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Back in August, my AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin asked much the same question. This was the response he received from Deal campaign spokesman Harris Blackwood:
“He began receiving letters and e-mails about this long before the president took office. He has maintained in response to each one that he believes the president was born in the state of Hawaii two years after it became a state, is an American citizen and therefore is fully qualified to be president of the United States.”
The highest level of opposition to the notion that Obama was born in the U.S. was found - no big surprise here - in the South, where the response was 47 percent yes, 23 percent no and 30 percent not sure. In every other region of the country, 87 percent or more of the respondents answered yes to the question of whether they believe Obama was born in the U.S. That dropped below 50 percent in the South.
Yea, a black guy in office was born in africa. That doesn't sound too easy, if not just plain racist to you?
And sorry friend, as to "personal attacks", that's exactly what you are doing to Obama even if you don't get it.
Originally posted by piddles
again, I think the birther argument is dumb
it's seriously a non-issue created and exploited by angry racists who can't believe there's a black guy in office, with many others following based on their political beliefs.
for crying outloud, must I reference the fake kenyan birth certificates (the second one was just embarrassing) to further discredit this movement?
and some other questions:
A member of congress believes an idea being backed by wingnuts? Is it possible that the member of congress is a wingnut as well? Just because one supposedly credible person might believe it or want to pursue it, it's automatically true?
A democrat is in office, suddenly the right wing is now a bunch of conspiracy theorists? Really? These professional liars are now preachers of and for the "truth"?
My patience with Obama has grown VERY thin but because of his policies, not because of this crap. Get a real issue!
edit:And shame on you for trying to sensationalize your topic by having the title in caps.
[edit on 7-1-2010 by piddles]
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
But I find such apparently singleminded vitriol to be disturbing, no matter what the subject.
The question? So what is left when the object focused upon is removed? I'm thinking there'll be a void.
Originally posted by Dock9
Exactly !
But strangely enough, one of Obama's first official acts, reportedly, was to SEAL all his records !
Originally posted by jibeho
I would be satisfied if Obama, the alleged recipient of a foreign student scholarhip, just released his application and transcripts from Occidental College. All anyone really knows about Obama is based solely on his own writings in his highly contrived memoir.
Originally posted by piddles
again, I think the birther argument is dumb
it's seriously a non-issue created and exploited by angry racists who can't believe there's a black guy in office, with many others following based on their political beliefs.
[edit on 7-1-2010 by piddles]
Originally posted by kozmo
Originally posted by piddles
again, I think the birther argument is dumb
it's seriously a non-issue created and exploited by angry racists who can't believe there's a black guy in office, with many others following based on their political beliefs.
[edit on 7-1-2010 by piddles]
DOH!!! There it is! I don't know if I should be amazed that only took 2 pages or that we made it all the way to the second page for the ignoramuses of the world to show up and play the race card!
Originally posted by jibeho
reply to post by maybereal11
I promise to go away when Barry produces his Occidental records. His whole adult life is a contrived mess. You can blame his mom and dad for that. His mother passed him around like a bad head cold.
right wing websites such as the WorldNet Daily (a right wing tabloid specializing in sensationalistic headlines and conspiracy theories) and Stormfront (the central White Supremacist forum board) began having almost daily discussions about the eligibility issue, but not about McCain, about Barack Obama.
April 02, 2009
AP- WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school.
The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.