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| An "Identity Theft" Issue |
AZCentral.com
reports
that former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who on Monday officially entered
Arizona's Republican race against Sen. John McCain, defended his recent
call for Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate, suggesting his
questions stem not from conspiracy theories that Obama was really born
in Kenya but from concerns about identity theft.
During a Monday
evening interview on CNN (watch it here), Hayworth pointed to the case
of fugitive Vietnam War protester Howard Mechanic, who in 2000 sought a
seat on the Scottsdale City Council using the alias "Gary Tredway."
After he was exposed, Mechanic eventually received a pardon from
President Bill Clinton.
"All I'm saying is, for every race across
the country, especially with identity theft in the news, it would be
great that people can confirm who they say they are," Hayworth said.
"Identity theft? I mean, come on," an incredulous CNN host
Campbell Brown said, laughing. "Is that honestly what this is
about?"
Brown pressed Hayworth as to whether he was "comfortable
with the fact that (Obama is) an American citizen." The
Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born citizen,
which is widely viewed as meaning he must be born in the United States.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. During the presidential
race, Obama's campaign produced the Hawaii-issued short-form birth
certificate, but fringe Obama critics, dubbed "birthers," continue to
demand to see his long-form birth certificate.
"Barack Obama is
the president of the United States. He is our 44th president,"
Hayworth told Brown. "I have no qualms about who he is, or who he
says he is."
But in a Jan. 26 interview on MSNBC's "Hardball with
Chris Matthews," Hayworth said Obama "should come forward with the
information, that’s all."
"Well, gosh, we all had to bring our
birth certificates to show we were who we said we were, and we were the
age we said we were, to play football and youth sports," Hayworth said.
"Shouldn't we know exactly that anyone who wants to run for public
office is a natural-born citizen of the United States and is who they
say they are?"
I have a few
words about this -- next item . . . |
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See How The Obots Spin |
Let's take a look at how Dan Nowicki, The Arizona
Republic's award-winning national political reporter spins the above
item.
He begins with, "Brown pressed
Hayworth as to whether he was 'comfortable with the fact that (Obama is)
an American citizen.'"
Nowicki frames his interpretation
of the facts as being a citizenship issue, when he knows it's an
eligibility issue, which he demonstrates when he continues:
"The Constitution requires that the president be a
natural-born citizen..."
That's the Obot two-step -- conflating
eligibility and citizenship -- muddying the water, right up front -- and here comes the spin:
"...which is widely viewed
as meaning he must be born in the United States..."
A view
not held by the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick
Leahy, and senators McKaskill, Coburn, Clinton, Webb, and, oh yes --
Barack Obama.
Their formal view is that John McCain, a child born of American
parents, was a "natural born" citizen. Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, agreed.
"...Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii."
So, here's how it worked in 2008 -- when Obots addressed Obama's
eligibility, they talk about Hawaii -- "...Obama was born Aug. 4,
1961, in Hawaii"-- they don't want to talk about the
implications of the fact that his
father was a foreigner.
When addressing McCain, it's parentage -- said Sen. Leahy,
"Because he was born to American citizens...McCain is a natural born
citizen" -- even though McCain was
born in a foreign
country -- there's problems there too.
Fact is, both Obama and McCain were ineligible and
everybody knew it. That's why there was no outcry then, and why
there's no outcry now. Think about it, Congress, the judiciary,
and all those campaign types, the lobbyists, and the rest of them --
they're almost all lawyers -- they know that Barack Obama is currently
usurping the office -- they were intimidated by the spectre of "riots in
the cities" and the need to go along.
Nowicki couldn't just close
his propaganda piece without throwing a shot at the "birthers"
-- small "b"
"During the presidential race,
Obama's campaign produced the Hawaii-issued short-form birth
certificate, but fringe Obama critics, dubbed "birthers," continue to
demand to see his long-form birth certificate."
It's not
just about a bogus birth certificate that
has been exposed by three competent
examiners as a counterfeit -- there's a whole bunch of stuff Obama
is hiding from the American
People -- and you're wrong about that
fringe thing too.
The facts of the interview are the facts.
Nowicki's interpretation of them are classic propaganda. |
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