Posted on 04/07/2011 8:05:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Radio giant Rush Limbaugh came under fire today from a caller to his top-rated program accusing the host of avoiding the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.
"The fact of the matter is that his citizenship has been a suspicious issue from the very beginning," said Angela from Arnold, Mo., "and not one high Republican or you has ever really tried to nail him on this issue, and if it does turn out that he is not a true citizen, then I think all of you should hang your heads in shame because of all the destruction our country has had to suffer ever since he was elected, in spite of being the fraud that we know he probably really is."
Limbaugh asked incredulously, "So you're mad at me?"
"I am furious," Angela responded. "I wanted you and anybody else to go after him on this issue before he was elected. It would have been the easiest way to have stopped him. It would have been a no-brainer. But nobody would. And so he was elected and everything was just hidden under the rug. And now look what we have had ever since. ... If it does turn out that he's not a citizen, I think you should hang your head in shame, because our country has suffered so much."
Limbaugh said irrespective of Obama not having produced his long-form, hospital-specified birth certificate, "I gotta remind you there is no evidence whatsoever Obama was not born in Hawaii. There's something he doesn't want us to see about the birth certificate, but there's nothing to glom onto here other than his reticence in having the birth certificate seen. I am the only one who proclaimed the guy a fraud....
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Well then, I suspect Rush and others best give up the notion of being independent and aloof from peer pressure; self made fearless folks who don't give a whit about what other people think.
Done.
It’s a pretty weak “excuse” to say “there is no evidence he was NOT born in Hawaii.” There’s no evidence Rush wasn’t born on Mars.
Yes, she was absolutely correct.
I have posted similar opinions many times on Free Republic. I found Rush's silence exasperating. And...His **less** than 5 minutes of using the Constitution as a joke was as much fun as a bad case of heat rash.
Very good point!
Thanks for posting the transcript.
Rush has carried a lot of water for conservatism, nationally since ‘88 or so. Has he always been right?- only 99% of the time or so.
Like many of us, I would have liked Rush or Ann C or Michelle M or another big dog to beat this drum hard. There’s something there- maybe he’s an NBC but pop was Frank Marshall Davis. Maybe he committed fraud posing as a foreign student. Maybe he was a foreign student.... it will come out and the birthers will be validated.
I can’t hang much on Rush- he’s done more for the cause than I ever could.
Three. An "anchor baby" is not eligible to be president.
Rush picks his battles, and he chose not to dwell on the birth certificate issue for reasons as explained. Fine, no problem - that’s his right.
Trump has the same choice, and he made it differently. Now it’s natural to compare and ask why the two men made different choices but you have to consider their motivation. We pretty much understand where Rush is coming from.
Trump has no dog in the fight, he’s not a declared candidate and he can go back to his normal life and be fine. Why is he bringing this up then? I think it’s because he sees the elephant in the room - if true this would turn into the biggest scandal in the history of the USA, a sitting President who duped an entire nation. It’s the biggest play of all - the one issue that could overshadow everything else and render Obama and the Dems impotent. That’s exactly the kind of deals The Donald does!
We shall see if he can produce the goods. But the more I watch him in action the clearer his motivation becomes. He may want to be President but he damn sure wants to be the one to expose the biggest fraud of all time.
Sorry, but yes they are. I wish it wasn't the case, but it is.
Please check carefully for Trolls.
Alinsky/FillCommieName theory of divide and conquer is potent weapon in hands of the wicked marxists-infiltrators.
Issue is red hot, keep your heads cool.
Keep your ear to the rail. They(The Reds)can't wait for us to begin fight each other.
Beware of Dark Side and may the FR Force be with you. So far go Trump go!
This part of Rush’s comments is definitely alarming.
“Well, look, he did produce a copy of the short form birth certificate which the government of Hawaii has vouched for as completely authentic.”
This is completely untrue. The “government” of Hawaii has used wordplay and hijinks to avoid saying whether it was authentic. Someone really needs to educate Rush.
Both parents have to be US citizens.
“I would have have liked to see Rush take a stand and dig in on this issue back when we first raised it..”
Rush makes big bucks because folks tune in to hear him and tolerate the advertisers. If you’d like him to be a Private Eye, you’re always going to be disappointed, that’s not his role.
“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record.
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.
Legal Weasel Words...
She did not say she saw the original birth certificate, but that it was "on record"...
There is another reason for Lingle to not open this can of worms, the loose practices in HI concerning citizenship at or near the time of statehood and for many years after and the fraudulent benefits paid then.
Didn’t some grandma say he was born in Kenya?
No, they don't. That's one of the more irresponsible pseudo-facts I've seen floating around here on FR. It sounds reasonable, and maybe it should be the law, but it's not the law. The law is staked out clearly in 8 USC 1401: Born in the U.S. That's it.
I don’t tweet..(don’t know how- never got into it) wish someone would tweet Trump and tell him to really study up on the usurper:
Did she say that, what is the source of your information?
http://24ahead.com/lingle-obama-hawaii
Various mainstream media sources have claimed that Hawaii governor Linda Lingle verified that Barack Obama was born in her state. At post time, that claim very strongly appears to be false. I've been trying to obtain a clear statement confirming that she never verified that Obama was born there from her office for over a week without success, and this post will be updated if they finally reply. I'm also asking them to contact those news sources and request a retraction.
1. Lingle's office sends out a boilerplate letter noting that it would be illegal for an official to divulge the contents of a birth certificate and related records. It can safely be assumed that in order to verify that Obama was born there, Lingle would have to divulge the contents of his birth certificate. So, those who claim that she verified whether he was born there are in effect accusing her of breaking their laws. A copy of that form letter that I received last month is here, and that's highly similar to the form letter included below which was received by a news source after late October 2008.
2. On the campaign trail for John McCain in September and October 2008, Lingle referenced Obama being from Hawaii. But, she only did so in a disparaging sense, pointing out that McCain had more ties to that state than Obama, that Obama never voted there, that few people in that state had heard of him, and so on. While she did say he was born there, that was only said in passing and wasn't said in response to the issues surrounding the Obama citizenship issue. It would be extremely deceptive to try to pretend that her saying he was born there in passing is equivalent to her verifiying that he was born there, but expect Obama fans to try.
3. The October 31, 2008 statement by Chiyome Fukino was written on the state of Hawaii's letterhead containing Lingle's name at the top. The statement mentioned her in passing, but only to say, "No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai'i." And, the rest of that statement didn't say whether Obama was born there, it only said they had a valid certificate on file. As with the last, it would be extremely deceptive to claim that just because Lingle's name was on the same page the statement was coming from her.
I have not heard Lingle's statement concerning BHO being born in HI, only MSM news comments stating that she said that.
Someone has to bite. What does being younger than 44 have to do with anything?
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