Posted on 04/11/2011 12:17:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A fed-up White House yesterday for the first time took the bait on Donald Trump's relentless, months-long questioning of whether President Obama is a US citizen.
A top Obama aide lashed out at the real-estate tycoon, reality-show star and GOP presidential hopeful on national television, saying his fledgling campaign is a "sideshow" and he has "zero chance" of ever living in the White House.
"That's not leadership. That's kind of sideshow behavior," White House senior adviser David Plouffe charged on ABC's "This Week."
Trump, who is flirting with a run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination and has been rising in the polls, has single-handedly revived questions about whether Obama is actually foreign born and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president.
He simultaneously rocketed to second place in the nomination race among Republicans and first place among Tea Partiers in a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
"I saw Donald Trump kind of rising in some polls," Plouffe said. "I hope he keeps on rising because there's zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job."
"There may be a small part of the country that believes these [birthplace questions], but mainstream Americans think it's a sideshow," he said, adding that voters want leaders who focus on real issues.
Some Capitol Hill insiders were surprised by Plouffe's outburst.
"I'd guess the 'birther' stuff got under their skin," a top Republican aide on Capitol Hill said.....
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...”There may be a small part of the country that believes these [birthplace questions], but mainstream Americans think it’s a sideshow,” he said, adding that voters want leaders who focus on real issues”...
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First of all, how could an issue be more real than whether or not you have an imposter as President? Mainstream Americans are concerned about this. It is the “fringe” in government and media who want it covered up. And, what honest and upright person in their right mind could look at all the evidence and then, with a straight face say no cover-up exists. It is absolutely insulting and the rest of the world must wonder what kind of drugs we are on over here.
And, I agree with you, Ronin.
Issue arrest warrant for Plouffe. The charge: Conspiracy to defraud.
Yup, 0bama takes a poll before noting which way the wind is blowing in order to make a decision and take action.
I disagree with Mr. Trump using the word “minion” to describe Plouffy
Ploouffy is an 0bama lackey
Don’t every tell someone they can’t achieve a certain goal....it just gives them even more incentive to achieve it.
PROVE IT kenyan... or resign!
LLS
Apparently no one else does, though...
“...his minion, Mr. Plouffe, is being all too obvious with his attack on only me...”
World English Dictonary:
minion:
a favourite or dependant, esp a servile or fawning one.
a darling; a low dependant; one who pleases rather than benefits
dainty, pretty, or elegant
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I like peon, hanger-on, toady, lickspittle, flunkey, sycophant, apple-polisher, butt-kisser, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, brownnose, doter, fawner, flatterer, flunky, kowtower, puffer, sweet talker, sycophant or hireling.
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