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Obama Exclusive: I Was Born in Hawaii and I Don’t 'Have Horns'
ABC News ^ | April 14, 2011 | George Stephanopoulos

Posted on 04/14/2011 4:47:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I thought the president would take a pass when I asked him about Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican field in my exclusive interview today.

Far from it.

He grabbed at the chance with a big smile – saying he thinks the whole issue will be a problem for Republicans.

“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 [it] 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-- he doesn't have horns…we're not really worrying about conspiracy theories or-- or birth certificates,” President Obama told me.

And in all my talks with Obama I think it was the first time he was one the same page as Karl Rove who thinks the “birther” controversy is hurting the GOP.

“The truth of the matter is that I think that the vast majority of Americans across the country – Democratic or Republican – really want this election to be about growing the economy, getting control of the deficit, preparing the future for our kids. And my suspicion is that anybody who is not addressing those questions…Is going to be in trouble. I think they may get a quick pop in the news. They may get a lot of attention. But ultimately, the American people understand this is a serious, sober time,” he told me....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 666; apocalypse; birthcertificate; certifigate; demonology; naturalborncitizen; obama; revelation; trump
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To: LibLieSlayer
One day soon I am beginning to think.
101 posted on 04/14/2011 6:09:05 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: LibLieSlayer

The first thing I noticed. For someone who reads “I,I,I” constantly from his trusted teleprompter, his careful 3rd person response is curious.

“...the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He— he doesn’t have horns…” sounds pretty sheepish to me.


102 posted on 04/14/2011 6:09:59 PM PDT by Nasher (Trump: Doing the Investigate Reporting that the Corrupt MSM plots to keep secret)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Obama Exclusive: I Was Born in Hawaii and I Don’t ‘Have Horns’”

Prove you don’t have horns, Beelzebub.


103 posted on 04/14/2011 6:10:17 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree entirely. This hurts the GOP but that hasn’t stopped our stupidity before. See O’Donnell, Angle, Birthers, etc

A golden opportunity to knock this guy out of office in 2012 and take more seats in Congress, but we’ll choke it away with stupidity like this. Guaranteed.


104 posted on 04/14/2011 6:11:56 PM PDT by SideoutFred (B.O. Stinks...it really does)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I doubt he has a Christian baptism certificate.


105 posted on 04/14/2011 6:17:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The truth of the matter is that I think that the vast majority of Americans across the country – Democratic or Republican – really want this election to be about growing the economy, getting control of the deficit, preparing the future for our kids.

We want this election to be about an ABSOLUTE rejection of Socialism and Marxist ideals.

106 posted on 04/14/2011 6:18:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: SideoutFred
A golden opportunity to knock this guy out of office in 2012 and take more seats in Congress, but we’ll choke it away with stupidity like this. Guaranteed.

I suppose for anybody who puts political party above the US Constitution, you may right.

But those people called "birthers" they are democrats, republicans, independents, majority of Tea Party... they're not looking at this as a political issue.

This is a constitutional issue.

107 posted on 04/14/2011 6:22:08 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Aha! He doesn’t have horns because THEY WERE REMOVED. Hence, the scars all over his skull!

:-)


108 posted on 04/14/2011 6:22:16 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Barack Osama?
109 posted on 04/14/2011 6:23:07 PM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs (Gov The People, Buy The People, Bore The People.)
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To: Nasher

Agree. Narcissist that he is, its very odd that Obama would ‘shift’ into the third person for someone who is almost always self referential. With him, it’s usually I,I,I...me,me,my. In this particular instance, however, he cleverly avoids making a declarative statement.


110 posted on 04/14/2011 6:26:43 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You may not have horns, Obama, but you have big ole flop ears and an ugly wart thing on your snout.


111 posted on 04/14/2011 6:26:52 PM PDT by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Georgie Stephhie and Karl Rove are on the SAME PAGE!! And that should give us all pause....


112 posted on 04/14/2011 6:30:41 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: SideoutFred
Hurts the GOP how? Obama is most vulnerable in his personal narrative. We know very little about him except what he wrote in his two autobiograhies. Asking that he meet Constitutional standards to prove his eligibility is not extreme. Poll after poll show that Obama has a credibility problem about his birth certificate. McCain failed to use it as well as his associations with people like Rev Wright, Farahkahn, Ayers, etc. Can anyone imagine if the shoe were on the other foot?

In 2004 political legends in their own minds like Rove did not want to go after Kerry's personal narrative as a war hero for fear that more questions would be raised about Bush's service in the ANG. It took the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to stop Kerry like a deer in the headlights despite criticism from the likes of McCain and Rove.

The GOP has hurt itself. The Tea Party and people like Angle, O'Donnell, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, etc. are trying to save its sorry ass.

113 posted on 04/14/2011 6:37:18 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Apparently Boner et al are going along with him.

From Rasmussen today:

51% Favor Repeal of the Health Care Law

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history


114 posted on 04/14/2011 6:41:25 PM PDT by IH8DEMS (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is amazing and sad to see an entire thread about Obama's eligibility where not one responder knows the definition of a natural born citizen, the term used in our Constitution, from our common-law, defining why Obama is ineligible to the presidency. Can it be that all of these people are supporters of Obama? They all write, implying that they can all read.

"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."

Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in Minor v. Happersett, cited by Horace Gray in Wong Kim Ark as the definition of a natural born citizen, cited by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in Perkins v. Elg..

For those buying the 14th Amendment/Title 8 ploy, here is the definition from the Congressional Record (Globe) of 1866 by the author of the 14th Amendment, Congressman, Judge, John Bingham:

I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen….

Don't let them confuse you. Either no one commenting here knows the truth, or they don't want you to know it. Title 8, the definition applying to Obama, by his own admission, never mentions the case "born on the soil of citizen parents" because that is the definition of a natural citizen. Title 8 does what the Constititution permits congress to do, create a uniform naturalization code. Laws can not define a child as citizen by nature. Only God does that. The naturally born citizen is born to two citizen parents, on the soil of which he is a citizen. Barack Obama Jr., if he was born in Hawaii, and we should assume he was until there is proof otherwise, is a naturalized citizen, born of a citizen mother and non-citizen father, eligible to every office in our government but the presidency. Our president must be a natural born citizen.

115 posted on 04/14/2011 7:02:24 PM PDT by Spaulding
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To: Inyo-Mono

Sorry?


116 posted on 04/14/2011 7:03:50 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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117 posted on 04/14/2011 7:03:50 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Viking2002
The Left has their useful billionaire idiot in George Soros; now we have ours. Sauce for the goose. FUBO!

ROTFLOL!

118 posted on 04/14/2011 7:08:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just how stupid are we supposed to be? Oh yeah, let’s concentrate on the important issues. I only hope Trump doesn’t cave, but he will..no doubt about it....big plans already laid out for we little people...


119 posted on 04/14/2011 7:10:16 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually.

Lots of FReepers have discussed those scars on Obama’s head.

Perhaps those were hidden too.


120 posted on 04/14/2011 7:13:22 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Trump 2012 - America First)
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