Posted on 03/27/2011 4:10:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trump’s calls this week for President Barack Obama to release his birth certificate prompted negative reactions from pundits who would like to turn the tables on Trump and say, “You’re fired.”
However, Trump’s comments, made most recently in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, also garnered support from those who wonder why Obama has not supplied documentation of where he was born.
Trump rekindled the longtime controversy Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” when he said Obama was “probably” born in the United States, but he wants the president to prove it with a birth certificate.
As for the critics, Brian Lowry of Variety got personal. “More than anything, Trump looks like a buffoon — an egomaniac hopelessly addicted to the spotlight, floating the prospect of a presidential run to a gullible media to boost interest in himself and ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’" Lowry wrote on the magazine’s website.
“Moreover, he seems in complete denial about the fact that his NBC show crested some time ago. Seriously, 8 million viewers or so is ‘through the roof?’ Only if the ceiling is about three inches above your head.”
David Weigel of Slate magazine took up Trump’s challenge to show him a photo of Obama as a child. “I've seen 14-year-old,” Trump said. “I've seen 13-year-old. I haven't seen early pictures." Weigel’s column includes a photo of Obama as a child that appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 2008.
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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a friend of Obama's parents in Hawaii who said he remembers when the future president was born, first vowed to produce an original copy of the president's birth certificate this year.
But he abandoned those efforts because it is against state law to release private documents, CNN quoted his spokeswoman as saying.
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As an American citizen I must prove I am legal American citizen before I can exercise my right to bear arms. So I see no problem with asking a person to prove they are a American citizen to run for office. The leftist aka progressives brought this crap around in the name of making America safer. So what is good for the goose. Is good for the gander.
He really resembles Frank M Davis in this photo.
I love even more that he is getting under their skin...especially Whoopi...who is at least as smart as Bill O'Reilly.
I never thought he looked like Malcolm X but was he in Mombasa Kenya in ‘61?
Whoopie tried to get us to believe "NO WHITE PRESIDENT EVER HAD TO SHOW...."
All our presidents births were verified, except obummers..
Even McCain had to have his verified again in the courts when he was running.
Papers verifying a candidates eligibility is to be filed with each state.<[p>Pelosi changed the wording and submitted illegal papers. She signed them. she needs to be charged with fraud.
No one has done a thing.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109363
too many FREEPERS don't do their homework. We have to have these FACTS at our fingertips, folks.
That's all he still is.
All your points are excellent. Like you, I’m less that sure Trump really wants to run for POTUS. Obviously I can’t prove that Trump has seen the LF BC. I’d bet he has, though. Time will tell if I’m right. Bear in mind, though, that if he has it he didn’t come by it officially. So he can’t just pull it out of his pocket and wave it around. I think he’ll eventually get it out into the public arena. It’s only going to get more interesting from here.
Keep spinning Obot.
We know for a fact that Obama was a Kenyan citizen up to the age of 23. Obama told us on his campaign website that he lost his Kenyan citizenship at 21 years old, but research showed us that according to Kenyan law, he had it for at least 2 more years. And there is a high possibility that Obama had and may still have an Indonesian citizenship.
He looks exactly like Staney Ann’s father.
You really think anyone can claw their way to the top in business like The Donald has doesn't know every, hasn't been subject to , hasn't used some himself, every trick in the book.
I also suspicion he knows where a lot of bodies are buried...people suck up to people with the power and money Trump has...espcially when they never, in a coons age, thought he'd ever jump into politcs.
He's no neophyte.
If it were only Trump running against Obama, there would be no debates.
I think you are wrong about the presidential verification in the past...a Canadian?
I do stand corrected on not having the facts concerning the amendment to McCain’s approval that I mentioned Obama had sponsored. I can not seam to locate that thread and did not capture the actual documents.
The letter sent to Florida constituents who asked our officials stated the issue was well understood by the electorate and they had voted for him. To remove him was to disrespect the will of the voters! What hogwash!
I don’t think so.
Looks exactly like mom and her father.
Despicably corrupt media, courts and politicians refusing to do their jobs for the American people. If no one questions a crime, is it then not a crime because the perpetrators got away with it?
Police say using a fake ID can lead to big problems in the future
"That goes on your record. If your employer runs your name and sees you misrepresented yourself with an identification card, it kind of goes back to that employer questioning your honesty and integrity. A lot of people take the chance. They don't think about the consequences," Kaveney says.
That's a lot more plausible than Trump doing this for the Dems or Hillary. Laws like ObamaCare and other Marxist and anti-business laws have pushed Trump. Trump is a capitalist, and capitalists are a natural enemy of the Marxist Democrat Party.
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