Gibbs: I’m Not Going To Respond To Tom Tancredo’s ‘General Lunacy’ (VIDEO)

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked in today’s press briefing about Tom Tancredo’s remark that the U.S. should just send President Obama back to Kenya.

Gibbs responded that he would not respond to the “general lunacy of somebody like Tom Tancredo.”

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) keynoted a Tea Party rally in Greenville, SC over the weekend, and said of Obama: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?”

In today’s White House press briefing, Gibbs dodged a question about the remark:

“You know what,” he said, “I could probably fill the better part of my afternoons responding to the general lunacy of somebody like Tom Tancredo, and given the fact that I’ve got a relatively busy schedule, and no real desire to do that, I’m not going to.”

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