Posted on 07/28/2009 7:00:15 AM PDT by kellynla
The video features an angry woman in red, armed with a birth certificate and a small American flag, scolding Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., at a town meeting. She is angry, she said, because President Obama "is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya."
Castle, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, seemed to not know how to respond. He calmly replied that Obama is a citizen. Some audience members booed. "You can boo," Castle told them, "but he is a citizen of the United States."
There's no good way to address a "birther" -- that's the term for conspiracy theorists who believe that Obama has produced a fake Hawaiian birth certificate to cover up the fact that he really was born in Kenya.
Facts don't matter to these geniuses. They don't care that numerous major news organizations, the nonpartisan Factcheck.org and Hawaii's GOP Gov. Linda Lingle have vouched for the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Or that the Honolulu Advertiser ran a birth announcement in August 1961.
No, they go for the theory that Obama's white mother, Stanley Dunham Obama, chose to give birth, not in Oahu with her parents nearby, but in a hospital in a Third World country. Then she was so clever that she ran a birth announcement in the local paper in case someday her son with the politically catchy name of Barack Hussein Obama II ran for president.
Why didn't Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign make an issue of Obama's non-citizenship during the Democratic primary if his legitimacy was so assailable? Apparently the Clinton brainiacs aren't as smart as the "birthers."
News stories suggest that the "birther" movement is growing stronger. Maybe the "birthers" have just gotten louder. These days, all it takes is one nut on youtube.com to rate a week's worth of TV panel discussions.
On the other hand, Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., introduced a bill requiring future presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate. Posey's bill has at least nine co-sponsors, including Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif.
Campbell is a good lawmaker, who told the Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus that he opposed funding for the Boeing C-17 cargo plane because, "I don't think it's right to support something that's built in your district to the detriment of the national interest. It leads to overspending and deficits and, well, corruption."
Yet Campbell was reduced to arguing on MSNBC's "Hardball" that while he believed Obama is a citizen, Posey's measure would put to rest any questions about a future president's legal status. Nice try, but the "birthers" won't acknowledge documents that don't feed their paranoid theory.
As Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs noted Monday, the "birthers" don't care about facts; they heed the siren song of righteous victimhood. They feel the injustice of losing an election, so they concoct a plot that tells them they didn't lose fair and square -- the election was stolen. They are no different from Democrats who claimed that voter fraud in Ohio rigged the 2004 election for George W. Bush -- except that Democratic politicians feel little pressure to acknowledge or denounce the fringe elements of their party.
Every time the "birthers" open their mouths, they hurt themselves and add polish to the image of Barack Obama, our American president.
Deb Saunders is hardly a "RINO". This is exactly why you people attract no credibility and people believe you to be kooks. Anyone, no matter their conservative bona fides, disagrees with your inane theory and they are 'sellouts', 'RINOs', or 'secretly in league with liberals and Obama'.
Sorry, but if you think that sane conservatives are just going to stand idly by while they are (erroneoulsy) linked to you feckin fruitcakes you are sadly mistaken. You're all an abject embarrassment to the Right and specifically to conservatives.
HUH
Embarrassment to the right?
I was talking about the LAST SENTENCE .
THOSE ARE NOT WORDS OF A CONSERVATIVE.
Go ahead post again and tell me what an idiot I am for
“the birth certificate issue”.
In my opinion the issue is only one parent is a citizen.
HE NEEDS TWO.
HUH
Embarrassment to the right?
I was talking about the LAST SENTENCE .
THOSE ARE NOT WORDS OF A CONSERVATIVE.
Go ahead post again and tell me what an idiot I am for
“the birth certificate issue”.
In my opinion the issue is only one parent is a citizen.
HE NEEDS TWO.
see post 41
But is what she wrote wrong?
Absolutely. By her own words, she is a ‘mushy’ moderate Republican. (translation = RINO) I have no use for her.
Maybe Rush would appreciate a thoughtful and qualified defense, more than knee-jerk praise.
I ask you, how would you know what Rush would appreciate?
Her column has the potential of convincing people who would otherwise disagree.
You mean other ‘mushy’ moderates? Other RINOS?
Screw ‘em, that is what’s wrong with the GOP, and that is why they lost last November.
Simple chest-pounding doesn’t do that.
The hell it doesn’t. What the Republican Party needs are a dedicated pack of ‘roid-enraged conservative gorillas who will rip the party structure to shreds, expel each and every ‘mushy’ and ‘squishy’ weak sister, establish a new Party organization and platform that is 110 percent Reaganism, i.e., smaller federal government, not the ever expanding behemoth that has been fed by both ‘Rats and RINOs (and I mean George W. Bush as well), declare our eternal opposition to Islamofascist terrorism on a global scale, fiscal responsibility which is based NOT on pouring money out of the U.S. treasury into the hands of our enemies and adversaries.
That’s just for starters, get the picture?
“Last year I took on his bashing of Republican moderates and criticized Limbaugh and other talk-radio hosts when they were too harsh on not-yet GOP nominee John McCain. I’ve never apologized”
That sums up Debra J Saunders, and that sums up what is wrong with the Republican Party. The so called ‘moderates’ need to be bashed until they turn tail and run, never to return.
40 posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:33:01 PM by mkjessup (You’re either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU (”The Kenyan Usurper”). CHOOSE!!!)
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But is what she wrote wrong?
Absolutely. By her own words, she is a ‘mushy’ moderate Republican. (translation = RINO) I have no use for her.
Maybe Rush would appreciate a thoughtful and qualified defense, more than knee-jerk praise.
I ask you, how would you know what Rush would appreciate?
Her column has the potential of convincing people who would otherwise disagree.
You mean other ‘mushy’ moderates? Other RINOS?
Screw ‘em, that is what’s wrong with the GOP, and that is why they lost last November.
Simple chest-pounding doesn’t do that.
The hell it doesn’t. What the Republican Party needs are a dedicated pack of ‘roid-enraged conservative gorillas who will rip the party structure to shreds, expel each and every ‘mushy’ and ‘squishy’ weak sister, establish a new Party organization and platform that is 110 percent Reaganism, i.e., smaller federal government, not the ever expanding behemoth that has been fed by both ‘Rats and RINOs (and I mean George W. Bush as well), declare our eternal opposition to Islamofascist terrorism on a global scale, fiscal responsibility which is based NOT on pouring money out of the U.S. treasury into the hands of our enemies and adversaries.
That’s just for starters, get the picture?
“Last year I took on his bashing of Republican moderates and criticized Limbaugh and other talk-radio hosts when they were too harsh on not-yet GOP nominee John McCain. I’ve never apologized”
That sums up Debra J Saunders, and that sums up what is wrong with the Republican Party. The so called ‘moderates’ need to be bashed until they turn tail and run, never to return.
40 posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:33:01 PM by mkjessup (You’re either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU (”The Kenyan Usurper”). CHOOSE!!!)
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Bump for later.
RINO ? She has the stench of a media liberal rodent moonbat apologist for the False Messiah. Well, being a RINO doesn’t make that mutually exclusive...
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