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Carney sighs at birther question (more dissembling)
politico ^ | 4/26/2011 | matt negrin

Posted on 04/26/2011 12:14:52 PM PDT by milwguy

Jay Carney lamented Tuesday that the conspiracy theory about President Obama’s birth is getting “serious attention” while more important matters are getting overlooked.

CNN’s Ed Henry asked the White House press secretary to react to Donald Trump’s seemingly constant presence on TV, in which the real estate mogul has stoked the myth that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii. In response, Carney said that CNN itself had reported a “highly credible piece on an established fact” — that “the president was born in the United States of America.”

“This was a settled issue,” Carney said, calling it “unfortunate” that “for whatever reason, that instead of focusing” on the economy, unemployment, the deficit, energy, education and foreign affairs, “that this is the subject of – that gets any kind of serious attention.”

“I'll leave it at that,” Carney said. But then Henry asked about the birth certificate’s release, to which Carney replied, “the birth certificate that the campaign put up online has been available for everyone to see online around the globe.”

Carney said the document can be used to get a driver's license, and that anyone who was born in Hawaii uses the same documentation.

“I just think this is, it's a distraction,” Carney said. “And it's an unfortunate distraction. ... Anybody who is watching this exchange, the West Wing of the White House, would be appalled – or most Americans would be appalled.”


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KEYWORDS: bhopress; birthers; carney; certifigate; conspiracytheory; obama
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"Carney said the document can be used to get a driver's license, and that anyone who was born in Hawaii uses the same documentation."

So a person using the actual long form certificate couldn't get a DL in Hawaii unless they use the crappy cetification of live birth? I think not, and not EVERYONE uses the certification as proof. Carney of course probably doesn't even know the difference between the two documents, the same goes for most of the sycophant media in the briefing room.

1 posted on 04/26/2011 12:14:53 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: milwguy

Barry’s first press secretary was a clown, but this guy is even worse. Where does he find these people?


2 posted on 04/26/2011 12:16:39 PM PDT by Cicero
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“This was a settled issue,”

No, it was just thought to have been successfully buried by the media and whatever money Obama was using to keep it that way.


3 posted on 04/26/2011 12:18:24 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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Hey Jay, can you explain why BO has spent around 2 million dollars to keep the long form sealed? Just wondering.


4 posted on 04/26/2011 12:18:50 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: milwguy

Well CNN says so....................so what?


5 posted on 04/26/2011 12:19:08 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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on all theses BC threads, ive yet to see one person show up in the major media on tv with a copy of the long form bc that was used in Hawaii in 1961, and compare it with the bogus COLB the teleprompter and fraud had posted....and start asking questions and making points from there.

Most people dont seem to realize the difference.


6 posted on 04/26/2011 12:19:24 PM PDT by raygunfan
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“the birth certificate that the campaign put up online has been available for everyone to see online around the globe.”

Note he didn’t say it was Obama’s birth certificate. They carefully parse the language to avoid tying Obama to the COLB. A smart reporter would phrase the question so that Carney has to say “the COLB that Obama released”


7 posted on 04/26/2011 12:20:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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So why doesn't anyone at these pressers DEMAND to see the legal document that shows what hospital Barry was born in???

HOW IN GOD'S GREEN EARTH CAN HISTORIANS SIT BY AND LET THIS GO??

Isn't there ONE journalist allowed in the Whitehouse?

8 posted on 04/26/2011 12:21:56 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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“Where does he find these people?”

...a clinic that specializes in frontal lobotomies.


9 posted on 04/26/2011 12:22:17 PM PDT by albie
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To: MPJackal
Where does this 2 million dollars number come from?
10 posted on 04/26/2011 12:22:54 PM PDT by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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Barry’s first press secretary was a clown, but this guy is even worse. Where does he find these people?

Mordor.

11 posted on 04/26/2011 12:23:02 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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"the real estate mogul has stoked the myth that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii."

Trump has done no such thing. Trump repeatedly says he believes that Obama was born in Hawaii.

But he (Trump) also says that he wishes Obama would release his Birth Certificate because it might show something important.

12 posted on 04/26/2011 12:23:13 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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To: Cicero

Bread and Carnivals


13 posted on 04/26/2011 12:24:18 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the US)
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To: Cicero

Yep and a littlemore static electricity in his hair could help him along with a new career as being a dancer in that Footloose movie Kevin Bacon was in. I swear every time I see him I think about him dancing the part of Kevin Bacon.


14 posted on 04/26/2011 12:25:19 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: milwguy

Anybody who is watching this exchange, the West Wing of the White House, would be appalled – or most Americans would be appalled.”


Yes, I am appalled, appalled that the simple production
of the Long form Birth Certificate has still not been
done.
I don’t question whether he was born in Hawaii, I just
want to know the nationality of his FATHER!


15 posted on 04/26/2011 12:25:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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They really don’t want an investigation of Obama’s birth.


16 posted on 04/26/2011 12:25:55 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: milwguy

Simple question for any of the news morons to ask Jay-BO:

“Jay, is President Obama a natural born citizen?”


17 posted on 04/26/2011 12:26:00 PM PDT by nesnah
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Where does he find these people?

In the metrosexual bathroom.
18 posted on 04/26/2011 12:26:57 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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“I just think this is, it's a distraction,” Carney said.

Of course, you're being paid to think it's a distraction; you have a vested interest in it being a distraction, and were you asked "how does the BC controversy make you feel?" Does this remark answer a question that was asked? Or are we just playing "how does the Presidents Chief Flack feel about things today?"

19 posted on 04/26/2011 12:27:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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“Jay, is President Obama a natural born citizen?”

Yup, that is the question they do not want, nor have an answer for, because he isn’t one.


20 posted on 04/26/2011 12:27:57 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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