Posted on 03/26/2011 3:22:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A coalition of peculiar media forces apparently led by Donald Trump appear to be working to make President Barack Obamas birth certificate a major 2012 campaign issue, and all signs point to Sean Hannity hopping on the bandwagon. After dedicating a significant amount of time on his radio show earlier this week to the matter, he brought it up once again on TV in the context of Trumps potential 2012 bid, calling the entire ordeal odd.
The discussion began on his Great American Panel, where Republican strategist Dee Dee Benkie was urging viewers not to completely dismiss Trump as a viable presidential candidate. This allowed Hannity to bring up the birth certificate, which Trump had been demanding to see, and Hannity noted merely asking the question had helped Trumps poll numbers: hes now in a tie for 5th place, two points behind Sarah Palin. Panelist Ron Daniels scoffed at the idea that being anywhere near Palin on the polls was a good thing, and dismissed the idea that Trump even wanted to be President. Its a publicity stunt, he concluded.
But Hannity was far more interested in pursuing President Obamas birthplace struggles, wondering aloud yet again why the President has yet to produce a long-form birth certificate. He took his now-typical line of attack, noting that Dick Cheney had to prove his residency and that President Chester A. Arthur had one attorney after him proclaiming he was born in either Ireland or Canada. That said, Hannity clarified that he personally had no questions as to whether the President was American, but he did not consider himself a worthy arbiter of that.
Legal analyst Peter Johnson agreed that there is a way to put this to bed showing a birth certificate that would be adequate to those who believe the conspiracy and that the White House has not produced said certificate raised questions. Daniels objected, noting correctly that the White House in fact has published President Obamas birth certificate several times, but the copy presented was not sufficient. To that, Hannity concluded the discussion articulating what many exposed to the birther debate regularly lament: lets get out of this. This is stupid.
The segment via Fox News below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Good comparison!
Good comparison!
“the country would immediately be consumed with racially and class motivated civil war,”
We are already in such a war. Without bullets.
Blacks would have to CHOOSE whether they are actually citizens or freeloaders who suck the lifeblood from citizens. Or both.
Or neither. And if they are neither, then we’d best be about such a war and get this over with. As it stands, we will be arguing about this for a long time, with the split growing wider and deeper. Odd legacy for a ‘post-racial’ man who would be President. He has acted as anything but Presidential. And certainly not in the best interests of the US.
The Cloward-Piven goal is to overwhelm the system.
Mission accomplished!
B..Bu..But Ted Baxter maintains that birthers are every bit as loony as truthers. So will the leprechaun now denounce Hannity as an extremist wingnut?
Waiting...
I yelled at GOP caller just the other day about this. YELLED at her.
THey will have no country. Our children will die in squalor worthy of the slums of Jakarta.
Forged documents, even the most professionally done, are easily detectable by experts.
That is why only originals are accepted aprovidence in a Court of Law. Forensic experts can determine within a reasonable doubt authenticity by age testing paper, ink, handwriting analysis for signatures, & comparison woth contemporaneous documents.
Remember the GWB/Dan Rather kerfuffel?
Busted by a blogger!
“Then we’d have a real race on our hands.”
Seeing as how we don’t really know what race obi-da-wan really is...aren’t you being a little racist in suggesting we have one...or would have one...or something? I am not even sure what a “real” race is anymore.
Myself, I think he is an dislamian from the planet dislamia and perhaps race has nothing to do with it. Mayhap we should be trying to ascertain species instead. They prolly don’t do birth as we know it. Hence, no birth certificate. That would explain everything.
Does that make me specist?
He may well have been born at a home for unwed mothers over the border in British Columbia. The only place where Stanley Ann has ever been seen with a newborn is Seattle, where she was enrolled in college.
This story fits Occam’s Razor. The only problem is that he was not a U.S. citizen, so how did he get driver’s licenses and a passport? As a little boy he was taken to Indonesia and given Indonesian citizenship by his stepfather (or adoptive father?). Was he then naturalized thereafter in Hawaii when Mom got sick of him and dumped him again?
Or was he never naturalized? How did he ever get his American citizenship if he really was born outside of the country?
On a personal note, I had a baby in a foreign country. I IMMEDIATELY obtained American citizenship for him as it was a high priority for me. His American BC is not on file anywhere; we have it stored safely. We were told that this would be his only copy, period - the one the embassy gave us. So if my son were to run for President (dear G-d. please no), no one could look up and find his long form on file either, anywhere. Just like Abercrombie tried to find Barack’s. It’s not there — he was not born in HI.
LOL! That is different from PSYCHOkineti(K), which is an akt to konfuse the kommoners.
There would be no civil war. Georgia’s law grandfathers’ Urkel in? Hard to believe or Utah/Idaho can’t remember which.
All I know is he's married to a Wookie.
So, I'm not the only one who's facing eating crow!
You won’t get anywhere yelling at someone about this. But it makes you look like a nut.
He can’t run.
Looks like a Wild Babboon to me! Really an Ugly, Angry PUS!!
You can’t make this stuff UP! Its REALITY!!
Konsidering their innate korruption, their klaims have become inherently konfusing, even to their konstituents...most of whom probably don’t cnow the meaning of kinetic.
She looks like a Mad Tribal Witch in Uganda! Soorry for being Honest, but thats the Truth!
Then the o-negative will feel right at home...
I’m afraid they’re prepared to trot out some ridiculous story about how Obama is embarrassed that his mother was not married, or for whatever reason didn’t put his father on the birth certificate, so to protect his own children he hid the truth. Saps and obots will buy it, and it will set everybody else up to look either racist or unfeeling. But he’s not going to show an original birth certificate.
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