NRO's Goldberg: "Why Did The WH Take Such Sweet Time Releasing" Obama's Birth Certificate?
April 27, 2011 10:23 am ET by Media Matters staff
In an April 27 National Review Online blog post titled, "The New Burning Question," Jonah Goldberg wrote:
I haven't studied the just released PDF of Obama's birth certificate. But assuming there's nothing in there about a birthmark that resembles the numbers "666" or about how his father worked for the KGB and -- of course -- assuming that the font in question matches typewriters of the time (Let's get Dan Rather on that): I figure this puts the birther thing to bed once and for all. Good.
But it does raise the perplexing question: If this was possible all along, why did the WH take such sweet time releasing it? Could it be that this White House, continuing a tactic used by Democrats for years, actually liked being able to cast their opponents -- often through guilt by association -- as paranoid nuts? No, that couldn't possibly be it.
In 2008, Obama DID release a birth certificate. Only the lunatic wingnuts thought it was a forgery.
So the White House "actually liked being able to cast their opponents -- often through guilt by association -- as paranoid nuts?"
This is incredible! They ARE paranoid nuts! The White House didn't make them that way! You can't blame the White House for the raving lunatics that make up a good portion of the GOP.
"Can you believe President Obama had the audacity to force Hawaii to break its own laws and release his original birth certificate? This man believes he's above the law!"
How was this a "WH tactic to cast their opponents as paranoid nuts"? The WH did NOTHING. It was the paranoid nuts who made themselves look like paranoid nuts
Obama could not order the State of Hawaii to release a copy of this original document that the state maintained in its records. All that Hawaii was obliged to do was issue its current standard "certificate of live birth", duly certified, which Obama obtained and posted in July, 2008. Finally, the State of Hawaii now states that it has made an exception because of the controversy and large demand for the document released today.
And why are you calling him an idiot, foole?
Thank you, though.
Mistakes on blogs that profess to be all about factual information I guess are okay by you, but it seems to me one should have their wits about them when they go around calling other people idiots. Are is that setting the bar too high for this place?
Sorry, I don't talk to traitors like you.
BTW, my comment was sarcasm . . . didn't put quotation marks around it, so I guess you didn't get it.
Jonah Goldberg has a great book out, it's called You should check it out from your local library if the waiting list isn't still too long. Or it's out in paperback now, too. Very popular. Very informative.
I think it may change your impression of him being an idiot.
That book is actually NOT popular. The initial sales reports were the result of bulk sales. It sat on the shelves of our local booksellers (and I live in one of the top ten most conservative areas in the country, according to an annual AOL poll . . . voted 82% for GWB in 2004 and 76% for McCain in 2008) for months and gathered dust. It went on the bargain books stacks where it sat until it finally sold for .99/copy. You know why? Because we are also a city with conservative Christian-related universities. The people here are too intelligent to read and believe Goldberg's perversion of history.
BTW, not exactly sure how I feel about someone who frequents a racist website called "www.wehateamerica.com." Kind of disgusting.
Why weren't you on the streets demanding that George W Bush release his Birth Certificate? I've never seen it or heard of anybody asking him for it other then the people who are REQUIRED to ask for it before they run for President.
This seems more like another capitulation by Obama than anything else. The man gives in to anybody and everybody. Why? Why give these ignorant s.o.b.s the time of day? Why not let the spotlight continue to shine on then, to help demonstrate the absolute lunacy and stupidity of so many?
Pretty astute.
So is bouderhippy a place of origin and an occupation, or brain material and what it is stored between?
This was NEVER a Constitutional issue for anyone. The Constitutional requirements had been met and had been proven to have been met. This was a racist issue. Obama was being questioned simply because he's darker than most presidents and he has a funny name.
You're an idiot.
This showing makes that reasoning false.
What is your theory now of why he waited, and why now, and not later when it could've helped him more?
So you start investigating. You call people in HR. They claim she's an employee, but they won't release her contract to you. This only raises more suspicions. You write a book called, "Where's the Contract?: The Case that Carol in the Office near the Copier on the 3rd Floor is not a Real Employee". It's coming out next month.
Now your coworker is tired of this game, and has H.R. dig up her contract. Your response? "Why didn't she just release it earlier if she had nothing to hide?" You start asking people for their theories. Why didn't she just end this long ago when she clearly could have? Was she trying to discredit you?...
So, hoosier, why do you think Carol waited, and why now, and not later when it could have helped her more?
when a president has to ask for exceptions to the law just to prove something as stupid as this, there is something fundamentally wrong, and its fundamentally wrong on the side of the conservatives
I really don't think so.
Unbelievable. Obama couldn't make you morons look like paranoid nuts if YOU WEREN'T PARANOID NUTS.
But I guess you can't smear Obama with the whole birther thing, so something else will have to fill the void.
How WND, Jerome Corsi, Bishop McRae, et al retain any credibility is a mystery to me. But I'm sure their mindless drooling idiot followers will continue to stand by them.
Which of the wingnuts (or wingut trolls) will have the guts to admit to uncritically swallowing this nonsense and admit that, just maybe, WND, Corsi and the rest are not really to be trusted?
In my opinion, I don't think so.
Just little victims... little lying bigoted victims.
All together now: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.