Posted on 12/06/2009 10:34:04 PM PST by bogusname
Given the media’s meme that anyone who even brings up the question of Obama’s citizenship (or lack thereof) is a “racist” causing the press to go into full attack-mode against anyone who dares bring it up, I was surprised she gave even a small hat tip to the validity of the question.
Palin is the one person right now who can change public perception of Obama and cause significant damage to his public image. I can’t see her delving headfirst into the birther issue or demand Obama produce his qualifications; Palin is too smart for that. What she did do was enough, she showed how ugly the media bias was against her and how they protected Obama.
She didn’t say the issue was legitimate. She said that conspiray theorists, even if they are stupid conspiracies (the title she gave to her facebook entry), have a RIGHT to ask questions of politicians, no matter how outrageous the questions might be (such as the outrageous questions about her son).
The only bone she threw to the “birthers” as you call them is that she mentions that she did provide the birth certificate (although that hasn’t stopped her attackers from still raising the issue).
DO you think she would ignore a legitimate question? She specifically says she never asked Obama the question, and if she thought the question was a good one, she certainly would have asked it. She has no problem telling Obama what else he should do, when she thinks it’s legitimate.
My proximate point is that when a politicians says “I would never ask Obama about the birth certificate”, you do a disservice by posting a photoshop of her ASKING OBAMA FOR HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE. She said she’d never ask the question, so why do you post a picture showing her ASKING the question she never asked, unless you think she SHOULD be the one asking the question?
I think Sarah Palin was quite gracious in defending the birth certificate folk’s right to ask their questions, rather than coming right out and saying the question was stupid. But maybe she needs to be more direct than she already was, if the birth certificate folks actually think her response supported their position.
Is this enough?
An AOL Poll asks the question: “Do you think it’s fair to question President Obama’s citizenship?”
At 6 AM, on 12/6/09, the results were: 67% “Yes” — 33% “No” — and this is AOL, hardly a conservative website.
YouPolls.com has taken down their December 4th poll that asks the question, “Is Obama’s birth certificate a valid question.” Obviously, they didn’t like the respondents’ answers — 83% “Yes” — 17% “No.”
YouPolls.com is still running the one asking, “Is Obama a one term President?” — 94? “Yes — 5.7% “No” — expect that one to disappear soon.
And, as previously reported, an October 23rd item reported that three-in-ten Americans think their current head of state was not born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. That’s almost a third of all Americans.
Now, Goddard’s Political Wire points to a new Public Policy Polling survey in Arkansas shows that only 45% of voters in the state say they believe Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he was not and 24% are unsure.
“Arkansas is the first of four states where we’ve polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents confident that Obama is a natural born citizen. The numbers are particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not born here to just 23% who grant that he was.”
Links and sources are at:
http://www.theobamafile.com/_opinion/ThatsSomeFringe.htm
BOR and conservative bobbleheads on Fox and radio will not speak of the BC issue in any detail.
Why, they lack courage. Even with Sarah now giving them cover they are a bunch of cowards without a spine.
Beck, Rush, Sean, Laura, Michele the whole lot of them have lost creds IMHO until they address this issue.
Screw negativity. Wet blanketism. Depressive nonsense. You don’t know what will be the outcome.
0bama’s lack of proving eligibility and his mysterious hidden background are topics which are not only NOT going away, they are gaining traction with more and more people.
IMO all the doom and gloom “it’s useless, it’s going nowhere” people say these things because that’s what they want!
Screw negativity. Wet blanketism. Depressive nonsense. You don’t know what will be the outcome.
0bama’s lack of proving eligibility and his mysterious hidden background are topics which are not only NOT going away, they are gaining traction with more and more people.
IMO all the doom and gloom “it’s useless, it’s going nowhere” people say these things because that’s what they want!
I am going by her radio interview: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Palin_Obama_birth_certificate_a_fair_question.html
Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama's birth certificate.
"Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" she was asked (around 9 minutes into the video above).
"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers," she replied.
"Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?" Humphries persisted.
"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records -- all of that is fair game," Palin said. "The McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area."
I really think you ought to take her at her word. The Photoshop work only portrays what she said in her interview. I did not separate Sarah Palin from the "electorate" because she IS a part of the electorate now and as long as she is a US citizen!!
Wow at the PPP survey. Maybe there is hope after all.
I’m not sure that the online polls signify anything at all, though. Easy enough to FReep those.
I take back my reservations.
A little here, a little there. After a while a critical mass will evolve, and Obama will have to release his bona fides or forget about a second term.
I get hundreds of emails at my website that all say about the same thing. Something like, “at first I thought the eligibility question was for kooks, but the more I see of Obama, the more I'm not sure. He definitley is hiding something”
Watch his poll numbers. The more they drop, the more courage people have to express their skepticism.
The Obama File
I would, except that the interview raised questions, and Palin’s facebook entry was after the interview, and meant t o clarify what she said — explaining the distinction about “righfully making an issue” vs “it’s the right issue to make”.
If not for her facebok entry, I’d agree with you, but I feel people who make statements on live radio shows prompted by questions have a right to clarify their remarks if they find them being misinterpreted.
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