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Palin gets it right on birthers and Obama's faith
Wash Post ^ | 2/17/11 | Jonathan Capehart

Posted on 02/17/2011 5:03:06 PM PST by pissant

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Tea Party Princess, played a noxious game of dodge ball with George Stephanopoulos this morning when he asked her whether she believed that President Obama was born in the United States and is not a Muslim. Leave it to the Tea Party Queen -- Sarah Palin -- to show Bachmann and others in the Republican Party the right way to answer the question.

"Do you question his faith and citizenship?" Palin was asked today during an onstage interview hosted by the Long Island Association. Her answer was brief and to the point.

"I don't, and those are distractions," she said to some applause. "What we're concerned about is the economy. And we're concerned about the policies coming out of his administration and what he believes in terms of big government or private sector. So, no, the faith, the birth certificate, others can engage in that kind of conversation. It's distracting. It gets annoying and let's just stick with what really matters."

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; freepressforpalin; naturalborncitizen; palin; pissant4obama; pissant4rinos; zotpissant
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To: pissant

Oh man, I thought the birthers looked up to her. Heh, now they are making excuses. Who would have thunk it? /sarc
LOLOL!


41 posted on 02/17/2011 5:50:00 PM PST by dforest
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To: indylindy

For a more courageous woman...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2675549/posts


42 posted on 02/17/2011 5:51:51 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: indylindy

and for Palin’s fellow traveler Rove....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2675544/posts


43 posted on 02/17/2011 5:52:39 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Sarah Palin has been ;pretty much single-handly been fighting Obama and the liberal agenda for the past two years.

What the hell have you done moron?

44 posted on 02/17/2011 5:54:27 PM PST by bwc2221 ("")
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To: EternalVigilance

They are sold on the personality. They ignore the fact that she has never really broken her ties with McCain.

What is breathtaking is their blind faith. She created an image they have bought hook, line and sinker.


45 posted on 02/17/2011 5:54:55 PM PST by dforest
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To: Frantzie

You must be a really bad chess player.


46 posted on 02/17/2011 5:55:55 PM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: bwc2221

The Tea Parties and the citizens were fighting Obama before she was.

All she does is talk.


47 posted on 02/17/2011 5:57:57 PM PST by dforest
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To: Tex-Con-Man
I have bad news for you guys...if you hold out for a birther presidential nominee, you won't have anyone to vote for.

Yeah, you're right. There are so few left in the Republican Party who give a rip what the Constitution requires.

48 posted on 02/17/2011 5:59:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance (A republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: pissant

Yeah, but she doesn’t even focus on the real issues.


49 posted on 02/17/2011 5:59:35 PM PST by dforest
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To: pissant

Since JACKASSES cannot run on a ‘record of accomplishment’, they’ve conducted focus groups with rabid LIEberals and think they can garner enough votes for a win by painting their opposition as “birther kooks”. Herman Cain called it right....

http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2011/02/herman-cain-on-democrats-and-sin.html

S - change the SUBJECT
I - IGNORE the facts
N - NAME call


50 posted on 02/17/2011 5:59:51 PM PST by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: pissant

Since JACKASSES cannot run on a ‘record of accomplishment’, they’ve conducted focus groups with rabid LIEberals and think they can garner enough votes for a win by painting their opposition as “birther kooks”. Herman Cain called it right....

http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2011/02/herman-cain-on-democrats-and-sin.html

S - SHIFT the SUBJECT
I - IGNORE the facts
N - NAME call


51 posted on 02/17/2011 6:00:07 PM PST by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: pissant
Bachmann handled it much better.

From the WaPo article above quoting Palin:

"Do you question his faith and citizenship?" Palin was asked today during an onstage interview hosted by the Long Island Association. Her answer was brief and to the point.

"I don't, and those are distractions," she said to some applause. "What we're concerned about is the economy.

From the CNN article quoting Bachmann:

"We should take the president at his word," Bachmann said. Then asked if she'd be willing to flat out state the president is a citizen and Christian, the congresswoman said she was more focused on economic concerns.

You're a hoot pissant, you really are.

52 posted on 02/17/2011 6:01:31 PM PST by Al B. (Sarah Palin: "Buck up or stay in the truck.")
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To: indylindy
They love her so much they'll even agree with the Washington Post.

Palin gets it right

It's a sight to behold.

53 posted on 02/17/2011 6:02:10 PM PST by EternalVigilance (A republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: tatown
America needs a leader, not another politician.

Gee, I had no idea the two were mutually exclusive!

Politicians understand how to get elected. I'm not sure I'd want a leader who didn't understand it. Given the alternatives.

54 posted on 02/17/2011 6:02:32 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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To: pissant
“We should take the president at his word,” - Michelle Bachmann
55 posted on 02/17/2011 6:03:04 PM PST by McGruff (If you tell a lie enough times some people will come to believe it.)
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To: Al B.

She takes him at his word that he’s a Christian, dumbnuts.


56 posted on 02/17/2011 6:06:13 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: EternalVigilance

For every liberal Palin policy they have an excuse. There is an excuse for everything.

She sticks her finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. That is how she makes decisions. It is so obvious.


57 posted on 02/17/2011 6:07:37 PM PST by dforest
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To: pissant
For a more courageous woman...

Really?

How on earth is that more courageous??

58 posted on 02/17/2011 6:08:24 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: tatown

RE: America needs a leader, not another politician.

Absolutely!!!!!!!


59 posted on 02/17/2011 6:15:16 PM PST by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: FreeReign

Obama has NEVER said he’s an NBC.


60 posted on 02/17/2011 6:18:03 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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