Obama Withheld Birth Certificate To Make Republicans Look 'Nuts'

[L. Coyote]

You have to admit, it worked :rofl:

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Tom Tancredo: Obama Withheld Birth Certificate To Make Republicans Look 'Nuts'
First Posted: 04/29/11 04:38 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/tom-tancredo-obama-withhe_n_855718.html


Conservative firebrand and former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo .....

....... long questioned where the president was actually born. When Michelle Obama described Kenya as her husband's "home country" in a speech in 2008, the anti-immigrant Tancredo responded, "If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?"

So one might think that the release of President Obama's long-form birth certificate would humble the birther and radio host.

Not so much. In fact, Tancredo took the opportunity to gloat.........

[nonperson]

1. Neither President Obama or anyone else needs to do anything to make Republicans look nuts

Republicans are nuts. They can't look any other way.

[murrayhillfarm]

2. Give them enough rope...

and sure enough....they hang themselves.

[Leftist Agitator]

12. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[murrayhillfarm]

16. Thanks! Actually have been here for 10 years or so.....hahaha!

This morning though, some qlitch has me put me back to "post # 1"....and as a non donater so cannot use many of the services. Too busy this morning to deal with it...so for now am just letting it be.

[Generic Brad]

31. Like Mitt Romney?

[shraby]

3. They are nuts..Obama released his birth cerificate long ago.

It's been on the web for a long time, they just wouldn't believe it was real..I repeat, they are nuts.

[Pirate Smile]

7. The one he released in '08 is the legally recognized one, not the one he released this week.

They need to just admit they are jackasses.

[kestrel91316]

11. Actually the certified copy he just released is legal in any court in the land.

But you just don't go releasing stuff like that willy-nilly. It's a fast ticket to identity theft.

The old one he released years ago is only legally valid in court if it is also CERTIFIED.

[Zorra]

4. Well...republicans already looked totally loony, but this is

a great joke he played on them.

[iamjoy]

5. Like Turning On A Light

when President Obama finally shared his long form birth certificate, it was like turning on a light - it made the cockroaches scurry and scatter for cover.

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[Raschel]

17. Like turning out the light when he was elected. They all came out of the woodwork. Soon to be the

minority. Suck on it, baggers. You will be surrounded by minorities.

:headbang:

[Arkana]

6. Guess it worked.

[Drale]

8. He released the long form to make them look even crazier

because he knew they would not drop the issue even after they where proven 100% wrong.

[kestrel91316]

9. I said more than once that he should do just that: withhold it all the way into

court, ensuring that birthers would incur huge legal expenses, and then finally whip it out. Case DISMISSED. With prejudice.

[Capitalocracy]

10. Well, there was sort of a tipping point...

I mean, wasn't it kind of an unusual situation, releasing the birth certificate publicly? Isn't this like something you're not supposed to do? If he did it on day one, the Republicans probably would've used that against him.

[Raschel]

13. So..what was the reason that EVERY OTHER US PRESIDENT IN HISTORY withheld theirs?

:smoke:

[MadMaddie]

25. Alex I will take What is "They were never asked because

they weren't black"? for $500.00!!

[IDemo]

14. Did they seriously need any help??

:shrug:

[TatonkaJames]

15. Don't be Ridiculous...

You do a great job all by yourselves.

[zbdent]

18. Do you mean releasing the birth certificate in 2008, the same one that,

except in the case of an "African-American" President who happens to be a Democrat, is valid in every way shape and form for 100 percent of everybody else born in Hawaii once it became a state?

(on the "birth certificate" issue, there's a side note ... I've heard about how the Gov't has allowed the family Bible to be used in place of a "birth certificate" in some instances ... no outcry there ...)

[GomezLives]

19. MIHOP or LIHOP??

[opihimoimoi]

20. Look at the entire GOP Party......what is it that makes these guys act so UnAmerican? So Fascist?

No empathy ?

[stuntcat]

21. this was my first thought about it all

how they were allowed to go all the way, showing their true colors.

[guruoo]

22. knr nt

[Motown_Johnny]

23. He should have let this drag out into the (R) primary season

and maybe even until they had their nominee


I see very little advantage in releasing the document now.

[goodnews]

24. BULLSHIT!! It simply distracted people from the shit he is doing in the

Mid-East and elsewhere.

I mean you have this pop-up politician Trump, pop up out of nowhere spark an idiotic asinine debate over all kinds of worthless shit, and Obama tries to look clever making these idiots look stupid.

What a crock of BULLSHIT!!

The whole thing was a theatrical farce that serves the corporatocracy (read: Obama and his Repukee cronies "George Bush is a Patriot") well by wallowing in gotcha politics. FUCK EM' ALL!! :mad:


Edited for punctuation and spelling.

[MadMaddie]

27. So the Republican's demanding his "Long Form" birth

certificate was instigated by President Obama working with the Republicans to distract the citizens from knowing what is going on?

Really? Are you that desperate with your hatred that you don't get that it is racism that was driving this whole pathetic event? If you don't get it you never will.

Carry on....with your hatred....nothing anyone says or does will change your mind.

I am African American and this kind of shit is no surprise from the Republicans but not to be recognized for what it is by so called Liberals/Progressives is disappointing.

It really is as simple as racism, it's not complicated. Now they go after his education success, no one dragged out Juniors pathetic school history and military service joke. And yet it is okay to attack, drag out, demean and disrepect a black man who actually did succeed.

Blech...what a waste of time.

[goodnews]

30. Why not? Certainly both the Repukes and Obama see the benefit

of this Bullshit to detract from relevant issues.

The Repukes love it when the dems scream racism, and you have to admit, it let's Obama off the hook as the victim, etc.

I'm certainly not denying that racism was driving the event, but that is precisely what the Repukes do to stir up raw emotions.

I contend that both parties are corporatists that is they serve the same moneyed interests and they are very adept at keeping the focus off of their crimes.

[proud patriot]

26. they don't need help in that department

:rofl:

[ThomWV]

28. Obama didn't 'withold' anything, the state of Hawaii did, as a matter of a person's right to privacy

President Obama didn't withhold his birth certificate from anyone, the state did.

[FrenchieCat]

29. The correct birth certificate had been released years ago.

The fact that some weren't satified is their racist ass problem.

7 President had a foreign born parent. Pres. Obama is the first and only
one asked to prove he was born here.

Fuck 'em racist assholes.