TheOldSchool, do you think the repeated questions about Obama's controversial birth certificate and allowing Crooked Hillary to babble incoherently about Rosie O'Donnell and a Spanish beauty pageant contestant with absolutely no questions about Crooked Hillary's decades in government was partisan on behalf of Crooked Hillary?
The only reason the Birther issue is still alive is that idiot Dimbocrats think it somehow proves Republicans to be racists, lol, like making sure the Constitution is followed is racists when the candidate is black.
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Donald Trump spent 5 years going full Birther. Donald Trump spent 5 years suggesting to Americans that our first African American President was not born in the United States, and is a Muslim, and implied that he may have had someone killed because of it.
Donald Trump supporters want a hand wave to ignore Donald Trump choosing to bring Birtherism mainstream. Because of course it shows what a gullible idiot Trump is
He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there's something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim," Trump told Fox News in 2011. "I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that."
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obama not releasing it for so long gave rise to suspicion because if he had nothing to hide he would have just released it. So by not releasing it, people started thinking he had something to hide.
Kind of like Trump's taxes.
Except Barack Obama did release his birth certificate in 2008. Birthers just refused to believe it was real- despite Hawaii confirming it
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Because Donald Trump went full Birther in 2011- making Birtherism mainstream- President Barack Obama asked the State of Hawaii to make an exception to their own policy and create a certified copy of his birth certificate- which he showed reporters and the American voters- again confirmed by the State of Hawaii
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What was Donald Trump's reaction?
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You can't blame Hillary or Obama on Donald Trump's Birther idiocy.
The 2008 form was the short form which didn't have a lot of info and that's why the birther issue kept on happening. Once the long form was released the birther issue died. obama taking 3 or 4 years to produce to the long form caused all the speculation that he was hiding something ... just like all the speculation that Trump is hiding something because he hasn't released his taxes.
The start of the 'obama isn't a real American' came from the left, was embraced by the right, and grew into birtherism.
"The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election—and to Democrats. Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it. In a March 2007
memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,” he wrote. “Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”
Penn also suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. “Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century,” he advised Clinton. “And talk about the basic bargain as about [sic] the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child, and that drive you today.” He went on: “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t … Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds [of campaign events].”
Penn was not a birther. His memo didn’t raise the issue of Obama’s citizenship. Furthermore, he was acutely aware of the political danger that a Democrat would court by going after Obama in this way, even subliminally: “We are never going to say anything about his background,” he wrote. Still, his memo is the earliest example of a strategy that metastasized. The Republican tactic has been to make explicit what Penn intended to be merely implicit—and then carry it to its furthest extreme. Soon, the belief spread among many voters that Obama had been educated in a radical madrassa, that he was secretly a Muslim, and, finally, that he had not even been born in the U.S."
The Democratic Roots of the Birther Movement