Posted on 02/17/2011 6:13:27 PM PST by wistful
Bill O’Reilly continues his assault on those who believe the President of the US should be constitutionally eligible. In his show last Wednesday he slandered those who want Obama to provide real proof he was born in the US by aligning them with Truthers, the far right, and Ron Paul and John Birchers. I guess I’m pretty representative of most who want the matter settled. I’m none of those things.
O’Reilly had Karl Rove and together they demonstrated a remarkable degree of ignorance on the issue and a remarkable degree of bigotry towards fellow Americans. O’Reilly started the show by attacking a recent poll that showed 50% of Republicans question Obama’s eligibility. He then quoted from another poll taken in April last year that he claimed confronted the findings of the more recent poll. For the sake of the argument, I’ll concede O’Reilly’s claim that the later poll was inaccurate. (sample very small at 400 people). However if the only other poll he could find was from April 2010 he wasn’t looking very hard.
Recent polls even if you want to argue their methodology and figures, still show an increasing amount of doubt in the US as to Obama’s Constitutional eligibility. According to a recent (Jan 14-17 2010) Wenzel Strategies poll, when asked if they consider Obama a “legitimate president,” 32.6 percent of respondents said no, and another 15.8 percent said they were not sure. Barely half of the voters, 51.5 percent said they do consider Obama a legitimate president .
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Wow did that make me sick when he said that. Rush calls him Ted Baxter. His show is a joke that’s for sure. Also I think he’s getting a lot of people steamed. There’s a lot of people think (me included) he is not qualified to be The President.
” This issue is more than just the BC issue. BOR & Rove do not understand that? “
That is what I don’t get either. Why do they seem so oblivious to the fact that this is not a minor matter but a Constitutional issue of great import to the security of the country?
“It doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter”, screeches O’Reilly.
Wrong. As wrong as you can be. It matters.
I don’t get it either. The problem with this is that now almost all of them (e.g. Beck, Palin, Bachmann) are saying the same thing. It’s crazy.
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