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Sarah Palin Flip-Flops on Obama Birth Certificate
US News and World Report ^ | 12/4/09 | Robert Schlesinger

Posted on 12/04/2009 10:02:44 AM PST by pissant

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To: pissant
"The key word there is "rightfully," which in this context means that it is right--as in correct or proper--to ask the question. She didn't say that the public has the right to ask, she said that it's right for the public to ask. That's an Alaska-sized difference."

Huh?

So the public has the right to ask, but it isn't right to actually do it? That makes no sense. And I say that as someone that thinks the birthers are full of crap.

The problem with the birthers isn't that they ask. It's that they won't accept the reality of the answer.

And since when is it so terrible that a politician doesn't go out of her way to needlessly irritate some of her potential voters?

61 posted on 12/04/2009 10:30:40 AM PST by mlo
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I hope she is because being herself is her best course of action.

I don’t think she needs much, if any advice about dealing with the media.


62 posted on 12/04/2009 10:31:11 AM PST by Scanian
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To: marron

Your post is so good it deserves to be posted again. Pointing out the emperor has no clothes gets you lambasted.

“What I notice is how, if anyone mentions the birth certificate issue in public, the press will get right up in their faces. Are you suggesting he wasn’t born in Hawaii? Most people in public life will then back quickly away, no, I never said that. I would never say that.

I don’t know anything more than anyone else does. I just notice the dynamic. No one in public life dares to ask him for any information about his past. No one dares to ask him for any documentation. And anyone who does, gets a very sharp confrontation and they back quickly away.

Its almost just like the globwarm doubters have been treated over the last decade. “You don’t believe in global warming? Are you admitting you’re a deniar?” And they immediately start hemming and hawing. No, I never said that. Of course the earth is warming, everyone knows that.”


63 posted on 12/04/2009 10:31:14 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: CharlesWayneCT
than to acknowledge their right to ask the question,

not that they are RIGHT to ask the question.

Fascinating. 0bama-like even. Please educate me on how this "nuanced" observation is not contradictory.

64 posted on 12/04/2009 10:31:48 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Because he’s a stinking marxist Obama cheerleader, just like 95% of the media


65 posted on 12/04/2009 10:31:58 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Just the media trying to make a stink out of nothing. Her statements look consistent to me, I am not even sure what they have the panties in a bind for.


66 posted on 12/04/2009 10:32:12 AM PST by Always Right
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To: mlo
So the public has the right to ask, but it isn't right to actually do it? That makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense. You have the right to go out in public wearing a green and purple striped shirt with crimson and blue polka-dotted pants, but it wouldn't be right to actually do so.

67 posted on 12/04/2009 10:32:53 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“not that they are RIGHT to ask the question.”

It’s never right to follow the Constitution. /goron


68 posted on 12/04/2009 10:33:06 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: steve-b; GI Joe Fan
That image you are linking to Steve was a fraud made up by Daily Kos. The Leftist blogger admitted he made the document up. It is not a genuine birth certificate.

As of now we still have had no birth certificate produced by the Obama regime.

Steve, please do try to keep up with the facts of the matter rather then mindlessly screaming at everyone who is actually paying attention to the facts here.

69 posted on 12/04/2009 10:33:19 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Demand Constitutionality)
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To: steve-b
Your posts always remind me of an observation made by Florence King:

But nothing is more infuriating than female strategy. Armed with her silken weaponry of ambivalence, circularity, and freighted silences, woman burrows into her adversary's very soul — sideways, like a tick crossed with a mole crossed with a crab.

70 posted on 12/04/2009 10:33:26 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: EyeGuy
...troll boner...

Funniest zap all week!

71 posted on 12/04/2009 10:33:33 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Always Right

Because she is giving a credence, slight though it may be, to those of us who know Obama is marxist quisling fraud.


72 posted on 12/04/2009 10:33:48 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Just one of many flip, flops. LOL, nothing new move on.


73 posted on 12/04/2009 10:34:06 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: pissant

Robert Schlesinger, LOL! What a scumbag!
The scared left will spin ANYTHING and make a mountain out of ANY molehill when it comes to their arch-nemesis, citizen Sarah Palin.


74 posted on 12/04/2009 10:34:53 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: All

The MSM will spend more time questioning Sarah Palin’s comments on Obama’s eligibility than they will question Obama’s eligibility.

F*** the MSM - nothing but complicit liars and enablers.


75 posted on 12/04/2009 10:35:02 AM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (The "Inconvenient Truth" was all a convenient lie.)
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To: EyeGuy

Steve-b and other trolls are eunuchs. They don’t get boners.


76 posted on 12/04/2009 10:35:09 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: steve-b
Because the legal status of the Panama Canal Zone is a bit fuzzy, but the legal status of Hawaii is not. Duh.

Duh to you! The legal status of John McCain's birth was clearly addressed in the law way before the unnecessary need for Hearings was acted upon. The legal status was quite clear before and after the unneeded hearings on the matter.

Furthermore, the legal status of Hawaii was in transition because it just became a state in 1959, just before Obama's birth.

There were a number of ways to secure a birth certificate in Hawaii in 1961. The primary one is the long form that identified the hospital and attending physician. But if the child was not born in a hospital the applicant can make a declaration and secure an equivalent to the long form as a Certificate of Live Birth. The legal requirements for this avenue to acquire a Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth were loose at the time.

Taking a look at the long form would clarify whether Mr. Obama was born in a hospital in Hawaii or elsewhere in Hawaii. Of course the possibility exists that a close relative could have secured a Certificate of Live Birth for Obama even though he was born elsewhere. We just do not know. We would like to feel assured that all is well and in order in this case. That still would not answer whether Mr. Obama is a natural born citizen; his father was a British citizen, clearly not born in the USA.

77 posted on 12/04/2009 10:36:56 AM PST by olezip
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To: what's up
Just face it, The birther train runs on the third rail of American politics. She is flirting with electrocution just by talking about it. She has handled it ok so far, but if she were smart she would just avoid it altogether as much as possible.

I am an admitted birther and Palin supporter, and PROUD of it.

I KNOW Obama is not an article II natural born citizen
I believe Obama’s short form birth certificate is a forgery
I believe it is likely he was born in Kenya
I believe it is likely he isn't even a US citizen
I believe it is possible he is involved in fraud involving social security numbers and properties
I believe it is possible the Smith Kenyan birth certificate is real
I believe it is possible his draft registration document has been altered or forged
I believe it is possible the Obama machine is involved in the death of Donald Young
I believe it is possible Obama was involved with Larry Sinclair
I believe it is possible that Obama is as close to being a Manchurian Candidate as you can get
I believe Obama is evil

If this makes me a “kook”, so be it. Just waiting for Obama to PROVE me wrong.

78 posted on 12/04/2009 10:37:29 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: SueRae

You got it.


79 posted on 12/04/2009 10:38:21 AM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: steve-b
“She ought to know by now that that winking schtick just makes her look un-serious.”

You are referring to Tina Fey not Sarah Palin. Are you a paid Obama operative?

80 posted on 12/04/2009 10:38:35 AM PST by detective
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