Posted on 12/04/2009 8:47:06 AM PST by RobinMasters
The public is "rightfully" making questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president into an issue, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared yesterday.
"Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" Palin was asked in an interview on the Rusty Humphries national radio show.
"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers," she replied.
Humphries asked: "Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?"
"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records – all of that is fair game," Palin said. "The McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area."
Palin said it was legitimate to question Obama's eligibility, referring to "the weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn't my real son – 'You need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid,' which we have done.
"Maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one," she added.
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Do you have a credible source for that money statement?
“No, I think she did great by lumping it together with the Trig issue.”
In other words, it was a “brilliant” manuever?
“The MSM won’t press her on this because they know they didn’t vet Ozero the same way they did her.”
If the press doesn’t “press” her on it it is because they will wait until she announces her candidacy then pummel her with it for months.
“Evidently my answer was incomprehensible to you.”
No, I’m absoluteley convinced that is exactly what you “heard”.
“Can somebody explain to me what this means? If she thinks it is a fair/legitimate question and that the “electorate” still wants answers, why wouldn’t she bother to make it an issue?”
You are reaching numbnutz.
Every legitimate question isn’t necessarily a campaign issue.
Are you really this stupid?
“Every legitimate question isn’t necessarily a campaign issue.’
Of course not. But her opponents will. And it won’t be “Is the birther issue legitimate” it will be “Is Palin a Birther nut?”
Then she will spend months redefining what she meant by “rightfully”.
If she keeps this up Palin will be playing defense her entire campaign.
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Your PDS is funny.
You need to just accept that she is running and she will be one of the frontrunners.
Uh...putting words in my mouth are we?
they will wait until she announces her candidacy then pummel her with it for months
No, because she will silence them in one second when she says clearly that Ozero never produced a paper with attending physician, hospital, etc. Then they will drop it like a hot potato because the public will then get what all the fuss was about.
I dunno Bob. I’d like the question settled once and for all.
“No, because she will silence them in one second when she says clearly that Ozero never produced a paper with attending physician, hospital, etc. Then they will drop it like a hot potato because the public will then get what all the fuss was about.”
And this is what passes for REALITY on Planet Palin.
The PDS crowd is reaching further and getting desperate with meaningless attacks.
The most ridiculous was the 3 reporters “breaking” a story that Palin used a private jet on a private book signing tour lmao.
Funny stuff.
She is rolling them and they don’t know how to stop her.
...all from a facebook page and a book tour 3 years out from the election.
...I love it.
“Because the voters think it’s an important question, and because BHO hasn’t provided a suitable answer, it is a fair question for voters to pursue, but I don’t think I will be pursueing it.”
Yup. That’s what I heard, too. This is one of those questions that no politician can be any more definitive....right answer.
Fact is, she speaks more clearly than most politicians which is why she's where she is today.
Nothing she's said so far on this issue should provoke the negative reaction you have. It's just truth.
I think you’re missing the point of the term “rightfully”. The people do have the right to know everything about a candidate that might affect his judgement or ability to do the job that he is elected to do. This would include any questions related to ethics, past associations, natural-born citizen requirements, etc.
Most employers conduct drug screening and background checks for this very reason. Many accountants have their credit reports reviewed before hiring. Small business loans require enormous amounts of personal info in order to determine if the recipient is worthy. An employer has the option (an should be legally bound) to require an employee to provide proof of citizenship or legal authority to work in the U.S. if it is in question.
Why should the most important job in the country have any different standards? As Obama’s employers, we the people have the right to ask these questions and require proof.
Bob, you are right that she side-stepped the question, she had to, because McLame did NOT qualify either and that was not Sarah’s fault!!!
It has been said that he went to a Moscow university and that he might be born in Equatorial Guinea, BHO...hmmmm...hmmmm...hmmmm???
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