Colorado GOP candidate: These tea-party dumbasses need to stop asking me Birther questions on camera
posted at 7:34 pm on July 26, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Mediaite, I love the “on camera” qualifier. You want to swap conspiracy theories with Ken Buck about Obama’s roots? Hey, go nuts. But for the love of god, not on camera.
Asked about the comments on Sunday at a political rally in Adams County, Buck said he wishes he had used different language and that he had not lumped all Tea Party members into one statement, but that he remains frustrated that some people are focusing on birth certificates rather than the country’s $13 trillion debt and its $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
“The language is inappropriate,” he told 9NEWS and The Post. “After 16 months on the campaign trail, I was tired and frustrated that I can’t get that message through that we are going to go off a cliff if we don’t start dealing with this debt.
“It is not the Tea Party movement on the whole. The Tea Party movement gets it. It’s the Constitution, it’s the debt, it’s the other issues, but there are a couple people that are frankly frustrating for all candidates. I mean if you talked to other candidates and they’re being honest with you, they’ll say I know that. Now, they may not have used my choice words, but they have the same feelings.”
Follow the link and you’ll see that Buck is actually the, er, self-styled tea-party candidate in the race. Consider this the flip side of the Angle post, in fact, insofar as it’s an example of someone who’s so eager to get rid of the rough edges that he’s willing to dump on a part of his core constituency when chatting with an aide. Which is not to say he’s wrong on the merits: Ed and I have written lots of posts on Birther nonsense and how it distracts from precisely the sort of serious arguments against The One that Buck identifies. But purely as a matter of retail politics, yeah, this’ll cost him some votes. Maybe they’re not votes he really wants — although if they aren’t, why the qualifier limiting his objections to when he’s on camera?
Irresistible Palin-themed exit question: You-know-who has spoken favorably before of Jane Norton, Buck’s GOP primary opponent, and has been criticized by Buck himself. She hasn’t endorsed — yet — but Norton’s holding out hope for an electoral deus ex machina (Palin ex machina?) to help her climb out of the polling hole she’s in. Buck also took a dig at Norton last week — in response to one of her ads in which she said, “You’d think he’d be man enough to [criticize me] himself” — by telling voters to vote for him “because I do not wear high heels.” Is it mama grizzly time?
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Shut Up!
Mr. Joe on July 26, 2010 at 7:36 PM
The GOP needs to find candidates other than dumbasses!
Mr. Joe on July 26, 2010 at 7:37 PM
nice one, AP. love it
ted c on July 26, 2010 at 7:37 PM
I am not into birther stuff either. It is nonsense. But most Tea Partiers are not birthers, they oppose Obama over spending and taxes. Labling Tea Partiers, en masse, as birthers is like labling them as racists. It’s wrong. Stupid comments like this just make Democrats smile.
Mr. Joe on July 26, 2010 at 7:39 PM
As someone who always gives birthers hell…
Hey Ken, who’s the dumbass now?
MadisonConservative on July 26, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Can dumbasses at least ask to see a college transcript or two from the most intelligent POTUS ever?
Bishop on July 26, 2010 at 7:39 PM
did you hear that? I think I heard the distinct sound of a mama grizzly sharpening her claws…..Lookout buddy, you might’ve just ticked off mama grizzly on the same day that ten pages of media uterine inspections came out over her and trig. I don’t think today is your day, bub.
ted c on July 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM
We would respect you more if you just answered what you really feel. Just say you believe Obama was born in Hawaii and be done with it. Right or wrong, show some balls and cut the drama crap.
Hummer53 on July 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Birther issue is a non issue because someone on the JournoList told me it warn’t.
and I’s just to do as I’s told.
/dumbass
ted c on July 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Racist screams the RNC/DNC in unison!
sharrukin on July 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll1/BecJul/?action=view¤t=BBC_NEWS_Kenyan_Born_Obama-1.jpg
We live in Orwell’s world.
blue13326 on July 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM
When is it not?
LastRick on July 26, 2010 at 7:42 PM
I’d like to see a medical report for the Chain Smoker in Chief.
Tommy_G on July 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM
I live in Colorado. Who in the hell is Ken Buck?
thomasaur on July 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM
So oft in political wars
The disputants, I ween
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean
And speculate about a mysterious Birth Certificate
Not one of them has ever been allowed to have seen!
Cheshire Cat on July 26, 2010 at 7:45 PM
I don’t know anything about his primary opponent, but no way could I vote for this guy after these remarks. He is clearly a self serving opportunist, not because he attacked birthers, but because he lumped all Tea Partiers in with them, attacking them as well and because he only has a problem with these questions “on camera”. This guy is just the type of sleaze we want out of Washington, is he not?
I don’t know Colorado, good luck with this one.
Daemonocracy on July 26, 2010 at 7:46 PM
I’d settle for him taking ownership of the things he’s doing now, much less ten or twenty years ago.
LastRick on July 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM
PBHO rides a girls bike and he power walks to Marine 1 on date night, I’d say he is plenty healthy.
Bishop on July 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Seven Percent Solution on July 26, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Who they gonna vote for?
BacaDog on July 26, 2010 at 7:49 PM
Jack Daniels and a pizza on election night!
sharrukin on July 26, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Doppelganger alert.
Either this is Mr. Buck’s stupid twin, or he is an opportunistic fraud, like Hayward in Arizona. I’m leaning toward the latter.
Randy
williars on July 26, 2010 at 7:50 PM
NO JANE NORTON!! I don’t care if Buck has been “acting stupidly” as of late.
NO.JANE.NORTON.
If Sarah pulls a grizzly with Norton…she’s toast!
Jane Norton..the next John McCain!!
katy on July 26, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Figure out how to turn the question into the topic you want to get across…
Mr. Obama might be born in America, but his economic policies are un-American because of: 1)….
phreshone on July 26, 2010 at 7:52 PM
She’s “NOT” Jane Norton!
katy on July 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM
He’s…not Jane Norton…
Sorry…
I loathe her that much I get goofy!!
katy on July 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM
…calling voters “dumbasses”…left-handedly slamming women voters (by slamming the footwear choices of his female opponent)…I wonder just who this brainiac thinks should be empowered with the franchise.
…if one has such a low opinion of the electorate, why run to represent them…aside, of course, from the obvious ego-inflating benefits and chances for graft, obviously?
Puritan1648 on July 26, 2010 at 7:55 PM
facepalm
Viper1 on July 26, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Heck, I’d settle for a scholarly paper from our resident constitutional scholar in the WH. Anyone?
ddrintn on July 26, 2010 at 7:55 PM
I would like to see context of the high heel comment. Everyone in crowd was laughing….maybe an inside joke?
terryannonline on July 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Ken Buck wants to talk about the issues, and doesn’t want to continually be badgered by people who focus on nothing but the birth certificate issue. I think he’s right: People who badger him about this are duma@@es.
I happen to believe that Obama’s long form shows some serious problems and needs to be pursued, but you don’t do it by running after a candidate and asking about it instead of focussing on getting the man elected.
Jane Norton is a lobbyist insider McCain wanna be who will turn against the Republicans as soon as she has her smooth manicured hands on the levers of power. The Colorado 9-12 Party and the Tea Partiers are behind Ken Buck and this doesn’t change a thing.
bonnie_ on July 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM
I don’t think this is worth making a big deal of. He should have said it differently, but he just does not want to talk about birth certificates when he thinks it is a losing issue.
Terrye on July 26, 2010 at 7:59 PM
In honor of Mr. Allahpundit everone must repeat after me.
I pledge allegiance to all Birth Certificates that Barack Hussein Obama has now, ever has had or ever will have, and to trust that at least one of them is valid, one nation under Obama, invisible, with hope and change for all, except Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Breitbart, Mark Livin and Sarah Palin.
Cheshire Cat on July 26, 2010 at 7:59 PM
…if the people of Colorado’s Republican Party can’t do better than to force the choice on voters between a RINO and a MORON, why have a Republican Party at all?
The Democrats can do you guys one better. Their candidates won’t be socialists-light or mush-mouthed gaff-masters. They’ll offer you actual socialists and folks who talk down to all and sundry…like Maxine Waters, Barb Boxer, Obama and the like.
Time to stop settling for the canned-candidates and find an alternative source for public servant wanna-be’s.
Puritan1648 on July 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Buck has been smeared beyond belief by this slimy little witch Norton. She has nothing! She was a lobbyist for AARP during the Hillary care fight and she lied straight up about it when questioned.
That’s probably why Palin has distanced herself.
katy on July 26, 2010 at 8:01 PM
In the alternate universe…this would be nice, but as Rummy once said, you go to battle with what you have.
katy on July 26, 2010 at 8:03 PM
What have you stepped in Mr. Buck? Be careful not to get it all over the place.
Cindy Munford on July 26, 2010 at 8:10 PM
I don’t think Buck was responding to her ad but this:
terryannonline on July 26, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Republican party loyalists still don’t get it, yet.
Hope it doesn’t take them too much longer to learn.
listens2glenn on July 26, 2010 at 8:16 PM
(facepalm)
Boy. It’s a good thing this Birther idiocy some of us thought was put to rest last year is really starting to bear fruit at the right time, isn’t it?
Maybe some half-cocked idiot can start ranting about the North American Union or Bohemian Grove or the Council on Foreign Relations or the New World Order.
Alex Jones and his 9-11 Twoof whack pack are just around the corner.
That’s the key to the election this fall, folks. Conspiracy theories.
Good Lt on July 26, 2010 at 8:17 PM
You don’t go to election day with the constituency you want, dumbass.
Immolate on July 26, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Buck is stupid, and it should stop there…however, birthers are nuts, they muddy the waters with what has become a joke.
9/11 ers don’t go around harassing dems, because they know dems will just get voted out…well, birthers, keep harassing Republicans and they won’t get elected. Find another way to vent…
right2bright on July 26, 2010 at 8:18 PM
These people never learn.
Remember Clayton Williams’ sticking both feet in his mouth about rape:
Lost the Texas Governor election – most likely related to an “off the cuff” remark.
I remember being horrified that he said that out loud.
tru2tx on July 26, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Same…you said it better…if you hear voices at night, don’t answer them till after the elections…
right2bright on July 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM
I would be horrified that he would even think that!
sharrukin on July 26, 2010 at 8:21 PM
So who was Mr. Buck trying to impress by bringing it up? Brownie points with the press?
Cindy Munford on July 26, 2010 at 8:21 PM
Heh.
You’re one sick puppy.
Good Lt on July 26, 2010 at 8:24 PM
…yup…oh, and I wasn’t replying to you, specifically…there’re evidently lots of folks who piped up with strenuous objections to Ms. Norton as a candidate….
…the problem is this: this whole Tea Party uprising isn’t new. There’s been plenty of time for folks to stand in front of this or that Republican functionary and make even the most tone-deaf of them aware that the Republican Party doesn’t OWN anyone’s votes, as the Dems seem to think that they own the votes of minorities.
That, I’d though, was what the last two or so years was all about…a Howard-Beale-sian “Grito de Dolores” to set the established parties straight on the lay of the land electorially. Nobody owns our votes, full stop.
…seems that the folks in Colorado who might’ve wanted to consider “grito-ing” at the Republicans either ought to have started sooner, shouted louder or found alternatives to shouting…like closing checkbooks.
…as to the “battle” that the folks of that district are stuck with, deluge both of ‘em with “who do you think you are?!” postcards and emails…let ‘em know they’re bein’ watched.
…then, next time either demand better of the GOP or find or found a more intelligent and representative alternative. You’ve got two years, after all.
Puritan1648 on July 26, 2010 at 8:25 PM
The birth certificate thing seems strange to me. You need one, I assume, to get a driver’s license, purchase firearms, or run for office. I can’t imagine someone getting to be President of the country without showing it at least once.
In another view, conspiracy theories or whatever, writing something off as conspiracy without facts to the contrary is just as nutty and, like conspiracy, enters the realm of blind faith.
George_Canada on July 26, 2010 at 8:26 PM
I live in colorado, and the quoted Norton ad is obnoxious as hell. If I knew nothing else about the race, I’d vote against her on the basis of her media campaign alone.
Dead Hand Control on July 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM
Yeah, its just crazy talk!
Could never happen!
Except when it does…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3ger_Calero
sharrukin on July 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM
If you’re going to try to focus on the annoyance that is conspiracy theorists, time to re-think. They are a magical substance that just gets stronger the more you try to eradicate them. Stop bemoaning them and start doing what the people have always done with any eccentric constituency: you do your best not to offend them and recognize that if you had their life story behind you, you might believe it too.
When you find yourself looking down your nose at people who vote for you, you should probably start looking inward.
Immolate on July 26, 2010 at 8:31 PM
(facepalm)
Boy. It’s a good thing this Birther idiocy some of us thought was put to rest last year is really starting to bear fruit at the right time, isn’t it?
Maybe some half-cocked idiot can start ranting about the North American Union or Bohemian Grove or the Council on Foreign Relations or the New World Order.
Alex Jones and his 9-11 Twoof whack pack are just around the corner.
That’s the key to the election this fall, folks. Conspiracy theories.
Good Lt on July 26, 2010 at 8:17 PM
My thoughts exactly.
annoyinglittletwerp on July 26, 2010 at 8:36 PM
…it’s strange, though…almost surreal…having an establishment press machine with a directional attention span…like pullin’ on the ring in a hog’s nose, you can turn the head and eyes of the press anyway they already wanted to look by giving them quotable bilge to print/broadcast/blog about.
Birthers? Crazy, stupid, conspiratorial, wear tin-foil hats…that’s the narrative.
Rev. Wright? Keep moving, nothing to see here. (Ditto Bill Ayers, ShoreBank, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojovich, 57 states, and anything to do with any of his commie colleagues and mentors.)
…birthers…truthers…all sorts of other “-er’s”…howse ’bout we scrutinize our politicians more closely….
Puritan1648 on July 26, 2010 at 8:38 PM
I told you in the Lindsey Graham thread that we (the right) can still screw this up. Thanks Buck! You dumb f…(well you know).
Would someone please remove our heads from our collective a$$es post haste?!
That is all……….
JohnnyMojo on July 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM
If you want a pony,
you have to shovel the …. used hay.
barnone on July 26, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Exactly what Bush 41 thought during his reelection campaign.
RJL on July 26, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Once again Ronald Reagan has the correct policy “Trust, but verify”.
We trust Obama in a natural born American, but we need to verify that with a real birth certificate.
RJL on July 26, 2010 at 9:10 PM
We trust Obama in a natural born American, but we need to verify that with a real birth certificate.
RJL on July 26, 2010 at 9:10 PM
All I have is a certificate of live birth-just like Obama.
Guess I’d better not run for office.
///
annoyinglittletwerp on July 26, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Well, to be more accurate, if all you had was a photo of a COLB and the promise that you had one at home… then you can still run for office, just like Obama.
sharrukin on July 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM
While he’s right to be angry about being asked Birther questions (they’re toxic to one’s career and the discussion is long past usefulness), blaming the Tea Party for such is total foolishness.
Dark-Star on July 26, 2010 at 9:26 PM
I’ve watched a lot of Tea Party videos on You Tube from all over the country and I’ve never heard anyone talk about “Birther” stuff.
Here’s hoping Norton beats this loser!
Jenfidel on July 26, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Missed in your commentary AP is this tidbit:
OK, so Buck makes a mistake. In my mind, and as a Colorado resident and voter, Buck’s bigger mistake is not knowing that there is in his ‘entourage’ someone whose primary intent is to force a “macaca” moment.
Journolistas everywhere revealing what they really think of our Constitutional Republic.
bains on July 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Anyone yelping out conspiracy theories on camera is either working for the left or needs to be medicated. Guess what, morons? The Democrats and Soros would never have run a guy who was not American, but they just might encourage weirdos to spread this to smear the right.
Stop smoking pot and surfing Above Top Secret and grow up. The real conspiracy is that the left has gotten you Paulnuts and WNDers chasing shadows while they openly embrace Marxism right before your eyes.
Rob Taylor on July 26, 2010 at 10:00 PM
That Sanchez idiot was talking about Buck a few hours ago and aired this old Jane Norton commercial.
I tell ya, I almost died laughing when she got to the “Buck’s not man enough to do it himself” part.
Ryan Anthony on July 26, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Hey, Moron. You aren’t smart enough to come up with an answer to satisfy and change the topic? How about,” barry is the president. Right now he is implementing policies that will destroy this republic. It’s time to worry about the wolf at the door and not about the den he was born in.”
If you have half a brain, and I’m guessing that you don’t, you would be able to talk for an hour about the way this idiot communist is destroying this country.
peacenprosperity on July 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM
You’re one very stupid Lieutenant. You must be Lieutenant Fuzz or a very close relation?
Cheshire Cat on July 26, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Don’t get me wrong, you and ed are a liberal new yorker and a self promoting hannity wannabe. Where there is smoke there is fire and even if barry has a legal birth certificate it’s likely he in the minimum ripped off all kinds of scholorship programs by working the foreign kid angle. I agree tough that fighting over his birth is a waste of time. Where I especially differ from you and ed is that I realize that barry is a scumbag, probably a crook, not nearly as smart as the left propagates him to be and no doubt believes himself to be a communist. And by the way, for anyone being nice or diplomatic to someone they know who claims to be a socialist or communist, they are morons! History has proven again and again that it never works! Do not leave them alone with your children.
peacenprosperity on July 26, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Ahhh . . . Okay, though we’re all more than capable of doing our own thing I’ll point out how ridiculous this just sounded:
“Don’t get me wrong” is used when you’re actually concerned someone’s interpreted what you have to say in a negative way or otherwise. That was not the time for such a phrase.
What the h*ll does one have to do with the other?
What do you mean, “no doubt believes?” He is one.
I refuse to believe that someone who is misguided, stupid or at worst blissfully ignorant regarding social/political/economic issues is going to lure kids into the car while promising candy. I’m as anti-Communist as any of them, but I really think you’ve been watching Nancy Grace too often.
Ryan Anthony on July 26, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Oh, and don’t get me wrong, I do think you’re intelligent – enough so to realize fighting over his birth certificate is a waste of time, anyway.
See? THAT’S how you do it.
Ryan Anthony on July 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM
What a bunch of idiots springing up in the gop. We need leadership and get this instead. He sounds more like he’s only interested in getting elected not working for us if and when he ever gets to DC.
Kissmygrits on July 26, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Oh I have a friend who’s gonna love this.
boomer on July 26, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I get the sense that you go through life spending more time analyzing yourself and your grammer more than you spend observing other human beings.
I’ll just take one of your inane points. There are no true American communists. There are very few “liberal” Americans. There are only those who perceive themselves to be that way. They talk that way, they even vote that way. They do it because they believe that others will think highly of them because they are “liberal” (ie:enlightened). barry believes himself to be a communist because mommy had the hots for communists and barry wants to please mommy because if he pleased mommy maybe she wouldn’t have abandoned him. Now, barry is very easy to analyze, your neighbor who seems normal and lives a life that is every bit “conservative” as you (and I’m making an assumption here since you seem to have the misguided and silly notion that allah and ed are conseratives)may be a little more difficult to figure out. One sign is always present and easy to spot; “liberals” when engaged in a reasonable but intense debate, and faced with questions that they could never answer honestly, either get nasty or bail out of the conversation completely. That is because their entire persona is wrapped up in the their shallow beliefs and when you bring them to the point where the only answer to a question totally negates their lifetime of beliefs, it becomes a life and death struggle and they must attack or escape.
I don’t know if you went to college, if you did you might want to ask for your money back. I won’t charge you for this lesson, which if you were a conservative you would not have needed anyway. I don’t need a reply or want one. You decided to comment on my post, I’ve responded and now I’m going to bed. If you feel the need to take a shot, go for it. I understand you, too.
peacenprosperity on July 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Oh, I don’t care for Norton either. I just filled out my ballot and had to hold my nose picking between Norton and Buck. yuck.
boomer on July 26, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Neither your inane attempts at belittling my education, nor your straw men, impress me. Do whatever you like.
Ryan Anthony on July 26, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Ah, have the two of you deemed it to be nonsense? How very…arrogant of youse.
disa on July 26, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I have to agree with you there.
disa on July 26, 2010 at 11:34 PM
NO HE DIDN’T !!!!!
That ain’t no RINO,..that’s a dayem donkant!!
donk + plant = donkant!
christene on July 26, 2010 at 11:35 PM
There are more than just pedophiles to protect your children from.
The list includes, but not necessarily limited to pedophiles, collectivists, real racists, the doobbie man.
Slowburn on July 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM
I think he articulated the issue quite well. The birth certificate nuts are just the far-right “pink” group.
They should be dealt similarly by politicians.
AnninCA on July 27, 2010 at 12:32 AM
I’m with ya.
blatantblue on July 27, 2010 at 12:35 AM
I’ve had the opportunity to speak to Ken on a handful of occasions, once over the phone for about an hour and a half as the group I chair interviewed him (Jane Norton his opponent refused to be interviewed by our particular Pro-liberty groups and at least four others I know of).
I’m not the least bit offended by his remarks and I don’t know one person involved in the tea party, 912 project or other Colorado pro liberty groups who let this remark change their mind about Ken.
I’m sure there are some out there, but not many.
Who is the tea party in Colorado pissed at right now?
Tancredo.
Ken Buck still has most of the tea party votes just as he did before this remark was made public.
As much as Jane Norton, the Denver Post and Peter Boyles want to make this an issue… it simply isn’t.
rfburnhertz on July 27, 2010 at 12:45 AM
I too am from Colorado & have met Buck a number of times. I’ve been to the debates between him & Norton. Buck appears to be the real deal & believes in a limited government, fiscal responsiblitity, & our constitution. He is clear, articluate, and quick on his feet. Norton is not. She speaks from the same talking points & when she is losing the debate, she goes on the attack. The last debate I saw, she got very nasty & personal when she couldn’t answer the question. Buck replied like a gentleman & kept his cool. The audience saw right through her smears & showed it through some boos.
Colorado Republicans have also received unsolicited emails from the Norton campaign (something the media is not covering) and they are laced with smears & lies. I’ve been following this race very closely & every email I get from the Norton campaign, I check her sources. The emails have Buck’s words, but completely out of context. When you take someone’s words & twist them, then you are a liar, which is what Norton & her campaign manager, Josh Penry have done. Norton & Penry have lost all credibility with me & I will never vote for either of them in future elections here in Colorado.
For those of you who are making judgments from this particular blog from Allah, do some more digging & get all of the facts. Buck did say that some of the birthers are dumb*sses, & he shouldn’t have. That does not make him an idiot, immoral, or unfit for the job. He is far better than Norton & her smear campaign of lies. We need someone like him with constitutional principles who will fight for limited government & fiscal responsibility.
thinkingmom on July 27, 2010 at 1:15 AM
Buck is right! The Tea Party needs to be real and focus on a conservative revolution not leveraging their own kind and cannibalizing through cheap politics. If you want power, run for office and fight through the institution of the party, Don’t stand on the outside and try to vandalize a person’s efforts with your divisive issues.
conservador on July 27, 2010 at 1:58 AM
For that matter, just say the whole issue goes back to the fact that a lot of people don’t trust the president’s word, and that you don’t share the theory.
You don’t really have to attack the people who believe it to establish that you don’t believe it.
There Goes The Neighborhood on July 27, 2010 at 2:21 AM
…and you continue to ignore the concerns that DO exist regarding his birthplace.You continue to ignore Obama spending over $2 million fighting lawsuits that would only prove his eligibility to be POTUS.
Hot Air has been far from the forefront of asking for ANY of Obama’s college transcripts at any point before or after the election. HA is a pretty big voice. A daily post wondering where Obama’s college transcripts were might have gone a long way to create some buzz and get others to ask the question.
IMO HA is guilty in allowing this man to be elected without the press effectively vetting him.
I could give a damn what you think of ‘birthers’ now. You failed us miserably in 2008 and you continue to do so today.
Mr Purple on July 27, 2010 at 2:32 AM
Awww, poor baby, having no control over his own frustration, so he faults those who irritate him rather than himself for being so easily irritated. What a dork.
As a non-Birther w/o a dog in the fight, I can objectively say that the Anti-Birthers who worry and whine about Birthers are waaaaaaaaaaaay more annoying than the Birthers are. It’s easy to see that by how childish and defensive they get when that’s pointed out to them! :)
They aren’t any different than the Lefties who attack moderate Dems and anyone to the right of them for not being left enough. Really, that’s true – they have the same level of emotional maturity.
Bizarro No. 1 on July 27, 2010 at 2:40 AM
The dumbass poticos should just point out that the issue has already been decided by the Supremes which makes it a waste of energy to pursue.
Laurence on July 27, 2010 at 5:10 AM
I’d settle for academic records for Barack Obama and/or Barry Soetoro.
And a GOP who could stop hoisting these people onto the voters who can’t handle questions, even those they don’t understand.
Colorado needs a GOP governor but not more RINOs that do their best to send the state farther Left.
Lourdes on July 27, 2010 at 6:00 AM
+100.
As a non-Birther w/o a dog in the fight, I can objectively say that the Anti-Birthers who worry and whine about Birthers are waaaaaaaaaaaay more annoying than the Birthers are.
Lourdes on July 27, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Why? Why write “lots of posts” IF YOU WEREN’T RATHER EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED IN SOME NEGATIVE YOURSELVES?
It’s never been so much an “issue” as it is attempted to be suppressed as an issue, and thus, you actually become “more a Birther” than the people asking for documentation on the guy in the White House.
This is an issue of great importance, not reduced to “mere” law, as to who Barack Obama is. His academic, medical and passport records really need to be aired to the public and I don’t care what “Executive Order” he’s issued, it only adds to the smoke that there’s a charlatan there.
Our nation is at stake here. Really, a man got hoisted into the White House by felons voting, Journolisters lying and complicit media conglomerates contributing more lies and bolstering the Journolisters’, and, a lot of funding that still is unidentified as to source.
Meanwhile, the man they hoisted on this nation has all his identifying records sealed. That’s hardly small stuff.
His birth certificate as presented has long since been identified as fraud. Let’s see the real man, let’s see his passport files, his academic and medical records (and his adoption records). Why hide them all? What’s to lose in hiding them?
Lourdes on July 27, 2010 at 6:06 AM
That’s right. The only “big moment” was Andrew Breitbart ridiculing WND’s publisher at the earliest convention when he raised the issue — Breitbart actually made the issue more prononced than it would have been had Farrah (WND publisher) simply made his speech and included his complaints in it without Breitbart jumping all over it trying to put the lemonade back into the bottle after it was poured.
However, understandably:
(1.) The Left does not understand how the Tea Party movement CANNOT be “top heavy” organized like one of their Leftist organizations, how it is that Americans “just get together to protest” without some top-heavy, big-government model commanding everyone’s actions and beliefs;
and,
(2.) so the Left manipulates the issue of “Birthers” to fan flames (agitate others) on an emotional basis and people such as Breitbart are a bit too jumpy in assumptions that they “must” silence these agitators/agitations (they only serve to provide them with more attention and thus, share in the “agitation” issue).
So the questions aren’t abnormal (show us Obama’s medical, academic, adoption and passport records) because a lot of people are rightfully concerned about what may be in those records and why they’ve all been ‘sealed’ — BUT — trying to silence the questions and concerns doesn’t do anything but add to the agitation of the issues in the first place.
They aren’t part of or assigned to the Tea Party, however, which is what the Left will never understand and, unfortunately, RINOs and the Libertarian wing of the GOP will never understand that asking questions does not threaten them.
Lourdes on July 27, 2010 at 6:15 AM
Why doesn’t O just make it public, for crying out loud? Put the subject to rest. If other Presidents in the past have made it public knowledge, then so should he.
By not showing it he allows people to believe there is something amiss. Combine the lack of birth record, with the way he talks about his own country, and you have fertile ground for “conspiracy”. I can understand where people could make the jump.
George_Canada on July 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM
This guys a GOP candidate? Not any more.
Its wierd B.O. won’t clear his records up, in fact we know nothing of the man.
johnnyU on July 27, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Birthers are just as stupid and nutty as the 9/11 troofers and the idiots who want to pretend that Sarah Palin’s kid is really her daughter’s baby.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Repeat after me:
Obama was born in Hawaii.
9/11 was the work of Islamofascists.
Trig Palin is the son of Sarah and Todd Palin.
leereyno on July 27, 2010 at 10:56 AM
He’s right…even if you are a birther or ufologist, keep that crap quiet until the dude can get elected. It just makes them all look like nuts to the average Joe.
Big John on July 27, 2010 at 1:44 PM
Maybe Mr. Buck would like to consider the following:
WHO IS HE?
Ever wondered why no one ever came forward from Obama’s past saying they knew him,
attended school with him, was his friend, etc. Not one person has ever come forward from his past.
VERY, VERY STRANGE…
This should really be a cause for great concern.
To those who voted for him, you have elected the biggest unqualifed fraud that America has ever known.
Sort of adds credence to the idea of The Manchurian Candidate thing happening here!
George Stephanopoulos, of ABC News. said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.
He too was a classmate of Obama’s at Columbia class of 1984. He said he never had a single class
with him.
While he is such a great orator, why doesn’t anyone in Obama’s college class remember him? And, why won’t he allow Columbia to release his records?
NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA!
Looking for evidence of Obama’s past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students
from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.
In 2008, Root says of Obama, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know
me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia . EVER! Nobody recalls him.
Root adds that he was also, like Obama, “Class of ’83 political science, pre-law” and says, “You don’t get more exact or closer than that.” Never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who’s kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him.”
Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friend while at Columbia.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same class that Barack Hussein Obama was supposed to have been in.
Some Other Interesting Questions..
Why was Obama’s law license inactivated in 2002? Why was Michelle’s law license inactivated by Court Order?
It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases. The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.
No wonder all his records are sealed!
We must go on and continue sending these out to everyone.
Pass this on to everyone…pass it across America!
LarryG on July 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM
seems to me Tea Party activists should attend Buck’s next campaign appearance with signs that say “Tea Party Smartass reluctantly voting for a Republican Dumbass”
CatchAll on July 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM
I don’t blame Ken Buck for being frustrated. These kooks just distract everyone’s focus from the real issues – limited government, pro-business, lower taxes, oil & gas exploration, etc. Anyone with a brain knows that he wasn’t talking about all Tea Party people, just the ones who can’t get over the birther thing, 18 months after the election. It’s over, there’s nothing you can do about it, get over it.
Ken Buck is a solid Tea Party candidate and a good man and Jane Norton is the worst kind of RINO. She’s intimately tied to the DC machine and John McCain.
Colorado has been leaning left for far too long and Ken Buck is our best shot at correcting that.
Common Sense on July 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Clearly, you are not from Colorado or you would know that Jane Norton IS a prissy, high-heeled wearing RINO biotch that started the pissing contest with her “be a man” comment.
Ken Buck is pro strong women, like his wife and daughter and he didn’t call voters dumbasses, he called the birthers harrassing him dumbasses. Those of us who have watched the campaigns knew exactly what he meant.
Common Sense on July 27, 2010 at 4:09 PM
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