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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I agree. Trump wouldn’t ask a question unless he already knew the answer. Any good lawyer knows that. He may have found something as simple as Obama identified as Caucasian for race on his birth certificate. I could see his puppetmasters wanting to hide that since they were touting him as the first Black president. Without that, he would have simply been an unknown recently elected Senator, former community organizer, with no resume for the office of President.
British father and underage mother?? He is a Brit regardless of location of birth...laws in effect at that time.
Must be that he just is not going to divulge the actual father??? Would that really be worse than being an Indonesian citizen and never requesting his original citizenship be returned?
What a mess! I still wonder why Hillary gave in to him...she had this issue!
Oh I do too. He's getting the issue right out there ahead of the DNC campaign slime machine, and he won't be cowed either. My only fear is that it's just another self promotion of "The Donald" and he isn't serious about running.
HE IS NOT BLACK!!
Some old kill the messenger. Not sure that will work this time. The message. -Obama’s hidden background needs to be made public - will not go away. Soros media matters is also working overtime to smear any opposition.
Too bad “the Donald’s” mother, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland.
Too bad for you, birther! She was naturalized befor The Donald's birth!
TSK...TSK...TSK...Don't go away from your comfort zone, BIRTHER!
Accuse them of what you do! I invented that, jamese!
Papa Alinsky
The Donald did not get the memo that he, with all the rest of us, have no standing. You have no right to ask those questions. Well, I guess you can ask, but NOT in a court of law, and in any case, you are not deserving of any answer.
Is Naturalized before she was even carrying him enough for you? 2-3 years earlier? I think.
Since Trump is in tight with the Emanuel’s I am wondering if this was a shot across O’s bow in an effort to enhance Hitlery.
LOL, I thought you were talking about Donald Trump until you added the word "conservative".
• $7,000 to former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), the "liberal lion of the Senate"
• $7,500 to former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R)
• $5,500 to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) including $2,000 during his 2004 presidential run
• $5,000 to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)
• $4,000 to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
• $2,000 to former President George W. Bush (R)
• $1,000 to then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.)
Since the 1990 election cycle, the top 10 recipients of Trump's political contributions number six Democrats and four Republicans. Embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who was censured last year by his U.S. House colleagues, has received the most Trump money, totaling $24,750. The most recent contribution from Trump to Rangel was a $10,000 gift during the 2006 election cycle.
“I agree. Trump wouldn’t ask a question unless he already knew the answer.”
I also agree that Trump knows the answers before he asks the questions. Sure Donald will not let the Lib/Media attack him and will keep this going for all it is worth.
When did you finally admit that both parents have to be citizens for the child to be Natural Born?
Mr. Trump’s mother was naturalized before his birth. It is false to imply that Mr. Trump is not a natural born citizen. Please stop posting lies to FreeRepblic.com.
Personally I think it's either that , or he was financed by some leftist individual or group to which he's now beholden ($oros?)
Many think he got in on an affirmative action quota, if so did he list himself as black (or Indonesian/Asian) while his B.C. lists him as Caucasian.
So many questions, very few verifiable answers, and he's already been in the highest profile position in the world for 2 years!
Trump to base....Trump to base....over target....releasing bombs....
And let Ayres come out with proof he wrote Obama's autobiography....
Maybe he can team up with Trump to bring the usurper down...
Trump/Ayres on '12.............LOL
He was not donating ... he was “buying them”.
Carley, the connection to Hillary may have been more of the same. He explained it as a freindship(?) move on his part.
I do not support him as the final candidate, but would do so in the primary. I would like the fireworks it would cause. Ron Paul and some others are good for the party too.
I think what Huckabee was pointing out is that (until now at least) proof hasn’t been required, not that it shouldn’t be required.
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0's SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
What I would like to see are family photos that would show where Obama was at a particular point in time under the age of 2 years old. The type of pictures that show us other images in the background or foreground along with people.
We don't see any of those picture. Those pictures are being withheld on purpose. You should be able to guess why. This is what Donald Trump really wants to see along with all of us.
What. A. Liar.
Or is he really stupid enough to believe his own gibberish?
To the uninitiated, I’m talking about Jamese. He peddles lies all over Eligibility threads. There’s a possibility he’s just very stupid, and doesn’t know the stuff he’s posting is false. Suspiciously, though, no piece of misinformation he posts ever supports conservatism, though most of it in one way or another works in Obama’s favor.
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