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Clinton rips 'birthers'
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Posted on 05/24/2010 11:49:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Clinton rips 'birthers' By: Andy Barr May 24, 2010 01:52 PM EDT

Former President Bill Clinton is taking the so-called “birthers” to task for ignoring evidence that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Clinton made the comments during a commencement address at Yale University on Sunday as part of a critique of American media consumption habits.

“The only place where we’re bigoted now is we only want to be around people who agree with us,” Clinton said. “In our media habits, we go to the television shows, we go to the radio talk shows we go to the blog sites that agree with us. And it can have very bizarre consequences.”

The former president pointed to the “birthers” an example of one of those “bizarre consequences.”

“Hawaii, the state where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk this myth that he wasn’t born in America,” Clinton said. “They’ve done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome in the Capitol.”

“But 45 percent of registered Republicans still believe that he is serving unconstitutionally,” Clinton insisted, though he did not identify the poll.

“Why?” he asked. “Because they’ve been told that by the only place they go to get information.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; 911truther; billclinton; birthers; certifigate; clintonlegacy; clintonvsobama; liesunderoath; naturalborncitizen; revisionisthistory
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To: Sub-Driver

blue dress cleanup, aisle 1

Character, a word you will never associate with the toon, or the jug-eared one.


41 posted on 05/24/2010 12:09:30 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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Again the left brings up the “birther” and dotell obozo has done everything he can? Lets see, obozo hides his school records,never produce the original BC and spends millions to stop Americans from seeing (no doubt) his Kenya birth. I know we are beating a dead horse but the former adulteress prez brought it up...geez
42 posted on 05/24/2010 12:09:42 PM PDT by FreeperDoll
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To: Osage Orange

Moral advice from a disbarred, impeached, perjuring, case-fixing, predatory rapist and sink masturbator. Yeah, right.


44 posted on 05/24/2010 12:10:31 PM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary Clinton is a 9-11 truther.

In February 2002, she proclaimed on the floor of the Senate that “Bush knew” in advance about the attacks.


45 posted on 05/24/2010 12:10:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Damn, is this what billyjeff has become, zero’s step and fetch? Seems he is now only qualified to spin zero’s prestige and fetch him sound bites. Wow how the mighty have fallen. The rent on SOS is pretty high it seems.


46 posted on 05/24/2010 12:11:25 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Sub-Driver
Even Slick Willy doesn’t get this one!!

OK so how does this benefit Hillary?

47 posted on 05/24/2010 12:11:46 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't go chasing waterfalls.....)
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To: COUNTrecount

gravity soon .........


48 posted on 05/24/2010 12:11:58 PM PDT by ICAB9USA (I cut off part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: Sub-Driver

As if Clinton has an credibility left.

Go find you a new girlfriend/hooker and shut the hell up!


49 posted on 05/24/2010 12:12:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

......Wow how the mighty have fallen. ...

Au contraire mi amigo (a little texmex frog lingo there) the Messiah is a one termer. Guess who is salivating in the wings for a crack at ‘12?


50 posted on 05/24/2010 12:13:23 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Former President Bill Clinton is taking the so-called “birthers” to task for ignoring evidence that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Bill, just show me the birth certificate. Bill, have you seen the birth certificate? Bill, upon what proof do you make your claim?

Bill, how come there is a news report congratulating the "Kenyan born" for becoming a Senator? Bill, why did First Wookie speak of Kenya as her husband's homeland?

Well, Bill, what do you say?

52 posted on 05/24/2010 12:14:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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What did Clinton have to say regarding the left-wing loons who insisted that Trig wasn’t born by Sarah?

Those loons included the MSM, as they demanded Palin provide DNA evidence to prove that Trig is hers.

McCain had to show his proof, as he was born on a military base outside of the US, but Obama gets a free pass by the media.


53 posted on 05/24/2010 12:15:04 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (The MSM are nothing but cheerleaders & complicit enablers for the Democrat Party.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hey freepers, I just heard on the news that 9 was arrested for hacking obozo school records, about time somebody tries to end this madness and send obozo back to the rock he crawled from in Kenya!
54 posted on 05/24/2010 12:15:14 PM PDT by FreeperDoll
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To: Sub-Driver

maybe clinton can provide the ss number of the presidente and some school records...i just want to know why this president is so secretive about his past. and exactly what did he do as a community organizer that advanced his career to el presidente of the USA


55 posted on 05/24/2010 12:16:36 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Sub-Driver

The “vast right wing conspiracy” guy is whining about birthers. Remember Waco.


56 posted on 05/24/2010 12:17:10 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess graduation commencements are now democrat platforms used to bash conservatives. Such low class trash they all are. What happened to the days when the commencement ceremony was about the graduates?


57 posted on 05/24/2010 12:17:13 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Sub-Driver
“Hawaii, the state where President Obama was born, has done everything they can to debunk this myth that he wasn’t born in America,” Clinton said. “They’ve done everything but blow up his birth certificate, put it in neon lights and hang it on the dome in the Capitol.”

Well, one thing he hasn't done is allow me, or anyone else, to obtain a certified copy of his brith certificate from the State of Hawaii. So far as I know, my birth certificate is a public record and anyone who wants to obtain one merely has to pay a copying fee to the municipality which retains that record. But not Obama. No.

ML/NJ

58 posted on 05/24/2010 12:17:47 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: day21221

According to the Selective Service date of registration, he registered on 9-4-80. I thought you had to register on or before your 18th birthday. He would have been 19+ at that time, or am I missing something?


59 posted on 05/24/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by techrules2002
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To: Sub-Driver
“In our media habits, we go to the television shows, we go to the radio talk shows we go to the blog sites that agree with us..."

Didn't a recent study find that it was liberals who only wanted to go to blog sites that agreed with them? Conservatives turned out to be much more likely to include liberal blogs in their reading. Somehow they figured this out by looking at the traffic patterns in the left and right wing blogosphere. To me it's a totally believable result given how stupendously ignorant of conservatives and conservatism most liberals are.

60 posted on 05/24/2010 12:22:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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