Posted on 04/13/2011 2:18:04 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
Newly-installed Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has a message for Donald Trump and other so-called "birthers": Shut up!
Priebus, who's starting to score some fundraising and organizational victories inside GOP HQ, having taken over for controversial former Chairman Michael Steele, says the debate over President Obama's birthplace and whether he can be president is a huge distraction away from the party's effort to fight Democratic spending and tax plans.
In an interview, we asked if he, like Trump, is a birther. "I'm not," says Priebus. "I believe that the president was born in Hawaii." [Read 10 things you didn't know about Reince Priebus.]
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"I think that the entire issue gets me off track to what I really need to focus on which is how to beat him [Obama]," says Priebus. "And the reason I need to beat him is not because I'm the chairman of the RNC, or because I view this as some partisan endeavor that I'm on. I'm truly concerned about the future direction of our country. I'm very concerned about America. I'm concerned about the idea of America," says Priebus. "Look," he adds of Obama. "He's driving our country off a fiscal cliff, that's what he's doing."
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FURP.
Somebody remind we why I no longer contribute to the RNC?
I’m open to the concept of Obama having been born. I seem to remember a photo of him with a navel.
On the other hand, you can photoshop anything.
Please. The new GOP boss will soon find out he owns nobody.
Because the Republicans are in it neck deep.
Keep going Trump!
This issue becomes more understandable when it is made clear that based on Hawaii law and regulations the information in a COLB is, as a practical matter, meaningless.
The reason is that there are three (3) levels of information at least in the HI birth records, including original registraation info, the INDEX of data extracted, and the info requested and issued in a COLB, which may quite readily not conform to the original registration nor have been validated by any objective evidence.
There are multiple and myriad ways that the original registration information may have been filed other than a “normal” hospital birth registration. From a standard hospital birth affirmation, to legally allowed “late registrations” “registrations of foreign born children of Hawaii citizens” amendments and alterations of existing birth records, including to modify the existing record for ADOPTION which may include changing the fathers name on the original record. In consequence of these many variations, the original records may be SEALED and not thereafter subject to review at all. Information on the COLB from the modified or altered INDEX may not match in many instances the original registration information. Some original registrations do not require any third party verification but may be made on statement by a parent or other applying person, and if at all may be based on nothing other than a family bible entry.
But the most intriquing example of how a birth registration may have been made in Hawaii prior to 1972, is via a late birth registration (subject to later change or amendment) which at that time could be made solely at the discretion of the director of health on affidavit of a parent or guardian, possibly without any other confirming information. See: Hawaii code of regulations Public Health Regulations Chapter 8 former section 14. “Delayed Birth Registration” (”..additional evidence MAY [or may not] be required”). President Obama’s original Hawaii registration may well have been based on no more than a statement by his mother or grandparents under then existing law.
Whatever statutory legal presumptions may apply to a COLB under Hawaii law the simple truth is that due to the wide variety of manner and circumstances of registration, past lax evidentiary standards, potential for amendment and alteration such as by adoption, potential sealing of original records..and a COLB based only on Indexed data reflecting the revisions and nothing else.
A significant factor in continuing doubt as to Obama’s progeny is the unusual circumstance of no physician or hospital taking credit or being unequivocally named by Obama as his birthplace.
I’m truly concerned about the future direction of our country.
Good luck with that.
Don’t give these people one dime, let the hierarchy’s go it alone.
And the RNC becomes even less relevant to our world.
Alright. As you wish; good bye Republican Party.
How difficult is it to say, "No comment"?
ANYBODY, and I mean anybody, who refuses to make the connection between the possible con job done by this current president and the havoc he has wrought on America will never never never get any serious consideration from me for anything. No votes, no money, no encouragement, no positive feedback.
Unfortunately for the GOP that seems to include most of them......spinless gutless weenies.
I might even think that was a good idea if I thought they the plan or the stones to fight Obama on tax and spend.
Hey Reince—It’s OK if I call you Reince, right—Don’t bother calling me for money.
Obama is going to win in 2012. Because the GOP are basically clones.
Keep going TRUMP.They are all in a tizzy over this.The neighbors kid is asking questions about all this and I showed her Free Republic.She is checking everything out now.When teenage girls start asking questions the jig is up.
Every question posed, does not merit an answer.
STUPID, STUPID GOP.
They never learn.
You need to call out Zero for everything from all sides over and over and over again. What value does it have to dismiss the NBC issue? It is another issue to use to pound him over the head. It is not a distraction, or causing less emphasis to be placed on other issues, just as other issues are not distractions or causing less emphasis to be placed on the NBC issue. I really do not understand this in any way. Why surrender any ammunition you have on Zero? Hit him with everything you’ve got until you get him the hell out of office!!!
Maybe the GOP Boss should shut up. ...”Reince Priebus.” BTW, is that an American name? ;-)
Perfect answer:
“Though unsubstantiated by documentation, I believe 0bama was born in America.”
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