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Posted on 05/07/2010 2:24:03 PM PDT by curiosity
Now this is surprising: According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, about one in three so-called "birthers" - those who erroneously believe President Obama was born outside of the United States - nonetheless approve of the president's job performance.
Fourteen percent of those surveyed in the poll volunteered that Mr. Obama was born in another country, a figure that rose to 20 percent when pollsters explicitly offered that as a possibility.
That means roughly one in five Americans could be considered a birther, according to the poll. It showed that about one in three conservatives and Republicans believe the president was born abroad. Fifteen percent of Democrats agree.
Yet it's worth noting that about half of these birthers cast their position as just suspicion, not a firm belief. The rest (about nine percent of Americans overall) say there is "solid evidence" that the president was born abroad.
As has been repeatedly shown, Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. Birthers have suggested that Mr. Obama is not eligible for the presidency because he fails the constitutional requirement that the holder of the office be a natural born citizen.
Overall, 68 percent of those polled said without being prompted that Mr. Obama was born in the United States. Another nine percent said that was their "best guess," bringing the non-birther total to 77 percent.
People who have not gone past high school are far more likely to say the president was born abroad (24 percent say so) than those who have post-graduate degrees (13 percent).
In a CBS News survey taken last month, 58 percent of Americans said Mr. Obama was born in the United States, while 20 percent said he was born elsewhere. Just 41 percent of Tea Party supporters said Mr. Obama was born in America.
Maybe some, but I've always thought there were also a lot of people who just don't know that if he were born outside the U.S., he would not be eligible. If they knew that, they wouldn't change their minds about his eligibility, they'd change their minds about where he was born. I'd like to see a poll that started with the eligibility requirement and then asked people where they thought he was born.
The admission that even some Democrats think he might be born outside of the United States actually undermines him. It means that even some of his supporters agree that he is not or may not be eligible for office.
Yes, in several hospitals in fact. Maybe that sentence should read:
"As has been shown, Mr. Obama was born repeatedly in Hawaii in 1961."
The record companies had their chance and blew it. They could have built a digital distribution infrastructure that gave people a chance to pay a fair price for music, but they ignored the technology (except for lawsuits) and dragged their feet. The original Napster operated from 1999 to 2001 and demonstrated the market for digital downloads. But not until Apple opened the iTunes Music Store in 2003 did people have an easy option for buying music online. That was at least 4 years during which the record companies could have built their own stores, but didn’t. If they had, maybe people wouldn’t have grown so used to taking stuff for free.
They could also have figured out a way to let you “trade in” your old music for the new format. Turning a vinyl album into an MP3 is tricky, but I’ve done it; but it’s a lot easier to look for the album online and download it instead.
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I don’t believe this.
The truth is more like this: Even though these people believe Obama was born outside the U.S. 33% think its okay, despite the Constitution, that a foreigner is president.
Clearly these people are either ignorant of the Constitution or believe that because he was born somewhere else that makes it all more acceptable to them.
They should have suggested a Constitutional change in the works to only allow Latinos to run as VP, and see how many of the same folks think that’s ok or cool. They could even suggest another Constitutional change in the works to sanction Arizona and remove it as a state (back to territorial status). I’m pretty sure thirty percent of the public would be that’s possible and true.
Maybe, but the snottish elitist who wrote this thinks any article on the Birthers discredits all those white rednecks who live in flyover country, regardless. And boy, do they hate and have contempt for "those" people.
Do you actually think he cares?
Judging by his actions, it seems that, far from being worried about it, he finds the birther movement mildly amusing.
For any Obot that is checking us out, if I is lying, SO IS MICHELLE!
December 2007 fundraiser: Michelle says OBAMA IS KENYAN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnS7L8mnOo0
2008 Michelle says: Obama HOME COUNTRY is KENYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XsO9I6swg
I had an encounter with a 0zombie recently. She keyed up my beat up old truck because she didn’t like my FUBO bumper sticker. Funny thing was I was walking toward her as she got out of her car. I’ve never hit a woman but for this thing I would have made an exception.
Since I couldn’t hit her I cleaned the windows of her fancy auto with acid etch.
I’ve found that 2 out of 3 afterbirthers are Obama supporters here on Free Republic.
Heh heh heh...
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