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Trump Attacked for Demanding Obama Birth Docs
Newsmax ^ | Friday, 25 Mar 2011 05:01 PM | Dan Weil

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


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To: trailz

She was a citizen before Donald was born.


141 posted on 03/27/2011 6:13:45 PM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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To: 3D-JOY
...What a mess! I still wonder why Hillary gave in to him...she had this issue!

Obama probably has something on the Clintons like maybe Hillary's husband killed Vince Foster in the White House? Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton's WH Chief of Staff, now heads the CIA and Hillary is SOS. They made a deal, Obama and Hillary, but why? Can you come up with another reason? I guess we'll never know. :(

142 posted on 03/27/2011 6:16:04 PM PDT by circumbendibus (Obama is an unconstitutional illegal putative president. Quo Warranto in 2011)
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To: GlockThe Vote

As someone said the other day, Trump does NOT ask a question he doesn’t already know the answer to.


143 posted on 03/27/2011 6:17:00 PM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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To: CaptainK
Trump, asking the questions that NO OTHER Republican candidate wannabe will ask.

At this point, I have to question anyone's intelligence, judgment and possibly their patriotism if they aren't asking those questions about obama.

144 posted on 03/27/2011 6:17:17 PM PDT by GBA (Those who die with the most liberty...Win! Ever Vigilance: For the children.)
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To: Graybeard58
I am not familiar with the site and should have listed it: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/02/donald-trumps-donations-to-democrats.html

I am not familiar with the website but this should be easy to verify.

Why are we even discussing Trump on a republican ticket?

Good question!

145 posted on 03/27/2011 6:17:26 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: TigersEye
I don't think Trump wants to be president I think he wants to take this jug-eared buffoon down before he destroys our economy. With what is hurtling down the tracks right now even The Donald could be living under a bridge in the near future. And I think he loves this country but I would never vote for him.

Totally agree. That's been my take from the beginning.

But he will be invaluable on the stump for that very reason that he doens' intend to be, doesn't want to be, POTUS.

Along with that, his total disregard for PC, his business acumen and his connections, are going to be powerful in getting information 'on the floor' for all to see.

No one can buy him, no one can intimidate him. I think he's scaring the bejebbers out of the left.

146 posted on 03/27/2011 6:17:38 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("We stand together or we fall apart" mt)
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To: True Republican Patriot

Yes indeed. Imagine what’s been done, being done and not being done just to keep obama’s secrets. Must go pretty high up the food chain...


147 posted on 03/27/2011 6:20:21 PM PDT by GBA (Those who die with the most liberty...Win! Ever Vigilance: For the children.)
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To: TigersEye

Not in baby photo. Now. Same face, ears.


148 posted on 03/27/2011 6:21:01 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Suit yourself.


149 posted on 03/27/2011 6:24:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Eaker

I’m guessing one or more of his buildings are in Rangel’s district.


150 posted on 03/27/2011 6:26:03 PM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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To: Red Steel

Does Trump understand the ‘natural born citizen’ theory?
Somebody should enlighten him.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaNaturalBorn.htm


151 posted on 03/27/2011 6:28:59 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: maine-iac7
Trump doesn't care what anyone says about him. In fact I think he gets a kick out of controversy. With one foot firmly planted in the entertainment industry publicity like this is worth millions. In the real estate/development business anyone who wants to do business with him isn't going to give a rat's patoot what popular opinion of him is either.

He's not begging people in either industry to give him a chance.

152 posted on 03/27/2011 6:29:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: RummyChick

I thought of that too.

First off I’ll say that I could support The Donald in the absence of any other viable R candidate.

Secondly, even Hillary would be 10 times better than Obama, and I can’t believe I just said that.

Trump could be a stalking horse. Very possible. However, he has considered running in the past so it’s not out of the question that maybe he does want to be President.


153 posted on 03/27/2011 6:31:37 PM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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To: jamese777
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154 posted on 03/27/2011 6:33:28 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: 3D-JOY

I think that’s what sunk George Romney.


155 posted on 03/27/2011 6:35:18 PM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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To: maine-iac7
I am trying to clarify what you mean...what do the requirements you post have to do with state controlled elections. There are several statements saying the states have the authority and responsibility to place the names on the ballot.

Are you saying there were not 2 versions of the certification? The response of the agency seems to confirm there were.

Maybe you are saying you do not like that whole line of thinking and the foreign press angle??? I try not to believe anything just because it is printed.

156 posted on 03/27/2011 6:37:47 PM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: nhwingut
Has a doctor, nurse and any hospital admin come forward?

They can't, unless they want the penalties for violating the HIPAA privacy rule. Up to 250,000 fine, 10 years in prison.

157 posted on 03/27/2011 6:45:10 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: sometime lurker

I don’t think that a birth is covered by HIPAA. If you call a hospital and ask if so and so has been admitted they will tell you. It’s not a privacy issue.


158 posted on 03/27/2011 6:48:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Eaker

She didn’t have the money or machine to beat a one term senator with no experience, what makes you think she can beat a sitting president? But I am open for a gentleman’s bet. If Hillary runs for president in 2012, I will buy you a case of beer. If she doesn’t, you buy me one. Fair?


159 posted on 03/27/2011 6:49:30 PM PDT by Lachisula
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To: Sacajaweau

“.....So running as a black would be a fraudulent call
for the black vote.”

While actions he may have taken might constitute
what we or even the law could consider fraud I
wouldn’t expect that to hurt his support within
the black community. The vast majority of that
demographic is sympathetic to anyone (except a
conservative) who gets one over on a system they
consider historically unfair.


160 posted on 03/27/2011 6:50:26 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal Red Turf)
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