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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“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....
If you have have the chutzpah to tell a lie and commit a fraud out in the open, you can remain President. It has worked before.
Horns can be removed.
No but apparently Trump DOES
All I know is my grandma knows where I was born, and it’s the same place listed on my birth certificate.
Prove it, Obama. Your word is no good.
I also know I would not have spent 2 million dollars in legal fees preventing the release of my birth certificate either.
If I was right I’d personally put it out there and rip my detractors several new ones and discredit them forever as a credible source.
Au contraire. Trumpt doesn't have to produce the goods, Obama does. Trump says he hopes Obama can produce the long form of his BC. And if AZ passes its law requiring it to be on the 2012 ballot along with some other states, Obama will have the burden of proof placed on him where it belongs.
If it is hurting the GOP then why is HUSSEIN tanking in the polls into new lows ?
YOU LIE!
A sure sign Obama is getting nervous. If anything, the birth issue has gained more traction and won’t go away.
Altered voting certificates prepared by Ms. Pelosi (D, Syria? CA? Samoa?)
for the DOJ-approved election fraud wrought by the DNC
ignored by the agonadal Congress, covered up by EU-fawning SCOTUS,
against the people of the United States of America.
Exhibit 1: (the original, but discarded) states:
”THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the
United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the
following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice
President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President
and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions
of the United States Constitution:” 
Exhibit 2: specifically leaves out the qualifying requirement:
”THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the
United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the
following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice
President of the United States respectively:” 
so he isn’t worried about the birth certificate, we get no docs, just believe what he “says”. Further, it doesn’t matter if he was born in Hawaii, he isn’t a child of two citizens.
Why we aren’t already in the streets demanding his removal I will never understand.
he thinks the whole issue will be a problem for Republicans.
the American people understand this is a serious, sober time,” he told me....
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Yes and its the American people not the Republican party who are seriously soberly going to vote out your fake butt in Nov 2012
He doesn’t have horns and he doesn’t have two US citizen parents either. How could his citizenship been governed by the 1948 British Nationality Act if he’s a Natural Born American citizen?
Remember David Gregory beseeching Boehner to state publicly that Obama was born in the US and to admonish the birthers?
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