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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If Trump runs, couldn’t he also file a law suit for production of the original long for birth certificat? Knowing that would kill his chance to win, he could file the suit and force the issue of who has standing. Since he would be a candidate for the office of POTUS, that would give him standing more than anyone from past suits. I just wonder how the courts would look at that.
Maybe Trump is doing this so the issue will catch fire so as to be too big to ignore. And perhaps to force his dim supporters to finally look at THE 1 in ways that they don’t want to. Expose the brown clown for what he truly is, a usurper that is not constitutionally eligible to hold the office of POTUS.
Delusional on this one. Hillary would have to start raising money already for a primary. Not gonna happen.
The DONALD knows everything about this pile of SHIEET, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, the Arse in Charge of US, allegely!
PUTIN said along time ago at the alleged swearing-in, that anything we sign with this Putz will be in valid because HUSSEIN is an Illegal Pretender to the Office!
Imagine the Blackmail that is going on for HUSSEIN to try and keep his Pretators and Blackmailers at Bay!!
DISPICABLE THAT THE CHECKS AND BALANCES HAVEN’T PUT HUSSEIN and His Controllers in Prison for Life by NOW!!
Well, as I understand what Huckabee said, was that although the steps you stated are the steps required, those steps haven’t been followed in all cases.
Huckabee didn’t say that that was a good idea. He said it as the fact it is.”
Explain this. There's always been one way to prove ones citizenship. We are constantly having to prove it by submitting our birth certificates.
Even now fr a drivers license. I don't have my BC right right now. It's in the hands of the gov’t - in the process of obtaining a passport.
Can you people who are pontificating that a person doesn't have to prove their citizenship to be eligible for POTUS explain the eligibility clause in the Constitution?
Are you trolls or just ignorant?
“Eligibility Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution sets the principal qualifications one must meet to be eligible to the office of president. A president must:
be a natural born citizen of the United States;[27]
be at least thirty-five years old;
have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years. “
TRUMP knows everthing! To think that he is Naive shows one to be painfully Ignorant and and stupid as a Rock!
GOD BLESS THE DONALD TO SAVE AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Republican BootLickers never will do anything for AMERICA!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109363
she committed fraud and no one is going to do a thing about it.
A smart person knows the answer to an pointed question before he asks it. Trump is both smart and has the resources to have gotten the answer already.
Could that be due to daily coverage of Trump and Obama’s missing BC since Wednesday?
The truce is over between the WH and Fox News, which was in place since after the sacking of Van Jones and the Mao admiring Communications Director.
Delusional?
If you think Hillary doesn’t have the money and machine to raise more you are delusional and drunk.
I’ll even throw in moronic too.
When you are clawing your way up the ladder the bodies include both democrat and republicans. Business is business and it’s nothing personal and politics very seldom factor into it. But now, he’s going to find out the ‘personal’ ugliness that resides in the leftwing loonies.
The Donald probably has had close ties with some leftwing whackos but never realized it or cared because of his business focus.
He’s stepped into a totally different realm now.
do not swallow something just because you see it printed.!
EligibilityArticle II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution sets the principal qualifications one must meet to be eligible to the office of president. A president must:
be a natural born citizen of the United States;[27]
be at least thirty-five years old;
have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.
I was thinking maybe it's a time traveler or psychic trying to prevent the horror to come.
Is the pic on the left ‘bam?
It looks like Frank Marshall Davis.
Only ONE parent need be a US citizen, not both. Trust me, I know.
ARe you people getting paid to try to float this boat - that his mother wasn't a citizen.
Why do leave out the documentation that she became a citizen 2-3 years before The Donald was born.
Are you not informed or are you deliberately carrying water for the enemy?
Have you not read the MULTIPLE posts here that attest to her citizenship?
But I believe Obama’s communist mother was not legal age (and his alleged father was a Brit) when he was born.
It’s an unfortunate truth. You have to play to win in business. Part of the whole problem with campaign contributions in the first place...he likely donated to them to AVOID being targeted.
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