” You are confusing the legal definition of citizenship, ..”
Which is exactly what the White House wants.
Gibbs always frames the issue as the “ birthers “ claim Barry is not a US citizen.
I expect the media to swallow Gibb’s lie , unfortunately too many
Republicans ( Cantor being the latest )
also show their ignorance .
The salient question is not simple citizenship .
White House Press Briefing July 27, 2009 :
BTW- Gibbs also claimed that he posted Obama’s
“ birth certificate “ on line.
Q Is there anything you can say that will make the birthers go away?
MR. GIBBS: No. (Laughter.) I mean, the God’s honest truth is no.
I mean, Bill, let’s understand this —
and I almost hate to indulge in such an august setting
as the White House
— and I mean this in seriousness — the White House briefing room discussing
the made-up, fictional nonsense
of whether or not the President
was born in this country.
A year-and-a-half ago I asked that the birth certificate be put on the Internet because lord knows,
you got a birth certificate
and you put it on the Internet,
what else could be the story?
Here’s the deal , Bill. ...blah, blah , blah
He’s a citizen.
MR. GIBBS: See, there we go. ...Blah, blah
But no, nothing will assuage them.
But there are 10,000 more important issues for people in this country to discuss,
rather than whether
or not the President is a citizen.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/briefing-white-house-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-7-27-09
Gibbs is wrong. The most important question is determining whether Obama is a foreign agent put in office to overthrow our capitalist system (he was a CIA agent and that is one of their skills), whether any of Obama’s actions are legal, and how to get him out of office before the nation dissolves into bankruptcy or civil war when whites and blacks realize he lied to them.