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(60,336 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)DEMOCRATS!
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)OBAMA-BIDEN 2012!!!!!
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Rec.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)if Charlie says you need help, well, you really need help.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I do not wish to see the same for the Birthers.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Trust me on this, they will push for impeachment.
Trump will be out there saying he's not an American and he must be impeached.
And the House, if still controlled by the TeaBaggers, will hold hearings.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the republicans haven't done it yet.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)... suppressing the vote in the swing states.
Should that fail, and President Obama wins re-election, they will look to the House to start impeachment hearings.
(And heaven help us if they take back the Senate, which would convict.)
napkinz
(17,199 posts)By Jillian Rayfield
It doesn't seem like the birthers will ever go away, not as long as they keep getting the occasional week of frenzied media attention like this one. Aside from Donald Trump's ongoing shenanigans, the LA Times reported that "some conservatives" have turned from the largely tapped-out "birther" cause to a "new" one a campaign to unearth Barack Obama's college transcripts, which, they don't doubt, will reveal that the president got into Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard for reasons other than merit.
But here's the thing: "Some conservatives" turn out to be a group of eight anonymous right-wingers who came up with the bright idea of offering a $20,000 bounty up from $10,000 earlier this month to anyone who can produce Obama's school records. To administer their campaign they've enlisted a Tea Partyish blogger who describes himself as a fighter in the "war against cultural Marxism" and claims to believe the president is a "neo-Marxist." (Reached by Rolling Stone over Twitter, the blogger, one Brooks Bayne, wouldn't say who his backers are, replying only: "stay tuned this week, marxist america haters."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/birthers-also-want-obamas-school-grades-to-prove-something-or-other-20120529
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)May 29, 2:10 PM ET | By Jillian Rayfield
The Obama campaign went up with a new web video today knocking Mitt Romney for his embrace of birther Donald Trump. As a Romney surrogate, the Donald has been raising cash and taping robocalls for Mitt and spending his down time spewing nonsense about the president. "Look, a publisher came out last week and had a statement about Obama given to them by Obama when he was doing a book as a young man a number of years ago in the 90s: Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia.'" Trump told CNBC Tuesday.
The Obama video pounces on Trump's most recent birther tear, contrasting Romney's attitude to that of John McCain, who during his 2008 presidential race with Obama "stood up to the voices of extremism in his party." After a clip in which a McCain supporter calling Obama an Arab at a campaign event, McCain is seen calmly but firmly responding: "No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with."
(Trump quickly responded to the Obama video with a tweet: "@BarackObama is practically begging @MittRomney to disavow the place of birth movement, he is afraid of it and for good reason. He keeps using @SenJohnMcCain as an example, however, @SenJohnMcCain lost the election. Dont let it happen again."
"Why won't Mitt Romney do the same?" the video asks, before jumping to a jaunty reel of some of Trump's most birther-tastic comments.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/obama-campaign-video-hey-everyone-donald-trump-is-still-a-birther-and-a-romney-surrogate-20120529
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)But still looney.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)By Tom Cohen, CNN
Wed May 30, 2012
Washington (CNN) -- Call them "unicorners." A liberal group says it has collected more than 19,000 e-mails requesting Arizona officials to confirm Mitt Romney is not a unicorn.
Without such proof, the group Left Action argues with tongue in cheek, Romney may indeed be a unicorn -- his dark mane hiding a horn -- and therefore ineligible to be on the presidential ballot in November.
The farcical campaign mimics efforts by so-called "birthers," and some top supporters of certain Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, to continually raise the already-settled issue of whether President Barack Obama meets the Constitution's requirements for citizenship.
"I feel like we've tried logic with the birthers for too long," Left Action founder John Hlinko told CNN on Wednesday. "Now it's time to take their arguments to the logical extreme to show how absurd they are."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/30/politics/romney-unicorn/index.html
napkinz
(17,199 posts)from MSNBC ...
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47619893/#47619893
a profile in courage ... not!