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Sarah Palin has now endorsed the Birther cause, telling a right-wing radio host that "the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue" -- and she even seemed to suggest that that the McCain campaign should have gone there last year.

Radio talker Rusty Humphries gave Palin questions submitted by his listeners, including this one: "Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?"

"Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that," said Palin. "I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think enough members of the electorate still want answers."

Palin implied that the McCain campaign should have used this issue in 2008, discussing her long-standing complaint that the campaign didn't go hard enough on Obama: "I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations, past voting records, all of that is fair game. You know, I gotta tell you, too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign, didn't do a good enough job in that area."

Palin has done a pseudo-backtrack in her Facebook account, denying that she in any way called on Obama to produce his birth certificate or suggested he wasn't born in the United States -- which would seem to contradict the plain text of what she said in the interview:

Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I've pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point - not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews - have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

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December 4, 2009 9:20 AM   

Palin has never produced a BC of Trig and continues her rogue appraoch of lies and deceptions!

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December 4, 2009 1:13 PM    in reply to Progressive Party

Trig isn't running for president, and it's hardly unexpected that Obama supporters would go after a Downs Syndrome child.

As for this post, Eric Kleefeld is misleading you: Palin didn't "endorse" the "cause", as he himself implicitly admits with the link to Facebook.

As for the wider issue, you can believe in your heart of hearts that BHO was born where he says and still point out that the MSM has repeatedly lied about the basic facts of this matter. Scroll down for a list of those who've lied and misled.

Obviously, a lot of people don't mind it when the press lies to them just as long as it breaks their way. However, a press that just makes things up should be very worrisome to those who realize how vital the press is in this country.

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December 4, 2009 3:00 PM    in reply to LonewackoDotCom3

I daresay most Obama supporters would have treated the birth of a premature special needs baby with more care and concern than Sarah "I need to give an important speech and then fly back to Alaska while in labor" Palin. Her conduct regarding the birth of her son was nothing short of sickening, and frankly the people on the "Trig parentage conspiracy" are probably doing Sarah a favor, because a coverup for a pregnant child and illegitimate grandchild is a lot easier to understand and sympathize with than playing roulette with the safety and well-being of the very child she trots out to show how "pro life" she is.

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December 5, 2009 12:19 AM    in reply to jenesq

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Is Obama's birth certificate a valid a question? Poll


http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=6593


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December 4, 2009 6:36 PM    in reply to LonewackoDotCom3

Hardly unexpected? One person makes one sarcastic comment and you paint all of us with that? You lived up to your name beautifully.

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December 4, 2009 9:28 AM   

WOOHOOO, now if we can only get Michelle Bachman to hop on that train. . . .

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December 4, 2009 9:30 AM   

Coming from Ms. "Pallin' Around With Terrorists" it doesn't surprise me.

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December 4, 2009 9:57 AM   

Where is Sarah's birth certificate? I haven't seen it. Why is she refusing to make it public?

Um, this is an issue, you betcha.

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December 4, 2009 11:33 AM    in reply to oskieoskie

She's white silly.

Furthermore you can't fake her brand of American ignorance and stupidity regarding the rest of the world.

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December 4, 2009 3:44 PM    in reply to jet

wasn't she born BEFORE Alaska was a state?

just kidding...

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December 4, 2009 10:11 AM   

Sarah, we got lots more rope over here, help yourself.

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December 4, 2009 10:16 AM   

This is THE argument, folks, and it's not going away. By the time 2012 rolls around, the economy will be getting better, some sort of health care reform will be passed, and the teabaggification of the GOP will be complete. The Republican presidential nominee -- who will be a joke candidate like Palin -- will not be willing (or able, probably) to talk about real issues. It will be, "Vote for me because my opponent is a Kenyan."

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December 4, 2009 10:30 AM   

Sarah Palin speaks for the voiceless, the disillusioned, the disenfranchised conservative citizen. The nation yearns for her strong, positive leadership.

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December 4, 2009 12:06 PM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

Hahahahahahahaha, that's a good one!

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December 4, 2009 12:09 PM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

The best part of your post? The "disenfranchised" part. I cannot believe that people are so stupid as to believe that "losing an election" is the same as being "disenfranchised." If you got to vote, you weren't "disenfranchised," even if your preferred candidate lost. Democracy can be a real bitch sometimes!

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December 4, 2009 12:58 PM    in reply to jenesq

Spot-on!

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December 4, 2009 3:49 PM    in reply to BeeClone

...wonder what Sailorman thinks of Franken's bill?

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December 4, 2009 6:38 PM    in reply to Sailormarlowe

Thanks for the laugh. My sides hurt now.

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December 4, 2009 11:07 AM   

voters had a right to ask

Thank you for belatedly stating the obvious.

Where is that video of Palin, pre-Veep nomination, telling Hillary Clinton "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"?

The right to petition the government for redress of grievances is one thing. The actual merits of the petitioner are quite another. Would that the media would at least try to distinguish between the two.

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December 4, 2009 11:16 AM   

Strong words coming from a seditionist.

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December 4, 2009 11:27 AM   

"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations, past voting records, all of that is fair game."


Right. And ask her about her husband being a member of a political separatist party, and the reaction she gives you, to see just how much she believes that.

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December 4, 2009 11:37 AM   

Of course she forgets to mention that John McCain was born in Panama, so there was no way they were going to "go there."

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December 4, 2009 1:05 PM    in reply to cowbellguy

Yeah, if anyone had a birther concern it was McCain who was running on the "theory" that his parents' citizenship would qualify him as a "Natural Born" citizen, but this is a theory that has never been tested in court when it comes to a President. It was raised previously for Mitt Romney's father, whom I personally do not think would have qualified as his grandparents fled to Mexico to practice polygamy which would seem to abandon a claim to citizenship (or any ability for Mitt to argue for 'traditional marriage' but that's besides the point) for yourself any of your heirs not born in the US.

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December 4, 2009 1:15 PM    in reply to Cy Guy

Good point on Panama, and that Mitt Romney angle is very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

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December 4, 2009 3:47 PM    in reply to again

wasn't Palin born BEFORE Alaska was a state?

just kidding... maybe

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December 4, 2009 11:38 AM   

First off Sarah should produce Trig's birth certificate if she wants to go all crazy batshit with this stuff. Having said that, I think Sarah should be a spokesperson for mental retardation since it affects her and her (maybe) child. She can be an example of the goals people can achieve being mentally challenged, like herself.

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December 4, 2009 11:41 AM   

I have had enough of this deeply dishonest, duplicitous, stupid and mean-spirited incompetent.

She is never going to be elected to anything ever again. Can't we please talk about something else?

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December 4, 2009 12:20 PM    in reply to mjshep

Hopefully she won't be elected to anything. But there is a very real possibility she will be the 2012 Republican nominee. One of her main opponents, Mike Huckabee was just heavily scarred due to the cop killer he pardoned.

Who does that leave? Rudy911? Please. Newt? Please x3. Unless some left field candidate crops up (Dick Cheney), this will be a Palin vs. Mittens race. And a little birdie told me which one of the two the evangelical base will back.

Bottom line, we may be sick of her, but we need to keep hearing about her for the foreseeable future.

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December 4, 2009 1:25 PM    in reply to mjshep

Right. Let's talk about Paris Hilton, for example, if we're going to traffic in airheads. Her video about McCain during the '08 campaign had more substance than anything Palin ever said or did. Bible Spice should hire Paris's writer.

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December 4, 2009 11:43 AM   

Sarah is out there and respected by a large number of devotees, it would be irresponsible for TPM not to cover her just because she is an idiot. John Coryn is an idiot he gets covered, Santorum is an idiot and deeply disturbed he gets covered. Politics has never had intelligence as a criteria for participation, power, or press coverage

For this alone I think TPM has a duty to cover her activities in the political sphere. Its not as if TPM is doing stories on her fashions or such.

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December 4, 2009 12:05 PM   

Jesus H. Christ...why does the media continue to give a voice to the deranged lunatics who do not understand the first fricking thing about birth certificates? I wish all these damned birthers would request their OWN birth certificates and take a good hard look at them to see if they are any different from the birth certificate produced by Barack Obama. Hint: they're not. Crazy-ass morons.

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December 4, 2009 12:11 PM   

Great words, Dorn!

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December 4, 2009 12:17 PM   

Throwing a mob of idiots the red meat they howl for in person, then dialing back the crazy hours later online...

That's the gutlessness, I mean leadership, we deserve!

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December 4, 2009 12:35 PM   

Sigh. Why is TPM helping her continue to stay in the news, when she'd be better used for wrapping fish?

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December 4, 2009 1:11 PM    in reply to JimmyBobby

The more we can do to make this woman the GOP standard barrier, the safer we will all be.

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December 4, 2009 2:28 PM    in reply to Dorn76

Barrier....bearer: either works.

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December 4, 2009 12:46 PM   

She doesn't want to tick off the birthers so she agrees with them without becoming one of them officially. As for Trig, I was more concerned that she was reportedly in labor in Texas, waited to go to a doctor until she got back to Alaska and went to a hospital hours from the airport...why was that? Also.

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December 4, 2009 1:23 PM    in reply to Suznaz

So he would be a natural-born Alaskan citizen, and could run for president after it secedes.

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December 4, 2009 1:58 PM    in reply to Suznaz

Yes, exactly. To tell the truth, a coverup of Trig's parentage would look better for Sarah that the absolutely insane chances she took with the premature birth of a special-needs child. Even people with a very liberal, nonmedicalized view of birth ought to be disgusted by her narcissistic and dangerous actions when she was in labor.

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December 4, 2009 1:15 PM   

As far as I can recall, one of the reasons the Hawaii state birth records office didn't have a print copy is because they, like many other such public agencies over the years, have ditched print records now that they converted to electronic-only records for cost reasons. That is one of the cost savings always discussed when talking about health care reform, going to e-only records. What, is every public agency supposed to keep print copies of every single form for every single US citizen on the chance that they might one day run for president? Sure, pass that law, Sarah, and then deal with the backlash that your new "print and electronic" record policy adds to state agencies already reeling from the imminent loss of federal surplus money.

Oh, wait -- I forgot that you're no longer in government. Never mind!

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December 4, 2009 2:00 PM    in reply to Hussein Stemper

Again, all birthers should be required to obtain copies of their own birth certificates. They won't look appreciably different from President Obama's. I know mine doesn't, and neither do my children's...and they're from different states.

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December 4, 2009 1:16 PM   

I'll bet Sarah didn't actually swipe the RNC credit card either when she was wrapping things up at Nordstrom's.

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December 4, 2009 1:21 PM   

People in glass houses? This is a provocative accusation coming from someone born so close to Russia...

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December 4, 2009 1:31 PM   

The writer of her book is known. Who is the writer on her facebook account, does anybody know? Backtracking implies the same person said one thing and wrote the opposite.

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December 4, 2009 2:12 PM   

However, a press that just makes things up should be very worrisome to those who realize how vital the press is in this country.

And yet you probably watch Fox News religiously.

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December 4, 2009 3:20 PM   

Sarah + Levi = Trig

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December 4, 2009 3:25 PM   

I look forward to the leak of pics of Sarah riding Levi on the living room floor.

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December 4, 2009 3:53 PM   

Sarah doing what she does best. No, not shooting her mouth off, but playing the victim while attacking. Just the qualities we should want in a President - Not!

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December 4, 2009 3:53 PM   

WOULD SOMEONE IN THE MSM PLEASE ASK SARAH PALIN WHAT SHE THINKS OF AL FRANKEN'S ANTI-RAPE BILL?

She is so immune to "gotcha" questions, just being asked "what do you read" constitutes an ambush in her mind.

If she had to face a serious question like "If you were President, would you veto Al Franken's anti-rape legislation?"

PLEASE, someone in the media with some real guts needs to put her on the hotseat and see how she handles the pressure of an un-managed Q&A session with a REAL reporter.

But, this is it, until someone asks her a serious question, I'm ignoring Ms. Palin. I'm jumping off the Palin fun express, the more we give her a voice, the more violent she seems to become.

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December 4, 2009 4:26 PM    in reply to JEP07

You're absolutely correct. Because of her anti-women stance, in general, she's probably the type that would say any woman that is raped "asked" for it.

Unfortunately, the bigger her mouth becomes, the more nuts that follow. We need to keep tabs on the idiocy that flows from her hole so we know what her zombies are thinking. Because of her stance on the birther issue, I'm betting that there are quite a few more birthers on the books, now.

Besides asking her about her stance on the Franken bill, why doesn't someone ask her how she feels about regular citizens with an obvious political agenda promoting books that contain lies, half-truths, anti-American, political crap on military bases? Despite her promise to not give any political speeches, she's still promoting hatred and lies in the book she's promoting...to our military.

Sometimes I think our President is way too tolerant. If it had been me, I would have refused her request and then had her hauled off the base. She should be ashamed of herself. Wait...what am I saying? She has no shame. Her treatment of her children proves that point.

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December 4, 2009 4:37 PM   

Jepo said: If the only way she can keep her silly story in the media is to foment hatred and intolerance, it is time to start ignoring her.

Sadly, her record of fomenting hatred and intolerance is legendary. When someone of intelligence dares to call her out, her minions immediately cry foul and then proceed to mock the "intellectuals" who don't understand her. My favorite is when we are told that "liberals" are scared of her power and popularity. That fear is misplaced. It is actually fear that the dumbing down of America is permanent. I can recall a time when it was a positive to be able to speak cogently and work with those of opposing views to reach a consensus. Now if you dare to reach out you are slammed for assisting "them" and made the target of vitriol and hate speech. I for one stopped listening to her inane ramblings when she blamed the media for her ineptitude. She is very good at pointing fingers at those who are the cause of the perception of her as unintelligible and prone to the lowest common denominator. She is the sad outcome of a low level education iced with religiousity. Now that is truly scary.

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December 4, 2009 6:40 PM   

The public isn't making this an issue. A few rightwing idiots keep bringing it up when they can't think of anything else. The public has seen his birth certificate, accepted it and moved on.

Then again, this woman is so delusional that she thinks the majority of the country actually supports her, so I can kind of see how she might believe what she's saying...

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December 4, 2009 7:05 PM   

Wow another Sarah Palin story, How many of these stories do the idiots of this country need. She stands for me, why because she is a liar, hypocrite, hate provoker, could not finish her term,is deceitful, believes it's all about her, could not get along with and was greatly disliked by the McCain Staff. Palin is a pathetic joke loved by all the National Enquirer readers. Enough of Palin, Tiger Woods, Brittney Spears. How about dealing with important issues in a honest way.

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