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Wow. A video clip has surfaced from 2008 in which Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, clearly suggested that President Obama may have been born out of wedlock.
I’m sure some will try to dismiss this as an isolated stray remark. But it’s clear if you watch the video that there’s a broader context: Brown is clearly aligning himself with the Limbaugh wing of the GOP, in which slurs along these lines are standard fare. And as Steve Benen points out, claims about Obama’s illegitimacy were an integral part of the birther craziness.
At the age of 23, Obama had come to Hawaii to pursue his education, leaving behind a pregnant wife and infant son in his home town of Nyang’oma Kogelo in Kenya. Dunham and Obama were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2, 1961, despite parental opposition from both families.[5][15] Dunham was three months pregnant at the time of her marriage.[1][5] Obama Sr. eventually informed Dunham about his first marriage in Kenya but claimed he was divorced. Years later, she would discover this was false.[14] Obama Sr.'s first wife, Kezia, later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife, in keeping with Luo customs.[16]
On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, Dunham gave birth to her first child, Barack Obama II.[17]
It's a pretty stupid strategic maneuver unless he is trying to speak to his extreme base and not Indes, who he should be courting.
It's a pretty stupid strategic maneuver unless he is trying to speak to his extreme base and not Indes, who he should be courting.
This only goes to show that the real Scott Brown is something that the voters should see before election day.
It's a pretty stupid strategic maneuver unless he is trying to speak to his extreme base and not Indes, who he should be courting.
This only goes to show that the real Scott Brown is something that the voters should see before election day.
It's a pretty stupid strategic maneuver unless he is trying to speak to his extreme base and not Indes, who he should be courting.
This only goes to show that the real Scott Brown is something that the voters should see before election day.
That is the problem with history. It comes around and bites you in the ass.
Does this affect their qualifications for the job? Does this mean that Cokesley has suddenly got a clue?
I don't think the wedlock issue is what Brown was driving at; it was the Muslim connection to BHO's father. The smear may well bite Brown on election day.
That is the problem with history. It comes around and bites you in the ass.
Does this affect their qualifications for the job? Does this mean that Cokesley has suddenly got a clue?
The Republican Party needs to appeal to the center and moderates and independents. We cannot win with the wingnut reactionaries. We need to meld conservatives with the center, marginalizing the whackos to the left and the right. I think a ticket of Romney and Huckabee in 2012 can do that, as long as we drop the wingnuts and tell Rush to take a hike.
It's a pretty stupid strategic maneuver unless he is trying to speak to his extreme base and not Indes, who he should be courting.
Brown, Coakley, And the Outrage Gap - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Wow. A video clip has surfaced from 2008 in which Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, clearly suggested that President Obama may have been born out of wedlock.
Im sure some will try to dismiss this as an isolated stray remark. But its clear if you watch the video that theres a broader context: Brown is clearly aligning himself with the Limbaugh wing of the GOP, in which slurs along these lines are standard fare. And as Steve Benen points out, claims about Obamas illegitimacy were an integral part of the birther craziness.
Thoughts?
My opinion: What an asshole.
For the record Scott:
At the age of 23, Obama had come to Hawaii to pursue his education, leaving behind a pregnant wife and infant son in his home town of Nyangoma Kogelo in Kenya. Dunham and Obama were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2, 1961, despite parental opposition from both families.[5][15] Dunham was three months pregnant at the time of her marriage.[1][5] Obama Sr. eventually informed Dunham about his first marriage in Kenya but claimed he was divorced. Years later, she would discover this was false.[14] Obama Sr.'s first wife, Kezia, later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife, in keeping with Luo customs.[16]
On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, Dunham gave birth to her first child, Barack Obama II.[17]
Ann Dunham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republican Party needs to appeal to the center and moderates and independents. We cannot win with the wingnut reactionaries. We need to meld conservatives with the center, marginalizing the whackos to the left and the right. I think a ticket of Romney and Huckabee in 2012 can do that, as long as we drop the wingnuts and tell Rush to take a hike.
Rush isn't running and Huccabee is toast with the action that he took for early release of a con who ended up killing 4 cops. No way in hell. Romney is a conservative, maybe you did not know that, but he is.
[For the record, Dogbert, the USA doesn't recognize bigamy as legal which means his second marriage was not legal, ie, obama WAS born out of wedlock by your very words.
[For the record, Dogbert, the USA doesn't recognize bigamy as legal which means his second marriage was not legal, ie, obama WAS born out of wedlock by your very words.
Who cares? The hidden agenda is the tie to Obama's Muslim father. That is what Scott is inferring.
