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Baiting the birthers (Smell their fear)
The Chicago Tribune ^ | April 22, 2011 | The Editors

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 ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; michelebachmann; naturalborncitizen; obama; trump
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To: digger48

Apparently Obama was the only African born in HI.


21 posted on 04/22/2011 8:26:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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Yes, I am aware it is a continent and not a race.


22 posted on 04/22/2011 8:27:20 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Kleon

Not really. I baby can be born in Mexico smuggled across the border and COLB issued by a hospital in AZ. It isn’t that hard.

Ziltch’s problem is that there is no evidence he was born in that hospital. No records, nada,


23 posted on 04/22/2011 8:30:26 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Red Steel

“Oh yeah, the OBot clowns are in fear everywhere.”

Speaking of which, I’m surprised ‘He who shant be named’ hasn’t made an appearance here to explain how ‘real conservatives’ think we are nuts and the COLB is real and valid..... ;)


24 posted on 04/22/2011 8:34:16 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama has spent a boat load of money hiding something. That is what we need to find out. I have a gut feeling he defrauded the different colleges out of his education by playing games with his claimed nationality to gain scholarships.
Whatever it is Trump and his money will dig it out and destroy him with it. I can't wait.
25 posted on 04/22/2011 8:36:36 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
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To: Kleon; Norm Lenhart
Ah...dad wasn’t a citizen. He’s not eligible...period.

...and his mother (the ho! ) was still a minor / child....not a citizen.


26 posted on 04/22/2011 8:39:13 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: central_va

They can’t even agree on the hospital. I have a feeling Grandma was transported to a remote island somewhere. This is the craziest con ever.


27 posted on 04/22/2011 8:42:53 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Kleon
and clearly shows his birth place as Hawaii

What does that have to do with the "natural born" requirement for the office of president?

28 posted on 04/22/2011 8:44:23 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: OldNewYork
Keep going, Mr. Trump.

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Countdown until Obama leaves Office: 637 days as of April 23, 2011.

Mr. Trump is disgusted and wants some simple answers by this phony who is leading America off a cliff.

The typical MSM move is to show the COLB and say, 'See! Obama has shown his birth certificate!'

Only Trump has stood his ground and said, 'No, that's a certificate of live birth. it's not a birth certificate. Where's the actual birth certificate?'

Maybe Donald can school conservatives on the route one has to take to fight the left.

I don't think he's serious about running for President, I think he is serious about getting Obama out of office.

Time to step up Republicans and hammer this jackwagon president and his administration.

Winning rule in 2012: Direct political attack on Obama!

OBAGHDAD-1sm
The Pharaoh of Lies

Ready, Fire, Aim, Barry: ''Let me be clear, as clear as mud; there are no reports of Trump being on to me for being a fraud and a cipher. I've never hoodwinked anyone. Why is Trump lying to the American people? There's an original copy of my COLB that's been seen, touched, examined, photographed and verified over and over again. The State of Hawaii has reconfirmed it. Trump should stop and think about how this is making him look. Now please go back to your business as usual, trade in that SUV and just relax. I'll tell you when the jig is up.''

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Hope and Change.... Tragic.


29 posted on 04/22/2011 8:46:23 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Now there ya go usin’ logic, fact and law...don’t you know we’re crazy? Better stop or the NYTimes/MSNBS/ETC will say bad things about Republicans and Karl Rove will be mad...... ;)


30 posted on 04/22/2011 8:46:45 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yeah, but his Democrat buddy troll is on this thread taking it on the chin. ;-)


31 posted on 04/22/2011 8:48:26 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

They never seem to learn do they. One would think that 3 days and 1000 posts of beating was enough. Oh well...if we must, we must ;)


32 posted on 04/22/2011 8:50:27 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: AlexW
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.

The conspiracy theorist in me would speculate that the best reason for not releasing a real birth certificate is to allow the controversy and speculation to continue. Enlist the media to paint "birthers" as fringe elements, radicals, and kooks. Then, sit back and laugh as conservative politicians have to take a stand on one side or the other. Either be labeled as a traitor by your base, or as a wing-nut by the general public.

33 posted on 04/22/2011 8:52:14 PM PDT by Washi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just ask the obama kookaid drinkers:

1. What hospital was he born at?

2. What doctor delivered him?

Watch their heads spin.


34 posted on 04/22/2011 8:53:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Washi

True, but since the gen public is also starting to demand answers, along with the Indy/Dems themselves, methinks their well crafted plan has a big problem...


35 posted on 04/22/2011 8:54:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Remember, everybody. The Chicago Tribune organization is the only reason O-Hole is the Prez. Its sister-Tribune Company owner paper L.A. Times petitioned a judge in Calif. to open a sealed divorce settlement paper of Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan and his Hollywood star wife Jeri Ryan, exposing the Paris sex-club story, causing Jack Ryan to drop out of the Illinois Senate race.
36 posted on 04/22/2011 8:56:26 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: BobP

No past, and no future.


37 posted on 04/22/2011 8:57:09 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
now there ya go usin’ logic, fact and law...and Karl Rove will be mad

HA!
see if I give "A DAMN!" about the Quisling / Liberal Media say / has said about O'Bahbah familial relations.
...and who cares what "Washington Insider" Rove has to say....he's been in Washington DC, too long.


38 posted on 04/22/2011 8:58:54 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: Kleon

You are not telling the truth. A COLB is not a birth certificate under Hawaii law. It was not in 1961 and is not now. Until this controversy arose and Hawaii officials grew interested in backpedalling, a COLB was not even accepted by Hawaii itself for important purposes. Sun Yat Sen obtained a similar document for himself and he was clearly not born in Hawaii not that that is necessarily the ultimately deciding point anyway.


39 posted on 04/22/2011 8:59:57 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rahm is still on the job.


40 posted on 04/22/2011 9:01:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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