Questions
Andrew McCarthy wonders at National Review:
"If Obama wants to strike a connection with graduating students in Moscow, he makes up a story about meeting his “future wife . . . in class” (Barack and Michelle Obama met at work). If he wants to posture about his poverty and struggle in America, he waxes eloquent about his single mother’s surviving on “food stamps” so she could use every cent to send him “to the best schools in the country” (Obama was raised by his maternal grandparents, who had good jobs and were able to pull strings to get him into an elite Hawaiian prep school). If he wants to tie himself to the civil-rights struggle of African Americans,he tells an audience in Selma, “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma . . . so [my parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born”(Obama was born in 1961, four years before the civil-rights march in Selma — by which time his parents had divorced and his mother was planning a move to Indonesia with the second of her two non-African-American husbands). If he wants to buy a home he can’t afford, he “unwittingly” collaborates with a key fundraiser (who had been publicly reported to be under federal investigation for fraud and political corruption). If he wants to sell a phony stimulus as a job-creator, he tells the country that Caterpillar has told him the stimulus will enable the company “to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off” (Caterpillar’s CEO actually said no,“we’re going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again”)."
Andrew Sullivan, at The Daily Dish, has been wondering in his friendly sort of way why doesn't Obama just order the release of vital records on his birth:
"But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom Ibelieve entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as acitizen to take public officials on trust. They are not to be trusted,whoever they are. It is our job to demand all the evidence wewant or need. I know the electronic record is legit. I have no doubtthat Obama has every constitutional right to be president. I think theBirthers are nuts. But there is no reason on earth that the original cannot be retrieved and shown. Jon Klein and CNN were wrong, and I retract my apology of yesterday."
I love how he carves a little niche for himself away from the "birthers," yet still demands.
And finally, Little Green Footballs gets it:
"If Obama wants to strike a connection with graduating students in Moscow, he makes up a story about meeting his “future wife . . . in class” (Barack and Michelle Obama met at work). If he wants to posture about his poverty and struggle in America, he waxes eloquent about his single mother’s surviving on “food stamps” so she could use every cent to send him “to the best schools in the country” (Obama was raised by his maternal grandparents, who had good jobs and were able to pull strings to get him into an elite Hawaiian prep school). If he wants to tie himself to the civil-rights struggle of African Americans,he tells an audience in Selma, “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma . . . so [my parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born”(Obama was born in 1961, four years before the civil-rights march in Selma — by which time his parents had divorced and his mother was planning a move to Indonesia with the second of her two non-African-American husbands). If he wants to buy a home he can’t afford, he “unwittingly” collaborates with a key fundraiser (who had been publicly reported to be under federal investigation for fraud and political corruption). If he wants to sell a phony stimulus as a job-creator, he tells the country that Caterpillar has told him the stimulus will enable the company “to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off” (Caterpillar’s CEO actually said no,“we’re going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again”)."
Andrew Sullivan, at The Daily Dish, has been wondering in his friendly sort of way why doesn't Obama just order the release of vital records on his birth:
"But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom Ibelieve entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as acitizen to take public officials on trust. They are not to be trusted,whoever they are. It is our job to demand all the evidence wewant or need. I know the electronic record is legit. I have no doubtthat Obama has every constitutional right to be president. I think theBirthers are nuts. But there is no reason on earth that the original cannot be retrieved and shown. Jon Klein and CNN were wrong, and I retract my apology of yesterday."
I love how he carves a little niche for himself away from the "birthers," yet still demands.
And finally, Little Green Footballs gets it:
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