Posted on 08/04/2010 5:58:45 PM PDT by Nachum
Today is President Barack Obama’s 49th birthday, which, since his ascent to the presidency, has become somewhat of a faux holiday for the birther movement, who don’t seem to believe this is his birthday. In celebration, CNN released a poll showing that a quarter of Americans believe the President was not born in America. To Chris Matthews, this quarter of Americans is “the worst kind of citizen.”
Matthews tore into the long-debunked birther movement in his “Let Me Finish” segment today, calling them “the most un-American of people” for discriminating against the President based solely on, as he puts it, “not because of where he was born, but because of what race he was when he was born” (it is to be assumed that Matthews doesn’t mean the 31% of birthers that approve of President Obama, according to a recent ABC poll). He outlined the blatant fallacies in the general birther argument– the fact that we have seen a copy of Obama’s certificate, and the slim likelihood that there were “people around in 1961 who wanted to create this presidency 49 years later, who were determined to have someone who was only about to be born elected to lead this country.” “They know full well the President was born in America,” he concluded, “they just want to destroy him personally.”
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OMG...It’s her again. Why can’t she just stay home?
Where’s the birth certificate, Chris?
when you are a racist, in your mind it’s always about race.
I hate it when Tingles is menstruating.
Sounds like an admission that Obama is not who he pretends to be.
Chris Matthews: beware of flying spit.
Barry’s “tingle” has turned Chrissy into a real drama queen.
“long-debunked birther movement”
Oh really? That is news to me.
If anything, it becomes more obvious every day that Obambie was not born in Hawaii.
We need that BC.
Just show us the birth certificate and all this will go away.
Poor, poor Chrissy. He knows better. He’s just trying to distract us.
Gotta watch it with the sound off, though.
Is it definite that Obama is 49 years old?
If Chris Matthews were an honest individual rather than a paid shill, he’d have to admit he doesn’t even know what our President’s legal name actually is.
“They know full well the President was born in America,” he concluded, “they just want to destroy him personally.”
No, they don’t, no one knows for sure. And if “destroying him personally” is what we have to do save our country, so be it.
Chris Matthews is the worst kind of talk show host--he substitutes one-sided whining for reasoned (even if subjective) discussion, and clearly dislikes those who don't share his retarded worldview. And he can't get ratings.
Even if I did believe Obama was born in the USA, I’d say I didn’t just to piss fat LIbs like Chrissy off.
If the birthers’ claims are “lies,” then why not show the birth certificate and shut them up?
Exaggerate much, Chrissie?
I go back to one simple truth. Obama could have stopped all the birther stuff in its tracks a long time ago if he’d produced a valid birth certificate way back before the election instead of a clearly photoshopped fake posted on a liberal website.
He chooses not to. The way I see it, all the controversy is on him and he deserves no sympathy if it becomes urban legend.
What we see is all anyone is going to get. Although non-birthers will wish they can shove a definitive document in the birthers faces, there will always be a private thought of wanting to believe the exotic tales, probably told to him as a child, of being born in some brilliant land...
I think that the “birthers” may be wrong here. He was born to an American mother. I think he’s hiding the fact that he has dual citizenship, which makes him an illegal president.
I am birther.
Gee..Hissie, what’s the big deal about wanting to see the Kenyan Impostor’s birth certificate.
I am birther.
Gee..Hissie, what’s the big deal about wanting to see the Kenyan Impostor’s birth certificate.
Used to be people got fired for trying to incite a race war, but I guess it only counts if you actually have more than 5000 leftist imbeciles in your audience.
I do want to see this POS destroyed, before he has a chance to finish off destroying the country!
Chris Matthews wouldn’t say these things if his father Herb was still alive.
Kinda like the "discredited" Swift Boat Vets or the "racist" Tea Party, eh? Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes a fact to some people.
What's funny about all of this is that these same pro-Obama shills would be doing exactly the same thing the so-called "birthers" are doing, had it been President John Sidney McCain in the White House.
How can an unanswered question be a lie?
Apparently, this is proof that Missouri is racist.
The fact that this is still news tells me somethings fishy. How Baraq’s record got so thoroughly scrubbed is a testament to the power of the MSM.
No...I want to see his college records...Get those and you’ll have all u need to know....
He should put a dirty sock in his pie hole.
College records don’t necessarily reflect country of origin, especially back in the day. I can’t remember one question about my country of origin on any college application, just the state of current residence. This was back in the 60s.
Of course he is!....The fact he went to Pakistan when no American citizen could proves that!....beyond a shadow of a doubt!!!!!
Nah, we’re trying to assassinate him with HIS lies.
lol
nice try Matthews.
But you yelling racist, isn’t going to shut us up anymore.
Chris Mathews focused attention on the birth certificate to distract public attention away from the real issue. Whether or not Barack Hussein Obama has a real or forged birth certificate does nothing to change the fact his father’s British citizenship made Barack Hussein Obama the junior a natural born British citizen and therefore ineligible to also be a natural born U.S. citizen owing no allegiance to a foreign sovereign at birth. This fact of birth has nothing whatsoever to do with race, since it was written by the Founding Fathers to bar ANY person of whatever race from serving as the commander-in-chief of the American Army with a potential at birth for divided allegiance and divided loyalties to the citizens of the United States to whom an undivided loyalty is owed.
No he isn't.
The records would show if he was a foreign student, i.e. received foreign aid to go to college...?
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