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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.

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.

Ol' Nader has the facts.......hence, he must be marginalized. The sheeple are not to critically think about issues, just hop an emotional bandwagon created for them by the MSM. Love!! Hate!! Dispise!! Yell!! Hope!!

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson

I had never heard of her and other than being a female with a physical appearance, anyone that had decided not to vote didnt, because it was McKooK that was going to be President.

The dems tried that ploy with Ferraro and it was a flop just as was McKooK and Palin.

Had McKooK been serious about wanting the "conservative" vote, all he had to do was add Ron Paul, he didnt and he lost to a preordained winner.

And, then, this, too: they killed 3000 of us on 09/11 so we went over there and killed over a million of them (granted that all of those were senior Al- Queda officials).

TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/JPCA/NAACP/CFR/FEDERAL RESERVE/NWO/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/FPI/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.

Sarah Palin is an Israel ass kissing illusion of choice being dished out to the FR/LP/Fox viewing types.

You still believe that the abortion issue is anything more than a stalking horse to rally the emotions of the true believers? Gee, you had a republican controlled house, senate and executive and beyond the election cycle they never bothered to talk about the issue. That should have been a clue for folks.

What percentage of people do you think knew about that vote by Obama? I'd say less than one eighth of one percent. Was that vote getting airplay beyond a group of people who weren't going to vote for Obama anyway?

I knew a stripper years ago, a total airhead, but the sweetest thing. Anyway, wanna come to NYC with me to track her down? I hear she's held up well to the aging process and we can input whatever political message we care to. Trust me, it will be worth your time.

The last time I visited Queens Village, I thot I was in a jungle in some foreign country where no one spoke any known language. My doter thot we had been slum dwellers.

Paul jumped ship, Palin does not cut the mustard, Dobbs fell in love with illegals and Traficant is a big shark swimming in a small pool presently.

You are correct that many Republicans just pretend to be pro life to get votes. But certainly not all of them.

A correction for you though, they did pass ban on partial birth abortion. I don't think that went far enough.

The Jury is still out on Palin if she would champion the anti abortion cause if she were so fortunate to be elected President.

I don't know what percent knew that Obama hated babies so much that he voted to let them be murdered. But it was wrong that is the important thing.

You are correct that only Republicans talked about Obama hating kids so much he would let them be murdered. I wonder why the mainstream media didn't highlight Obamas anti kid ideology. Could it be that they are "in bed" with him and his hate baby ideology?

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson

I despised McCain. I was a Ron Paul man. I voted for McCain/Palin because Palin wasn't born rich. She had to work for what she got. She started off as a pissed off partent on the PTA. She is grass roots. She is the only candidate on the horizon that has any kind of chance of turning things around. Until someone better comes along that has a real shot. I will support Palin. Besides it pisses off the liberal turds.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson