JOHN SUNUNU'S CONFERENCE CALL COMMENT......A MISTAKE OR A DIVERSION ?............

John Sununu Sr., is the former 1980's Governor of New Hampshire, and White House Chief of Staff to President George Herbert Walker Bush, who went on in the 1990's to co-host CNN's "Crossfire" program, is now a senior advisor and surrogate of the Romney For President campaign.  This morning in a telephone conference call of the Romney campaign with the media, in a full voiced offensive against President Obama's economic policies and record of jobs creation, he spoke the words, "The men and women all over America have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up,  is how our economy has become the envy of the world.  It is the American way, and I wish this President would learn how to become an American".  Later in the conference call making his first effort to clarify that statement, Sununu said he meant President Obama needs to learn the quote, "American formula for creating business".  Following ten days of fall out for Mitt Romney over theObama re-electioncampaign's  questioning of Romney's outsourcing of jobs, off shore bank accounts, and unwillingness to release more than two years of his income tax returns, bogging down Romney's ability to keep  his campaigning effectively focused on the Economy and President Obama's record;  the bluntly brash and egregious comment of Governor Sununu, seeming to question The President's American citizenry, came today while Governor Romney in a  campaign speech in Irwin, Pennsylvania  attempted to recalibrate the focus of the presidential campaign on economic issues, while deflecting continuing calls for him to release multiple years of his income tax returns.  In the course of his speech, he referred to President Obama's policies as being, "extraordinarily foreign".  So whether John Sununu was imprecise, or misspoke, in saying today that President Obama should learn how to become an American, or it was an intentional statement, appealing to the Birther movement and Tea Party conservatives in Romney's Republican base of support; either is equally likely in the current polarized, partisan, poisoned, atmosphere of American politics.   Both President Obama and Governor Romney are spending the summer attempting to define each other for the voters.  To shape the perception of each other's individual records in a negative light, so as to gin up not only their base and all but certain supporters, but gain the votes of those Democrats and Republicans, less likely to cast ballots in the Presidential Election.   Also, to attract the Independents and Decline to State a Political Party preference voters, who will almost assuredly determine the victor of this closely contested 2012 Race for the White House.  What should be clear to all but the conspiracy or personal/political haters on the fringes of our Democracy, is that President Obama is an American citizen, for if their was evidence to verify otherwise, he would never had been deemed eligible to be elected to the Illinois State Senate, the United States Senate, or as President of the United States. As this Presidential General Election campaign ensues through the next sixteen weeks may the candidates, surrogates, campaign strategists, staffs, their supporters, and donors, speak and act honestly, clearly, and with integrity, in truth - that the winner of the Presidency on November 6th, Barack Obama, or Mitt Romney, is able and worthy of effectively governing and presiding over these United States............Fr.  Troy