Posted on 04/12/2011 2:07:15 PM PDT by kevinaw2
Ann Coulter was being interviewed by Sean Hannity last night and she succinctly laid out the case against Trump and this resurgent interest in an Obama birth certificate. I've always thought this story was crap from day one. First, as Ann Coulter points out there is fundamentally no difference between the long form birth certificate and short form. They are both certified.
Personally, I think the Obama team is loving the attention being given to it because it gives them an opportunity to force each prospective GOP candidate for President to answer the question and take away vital time from important issues like oh.....the economy,gas prices,the national debt, etc. Trump is making a fool of himself and risks everyone being tarred with his foolishness. To all the "birthers", I ask this: Do you really think ruthless characters like Bill and Hillary Clinton could not have found the evidence and used it against him? The Clinton's of "war room" politics? Those liberal versions of Nixonian politics and paranoia?
If not the Clinton's then how about conservative iconic publications like "Human Events" and "The American Spectator" as Ann Coulter pointed out. I loathe and utterly detest conspiracy theories as they are the product of irrational supposition from incomplete portraits suggesting an inability to differentiate chance and order. The notion that everything is the product of planning is absurd.
The absurdity of this crackpot theory is rooted in the bizarre notion that the infant Obama was identified at birth as a future President and an intense cover up was implemented to shield the truth. All this over a man no one had ever heard of as recent as 2004 before his keynote address at the DNC. John Kerry chose him to deliver the speech, so maybe he was in on the plot, huh?
It's time to stop with the irrational and ignore desperate pleas for attention from media whores like Donald Trump. Our stake in the future of the nation is too important to waste placating the vanity of a man who will leave egg on all our faces. Sean's interview with Ann Coulter is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7zd0mMRSE&feature=player_embedded
Right! plus the fact that Obama probably has lots of stuff on the Klantons
Lets see. You’ve been signed up on FR for 12 days? Trump has been on the birther thing for how long? What a coincidence.
This is always one of the dumbest arguments of the anti-"birthers". Is it so hard to conceive of family trying to find a way to make an infant, born elsewhere, a US citizen to enjoy all the benefits that being a citizen of this country has to offer? You don't think that there are illegals today that try any means necessary to make their children appear to be US-born citizens? It has nothing to do with their planning a Presidential parade 40 years down the road.
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“The fact is that even if Obama were proven ineligible today, he would remain in office till the next election..”
No way. I couldn’t disagree more.
Coulter would be wise to keep an open mind on whether Obama might be an illegal alien who broke the law in order to become potus.
But she does have a point about TheDonald. Trump is doing what he does best, grandstanding.
Viking Kitties, here's a meal for ya. I'm headed to my American Legion meeting.
I hate to see people call troll on some poor noob, but in this case...I dunno. You just joined and you're trashing people who very reasonably wonder why the heck Obama won't just show the darn long-form BC.
Ann Coulter has lost so much of her credibility.
She is always pimping Christie and is anti Palin.
Crazy, I know, but it does make a difference.
to the thread poster ... and a couple of supporters. Asking someone for their proper ID = 9/11 ‘truthers’?!
i don’t care if obama was born in this country or not. this issue is hurting so keep doing it. at this point, whoever trashes obama the most gets my vote. i don’t care if it’s true or not— trash obama relentlessly you get my vote.
don’t forget what they did to bush, bush 1, and reagan for 20 years.
What’s a matter with my dang zot kitteh?
He don’t seem to be dancing.
You can bet the farm that they checked the BC issue ten ways to Sunday. However, I am still bothered why he has put so much effort into blocking investigation of his past. I have a feeling that it's not just a skeleton in his closet, it's more like a cemetery.
Bull. Many infants in Hawaii were intentionally identified as Americans just so they could have the rights and privileges of citizenship. It had nothing to do with his future presidency eligibility.
Lots of grandparents produced such announcements at that time and for years after.
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