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Sarah Palin Flip-Flops on Obama Birth Certificate
US News and World Report ^ | 12/4/09 | Robert Schlesinger

Posted on 12/04/2009 10:02:44 AM PST by pissant

Sarah Palin scrambled away from the birther movement last night after giving them a wink and a nod on a conservative radio talk show yesterday. Posting on her Facebook page at 1:16am, Palin writes that, "at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States." She tries to dismiss her birther flirtation as just an acknowledgment of voters' right to know: "Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child."

Well ... three problems with her explanation.

First, here's what she said when asked if she would raise the birth certificate issue in a presidential campaign (emphasis mine):

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.

The key word there is "rightfully," which in this context means that it is right--as in correct or proper--to ask the question. She didn't say that the public has the right to ask, she said that it's right for the public to ask. That's an Alaska-sized difference.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; obroma; palin; pds; stuffwarsmadeof
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To: castlegreyskull

I was trying to esplain to another poster how a person could have the “right” to ask a question, but the question not be a “right” question.

I was using analogies to try to find an example that would make the point.

Sarah used the example that reporters had the RIGHT to ask her to prove she was Trig’s mother, but that the question was actually offensive, and they SHOULD NOT have asked. Thus, “have a right to ask”, but not “right to ask”.

Legal vs moral, I think.

I know that others find less conclusions to draw from her use of the “Trig questions” analogy when explaining the birth certificate question.


161 posted on 12/04/2009 11:52:31 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mountainbunny

Palin’s position seems to be perfectly reasonable. Trust but verify.

The whole demonization attempt by the elites with regard to Obama and his concealed records is similar to the whole global warming saga. Substitute “birther” with “denier”. Fainthearted politicians fear the establishment far far more than they fear the people. Fear of the dreaded “birther” tag far outweighs the fear that Obama has lied his way into office.


162 posted on 12/04/2009 11:52:55 AM PST by Moorka
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Thanks for the clarification. Actually your original post did a good job making that point, after I read it again. It seems like this story line has a lot more people attacking “birthers” today. I never that that before on freerepublic. So my sensitivity is on overtime. Where did all these attackers come from. I read every birther story that is posted and never see such illogical arguments/attacks against people who aren’t convince that President Obama is a natural born citizen.


163 posted on 12/04/2009 11:58:20 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: All

By your logic, Mr. Schlesinger, Sarah Palin also “flip-flopped” on the Trig “birth certificate issue.” Why single out just the Obama part?

Ah yes, the endless attempt to truncate and partially quote Sarah Palin to paint her as a “Birther,” “Birther” enabler, or for that matter any other kind of nut, even though she has several times denied being a “Birther” - a denial you don’t seem to actual get from any actual “Birthers.” She even refers to them as “Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters;” yet somhow, this is a non-rebuke to you.

Would that Barack Obama would call Trig Truthers “Conspiracy minded” folk; but alas, nobody in the press will ask Barack about conspiracy theories from the left. This reminds me of the press’ strange lack of curiousity when John Kerry gave credence to vicious Conspiracy rumors about Bush wanting a reinstitution of the Draft if reelected.

So she calls them “Conspiracy-minded” folk, rebukes the idea that she would ever ask to see the Birth Certificate or make it an issue, and equates the issue of Barack’s birth question with questions about whether or not Trig is actually her son; yet somehow you see this as a “wink and a nod.” Seems more like ricidule to me, though a polite ridicule at that.


164 posted on 12/04/2009 11:58:22 AM PST by TitansAFC (Socialism is a disease; Sarah Palin is the cure. Palin/Romney 2012 or Palin/Gingrich 2012!!)
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To: EyeGuy

165 posted on 12/04/2009 12:02:00 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: mountainbunny
I can point you to her interview last night(there should be a link to that on FR) and her Facebook posting last night on the matter.
She did not mention which Journalists were shown the documents. She pointed out that her doctor and lawyer were harassed by the media, who were chasing the insane story that her own son was not her son, till her son's documents were ;produced, before they let them alone.
The point is, Trigg was not running for president, so she didn't have to show anything.
0bama was running for president and is the president today.
If the media can chase after Trigg’s birth certificate, they sure as heck SHOULD chase after 0bozo’s birth certificate.
Its very simple.
166 posted on 12/04/2009 12:02:02 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: rbmillerjr

More likely, her intention is to draw attention to herself now that she’s moved on from elective politics and into the lucrative celebrity business.


167 posted on 12/04/2009 12:02:51 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: steve-b

I understand your being pathetically petrified with fear.

I see it all over the net from liberal Democrats.

Thanks for playing.


168 posted on 12/04/2009 12:05:00 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: mountainbunny
It says she was asked, as was her doctor and lawyer. It does not say that she presented them”

It does not say she never presented them either.

Where does she say specifically that she presented them?”

Where does it specifically say she didn't, like you are claiming?

169 posted on 12/04/2009 12:05:50 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: BHOwho

Nowhere in what you posted were there any medical records. None at all.

So, no. It didn’t help. Because if the argument is that she was asked but didn’t show them, she’s in the exact same boat as Obama, making it a very bad argument.

And if your argument is that the newspaper reports are enough, then is Obama’s birth announcement enough?

She either showed the records to the press or she didn’t. Show me where she did.

I don’t believe for one second that she isn’t the mother. Of course she is. If I were her, it would be a cold day in you-know-where before I released my child’s medical records.

I’m simply saying that unless she released the records to the press, it is a very bad argument to make.


170 posted on 12/04/2009 12:06:20 PM PST by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Would you buy a used car from this huckster?)
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To: rbmillerjr

Post 160

Then that doesn’t make her a bold leader, it makes her a “run of the mill” political. When faced with a issue, either get in or stay out... Don’t stick your toe in to test the water.


171 posted on 12/04/2009 12:07:51 PM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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To: steve-b
More like you are trying to draw attention to yourself, with idiotic posts that scream “Hey look at me. I am an attention seeking turd”.
172 posted on 12/04/2009 12:08:09 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: rbmillerjr
I understand your being pathetically petrified with fear.

More like helplessly convulsed with laughter.

173 posted on 12/04/2009 12:09:21 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: Peter Horry

“Then that doesn’t make her a bold leader, it makes her a “run of the mill” political. When faced with a issue, either get in or stay out... Don’t stick your toe in to test the water.”

No a bold issue is Abortion, where she takes a stand in policy and in her life.

Avoiding being lumped in with “birthers”, of which I am one, shows her ability to weave the mines that liberals will leave for her.


174 posted on 12/04/2009 12:11:29 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: pissant
Any sane, logical person, without an agenda and with a reasonable level of comprehension skills, will come to a different understanding of this than the authors of this article. All who followed her whole discussion on this topic can see that she did not flip flop or backtrack, and she is not a so-called "birther".

What she said is that there is a segment of the electorate, that is millions of American voters who are asking this question, therefore it is a legitimate question. She personally has NOT asked the question, nor does she plan to in the future.

175 posted on 12/04/2009 12:12:34 PM PST by Moorings
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To: steve-b

If any nubes don’t know,,,stevie b is a Democrat that is allowed to have fun ....cats need there mice lol.


176 posted on 12/04/2009 12:13:19 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: SmokingJoe
Where does it specifically say she didn't, like you are claiming?

This is what you wrote:

Plus she confirmed in her Facwebook post last night that she DID in fact produce the birth certificate, after the bottom feeding media laid siege to her doctor and her lawyers, shrilling demanding that she show her son's birth certificate.
And all for what? Because some lunatic had posted that she was not the mother to her own baby, at Daily Kos.

You said that she claims to have presented it. So where did she say it? And to whom did she show it? Because as we know, Obama is supposed to have shown his BC to reporters who photographed it and put it on the internet.

Where did she show it? To whom did she show it? The answer is: she didn't. And that is precisely why it is a losing argument to liken her being asked to Obama being asked. He has been asked and did not show it. She has been asked and did not show it.

I don't think she should show it. If I were her, I'd tell the press to pound sand. But people here saying she did when she did not is blatantly untrue.

177 posted on 12/04/2009 12:15:42 PM PST by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Would you buy a used car from this huckster?)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
So you claim she was exactly right, and then say she was wrong. Which is it?”

You obviously can't read.
I say she was exactly right and was exactly right again.
There is no “she was wrong” anywhere in my post, despite your pathetic attempt to put it there.

178 posted on 12/04/2009 12:17:18 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: mountainbunny

Post 170

Did you read this bovine scat before you posted it, this isn’t to satisfy “inquiring minds” (press or otherwise) this is to satisfy legal/constitutional requirement. You don’t seem to grasp the deference, or don’t want to.


179 posted on 12/04/2009 12:17:26 PM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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To: GI Joe Fan
Why do they avoid the issue altogether?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am completely ticked!

Rush, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Malkin, Levine, Medved, Boortz..etc....Well, I will **NEVER** trust them again! Some issues and their actions towards Obama’s eligibility are deal breakers in my opinion.

I hold special contempt for Coulter. NO POSSIBLE WAY WILL I EVER BUY ONE OF HER BOOKS AGAIN!

180 posted on 12/04/2009 12:18:46 PM PST by wintertime
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