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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Obama should also answer as to whether or not he was adopted and if he was an Indonesian citizen. Is his name legally Barack Obama or is it Barry Soetoro?
Is this why they also attack Gadaffi?
Perhaps Gadaffi told Obama he found it?
If a few more high-profile people had enough courage to ask the question, the rats would start jumping off the ship.
You don’t fire The Donald, The Donald fires you.
There is at least one American with balls left.
Just checking in to see which aisle-crossing, electron- balled male Republican was rushing to the Kenyan RaceMarxist’s aid.......
Trump, asking the questions that NO OTHER Republican candidate wannabe will ask.
K-daffy is probably his father.
One suspects that the WH might have a fine hand in organizing the attacks.
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I think it would be funny if Trump registered as a Democrat and then challenged Obama in the primaries. I’d love to see those debates. Are there no Democrats who will step up and throw their hat in the ring?
Didn’t Huckabee recently tell someone that you didn’t need to prove where you were born to be president? If so, what a bafoon.
I hope Trump gets all the spotlights on him like he was on a night time WW2 bombing raid over Germany.
Bachman and even Sarah Palin may be playing it too safe by not bringing this controversy up, fortune favors the brave and Trump is indeed braving against a very powerful entity that is like one of those parasites that lives in the human body and just does NOT want to be exposed or removed.
Too bad “the Donald’s” mother, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland.
He would have made a great “natural born American.”
I hope Trump keeps up the pressure. LOL!
I think it would be funny if Trump registered as a Democrat and then challenged Obama in the primaries. I’d love to see those debates. Are there no Democrats who will step up and throw their hat in the ring?
born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, NY (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Frederick Christ Trump, born October 11, 1905 in Queens, NY, died June 1999 in Queens, NY
Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912 in SCOTLAND, died August 7, 2000 in Queens, NY. Arrived in US October 5, 1935. Married January 1936. Naturalized as a US Citizen March 10, 1942.
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Donald Trump is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry.
Palin OTOH is already the media's favorite whipping post, so she needs to hit Hussein on issues the media has a tougher time defending.
Personally, I think that is what the hitch is in releasing his bc. He was adopted and became an Indonesian citizen.
I don’t know if a renounced foreign citizenship (if it was renounced) holds any water when running for the US presidency. No matter how young he was.
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