Posted on 10/11/2010 5:38:46 PM PDT by kristinn
During the course of questioning about the Obama administration's attacks on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ABC News White House Correspondent Jake Tapper brought up the issue of Barack Obama refusing to release his long form Hawaii birth certificate in an interview today with senior White House adviser David Axelrod.
Axelrod said that Obama's birth certificate "has been available to people."
When Tapper followed up by asking if the long form version (aka the original with more information than the shorter publicly released version) has been released, Axelrod ducked the question with this bizarre rejoinder, “the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide.”
Before people get too excited, Tapper later Tweeted his disdain for birthers:
jaketapper Periodically it becomes clear that I need to warn folks: I block birthers (and truthers). Keep that nonsense out of my twitter feed. Thanks. 11 minutes ago via ÜberTwitter
However, Tapper had no problem raising the issue with Axelrod:
TAPPER: But what do you say to people who argue you are demonizing an organization for a charge that nobody knows if it's true or not?
AXELROD: Well I’m not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. I’m simply suggesting to them that they disclose the source of the $75 million that they are spending in campaigns and put to rest, put to rest the questions that have been, that have been raised.
TAPPER: Isn't that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?
AXELROD: The president’s birth certificate has been available to people.
TAPPER: The long form?
AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where they’re money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think they’re right – “the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide.” If the Chamber doesn’t have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they don’t, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?
Outside of the likes of Les Kinsolving, this appears to be the first time the long form birth certificate issue has been publicly queried at the senior White House level.
H/t Amanda Carpenter
Has to be. This is getting intense. Going to really get red hot soon, I think.
If a long-form exists, the problem is that it doesn’t prove Obama was born in Hawaii. His mom’s address will be in Washington state and the form is signed by his grandmother as unattended without a doctor’s signature.
Woooo hoooooo!
I’ve come to the conclusion that Øbama hasn’t shown the long form for one of two reasons:
1. It doesn’t exsist
2. It names parents that would unravel his ‘son of the soil’ narrative.
Obama’s hidden bona fides — the original list from the original source:
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/BonaFides.htm
I like that “her brother” hypothesis though.
This is Obamas albatross.
Like a mis-engineered dam once a trickle starts there is no stopping it.
And soon there will be a river of toxic sludge oozing through that crack.
Thanks.
PLS, HOW?
If Jake keeps raising the issue, he can call me a whackjob and every other name in the book.
Even if she were APPOINTED by BO as VP, she would not be confirmed, and would be removed as would all of his cabinet appointees. The next POTUS will be the new Speaker of the House....Watch carefully the struggle within the GOP.
Axlegrease had another odd answer when Schieffer asked him if Baraq would join Boehner in a stop smoking challenge.
He wandered off into a discourse on how cigarette companies are marketing to children (that’s a 25 year old issue isn’t it?).
With all the cabinet bailing out, it’s Baraq and Axlegrease vs the world. I think they are feeling the loneliness.
>> Jake’s higher-ups have no doubt reamed him a new one by now.<<
Don’t count on it. The wacho slur was just to control the narrative. The question was poke to get the issue out there but they don’t want to loose control. If he hadn’t made the wacko slur the flood gates would have opened up and they don’t want that yet. Keep track from now on and you will see that the subject will begin to come up more and more. Tapper just opened the gate to allow other talking heads to reference him when broaching the subject.
I do hope you’re right, actually.
Oh, I see, so you've actually SEEN his LFBC to make these statements, have you? This is the problem with this whole BC controversy....no one knows what is fact or fiction anymore, and no one has documented proof of anything.
I say PROOVE IT! At the very minimum preclude you statements with the proviso, "IMHO", or "My uninformed guess is", or "I think", etc. Speculation as fact is a sure way to sink this important issue and you are not being helpful.
jaketapper Periodically it becomes clear that I need to warn folks: I block birther's (and truthers)Keep that nonsense out of my twitter feed.
TAPPER: Isn't that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?
Tapper just left a stain on the birthers blue dress and their poppin' champagne corks like it's a marriage proposal.
Unbelievable.
Since we are really talking speculation and gut instinct, I would tend to disagree.
I think somewhere we have framework of movers and shakers. I think they will take a more conservative approach and let the Dem’s hold onto the WH for the remaining term until 2012 causing much less upheaval.
My reasoning is if the Zero is ousted based on qualifications all bills he signed would be instantly nullified. I think that would be enough.
The hildabeast would then be a caretaker for a year or so.
There are some who believe that Frank Marshall Davis was Obama’s biological father. That would be ironic: it would solve the natural born citizen problem 9at least until we get to the Indonesian ties), but it would be an especially hard political blow, given Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” reputation.
But whatever the truth is, I am sure the media will work overtime to defend him. Witness Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, etc.
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