NOW, can we finally start talking about real issues?
The White House on Wednesday released President Barack Obama’s original “Certificate of Live Birth” from Hawaii amid persistent questions about his citizenship.
The long-form birth certificate, which the White House requested, says Mr. Obama was born at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. The White House said Hawaii doesn’t generally release long-form birth certificates but did so at the president’s request.
The administration previously released a less detailed version of Mr. Obama’s birth certificate.
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the decision to release the document came because “the president was struck by how this was crowding out the debate” on the budget.” He added that “it became an issue that transcended” the Internet and conspiracy theorists and had moved into the mainstream.
“The president decided to do this…because this was a sideshow that’s distracting from” significant issues, Mr. Pfeiffer said.
“NOW, can we finally start talking about real issues?”
If President Obama had done this two years ago maybe we could have been talking about real issues all along.
“can we finally start talking about real issues?”
You’re kidding, right?
Does anyone think the Kool Aid Party wants real solutions to real issues?
There are so many things in life that requires a birth certificate, why should he?
Also, why do I think someone is going to be stupid and say, “but that is a certificate of live birth not a birth certificate…”
Congratulations Donald Trump, you forced Obama to provide “proof” that no white president is ever asked to do.
You must be so proud.
>> Taxed Enough Already Dude said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:20 am
>> Who discussed what he himself fanned.
Yeah, right, it was _OBAMA_ who fanned this nutcake nonsense.
Is there nothing you conservatives do, not matter how stupid, that you don’t blame on the liberals?
@ #3
There is no pleasing the Alfie right? If it don’t go the way he “believes” it should, come up with something else to ridicule.
Mr. Negativity needs to learn to just deal with it I think…
And all he had to do was release this 2 years ago. But since it was held back and played for all it’s worth, that tells me quite a few urchins held it back on purpose as a “don’t look over here” bullshit sideshow distraction.
I’m disappointed he released it. I used the issue as a sort of litmus test. Which side of the issue a politician fell spoke volumes.
>> # 9 TooManyPuppies said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:25 am
>> And all he had to do was release this 2 years ago.
He released his birth certificate two years ago. He fully proved his citizenship two years ago.
It absurd of you to blame Obama for the racist bullcrap of the Right.
I doubt this will do anything to appease the birthers. They’ve decided that they don’t like Obama and the birth certificate was just a way to try to get rid of him. They’ll just move to something else like claiming it’s a forgery or complaining the Hawaii isn’t a real state. Or that Obama is actually older than he claims and Hawaii wasn’t a state at the time of his birth….
Shit now everyone looking at my birth cert, drivers license or passport will know I am not Barack H. Obama. Shit, shit, shit, I got to get my ass downtown and buy new ID. That Trump is an a-hole.
How many WHITE politicians are going to be forced by the Right to provide their birth certificate?
None, is the smart bet.
>> Rob said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:33 am
>> I doubt this will do anything to appease the birthers. They’ve decided that they don’t like Obama and the birth certificate was just a way to try to get rid of him.
Not get rid. De-legitimize him.
Probably, they will start demanding to see his (long form official!) grades to prove he was not an Affirmative Action student at university.
I think all you right wing nut balls should go look at what was provided. It was more than legally sufficient to prove when and where he was born. If you hadn’t been so interested in making up shit it would never have been an issue.
So now you want to blame him because you were dumb asses and now everyone knows you made up lies about him?
Good Luck,
@greg Allen said, “Congratulations Donald Trump, you forced Obama to provide “proof” that no white president is ever asked to do.”
Not True.
Sitting Presidents who have had thier citizenship questioned:
· Martin Van Buren – First Language Dutch.. but also first President Born after the Declaration of Independence.
· Chester A Arthur – Some still claim he was not a citizen. Because like Obama his father was not born a US citizen.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_Presidents_have_had_their_citizenship_questioned#ixzz1KjZos0Ws
And there have been presidential candidates, even in recent history:
Presidential Candidates who have had their Citizenship Questioned
· Christopher Schurmann 1896 Election
· Charles Evans Hughes 1916 Election
· George Romney 1968 Election
· Barry Goldwater 1964 Election
· Lowell Weicker 1980 Election
· Roger Calero 2004 and 2008
· John McCain 2000 and 2008
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_Presidents_have_had_their_citizenship_questioned#ixzz1KjaKYbCs
Just correcting the record. This has been going on for the last 200 years. One side or the other uses it as a distraction from what is important, to whip up the “us vs. them” attitude that leads to the divisiveness that is evident through out our political history.
So to the birthers: Thanks for whipping up the sentiment that distracted us for so long.
To the President: Thanks for using the birthers to distract us for so long.
Novelty tee shirt sales in Kenya just nose dived.
YES WE CAN TALK ABOUT REAL ISSUES NOW! I will start.
1. War is making us poor.
2. Specifically, the so-called no fly zone on Libya is proving to be the lie it is — today NATO announced change in mission, which is now to take out Gaddafi.
The Ghost of Saddam Hussein says, NO SHIT, SHERLOCK! SUCKERS!
3. Syria, I’m looking at you…. some humanitarian aid is coming your way at the tip of a hundred NATO Tomahawks, A10s, and AC130s.
>> Alfred Persson said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:17 am
>> Setting traps for the feet of Americans is not something one expects from the President of the United States.
As usual, you got the truth completely backwards.
The Right stupidly fell into the trap of their own making.
Obama giving-up his “long form” birth certificate will be seen as a sign of weakness by conservatives and they will keep trying to de-legitimize the black man. And they will blame the liberals when it backfires on them.
#5 If you actually think this was ever a racial issue you need to be committed.
When people running for public office start hiding things a lot of people are going to want to know why. If people already have decided the guy has a habit of saying what ever seems to be convenient that is going to get much worse fast.
I don’t know what Obama really stands for and I’m not sure what he really believes in because the guy is more two faced than Janus. He’s at least six faced.
For reasons that escape me I still sort of like him. I just don’t believe anything he says about anything.
Jeff Lutz,
Wow, you really had to stretch for that one!
The one candidate I know of — John Mccain — makes me think the rest of your list is nonsense.
Nobody challenged John McCain’s legitimacy as an American. In fact, the Democrats WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY to be perfectly clear that his Panamanian birth would not be an issue.
>> deowll said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:47 am
>> #5 If you actually think this was ever a racial issue you need to be committed.
It is ABSOLUTELY driven by racism.
John McCain was born in Panama, for Pete’s Sake, and the right didn’t give two craps about that.
Obama fully proved his citizen long before the election and, yet, the racist Right could not accept that a black man could be fully American.
>> deowll said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:47 am
>> I don’t know what Obama really stands for and I’m not sure what he really believes in
That’s because you eagerly believe the lies the Right Wing media say about him.
He’s black! He must have a hidden agenda to destroy America!
Throughout this issue, I have always wondered why this President, due to his historic accomplishment, has not been more open with anything related to him, sort of ‘Washington Slept Here’ type stuff. I rationalized it with the Washington blood sport of ruining personal reputations and will await more openness once he leaves office in 2013 or 2017.
Wow, Publius, talk about a mixed message!
>> 1. War is making us poor.
Good point…
>> 3. Syria, I’m looking at you…. some humanitarian aid is coming your way at the tip of a hundred NATO Tomahawks, A10s, and AC130s.
… and yet you egg America into another war.
>> # 25 wirelessg said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:54 am
>> Throughout this issue, I have always wondered why this President, due to his historic accomplishment, has not been more open with anything related to him,
He wrote a friggin book about himself!
What more could you possibly want? Reality TV?
>> Taxed Enough Already Dude said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:57 am
>> Nut balls allege racism for every question Obama is asked.
Oh you poor conservative victims! All you want is to stick to the issues and we meanly call you racist!
What a bunch of whiners!
We call you out on racism when you are being racist.
If you stuck to the issues, we’d never call you racist.
>> Taxed Enough Already Dude said, on April 27th, 2011 at 6:57 am
>> Was it racial quotas, affirmative action, can he actually do anything beyond reading a teleprompter…we need to know…he clearly hasn’t demonstrated any competence so far.
Again with the racism.
Some white people insist that the dumbest ass white man is still smarter than the best black man.
Despite ample evidence otherwise — right before their eyes. Take the teleprompter issues. These racists have seen Obama speak without a teleprompter A HUNDRED TIMES and yet they insist that a black man can’t speak proper English.
And, yet, they thought Bush was a brilliant orator!
It’s SO CLEARLY racist.
Bush got into the best schools because of his rich and powerful family. To the racists this is not affirmative action. Obama get’s in on his own merit, and he is clearly a brilliant man, and they call him an idiot.
This is slap-every-black-person-in-the-face racist. \
And the conservatives will get all confused when they get 0.02% of the back vote next election! They’ll accuse the blacks of voting tribal!
Well, I gotta get to work.
Anyone willing to bet good money that the facts won’t shut up the racist birthers?
So we can expect Donald Trump’s certificate to be revealed when>>
Photo-shopped.
And the real issue is…he still sucks as president…big time.