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Title: Palin says questioning Obama’s birth certificate legit
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URL Source: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/palin-questioning-obama/
Published: Dec 5, 2009
Author: Raw Story
Post Date: 2009-12-05 14:21:59 by wudidiz
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Palin says questioning Obama’s birth certificate legit

By Raw Story
Friday, December 4th, 2009 -- 8:32 am

Update at bottom: Palin backtracks -- partly -- in Facebook posting

In a radio appearance Thursday, former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said questions about President Obama's birth certificate -- a spurious attempt to argue that he's not a US citizen and thus ineligible for President -- are fair game for debate.

Transcript and video follows.

HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.

HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?
PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went "Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid," which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.

UPDATE

Following her radio interview comments about Obama's birth certificate, Sarah Palin backtracked -- partly -- in a posting to her Facebook page late Wednesday night.

"At no point ... have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States," Palin wrote in a posting she titled "Stupid conspiracies."

The full statement reads:

Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

For crying out loud, your_neighbor, read the coverage of Saint Sarah speaking on ol' Israel:

As Sarah Palin begins what at least appears to be a testing—if not a parting—of the waters in anticipation of a potential presidential run, she has waded into the murky stuff that is the Israel/Palestine quagmire.

One of the stops on her “Going Rogue” book promotional tour last week was ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Noting that the Obama administration doesn’t want Israel to build any more settlements on what it considers Palestinian territory, interviewer Barbara Walters asked the former Alaska governor/Vice Presidential candidate for her view. Palin’s response.

The politician responded, “I disagree with the Obama administration on that. I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon because the population of Israel is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.”

More and more Jewish people flocking to Israel? What’s Palin’s source of information? Since 2002—the year in which the major wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union came to an end—there has been a consistent downward trend in immigration to Israel. By 2006, immigration was down to 1980s levels, during which time 9,000-24,000 people immigrated annually. And in 2008, the number was 13,681, representing the lowest ratio of immigrants to Israelis since the establishment of the State – 1.9 immigrants per 1000 residents.

Palin is perhaps not best known for her close allegiance to the facts. (See, for example, her discussion of health care reform this summer, when she claimed that bureaucrats on “Obama’s ‘death panels’” would “decide, based on a subjective judgment…whether [the old and infirm] are worthy of health care.”)

Meanwhile, her declaration that Jews will flock to Israel “in the days and weeks and months ahead”—plainly at odds with statistical trends—has an eerily familiar ring. In fact, it’s entirely consistent with the belief of “Christian Zionists” that a mass ingathering of Jews to Israel is the necessary prerequisite to the battle of good against evil at Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. As Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) puts it, “We are racing to the end of time,” and more Jews (who, Christian Zionists believe, will either convert or face perdition) in all of historic Palestine are a key ingredient to fulfillment of that Biblical prophecy.

Indeed, Sarah Palin’s protest that the Obama administration has no right to oppose settlement expansion loudly resonates with the same approach taken by Christian Zionists. This summer, at CUFI’s conference in Washington, Pastor Hagee addressed Prime Minister Netanyahu—who was in Israel—by satellite, proclaiming that 50 million Christians support “Israel’s sovereign right to grow and develop the settlements of Israel as you see fit and not to yield to the pressure of the United States government.”

Barbara Walters, regrettably, failed to explore Palin’s rationale for the bold assertions she made about Jewish migration to Israel and the need for expanded settlements to accommodate the attendant burgeoning population. Religious beliefs might be their source, or they might not. The explanation, though, clearly doesn’t appear in current real world conditions.

It’s troubling to think that Palin’s policy pronouncements on the Middle East might be even remotely motivated by apocalyptic beliefs. Regardless, her support for expanded settlements in the West Bank is, in fact, an aberrant position: in conflict not only with the sound “freeze settlements, two viable and secure states” policy of the Obama administration, but also at odds with the views of every U.S. administration of the past 40 years.

Expanding the settlements, if not a prelude to Armageddon, at a minimum significantly hampers, and perhaps even destroys any remaining prospect for a just and lasting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Going rogue in the West Bank is simply too reckless to be funny, or cute.

Michael Felsen is an author, attorney and Treasurer of Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, a 110-year old communal organization dedicated to Jewish education, culture and social justice, and is President of Boston Workmen’s Circle. More information about the group can be found at http://www.circle.org and http://www.circleboston.org.

Notice the complete omission of substance regarding her position, a mantra is repeated over and over with no logic or reasoning or insight....and this stance is as firm today as it was when she was campaiging with McCain.

Boy hmm, this is hard to figure out - how does this trailer park trash of a women with five babies (one of them a retard no less), who went to 6 collages in five years, get this "words thing" so right without a bunch of East coast Jewish Harvard educated cultural dumpster diving sewer tramps telling her how to do it?

Where do you get the idea she doesn't have anyone handing her scripts to practice?

"Substance" on Israel, give us a break - who dares to speak substance on Israel - speaking substance on Israel means you must fall on your political sword. Sarah is not that dumb (along with 100% of the world's Western politicians).

What makes you think that she is doing anything without a bunch of East coast Jewish Harvard educated cultural dumpser diving sewer tramps telling her how to do it?

She's doing it just as Edward Bernays (Jewish, nephew of Freud) said to do to sway public opinion and master perception management. Who do you think runs the best PR in this nation? Or do you think Saint Sarah is handling the PR campaign for her image and book tour on her own? lol

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This nation is so conditioned to the two party fraud they refuse to listen to a candidate who actually speaks with any substance on the topic.

Notice how Nader is being asked to not run? Notice how he actually speaks to the issue with knowledge, intellect and logic? Nader wasn't my choice, but he sure as hell offered substance on this issue. Blows your 100% all to pieces.

Sarah Palin simly has no substance to offer. If she refuses to speak with any substance on an issue simply to save herself from falling on a political sword, then she sure as hell isn't the image that she is selling to the plain folks, is she?

I'm not a Nader supporter, but I admire his conviction and willingness to state the truth rather than save his political image like Sarah Palin does.

This is a sad commentary, you are so conditioned to politicians saving face and keeping up with perception management that you no longer expect any truth or substance out of them. No wonder this nation is in the sorry state of corruption and ignorance that it is in today.

Perception mangement 101: just keep repeating the same thing over and over again and eventually they will stop asking the question. Repeat a lie enough times and people will believe it...imagine that.

An outside public relations expert hired under a $31,000 contract with the state Department of Natural Resources pitched the "upstart governor" as a crusader against Big Oil, a story line that Palin has adopted in her campaign as Sen. John McCain's running mate. The contract was the only time the Palin administration hired an outside consultant to set up media interviews, a function performed in many states by government employees.

Palin's gubernatorial calendar, obtained by The Washington Post under the Alaska Public Records Act, adds to the understanding of Palin as a political phenomenon, a governor from an obscure state who exploded onto the national stage after just 21 months in office. While many factors played a role in Palin's rise, including her background in broadcast journalism and the appeal of her life story, she also benefited from expert counsel on how to take her message to a national audience.

The agency signed a contract last year with Marcia Brier, who is based in Needham, Mass. Brier's Web site says she has been a public relations expert for 20 years, working mostly with law and medical firms. She represented Bader al- Saud, the Saudi prince, in his plea deal on a vehicular homicide charge. Another Brier client is the law firm Greenberg Traurig, which is providing legal services to the state of Alaska on the pipeline and recommended Brier to state officials.

Brier began pitching Palin for media interviews as early as October 2007, when an e-mail was sent to The Post.

Gibson, the oil and gas team member, said the contract with Brier ended when McCain picked Palin.

"We'd achieved our objective with getting the national attention," Gibson said. "There was no need anymore to use state money to achieve that. She has the platform. She can deliver the message. She doesn't have a problem reaching out to the media."

Yet, the masses were to believe that she was just an outsider picked on a whim. She had the PR team working for two years prior to her nomination. She was picked because her PR team did their job and met thier objective. But, I still don't know who did the picking.

It's their job to have enough research to be ready to blow her and all the other right wing k00ks to smithereens should they start piping up. But for now is's just time to let her continue making an ass of herself.

No need to give her any free publicity, negative or not. She's quite irrelevant, nearly as much as all those Obama Birth Certificate lawsuits.

E gads - 31 thousand dollars -- all of that with just one firm - oh my --- that is a 31 with 3 zeros after it!

palin's being groomed to stage a "revolution"... the big wheels think palin will pacify knuckledraggers who might otherwise take to the streets...

it worked with obama, didnt it? ...hope and change with palin... so we wont be inclined to start shooting each other.

p.s. Did you notice how the media treated him – someone that was a lefty political blood brother to them.

If she had sounded off when Bush was making illegal wars, passing Patriot Acts, and doing signing statements, then she might have some credibility.

When politicians speak out against the wrong headed moves of their own kind, then maybe they have some value.

Jim Traficant comes to mind. Here's a guy with some balls that could stir a nationalist movement like Pat Buchanan and then stay with it rather than bail out like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan have done.

I believe that Sarah Palin is naïve and uneducated on many subjects – but she does have the opportunity to learn and grow.

As to Israel, with a few exceptions she is no different then most every other politician in Western culture – why the special hate?

She's just another "trick" or rabbit from the magicians hat. Many Americans are sick and tired of being lied to, swindled, raped and murdered by these scumbags that say one thing and do another, regardless of party affiliation.

A true rogue or renegade would be popular like never before ... but he/she would die before the election.

I think you are the victim of evangelical/fundamental Christianity, like so many Christians. (Maybe Palin is too.)

They will bring votes to the election. Example, Kennedy hated Johnson but without him he would have never been president.

Obviously Palin was not chosen for that reason, Alaska has less than a million people and no one had ever heard of her.

Or reason number two, the power people are confident of winning and need a throw away candidate for VP. One that can be discarded at anytime.

Biden is twenty years older than Obama and will be jettisoned when the time arrives.

If Palin was picked as a throwaway it was a bad choice, republicans have turned on her as well as cons, indicating they see her as a threat, even tho she has zero qualifications for President as espoused by many. Someone erred in her choice.

Maybe the point was to see if Republican males were as stupid as Democrat females.

Maybe she has been assured of some support from someone when she resigned and her husband quit his job?????

Her book is being advertised at $4.97 ... fucking total rip-off !!! (A $24.00 savings ... hahahahahaha ... perfect gift for a Republicrat ... symbolizing inflation and deflation at the same time !

Why do you focus on the dollar amount and igrnore that Sarah Palin is a marketing manipulation? She's an image that fits perfectly into the wants and desires of plain folks like yourself, perfectly into the left right dichotemy.

No matter that she has no substance because that image evokes so darn much emotion. She can say anything and true believers will love or hate her and act as if this emotion is relevant.

Cyni, McCain's campaign was barely breathing on life support. The guy had no energy, no charisma, no true believers to rush to the voter box. In walks pretty, charismaitic, plain folk Sarah Palin.

She was a stalking horse to bring in true believers and, wow, what a success. No other option on McCain's short list could have succeeded in bringing back the disgruntled true believers who actually knew that McCain wasn't a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

I've given you the reason for this time and again. This love-hate dichotemy is a normal response for masses of people who can't see beyond perception management, who don't demand or even value substance, who allow their emotions to determine merit not logic.

She uses loaded words to evoke this emotional response from the left and the love from her true believers. Public relations relies on emotion. This emotional response, this contrived hate and contrived love, draws in more interviews, more air time, more book promotion.

You act as if this love-hate over this woman actually matters beyond the next interview, beyond the right wing and left wing radio shows. You can't even give me any instances of Palin offering substance on any issue.

Yes, all that knowledge and logic screws with the finely crafted perception management that states there can only be to choices: dem or rep. The MSM works diligently to keep this front and center with great success. That's why they keep third party candidates, who actually might speak some substance, out of the debates. Can't have those people thinking about issues when they are supposed to be thinking about left versus right.

I loved Nader's response. If the Dems can't win this one they should just close up shop. lol

I would say McKooK NEVER had a chance of winning. When a black man comes from nowhere and $700 million dollars is donated without a hitch, no one could withstand that effort.

Questioning Black Obama's birth certiffcate is a denial of of Black Suprenmacy, the unwritten law of the land. Palin is above reproach on this one.

I agree, but Palin made the show believable didn't she? She gave the impression that he had a chance. She gave the true believers the hope that they needed to hold their noses and vote for McCain. Imagine the land slide without her......lol.

She's following Obama's step by step marketing to get elected. He began with marketing his image, getting key note speaking engagements. He wrote his book, catchy title like Palin's, shared his life story like Palin, set himself apart from the crowd like Palin. The timing is similar. The message finely crafted for true believers. The message: an outsider who will embody the desires, hopes and dreams of the true believer constituency. Both have no tedious voting record for people to question so they can sell a message and not have it scrutinized too much.