Obama Mouthpiece Slams “Birthers” Who Question Obama’s Citizenship

Proof • July 28, 2009

It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Robert Gibbs and the Obama administration, but I’m about as frustrated as they are when it comes to all this focus on Obama’s citizenship.

The White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, better known for his mastery of the artful dodge of questions he does not want to answer, got unusually animated and direct on Monday when, during the regular news briefing, a reporter asked him, “Is there anything you can say that will make the birthers go away?” …
“I almost hate to indulge in such an august setting as the White House — and I mean this in seriousness — the White House briefing room, discussing the made-up fictional nonsense of whether the president was born in this country,” Mr. Gibbs said. “If I had some DNA, it wouldn’t assuage those that don’t believe he was born here. But I have news for them and for all of us: The president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 50th state of the greatest country on the face of the earth. He’s a citizen.”

Obama is a citizen, people. The birth certificate is real, and it’s backed up by contemporary reports and birth announcements. At this point, questioning the circumstances of Obama’s birth is about as dumb as denying the Holocaust, questioning the moon landing and believing in the Easter Bunny.
I do take exception with this from Gibbs, however:

The longtime correspondent Helen Thomas asked Mr. Gibbs why he thought the issue kept coming up, lobbing Mr. Gibbs a nice fat ball.
“Because,” he said, “for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want.”

That may be true. The internet is full of half-truths and distortions. But then again, so is the White House Press Room under any given administration.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array bill-tb

When something so easy to prove is hidden, isn’t that odd?

Did adopted pappy Soreto wanted Obambi’s citizenship changed and like many states in the USA for infant foreign adoption, they grant those things without protest.

So let’s see the documentation, what’s so hard about that.
badlands4

You will never convince them, so I wouldn’t even acknowledge this anymore.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

If Obama wasn’t threat, if he was already a lame duck, one-termer whose agenda was dashed by his oh-so-rapidly-declining poll numbers, the crazies wouldn’t be racheting up the crazy machine against him.

There’s many republican congressmen who support the crazies, by the way.
Neiman

First, whether you like it or not Rob, we, the people of the United States have a right to know if Obama was born in the United States or not. It is NOT up to you to decide ‘absolutely” for anyone else that the Birth Certificate is real or not, there are serious questions from serious people on the issue, many confusing reports about his brith and just because you disagree, it is no reason to put down those that are on the opposite side of the issue.

If we have somene as POTUS that is not qualified, we have a Constitutional Crisis. It could rock America to its core! It is not up to the naysayers to disprove his citizenship, it is his obligation that of the Congress and each state to provide such proof or they are derelict in their duties.

I have not taken a side in this issue, but we are in trouble as a nation when those people concerned about the Constitutional qualifications of the President are branded as nuts and crazies or conspiracy theorists, all for the damnable offense of wanting proof, which should have been forthcoming BEFORE Obama even filed as a candidate.
duh moments

And for a few dollars more than an IP address, he can produce the REAL birth certificate the Congress CONVENIENTLY forgot to demand and view. But hey, it’s just another dumb thing that’s written in the Constitution. Why should anyone care? Nothing else in the document is sacred anymore. Who cares what the citizenship requirements are? Why has he spent close to ONE MILLION DOLLARS to fight having to show it??????? It is beyond irresponsible to ignore that fact. THAT is a VALID reason why this doesn’t go away. Gibbs is a stage hand for the deceit at every level. Get a clue.
Buzz

“Because,” he said, “for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want.”

As is frightfully evident here.

So let’s see the documentation, what’s so hard about that.

Obviously, regardless of what they present to the public, you would not believe it. As is evident with your continued rejection of the current legal birth certificate.
Neiman

duh:

Nothing else in the document is sacred anymore. Who cares what the citizenship requirements are? Why has he spent close to ONE MILLION DOLLARS to fight having to show it?

Right on both counts!
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

Prove It!

I guess when I’m asked about mine, I’ll just tell them to trust me…..

’cause the Preziment set the precedent…
http://www.dinosucks.com/ Deeked

During her campaign for presidency, wouldn’t Hillary have used this against him?
Neiman

During her campaign for presidency, wouldn’t Hillary have used this against him?

Wouldn’t dare lest she be branded a racist!
Spartacus

I agree with Rob & others about this. If there really was an issue about Obamas nationality there are bigger players that would have used it to make sure Obamas name never appeared on the first (or any other) primary ballot.

What I find odd about it is that he’s so unwilling to allow a redacted publication of it to put the rumors to rest once and for all. That tends to fuel the rumors. He’s lucky he’s not from my state where starting in January ’10 if you want to renew your drivers license you will need to provide a copy of your birth certificate, among other things, to prove you are who you say you are. That makes it appear easier to become POTUS than to get a drivers license.
Spartacus

^ Most sensible people would probably rather have the drivers license than be POTUS, but that’s another story.
http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

When something so easy to prove is hidden, isn’t that odd?

And for a few dollars more than an IP address, he can produce the REAL birth certificate the Congress CONVENIENTLY forgot to demand and view.

, there are serious questions from serious people on the issue,

Do you guys know why the Obama administration hasn’t put his birth certificate on a rotating pedestal in the capitol, behind bulletproof glass for every would-be Constitutional scholar in the country to analyze?

Because birthers make conservatives look like conspiratory fools.

Make no mistake, it’s appeal to ridicule, and you’re playing right into their hand.

All issues aside though, even if there were a legitimate question of his citizenship, he’s the president. He has a democratic supermajority, and he’s a media darling. You finally out him. You confirm the big conspiracy everybody’s been poo-poohing, and for what? To be ignored, and to marginalize your political peers?

Tilting at windmills.
Neiman

All issues aside though, even if there were a legitimate question of his citizenship, he’s the president. He has a democratic supermajority, and he’s a media darling.

That means he would have to be removed from office and Biden would be POTUS! It does not matter if 99% of Americans voted from him, if he was not born in the United States, he is in office in violation of the Constitution and either the rule of law applies or we live in anarchy!
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

Eddie just might be on to something.

But don’t let that stop you.
badlands4

All issues aside though, even if there were a legitimate question of his citizenship, he’s the president. He has a democratic supermajority, and he’s a media darling. You finally out him. You confirm the big conspiracy everybody’s been poo-poohing, and for what? To be ignored, and to marginalize your political peers?

Oh, no if he really were to be ineligible for office, then there is a huge problem

That means he would have to be removed from office and Biden would be POTUS! It does not matter if 99% of Americans voted from him, if he was not born in the United States, he is in office in violation of the Constitution

Yes, that is exactly what it means..

I just don’t happen to think his citizenship is at question.
jimmypop

“Because,” he said, “for $15, you can get an Internet address and say whatever you want.”

this guy kicks ass
Mickey

Recently a soldier refused to return to duty in Afghanistan because his president couldn’t prove he was a citizen with a long form birth cirtificate. The military dropped all charges against him because they couldn’t prove Obama was a citizen with a birth cirtificate either. If there are any other war objectors out there then I suggest they use the same defense.

Put up or shut up Barry.
dawneyr

The matter is as important as our constitution. The pattern is that people with something to hide, call people who want the truth, conspirators. Treating people condescendingly as a social pressure tactic is usually found when the heat is turned up to the point of discomfort. I’ve never seen someone spend so much money trying to hide a “non-issue.” It’s a nervous type of laugh coming from Gibbs and CNN.

We used to be called “truthers” until someone’s mercury-laden light bulb clicked on and then the label turned to birthers.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/obama-scrubs-the-web-of-all-birth-docs.html
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

After the postponement, on Monday evening the resolution passed — unanimously. Bachmann was one of the “yea” votes.
Ethan Allen

If the document produced by Obama is legitimate please answer the following simple questions: 1.) What hospital was the place of his birth? 2.) What doctor performed the delivery? 3.) Why are there NO records from any of the schools Obama attended? 4.) Why won’t Obama produce his passport?
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Obama Press Sec. Exasperated Over “Birther” Issue

http://www.infowars.com/obama-press-sec-exasperated-over-birther-issue/
July 27, 2009

The New York Times claims the Obama birth certificate issue is “a rumor that has been widely discredited,” and yet the state of Hawaii, where Obama was allegedly born, refuses to release the primary birth certificate document, instead offering this image, declared to be a Photoshop fake.

It is an obvious fake for the following reasons: 1) the document does not have a raised, embossed seal 2) it is not signed (take a look at your birth certificate and see if it has the signature of a physician or hospital officials) 3) there are no creases from folding in the scanned version above 4) the certificate number is redacted 5) the document claims to be a “certification of birth,” not a “certificate of birth,” and 6) the date supposedly bleeding through the back of the document says 2007, not 2008, when it was allegedly released.

The Annenberg Political Factsheet claims to have examined the original document and says it is legitimate (see Born in the U.S.A., The truth about Obama’s birth certificate). “Recently FactCheck representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it’s stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka.”

Annenberg is a less than credible source considering Obama was chairman of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago. One of his cohorts in that position was none other than the terrorist Bill Ayers.
conundrum

Nothing can be proved to birthers. Any facts put forth would be labeled as false, tampered with, part of the conspiracy. Did you know that Obama’s parents planted his birth announcement in the Hawiian paper knowing he was going to run for the Presidency and that they named him Barrack Hussein Obama because they knew that would honor Osama (only one letter different and it rhymes) and Hussein because Saddam would be in power about the same time. Sneaky terrorist bastards. Obviously any republican that thinks otherwise has been duped or is part of conspiracy. Probably the same conspirators and incompetent conservative lawyers that allowed Franken to steal the election. Next thing you know someones going to find out he is half white. and on and on and on……………
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

The military dropped all charges against him because they couldn’t prove Obama was a citizen with a birth cirtificate either

They didn’t drop any charges because none were ever filed against the fascist. He volunteered to go and when he backed out as a political statement it backfired and they told the idiot to stay the fuck home.
Lioncourt

Obama Mouthpiece Slams “Birthers” Who Question Obama’s Citizenship

As well he should.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Forget the birth certificate.

Obama was born a baby and grew up to be a Marxist.

It doesn’t matter where Obama was born, he’s still not an American!
Hannitized

If they can be so wrong about this, what else are they so, so, so wrong about?
Bat One

If they can be so wrong about this, what else are they so, so, so wrong about?

Exactly who are you referring to here? Obama and the Democrats?
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

Lik: good point. :^)

I can’t for the life of me figure out why an american girl would choose to give birth in a third world country instead of Hawaii. However, if I’m required to get the proper form to get a drivers license or passport, Comrade Obama should be required to get the proper form to be President.

Period.

Now I suspect that people actually do think, per Eddie the Hated’s comment, that one reason Obama’s refusing to release this document is because he thinks it’s fun to watch people insist on proper documentation, and because he thinks that it will discredit his political opponents and get legislation through.

However, I have the hope that people will wake up and ask themselves one simple question; given that this argument would (sorry Conundrum) go away with the release of one simple document, why is Obama hiding it? It’s a lot like John Kerry’s refusal to release his military records to the public; what is being hidden?
conundrum

as I wrote before nothing can be proven to a conspiracy believer. Any and all information is either tainted, planted, falsified etc. in their paranoid world.
Bike bubba you and your ilk are the best thing to happen to Obama and worst thing to happen to conservatives. You are fringe, and by association the conservatives are tainted. Between you and poster boy of foul mouth rant 2hotel9 the liberals say thanks.

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