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Palin : OK to press Obama's eligibility
Hot Air ^ | December 04, 2009 | Aaron Klein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; fraud; obama; obroma; palin; pds; sarahpalin; stuffwarsmadeof
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To: Venturer
You obviously believe that Obama has spent millions to keep his birth certificate hidden , because he considers his birth a private affair between his mother and whoever the hell was his father.

Do you have a credible source for that money statement?

21 posted on 12/04/2009 9:42:47 AM PST by ansel12 (Scozzafava/Romney 2012)
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To: what's up

“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.


22 posted on 12/04/2009 9:45:49 AM PST by Bob J
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To: Balding_Eagle

“Evidently my answer was incomprehensible to you.”

No, I’m absoluteley convinced that is exactly what you “heard”.


23 posted on 12/04/2009 9:46:51 AM PST by Bob J
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To: Bob J

“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?


24 posted on 12/04/2009 9:48:09 AM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: Bob J
This has been around for a while, but is the best take on why they attach Sarah Palin.
25 posted on 12/04/2009 9:52:47 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: rbmillerjr

“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.


26 posted on 12/04/2009 9:52:53 AM PST by Bob J
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To: OrioleFan

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27 posted on 12/04/2009 9:53:11 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Bob J

Your PDS is funny.

You need to just accept that she is running and she will be one of the frontrunners.


28 posted on 12/04/2009 9:54:39 AM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: Bob J
In other words, it was a “brilliant” manuever?

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.

29 posted on 12/04/2009 9:55:24 AM PST by what's up
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To: OrioleFan
Palinistas

Gotta Luv 'em!

30 posted on 12/04/2009 9:56:34 AM PST by Bob J
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To: Bob J

I dunno Bob. I’d like the question settled once and for all.


31 posted on 12/04/2009 9:56:42 AM PST by Mathews (Ambition, absent a moral compass, is naked destruction.)
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To: what's up

“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.


32 posted on 12/04/2009 10:00:37 AM PST by Bob J
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To: Mathews

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.


33 posted on 12/04/2009 10:02:28 AM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: Balding_Eagle

“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.


34 posted on 12/04/2009 10:04:56 AM PST by pyrless (If you're gonna burn our flag, make sure you wrap yourself in it first!)
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To: Bob J
Whatever "Planet Palin" means.

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.

35 posted on 12/04/2009 10:06:07 AM PST by what's up
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To: Bob J

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.


36 posted on 12/04/2009 10:16:34 AM PST by TXDuke
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To: RobinMasters
After this last election, if we take the ground rules used with regard to her and her family and apply those fairly to one and all going forward, it’s hard to think of anything that would be off limits. Anything. Certainly not constitutional qualifications. So yeah, it is a fair question. And I say this as someone who thinks that if the current incumbent were anywhere near non-legit under the Constitution and statute law, Hillary would have found it on opposition research, had the come-to-Vito-and-Luca meeting with him long ago, and he’d be in her Cabinet. If he was lucky.
37 posted on 12/04/2009 10:30:12 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: TXDuke; ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; ...
right, and what about all the "conspiracies" people CONTINUE to entertain about Palin lie #1: she banned books lie #2: Trig isn't really her baby lie #3: she is part of a secessionist 3rd Party lie #4: she requested her $150,000 wardrobe lie #5: she and Todd are about to divorce etc..etc..etc..
38 posted on 12/04/2009 10:34:29 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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To: Bob J

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!!!


39 posted on 12/04/2009 11:10:11 AM PST by danamco
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To: Swede Girl
Also, to my knowledge, Barry is the only president that did not spend his formative years in the United States. He has to be missing that core sense of being an American that American children are taught in school and in the home.

It has been said that he went to a Moscow university and that he might be born in Equatorial Guinea, BHO...hmmmm...hmmmm...hmmmm???

40 posted on 12/04/2009 11:16:14 AM PST by danamco
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