McCain campaign vetted Birther rumors [dismissed them, concluding Obama natural-born U.S. citizen]

Salon ^ | 2009-07-24

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[Rastus]

Turns out there's an answer.

Yeah, and it's, "McCain's an idiot who wouldn't even let his opponent's middle name be uttered."

[bigbob]

Coming from the McCain camp this means....essentially nothing.

[sunmars]

No, it was because neither of them wanted to piss of the minorities about their saviour, Hillary needed them to win and so did McCain, so they could’nt do jack.

[Principled]

What a load of bogus crap. If 0 gets a bunch of media outlets to call it off, don’t you think McLame would do the same to “help his good friend”?

Why did McLame show his birth cert but accept that 0bama didn’t have to show his?

[goodnesswins]

QUESTION OF THE DAY!!!!! ding..ding...ding...

"Why did McLame show his birth cert but accept that 0bama didn’t have to show his?"

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Thanks Trevor, you did a swell job on the campaign. Thanks again.

No matter what the uncertainties are in the concerns over the validity of Obama’s natural citizenship, it is undeniable that the quickest way to resolve the questions would be to waive the restrictions on access to the original document in the possession of the State of Hawaii and let a panel of forensic document examiners and journalists from a wide array of media entities have a look and put an end to all the speculation.

I don’t see why it serves Obama to ignore this. He has a lot on his plate, seems rather challenged at this moment - why not put this behind him?

[Jagdgewehr]

This line of logic from the same people who mockingly questioned McCain’s vetting process of Governor Palin?

[Nervous Tick]

McCain was in it for the face time in front of the cameras. Nothing more.

He didn’t have the will to win. Nor the skills.

[Albion Wilde]

His BO birth cert team did at least as well as his campaign strategy team!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Funny.

I hadn’t realized McCain actually ran a campaign. The stuff you learn every day.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Obama ... has a lot on his plate, seems rather challenged at this moment - why not put this behind him

Maybe because there’s no documentation that would stand up to careful scrutiny?

[Menehune56]

Why did McLame show his birth cert but accept that 0bama didn’t have to show his?

Maybe he thought that his buddies in the sycophantic media would saddle up on the issue, like they did with McCain, and compel Obama to produce his birth certificate too. Surprise John!

[americanmother]

It seems that McCain has never been any help to this country since he has been in politics.

[presently no screen name]

Spineless McCain! LOL! I never witnessed anyone campaigning for something that had as little fire in the belly as McShame! His true popularity would have been shown if it were not for Gov. Palin. And I believe it all was a setup - he knew his a#$ was grass. Arizonans, please retire this mcLAME horse.

[tioga]

silly, mccain didn’t run a campaign, he just pretended to for the tv cameras......

[presently no screen name]

BUMP!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Why would the McCain campaign waste money on this? There’s no legal standard of proof for the “natural born citizen” test. And if there was any evidence to be found that would have cast serious, legally actionable doubt on Obama’s eligibility, Hillary would have dug it up even if she’d had to have people killed to get at the info.

[cripplecreek]

Oh yeah I’ll buy that. (snicker)