people," Romney said. "I don’t really spend all that much time looking at the signs and the T-shirts and the buttons. I don’t have anything to say about a sign somebody else was holding." Romney posed for the photograph while campaigning in South Carolina last week. An audience member at a town hall in Exeter on Sunday pressed him to apologize, saying it was inappropriate to compare Democratic Sen. Barack Obama with Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It also referenced Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose daughter Chelsea was part of the handwritten sign. "I’m just concerned because I can remember where I was at on Sept. 11," said Jerid Kurtz, a New Hampshire-based contributor to Buckeye State Blog. "How can you compare any American to Osama bin Laden? How can you do that?"
Story Continues Below Kurtz’s bio on the Web site notes he is a former Democratic campaign operative. "You know what? Lighten up slightly," Romney said. "There are a lot of jokes out there. I’m not responsible for all the signs I see."
© 2007 Associated Press.
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