Posted on 08/14/2013 8:52:36 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama's former personal aide said Wednesday that the president was so "irritated" by controversy over his birthplace that he wanted to hold an "impromptu press conference" when he discovered the long-form version of his birth certificate, only to be dissuaded by his advisers.
Reggie Love, the former body man to the president, told UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs that the delay in producing the president's birth certificate was because when "your parents don't live together (and) you travel all over the world, documents get lost."
"He wanted to just have an impromptu press conference, just walk in to the press briefing room in the White House and put it down on the podium. And everyone was like 'That's a really bad idea,' " Love said. "But he was very gung-ho about doing it, because he was so irritated about it."
The president did, in fact, appear before the press when the certificate was released in April 2011, decrying the issue as a "sideshow."
“We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do," Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Basically, a body man is a butler.
It has been suggested that Mr Love’s job responsibilities were slightly larger in scope and in a bit more of a personal nature than those of a conventional butler.
What a cow pie
bull sh!t and lies..just like the WON..
Wow, the only reason this would have been a “bad idea” is if the birth certificate was not authentic. If it was, Obama had plenty of opportunities to present one of the two hard copies in a court of law where it could be authenticated. He refused. Every single time.
I think you mean a valet.
Valet n A man's male servant, who takes care of his clothes and performs other personal services.
Reggie probably believes this BS. Should we be surprised that Barry lies as often in his pillowtalk as he does on television?
A butler administered a gentleman's household.
Reggie, here, was not a butler. How could he be? Given his boss was a Community Organizer, not a gentleman? His was a lower station. Reggie was a valet.
I.e., Reggie was Zero's personal step-and-fetch-it and whatever. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Especially if he keeps talking.
Body man? Hmmmmmm.
Reggie sure has been blabbing a lot. Sounds like he may be in a snit about something and wants to get even. Did he get invited to Martha’s Vineyard?
Well then he released his LF certificate according to this story but it was a forgery and not a LF certificate so IOW... obama’s sperm receptacle reggie love is lying.
What a crock. A parent or gurdian of a minor child, or the individual once an adult, can order a certified copy of a BC at any time. I have several copies of my BC, and at least two of them were obtained later.
He would have needed the BC to get into elelmentary school, to get a driver's license and likely apply to college.
Your well thought out question blows this entire story out of the water. Excellent post.
Reggie Love, witness for the prosecution...
If Reggie plans on talking, he better get a food-taster.
A body man assists an executive branch official or political candidate by shadowing him at virtually all times.
The term was first used in a 1988 Boston Globe article, which said that body men “fulfill a kind of mothering role,” securing their bosses accommodations and ensuring he always has his favorite breakfast. Past body men have become very close with their employers: George W. Bush’s body man, Blake Gottesman, dated Bush’s daughter Jenna, and Richard Nixon’s body man followed his boss into retirement.
William Safire: “The informal job title is not be confused with the man with the briefcase, the ever-present carrier of the codes needed by the president to respond to a hostile missile launch. It is more specific and intimate than gofer, a term applied to any aide ready to ”go fer” coffee or do other menial tasks.”
Boy, ole Reg is sure opening up his pie hole these days....
Payment for services rendered?
Thanks for the clarification. I am now clear on the difference between the butler and the valet. This will come in handy when I watch British stuff on tv.
Well said.
Breitbart and theBlaze currently have some high visibility coverage of the Reggie Love interview comments about playing cards during the Bin Laden raid. Of course neither of the sites bothers to mention the discrepancy about Obama “finding” his birth certificate.
I attempted to post comments to both sites, but oddly those comments appear to have been lost to moderation. Here’s the one I attempted to post to the brief article by Awr Hawkins at breitbart.com:
How convenient that when Breitbart’s team reviewed this Reggie Love interview video, no one happened to notice any problems with Love’s personal eyewitness account of being there when Barack Obama “found” his long-misplaced birth certificate. In the interview, Mr. Love uses language that is curiously difficult to reconcile with the account from White House and that of the Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy. Team Obama’s official line, which has been swallowed wholesale by Breitbart.com since day one, is that Obama never found a copy of his Birth Certificate, but rather was forced to specially request that Fuddy and Alvin T. Onaka make a policy exception in order to avail a new certified copy for hand delivery to the White House by Mr. Obama’s lawyer, Judith Corley.
Since Breitbart.com continues apparently to be convinced the Obama administration has been upright and honest about the birth certificate, I guess they assume Reggie Love was just fabricating that bit of information. It’s strange though to me, that Breitbart’s news editors take Love at his word about the details of Obama’s activities during the Bin Laden raid which occurred on May 1, 2011, even though it took place only four days after the press conference (on April 27) in which the pdf “copy” (riddled with dubious digital artifacts) of the newly proffered Birth Certificate was posted to the White House website.
I presume the Body Man’s memory is to be trusted as accurate for events that happened as recently as May 2011, but any account he reveals for events that took place as long ago as, say, April 27th of the same year are likely to be obscured by the passage of time? For Mr. Awr Hawkins to conclude otherwise would be to risk a skeptical glance toward Obama’s official identity declarations, but Breitbart.com is well known to yoked in with the broad journalism community in its immutable commitment to avert its eyes from the tiniest of shadowy hints about that story.
Surely, Mr. Obama would not subject Americans to deceit or fraud when it comes to his own identity? Surely Joe Arpaio and his investigators (and the Court-certified Document examiner who has been relied upon by Obama’s own law firm) are simply fuzzy and confused about all that—just like Reggie Love is. Ehh, Breitbart? Mr. Hawkins?
Whats the excuse for why no hospital will admit you were born there?
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