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.
most people interpreted that as a sign that Sarah supported those who were pushing for Obama to answer the questions, and that she didn't think she would HAVE to MAKE it an issue, because there would be enough other people pushing it that it would ALREADY be an issue.
Most importantly, she said "the public rightfully is still making it an issue". That certainly implied that she felt the public was RIGHT to make it an issue; which would imply that she agreed that it was an issue, and was therefore happy that the public was acting "rightfully" by raising the issue.
Today, her statement on facebook, under the heading "stupid conspiracies",was:
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. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But 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.
That sounds like she is equating people asking about the birth certificate now to people who asked her whether Trig was really her son. So she has compared the birth certificate crowd here to Andrew Sullivan.
I tend to agree with her position on this issue. But it is certainly clear that last night on the conservative talk-show she made a statement that did not agree with her own position, at least so far as people here at FR read that statement.
And I think it is pretty clear that the reasonable interpretation of her statement as I put it above is accurate.
This may be a tempest in a teapot, but it is certainly not "nothing".
... is it RIGHT to ask such a question?