Posted on 04/22/2011 7:43:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just when it seemed the air had finally leaked out of the birthers' balloon, along comes Donald Trump with a fresh blast of wind.
Emboldened by The Donald's insistence that President Obama can't or won't prove he's a legal U.S. citizen, Arizona lawmakers passed the nation's first "birther bill" earlier this month. Gov. Jan Brewer — yes, that Jan Brewer — promptly vetoed it. There won't be an override attempt.
The notion that a presidential candidate might qualify for the state ballot by presenting a certificate of circumcision was too much, even for Arizona. But not for Trump, who may or may not be serious about trying to ride this nonsense all the way to the White House.
"People love this issue, especially in the Republican Party," he explained.
The Arizona bill would have required presidential candidates to submit proof of citizenship to get on the state's ballot. If Arizona's secretary of state wasn't satisfied with, say, the official certification of live birth issued by the state in which the candidate claimed to be born, then other documents — including "early baptismal or circumcision certificates" — could be submitted to support a claim of citizenship.
Brewer, a Republican who proudly signed Arizona's overreaching immigration bill last year, called the citizenship measure "a bridge too far." But lawmakers in at least a dozen other states have filed similar bills, and Trump is their new cheerleader.
His cheap grandstanding plays well with the doubters, but it isn't going to get Trump or any other Republican elected president.....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
And the paper offers... NONE of it.
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And still no ten dollar long form birth certificate that shows what hospital he was born in and what doctor delivered him.
The cover up continues.
Think of it as another addition to the “accessory to treason” list when Lord Steve is ultimately exposed.
I can’t blame them for pushing it to the wall considering the penalty for the charges they’ll face.
Sometimes even they tell the truth.
Trump loves Trump. Trump loves money. Trump is a spoiler. (In more ways than one)
Neither of which has anything to do with whether he's eligible for office. The certificate he's provided comes from the same office and clearly shows his birth place as Hawaii. This is a dead story for anyone except those who will simply not accept the truth.
Oh yeah, the OBot clowns are in fear everywhere.
Well, produce the birth certificate and make Trump go away.
Liars.
Is there really any value in continuing past deliberate misinformation that it’s a question about his citizenship? Even factual statements in the story can be expected to give a lopsided view of the truth when inconvenient but relevant facts are omitted. If it’s not willfully misleading, it’s inexcusably incompetent - which is it, Chicago Tribune?
They’re scared. Confident people don’t act like this. Keep going, Mr. Trump.
“This is a dead story for anyone except those who will simply not accept the truth.”
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You could not be anymore wrong.
I have yet to have one of you Obots explain, or give a reason for not releasing the REAL birth certificate, as generated in the hospital.
For a dead story it sure has proven to be hard for the political establishment in the Washington, DC Party to kill.
Neither of which has anything to do with whether he's eligible for office. The certificate he's provided comes from the same office and clearly shows his birth place as Hawaii.
Well, except for the pesky little fact that there are folks with these documents who are well-known NOT to have been born in Hawaii.
Ah...dad wasn’t a citizen. He’s not eligible...period.
I was saying this months ago: at least one person out there has an original newspaper from 1961.
My, my, my... Am I the only one that senses a bit of hysterical fear in this?
"The editors" might have thought they were being clever with this lead, but if their intent was to quell interest in the issue, they've failed miserably.
By now, even those who are mostly convinced that Obama was born in Hawaii and equally convinced that there is something on that long form birth certificate that he does not want the American public to know. And that makes them very, very curious.
Tantrums like this are going to do nothing to quell that interest. It's caught the public's imagination now -- gone viral, if you will. The American people are not going to be satisfied with anything less than full disclosure now.
Tolerated? Nay - AIDED AND ABETTED. In other words, just as criminal as Obama, the Daleys and all their predecessors.
A clean paper would have run the likes of Alderman Ed Burke out of town decades ago, or at least made Burke's pond-scum actions national knowledge:
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