Posted on 05/24/2010 4:43:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former President Bill Clinton is taking the so-called “birthers” to task for ignoring evidence that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
Clinton made the comments during a commencement address at Yale University on Sunday as part of a critique of American media consumption habits.
“The only place where we’re bigoted now is we only want to be around people who agree with us,” Clinton said. “In our media habits, we go to the television shows, we go to the radio talk shows we go to the blog sites that agree with us. And it can have very bizarre consequences.”
The former president pointed to the “birthers” an example of one of those “bizarre consequences.”
“Hawaii, the state where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk this myth that he wasn’t born in America,” Clinton said. “They’ve done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome in the Capitol.”
“But 45 percent of registered Republicans still believe that he is serving unconstitutionally,” Clinton insisted, though he did not identify the poll.
“Why?” he asked. “Because they’ve been told that by the only place they go to get information.”
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ignore BJ, he is just trying to distract from the disaster of Obama’s Katrina in the Gulf.
“Hawaii, the state where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk this myth that he wasn’t born in America,” Clinton said. “They’ve done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome in the Capitol.”
When did this happen?
Has he found a birther TV channel?
Now some people it appears are faced with law suits because they tried to open up the SELECTIVE SERVICE history past of the President. WHY...if he HAS one, is he so FEARFUL for people to know the facts. Isn’t this the most transparent administration of all times?
This is the one guy on earth with a weirder past than Obama. He had to throw the press a sex scandal to keep them from sniffing around his past. It worked.
1st blk prez shills for 2nd.
It takes TWO citizen parents to make a Natural Born Citizen, doesn’t matter where he was born.
I have not heard any talk radio birthers. Has anyone?
What evidence would that be? I haven’t seen any evidence Obama was born in the United States.
You know, if they did that, we wouldn't have a problem now, would we...YOU PIECE OF CRAP.
Heck. We would settle for simply RELEASING it and letting the citizenry take photographs of it.
No they all say ignore it ... With which I agree, for now.
BJ and others throw this out whenever they want something to distract from real problems. Don’t bite.
It’s his comment about the poor Pakistani..........
who sought to murder and maim untold numbers of people in Times Square that has me enraged.
poor Pakistani???????????????????
Why can't he just shut up? He is just like Carter. A pimple on the butt of history.
That's as much of a bald-faced lie as "I never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Willard knows posterity will forever be laughing at him and he is soooo bitter..
hahahaha SOoo he admits the media and liberal blogs are getting no ratings!! He admits “we” are the majority!! And somebody doesn’t wike it! hehehehe
Sort of like Jimmy Carter wouldn't you say? Both are looking for a noble legacy that will never appear. Now or ever.
Exactly. Obama is trying to distract us from the real issues.
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