“The BC issue is big and finally, someone like Trump recognizes and uses it. It will force the other Rep candidates to address the issue publicly, something they don’t want to do.” ~ kabar
Really? Trump says below what he thinks is MOST important. Of course that echos what I said in my previous post and what Rush said yesterday (see the transcript I posted on that upthread):
VIDEO at link:
Donald Trump: I’ve Said My Piece On Obama’s Birth Certificate
Evan McMorris-Santoro | April 21, 2011, 9:52AM
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/donald-trump-ive-said-my-piece-on-obamas-birth.php
“..In an op-ed published in USA Today on Thursday morning, Trump writes that he’s ready to stop all the birther chatter.
“I have spoken my piece on this issue,” Trump wrote, reminding readers that “many people have the same doubts as I have.”
Trump says he’s ready to shift the conversation about his maybe-candidacy to something more substantive.
“My concern lies with people like the single mom who recently wrote to me that she now works a third job to pay for the gas to get to the other two,” Trump writes.
Trump appears to be interested in shifting the conversation to core issues beyond Obama’s birth certificate — which Trump has questioned to great fame and polling fortune over the past month. From the op-ed:
There are many important and pressing issues that, should I elect to run, I will address — including China, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the price of fuel, unfair trade, unsustainable debt, the creation of jobs and the rising price of food.
Trump says he never wanted to talk about the birth certificate as much as he has. It’s the media’s fault that the issue has become so central to talk of his potential campaign, he writes.
“Sadly, the press has en masse chosen to glom onto but one of the myriad issues I have discussed and would tackle as president,” he writes.
Trump, of course, kicked off his birther fever back at CPAC in February, when he raised the issue in his surprise speech there. Then, in a string of subsequent interviews, he not only expressed his skepticism about the president’s citizenship but promised to reveal the secrets of Obama’s birth before the summer thanks to a special investigation he claims to have been running in Hawaii, but won’t discuss and details of.
Just this morning in fact — as his USA Today op-ed was hitting the carpet outside hotel room doors everywhere — Trump told CNN that “at a certain point in time I’ll be revealing some interesting things” about Obama’s birth, while also claiming that he’s winning in the polls “is because I’ll protect this country from China and OPEC and all the others that are ripping us off.”
Watch:
It’s worth noting that coverage of Trump has shifted recently to talk of his newfound conservative political stances. That has not gone entirely well for Trump, though he seems interested in moving the conversation about him away from birtherism anyway.
RUSH: The mainstream conservative base is not concerned with where Obamas birth certificate is. Were concerned with his economics, his destroying the economy.
The reason why Trump wants to move beyond, as you describe it, "birtherism," is that the MSM, not surprisingly, is trying to make him a one-issue candidate and something of a nut. Trump is standing his ground on the BC issue, unlike Bachmann who folded like a cheap suit when Stephy started waving around the internet version of the COLB.
Unlike the rest of the GOP namby-pambys, Trump refuses to allow the MSM to define him. He is not backing down from his demand that Obama produce his long form BC and the other personal attacks he has made on Obama. The idea that he must now be a one-not Johnny on the issue is something the MSM would embrace so they can marginalize him. And Trump has achieved his objective of getting on the GOP radar screen as a candidate and his poll numbers have sent shock waves thru the GOP establishment. I believe that is all to the good and hope he enters the race to force the other candidates to reveal themselves on issues of concern to GOP voters.