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Bill Clinton rips 'birthers'
politico.com ^ | May 24, 2010 | Andy Barr

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.”

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; birthcertificate; certifigate; clinton; clintonisabirther; dembirthers; naturalborncitizen; obama
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1 posted on 05/24/2010 4:43:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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ignore BJ, he is just trying to distract from the disaster of Obama’s Katrina in the Gulf.


2 posted on 05/24/2010 4:44:15 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“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?


3 posted on 05/24/2010 4:44:42 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Has he found a birther TV channel?


4 posted on 05/24/2010 4:45:25 PM PDT by marron
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To: Tarpon

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?


5 posted on 05/24/2010 4:45:43 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


6 posted on 05/24/2010 4:46:50 PM PDT by marron
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To: Free ThinkerNY

1st blk prez shills for 2nd.


7 posted on 05/24/2010 4:46:59 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It takes TWO citizen parents to make a Natural Born Citizen, doesn’t matter where he was born.


8 posted on 05/24/2010 4:47:10 PM PDT by voveo
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To: Free ThinkerNY
C’mon Bubba. Tell us about the Lewinsky. Was she that good?
9 posted on 05/24/2010 4:47:36 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: Tarpon

I have not heard any talk radio birthers. Has anyone?


10 posted on 05/24/2010 4:47:56 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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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.

What evidence would that be? I haven’t seen any evidence Obama was born in the United States.

11 posted on 05/24/2010 4:49:12 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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"...They’ve done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome in the Capitol..."

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.

12 posted on 05/24/2010 4:49:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: omega4179

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.


13 posted on 05/24/2010 4:49:43 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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???????????????????


14 posted on 05/24/2010 4:50:10 PM PDT by Carley (WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Bill Clinton rips 'birthers'.

Why can't he just shut up? He is just like Carter. A pimple on the butt of history.

15 posted on 05/24/2010 4:51:27 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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"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."

That's as much of a bald-faced lie as "I never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

16 posted on 05/24/2010 4:52:01 PM PDT by Campion
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Poor Bill—hundreds,if not thousands of years from now his place in history will be BJs in the white house from a chubby young bimbo in spite of having the best pickup line in the known Universe.

Willard knows posterity will forever be laughing at him and he is soooo bitter..

17 posted on 05/24/2010 4:53:51 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("'Clinton and Carter were miserable presidents too,but at least they LIKED America.")
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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


18 posted on 05/24/2010 4:55:11 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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"Willard knows posterity will forever be laughing at him and he is soooo bitter.."

Sort of like Jimmy Carter wouldn't you say? Both are looking for a noble legacy that will never appear. Now or ever.

19 posted on 05/24/2010 4:58:16 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Tarpon

Exactly. Obama is trying to distract us from the real issues.


20 posted on 05/24/2010 5:00:27 PM PDT by kabar
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