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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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1 posted on 02/17/2011 5:03:09 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
What? Sarah Palin said Obama's birth place and religion do not matter? She said that??
2 posted on 02/17/2011 5:07:09 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: pissant

That pesky natural born citizenship clause in Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution is a distraction.


3 posted on 02/17/2011 5:07:26 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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To: patriot08

She is playing it smart. Good for her. If and when it is proven, she will be there.


4 posted on 02/17/2011 5:08:08 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: pissant
CHRISTIANITY
5 posted on 02/17/2011 5:08:43 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Defend Liberty

Just krap.


6 posted on 02/17/2011 5:08:54 PM PST by Cowgirl
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To: pissant

You’re a relentless ***turd!


7 posted on 02/17/2011 5:09:31 PM PST by rj45mis
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To: patriot08
What? Sarah Palin said Obama's birth place and religion do not matter? She said that??

No she did not. She said she was not questioning them, to let others do that.

8 posted on 02/17/2011 5:09:53 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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Oh, Sarah, NO. Tell me you didn't say that.
9 posted on 02/17/2011 5:09:53 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: pissant

Palin is doing the right thing here.


10 posted on 02/17/2011 5:10:25 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Relativism is the intellectual death knell of progressive ideology.)
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To: Cowgirl
Just krap.

That's how the socialists feel about the Constitution.
11 posted on 02/17/2011 5:10:53 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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To: SgtHooper

Of course she is right. When she says it is a distraction, what she means is that if she questioned his citizenship, the media would zero in on that and distract from her overall message. Let others fight the birther battle, Sarah.


12 posted on 02/17/2011 5:11:17 PM PST by fhayek
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Michelle Bachmann for President

Sarah Palin needs to join her buddies McCain and Grahamnesty at RINO World. She can get her George Soros money while she is there

All the Liberal Media like it that Sarah dismissed the Birthers...that should tell every reasonable person SOMETHING....

The PalinStinians will spin this in some way. Heck, if Palin joined Al-Qaeda the P-Stinians would be cheering the move...”go Sarah go”...”Sarah is so smart”..etc

I am so tired of Sarah Palin. She is a Liberal RINO. She would be a sure 57-state loser to Obama if she was the GOP nominee


13 posted on 02/17/2011 5:12:26 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Newt Gingrich and Chris Matthews: Seperated at Birth??)
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To: SgtHooper
She is playing it smart. Good for her. If and when it is proven, she will be there.

It's not smart to ignore the Constitution until she feels it is politically expedient. Shame on her if that is the case.
14 posted on 02/17/2011 5:12:36 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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To: SgtHooper

The Quayling of Michelle is in full force it seems


15 posted on 02/17/2011 5:12:36 PM PST by italianquaker ( teabag the vote!!)
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To: reasonisfaith
Palin is doing the right thing here.

There is nothing "right" about not defending the Constitution.
16 posted on 02/17/2011 5:13:26 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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To: Defend Liberty

So is obama’s faith allegiance (Not!).

Since obama is handing us over to the muslims, bit by bit, whether his is a muslim, a fifth columnist, and a traitor matters a lot!!!!


17 posted on 02/17/2011 5:14:18 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: pissant

O’teleprompter-bot-ama is sinking sinking sinking of his own accord, regardless of his official place of birth or his true faith or lack thereof.

I, for one, do not accept as sufficient, the documentation publicly available on O-bot’s birth, and doubt he actually has any religious faith, though he’s overtly hyper-sympathetic to Muslims.

But sticking to the issues that are actually causing him to sink makes the most sense, in the near term. After he’s no longer in office, going after his undocumented status will be easier, though moot, except for the historians.


18 posted on 02/17/2011 5:15:22 PM PST by downtownconservative
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To: patriot08

Newsflash: Obama is bankrupting this country by running it into record debt. That’s what the voters will care about in 2012, and that’s how we beat him and his Democrat Socialists. You’re not going to get him out of office over his religion or birth certificate.

- JP


19 posted on 02/17/2011 5:15:22 PM PST by Josh Painter ("The only thing these 'investments' will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy." - Palin)
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To: Defend Liberty

She’s nothing but a politician (and not a very good one). She proved that when she campaigned for the piece of sh*t McCain.


20 posted on 02/17/2011 5:17:01 PM PST by tatown (Obama is a turd)
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