Posted on 03/27/2011 4:10:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trumps 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, Youre fired.
However, Trumps 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 ABCs 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 magazines 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 Trumps 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." Weigels 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 ...
Ron Paul is good for nothing.
I'll block walk for Obama before I'll listen to another word troother boy has to say.
To quote Jim Rob:
Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07
Huckabee did say that. And, his answer was correct. No one needs to prove where they were born, or their citizenship to run for POTUS. There is no requirement anywhere to prove one’s birth or natural born status.
Huckabee didn’t say that that was a good idea. He said it as the fact it is.
OH what a tangled web we weave!
He would have made a great natural born American.
So how many times have you the village idiot have been told that Trump's mother was an American citizen at the time of his birth? Have you been told about 10 times or more?
LOL!
He may not be the son of Obama Sr. or Stanley Ann. Just a Kenyan orphan O Sr. talked SA into adopting. She would have gone for it in a NY minute.
Please correct my Post #66 if that is true??
Trump better beef up his security, if what happened to Gaddafi is any indication for doing the same!!!
If Trump brings down Obama over this he will have my vote.
Blogger David Weigels resignation from the Washington Post after emails he wrote disparaging conservatives were made public
In the latest emails from the list, Weigel joked about wishing for the death of Rush Limbaugh and accused Republicans of "racism." A spokesman for the Daily Caller said the reporter had been working on the story on for several weeks. The site crashed after the Drudge Report linked to it.
Sounds like Brian Lowry of Variety is indulging in the journalist equivalent of penis envy to boost sales of Variety.
This excretion passes for news in the USA and US j-schools. What penmanship (cough cough).
Why would he spend so much to buy Rangle?
Agreed...but he does spark real debate and stop the tired old “R’s” in their tracks sometimes.
The women in the race will also serve that purpose. I might have better use one of their names in my statement.
Many of our candidates are too much a part of the “old guard” and we can not seem to change the inner circle!
Edinva,
Why did John McCain have to prove his citizen status to run for President?
It’s just business.
I forgot to thank you for the ping. I appreciated it. You’re doing a good job, Papa Alinsky. Can’t say the same for the SP. Trump seems to be driving him around the bend. I can understand that. I always, *always* knew Obama’s jig would be up sooner or later. I had no idea it would be Trump who called his hand. Unexpected, but hey, I’ll take it.
Count me among those who absolutely, positively not just believes, but KNOWS Trump wouldn’t have stirred this pot unless he already knew exactly what was on the BC. Fascinatingly, Trump remarked he believes it exists. Tha was his way of telling Abercrombie/Hippo Mouth that the story about there being no original LF is BS. His remark, ‘there’s something on it he doesn’t like’ was Trumps way of putting the fear into Obama. This man, Trump, plays for keeps.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if his whole, ‘I may run for POTUS’ idea was predicated on having eyeballed a copy of Obama’s original BC. Trump’s eyes lit up as he read the line items, and he said, ‘I feel a deal coming on’.
It will only get better from here.
The Donald is the bomb and here’s hoping he drops a bomb on Obongo with the birth certificate. We shall see.
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