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Obama: Donald Trump's birth certificate talk helps me
The Los Angeles Times ^ | April 15, 2011 | James Oliphant

Posted on 04/15/2011 3:37:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The public revival of the so-called “birther” question among some Republicans plays to his political advantage, President Obama says.

Obama told ABC News interviewer George Stephanopoulos that Donald Trump and others are doing themselves no favors in persisting on the issue of the president’s background.

“I think that over the last two and a half years there's been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short-term for Republicans, but creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He doesn't have horns,” Obama said in the ABC interview.

“We may disagree with him on some issues and we may wish that you know, the unemployment rate was coming down faster and we want him to know his plan on gas prices. But we're not really worrying about conspiracy theories or-- or birth certificates. And so-- I-- I think it presents a problem for them.”

For Obama, the birth-certificate sideshow has become a punch line. Speaking at a fundraiser in Chicago Thursday evening, the president said. “I grew up here in Chicago. I wasn’t born here.” The crowd laughed.

“Just want to be clear,” he said. “I was born in Hawaii. But I became a man here in Chicago.”

Meanwhile, Trump is working the question of his GOP presidential aspirations to his full ratings-seeking advantage. He told Bill Carter of the New York Times Thursday that he may make some sort of announcement regarding his political future on his NBC show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

(And, he just got us to mention the show. He’s a genius.)

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Hawaii; Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2012; birthcertificate; certifigate; naturalborncitizen; obama; trump
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Yeah, that's why all the Obama allies in the world are attacking Donald Trump.
1 posted on 04/15/2011 3:37:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, Barry, it doesn’t.


2 posted on 04/15/2011 3:39:50 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, that is why they are giving Trump all this publicity. It helps their cause.


3 posted on 04/15/2011 3:40:09 PM PDT by Huck (This running things, kid. It ain't all gravy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Helps him what?


4 posted on 04/15/2011 3:41:20 PM PDT by madison10 (Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong..)
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“I was born in Hawaii. But I became a man here in Chicago.”

That's two lies right there.

5 posted on 04/15/2011 3:41:44 PM PDT by Big Bronson
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“Just want to be clear,” he said.

NOW I believe Trump!

6 posted on 04/15/2011 3:41:47 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Yeah right! So why has Barry spent $2 million in keeping his BC a secret? What is in there in his BC worth $2 million?


7 posted on 04/15/2011 3:43:17 PM PDT by Bridge_toofar (Trump/Bachmann 2012 will finish off the Kenyan socialist for good.)
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Obama can end this quickly, just tell the American people what hospital he was born in and who was present at the time of birth. That’s it. We will verify the information and if found true this matter is over. It’s all up to Obama.


8 posted on 04/15/2011 3:43:17 PM PDT by orinoco
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To: Big Bronson

So, he was born in Hawaii, but “reared” in Chicago - makes sense (LOL)


9 posted on 04/15/2011 3:44:20 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Huck

Yeah I’ve noticed Obama’s surging poll numbers and I’m certain that it’s because of Trump’s efforts to do something that Sarah, Mitt, Newt, Huck, et al have no spine to do. /s


10 posted on 04/15/2011 3:45:26 PM PDT by tatown (Obama is a turd)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: ‘I’m running scared, because I don’t know how to make it seem like a fringe issue anymore.’


11 posted on 04/15/2011 3:46:02 PM PDT by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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I want to see if we can get them close enough together to form a critical mass of ego and blow them both up.


12 posted on 04/15/2011 3:47:41 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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. . . most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He doesn't have horns,” Obama said in the ABC interview.

Strange that the "I", "I", "I" president is using the third person in that sentence.

13 posted on 04/15/2011 3:47:54 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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That’s why the Obamanation’s Gallup approval numbers are now at 41%, their LOWEST EVER.

Ha ha.

Trump is Zero’s worst enemy.


14 posted on 04/15/2011 3:47:57 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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It’s helping Barry so much, he hit a record low in the Gallup poll today.

Barry Dunham: lips moving, lies coming out.


15 posted on 04/15/2011 3:48:12 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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Exactly.

The BC and other questions about Obama’s past will push Obama into the 30s.
Americans know the country is going in the wrong direction. Obama hiding his past shows he’s “not one of us.”

Obama is a post-American president. Dems and the world thought that’s what they wanted. Huge unemployment, chaos in the middle east, runaway debts sinking us to 3rd world status.

Time to have a recognition of Americanism.


16 posted on 04/15/2011 3:49:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Jay see Obama's Gallup Poll numbers and asked him if the family bought that HYBRID Mini Van yet.

The CEO of two car companies should have some knowledge if they make one.

17 posted on 04/15/2011 3:49:29 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: tatown

Oh, there are definitely enough chumps out there to make Trump a popular candidate.


18 posted on 04/15/2011 3:52:47 PM PDT by Huck (This running things, kid. It ain't all gravy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess if it helps you, you and your surrogates can stop acting so defensive.


19 posted on 04/15/2011 3:54:28 PM PDT by Tempest (I put money ahead of people)
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Barry could always say that he was going out to his Volt to get the LFBC out of the glove compartment, but unfortunately, it was on fire.
20 posted on 04/15/2011 3:54:53 PM PDT by JPG ("2012 Can't Come Soon Enough" - Sarah Palin)
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