Saturday, September 19, 2015

Obama Himself Allowed Birther Controversy to Be a Thing . . . but TRUMP!

by Kim D.

No doubt by now, everyone has heard about the supposed Trump supporter who made controversial remarks about Muslims and Barack Obama:



And everyone goes nuts! Why are we going here again? At this point, who gives any craps where Barack Obama was born - the damage of voting him in for a two-term presidency is done. Rehashing the birther theory is nothing but smoke and mirrors and a thinly veiled attempt to attack the GOP front runner, Donald Trump. So, once and for all, in regard to the birther theory nonsense, Barack Obama himself is the originator of this controversy or at least is culpable in that Barack didn't correct what was claimed later as a simple editorial mistake.

In 2012, this issue was vetted pretty well. Breitbart News featured the bio from a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” 
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.  The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.   He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.
The birther issue was also raised during the 2008 election Democratic primary when Hillary's camp planted that seed hoping Americans would question Obama's legitimacy as a presidential candidate, making her recent comment about Trump rather hypocritical.
The more significant issue then would be the notion that we need to rid the country of all Muslims and that Obama is himself indeed a Muslim. First of all, to hold Donald Trump accountable for not setting the record straight that Obama is a Christian is utter nonsense. 
But that hasn't stopped the media and some other GOP candidates from taking the bait and whipping up the frenzy hoping to hurt the Trump candidacy:
The most hypocritical are the Democratic candidates and their liberal/progressive supporters:
One Trump supporter points out the obvious in a rather colorful way:

Well now that's it in a nutshell - so why all the outrage and offense? And as for me, don't confuse me as a Trump lover - I'm with Angie on this one and believe this whole made-up controversy is a giant fail:

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