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 Im not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. Im 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 presidents 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 theyre money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think theyre right the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide. If the Chamber doesnt have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they dont, 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
“But, if things come out, and Obama resigns, and we see President Hillary somehow, wont the black community and even the liberal base be completely disenchanted with Democrats and Hillary in 2012, when presumeably a President Hillary would run for election in her own right?”
0’s no fool. He will work with those in control. Lets pick an excuse. Health related. Moochell has stated she is tired of living in a fish bowl, or something to that effect. He has to return to Kenya to restore the peace. I’m sure you get the picture. Everyone, I mean the rats, will be sad, heat broken, and despondent, but they will eventually step in cadence and expose the illness they all share.
I think you are right on. Explains everything about the whole issue.
A clown answer. You think Axel grease.
Info ping.
He paraphrasing Obama from 8/21/10...
"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide."
I've been using that as a tagline since August.
“When Obumber returns to Kenya, he can visit or live in his library/shrine. It should be built by then”
I haven’t read the article yet, but I hope you know, we are footing the bill. Oh man, I wish you wouldn’t have told me about his library/shrine. The day, here, just started and it’s wrecked all ready. You owe me.
The comment is enlightening by Axelrod and Obama because it shows their contempt for the stupid Press.
Tapper is right ... Axelrod is using the conspiracy-theorist guilty-until-proven-innocent technique to peddle this dumb charge of ‘foreign money’.
There’s no evidence for it.
We all should wish that it backfired and further dminishes our partisan and pathetic President.
Bingo. The elites plus the Saudis and other control TV. We are just the circus monkeys dancing to their tunes. These elections are meaningless as long as the idiot masses watch TV.
TV will demonize the Repubs. It is a game and TV has been brainwashing and manipulating since at least Cronkite. Loads of people here think Prince Al Waleed’s Fox News is any better. He is a major shareholder also in CNN and ABC News.
“She” was definitely his Mommy...you can tell simply by looking at her Daddy and her son.
Maybe he's playing on both sides of the field...or, maybe not. You're not "wimpish" about not watching/listening to MSNBC...just intelligent.
AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where theyre money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think theyre right the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide. If the Chamber doesnt have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they dont, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?
Hey Dumbbutt Axel turd, the question was where's the long form Obama birth certificate? Not some stupid answer where's the money coming from.
Nope - they control ALL of TV with Saudi money including Fox (don’t fooled on that). The Dems blame the racist GOP 24x7 on TV. Keep telling the lie and all the idiots will believe it.
As long as TV is around we are serfs.
Tapper lives in a bubble of the disconnected. I don’t know what he watches, but his twit-tweet shows he cares what the out-of-touch DC delusional and liberals think.
In case you missed this - Ping.
Thanks for the ping. Obviously orchestrated or directed. Not accidental whatsoever.
0thugga’s heading for a mental breakdown, as I (ahem) predicted more than a year ago, actually right after he got elected! I am sure of it. He can’t handle any of it.
I think someone order Tapper at ABC.
order = ordered
I am really convinced that his long form b/c is not going to show he is not a citizen ... but it’s going to say something embarrassing on there, like “mulatto” or “Illegitimate” or some other term in common usage then that just looks ugly now.
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