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Palin: Birthers Have Fair Question

Posted by DFO

Dec. 4, 2009 9:46 a.m. • 22 comments

In an interview with conservative talk show host Rusty Humphries, Sarah Palin was asked whether she would make an issue about President Obama’s birth certificate if she ran for president in 2012. Said Palin: “I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers… I think it’s a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records — all of that is fair game”/Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire. More here. And here. H/T: Lizard People and Moscow Minidoka.

Question: Do you still think that President Obama’s birth certificate is any kind of an issue today?

22 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

bpoole on December 04 at 9:59 a.m.
Move on! With the amount of time and energy these people have spent on this issue they should have found something by now; the records aren’t hard to separate. If they spent this much time and energy on something productive they might have been able to get something accomplished.
JeanC on December 04 at 10:16 a.m.
Only for those people who need to get a life.
moscow_minidoka on December 04 at 10:17 a.m.
I believe that Obama’s original Kenyan birth certificate was in Vince Foster’s blazer pocket. That’s why Hillary Clinton had to kill him.
nic on December 04 at 10:21 a.m.
“Only for those people who need to get a life.”

No, now, Jean… those people do have a life. It might not be a thrilling life, or very fulfilling, butit is a life. And by golly, we gotta make sure they do not fall victim to Obama’s death panels!
lewis8457 on December 04 at 10:56 a.m.
no issue he is the president get over it, next question………
Cis on December 04 at 11:08 a.m.
I hate the show of ignorance
Fixer on December 04 at 11:25 a.m.
Ahh, she’s killin’ me…..

I’d like Sarah to prove that she was actually born on Earth.
nic on December 04 at 11:32 a.m.
Fixer… I’m pretty sure she was born in Sandpoint. I’m also confident that her first words were “I can see Canada from here.”
Joker on December 04 at 11:35 a.m.
Here’s a little checklist to find out if Obama’s birth certificate matters to you.

1. You believe the U.S. government demolished the World Trade Center towers.

2. You believe the U.S. Government has implanted computer chips in everyone to control our thoughts and actions.

3. You believe the U.S. Government is spraying the atmosphere with chemicals through its Air Force jets.

4. You believe the U.S. Government is going to seize all guns and ammo and declare martial law any day now.

5. You believe the U.S. Government uses flouride in the water is a form of mind control.
Sisyphus on December 04 at 11:57 a.m.
“I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that.”—the public? Members of the electorate? Nice try at mainstreaming the kooks. This quote is precisely why she cannot be taken seriously as a presidential candidate.
fortboise on December 04 at 12:06 p.m.
It serves the same purpose as the storied No-Pest Strip.
zelda on December 04 at 12:11 p.m.
Hey, check this one out — http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/did-asians-scare-palin-out-of-hawaii/palintology/?cid=hp:mainpromo1 . Palin says she left Hawaii Pacific Univ. after only one semester because “Hawaii was a little too perfect. Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.”

Her father, on the other hand, said the reason was she was uncomfortable around Asians and Pacific Islanders: “They were a minority type thing,” her father says, “and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”
hhuseland on December 04 at 12:20 p.m.
The birth certificate is only an issue if he refuses to show it. One wonders how he can travel internationally without a passport, which requires a b/c.
Sisyphus on December 04 at 12:40 p.m.
“One wonders how he can travel internationally without a passport, which requires a b/c.”—one does? Perhaps if you can stretch that organ from ‘wondering’ to actual critical analysis maybe you can come up to the obvious conclusion. He has a birth certificate. He has shown it to a variety of sources who’ve analyzed the hell out of it, including his highly motivated political opponents, both Democrat and Republican. He has a passport so he satisfied the State Department. The keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention was the Republican governor of Hawaii who has vouched for the validity of the birth certificate. And every lawsuit seeking to challenge it has been tossed.

Get over yourselves. He’s been elected president. You can’t change that. Ever.

Not that facts ever matter to you guys.
moscow_minidoka on December 04 at 1:43 p.m.
It’s like people asking NASA to *prove* that they landed on the moon. How much more proof do you need? The only people who say things like “then why doesn’t he show it?” or “where’s the birth certificate?” are people who are so fixated on the ridiculous conspiracy theory that they fail to recognize the very clear evidence right in front of their noses.

To be ignorant is one thing - but to be willfully ignorant even after being proven wrong is something completely different.
Phaedrus on December 04 at 2:01 p.m.
Now can I see Trig’s birth certificate?
zelda on December 04 at 2:34 p.m.
There are people who cannot accept randomness or coincidences in life. Most of their operating knowledge comes from what others have told them. They think that someone, somewhere has a masterplan for how it all works. That guy is Dan Brown. Surely he knows the truth about the president’s birth. And then there’s Michael Crichton — he’s got a new book out and he’s dead.

Until recently, I hadn’t encountered this kind of paranoia first-hand. I had my first face-to-face experience a few days ago with two 911 conspiracy theorists. So the story goes that what hit the Pentagon was an errant U.S. missile fired by a panicked military person who though he saw something that wasn’t there. It couldn’t have been a jetliner, they said, because if it were, there would have been some wreckage — at least part of the tail section. No wreckage was ever found. (false) So I asked, “What did they do with the dozens of people onboard this supposed phantom airliner? Lock them up in an underground bunker and pay all their relatives millions of dollars to never say a word about it?”

That pretty much killed the conversation, though I have to say this couple gave me pitying looks like I was uninitiated into the true contents of the X-Files. They walk among us.
spokelooneh on December 04 at 2:39 p.m.
Welcome back my friends to the horror/freak show that never ends!

Go Birthers!

Go Saracuda!
Sisyphus on December 04 at 3:04 p.m.
Oh my. She went on her Facebook page last night and made the following defensive and false comment: “Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask… which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.”

But, but, but I thought it was a fair question? How could it be fair if you didn’t think it had some merit? (wink)

Hey Dave, how come this guy gets an interview and you don’t?
spokelooneh on December 04 at 3:16 p.m.
Sarah, the princess of pandering.

Rusty got an the interview because he’s a crazy inflammatory hate talk jock.
OrangeTV on December 04 at 3:22 p.m.
I highly doubt she actually believes that crap. She’s only saying it to pander to her adoring fans, she’s saying exactly what they want to hear and they’re eating it up. It’s all showbiz. I wouldn’t exactly use the word “smart” but let’s just say she is savvy at marketing her image, her brand. She’s a pop star like Madonna, except without the musical genes or flashy attractiveness. And instead of gay men and teenage girls, she appeals to raging conspiracy theorists and the aging soccer mom set who think she’s “gutsy” and just a “regular gal”.

She knows she’ll sell a couple hundred more books if she stirs up another yawn-worthy, recycled controversy and ends up yet again the subject of discussion on countless blogs like this one and talking-head news shows.

Does she REALLY believe Obama is a fascist Islamist born in Bora-Bora or whatever it is? Extremely doubtful. Marketing baby!

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