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Trump Backs Off Claim Obama Wasn’t Born in the US [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 Sep 2016 | John Semmens

Posted on 09/17/2016 10:16:45 AM PDT by John Semmens

This week GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump backed away from his previous questioning of President Obama’s birthplace. His announcement was greeted by an outpouring of venom from assorted Democratic sources.

A bevy of members of the Congressional Black Caucus took turns denouncing Trump as a racist. Rival presidential contender Hillary Clinton asserted that “this proves the man is racist to the core. Anyone who would smear America’s first black president with an insinuation that he was not born in this country is unfit for office.”

The sincerity of the outrage has to be dubious since both Obama and Clinton played key roles in giving the suspicion that Obama might have been born elsewhere life. In 1991 Obama’s publisher bragged “he is the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was born in Kenya.” This claim sat for 16 years until Obama corrected the record in 2007 during his ultimately successful campaign for the presidency in 2008.

The possibility that Obama might have been born elsewhere was promoted by the campaign of his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton in 2008. Former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher says he was personally pitched the story by longtime Clinton operative Sid Blumenthal in 2008. However, Hillary says she doesn’t recall ever talking to Blumenthal on the matter at the time and insisted that “if it occurred it had to have been on Sid’s own initiative because I would never have approved anything so deplorable.”

Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2008 until she was fired after Obama won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, acknowledged that someone with the campaign had circulated the rumor of Obama’s foreign birth, but insisted that “it was strictly a ‘lone wolf, rogue operation.’ The person believed to be responsible was summarily terminated.” Mark Penn, a Democratic pollster and Clinton 2008 strategist, also wrote a memo in March 2007, citing Obama’s “lack of American roots,” as a factor that could work against him in the campaign.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

https://azconservative.org/2016/09/17/trump-backs-off-claim-obama-wasnt-born-in-the-us/


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1 posted on 09/17/2016 10:16:45 AM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

It is almost a waste of time at this point. So many tried, early on, to present the overwhelming evidence, which included the statements from his OWN FAMILY MEMBERS, that he was not born in the USA. Was it not the SCOTUS that claimed that various ‘presenters’ did not have the STANDING to present such evidence of Obama’s lack of eligibility to be president?? All of them were trashed by the courts.

And the complicit GOPe never took up the issue either.

So where does that leave the American citizenry??? Right where we have always been on this issue. In the toilet.


2 posted on 09/17/2016 10:23:46 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Not just on this.

On virtually every issue of substance and import, we are consigned to the toilet by the evil Powers That Be: all three branches of the Federal government.


3 posted on 09/17/2016 1:20:28 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: John Semmens

And to the left; no one cares...


4 posted on 09/17/2016 1:58:00 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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