Birthers Firm Despite Obama Birth Certificate

[struggle4progress]

By MATT NEGRIN (@MattNegrin)
May 25, 2012

... Democrats also revived Trump's flirtations with birthers on Thursday, as Romney announced a contest to share a meal with the real estate mogul for a $3 donation to his campaign. Trump famously crusaded against Obama's claims of citizenship last year, creating a media frenzy that led the president to put his long-form birth certificate online for everyone to see.

"Once again Mitt Romney is failing the moral leadership test," Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Melanie Roussell said in a statement. "Instead of rejecting Donald Trump's 'birther' conspiracy theories and divisive attacks, he's endorsing them by campaigning and fundraising with him. Romney has shown time and again that he's not ready to have his John McCain 2008 type moment by speaking out against these types of attacks against the President. This type of false and extremely divisive rhetoric has no place in the political discourse of our country and Mitt Romney should stand up against it instead of standing with Donald Trump to raise money for his campaign." ...

Leo Berman, a state representative in Texas who also filed a birther bill, said he doesn't believe Obama was born in the United States because of YouTube videos he said he's seen that show Obama and the first lady admitting that he wasn't born in the country ...

According to an ABC News/Washington Post survey from about a year ago, only 77 percent of people polled said they knew Obama was born in the United States. Of those who didn't, 3 percent said another country, and 19 percent said they had no opinion.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/birthers-real/story?id=16425991

[spiderpig]

1. There is simply no reasoning with these people.

It makes me want to go to my room and pull a blankie over my head.

[lastlib]

3. It's like arguing with a stump....

...except most of the stumps I've met were more reasonable than these birther idiots.

[spiderpig]

5. I so wish Obama would tell these ignoramuses to sit down and shut up

(maybe in his second term)

Then continue to outline how we could deal with the infrastucture, education, health care, world peace - you know...all the important stuff.

Geez, these idiots make me crazy. And you know it's really about the fact that he's *cough* "black" *cough*.

I was so proud when he was elected LEGITIMATELY (side-eye to you-know-who) and went to the local sports stadium to view his inauguration with 7000 other people.

I can't think of a single instance where Obama has made me cringe in embarrassment on the world stage (unlike you-know-who).

[Swede Atlanta]

2. They hate the fact that an African-American is our President....

it is that simple. They are hateful, old white people for the most part. When they die off this mentality will be greatly diminished. There will always be the nay-sayers but I suspect they will be in the minority. Just let Leo spew his lies and hatred. I suspect Looking at his picture he doesn't have many more years left to live.