Sarah Palin says she’s no birther
Last night, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted the following on her Facebook page, under the headline “Stupid Conspiracies:”
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.
Apparently this is something of a walk-back for Palin. On Thursday, in an interview with conservative radio host Rusty Humphries, she said something slightly different. This posted on Salon.com:
PALIN: Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. 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.
It’s still something that Nathan Deal might note. If Palin can retreat, so can he.
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172 comments Add your comment
Troglodyke
December 4th, 2009
12:24 pm
Wow. She IS capable of rational thought at times! Who knew?
You know, I want to like Sarah Palin. I really do. But I cannot get behind her having as much power politically as others want her to have. She has some seriously crazy ideas about what this country is about, and how it should be run.
Who is Sarah Palin??
December 4th, 2009
12:28 pm
Is Sarah Palin the Vice-President candidate who lost the election and couldn’t even finish her first term as Governor of Alaska? I can’t imagine her running for President. If elected, maybe she will make it through one year before getting impeached for incompetence.
tom
December 4th, 2009
12:30 pm
of course she didn’t ask. if she would have asked she would have had to address the fact that her running mate wasn’t born in this country
Mike Smith
December 4th, 2009
12:31 pm
Not much different than Obama being unable to finish his first term as a Senator
SaneDem
December 4th, 2009
12:34 pm
Another flip-flop for Sarah. This time it took a mere hours for her to go from calling questions about the President’s place of birth “legitimate” to implying they’re the work of “conspiracy-minded reporters and voters”.
Vet
December 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
Mike, the situation was totally different…
She is on Meds
December 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
What is she talking about? President Obama is not the one asking these questions. So what comparison is she trying to make. She is a joke. A hilarious one!
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
December 4th, 2009
12:36 pm
Sarah Palin is accursed, inbred, whitetrash. Wonder what “sort” finds her “attractive?”
Glenn
December 4th, 2009
12:37 pm
bring out the Sarah haters! The hatred and vitriol directed at Palin proves that she’s still relevant.
azcat225
December 4th, 2009
12:38 pm
Give it a rest, tom. McCain’s birthplace was just as dead-on-arrival as Obama’s birthplace.
Greyt Goose
December 4th, 2009
12:38 pm
If a President could get “impeached for incompetence”, we would have hearings going on right now.
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
12:38 pm
Good question. Is Barack Obama the mysterious “Black Liberation Theologist” that was elected President without even finishing one term in the United States Senate? Ya’ll need to stop this “she’s radical, she has no experience” crap.Take one good look at your guy and MABE you’ll see how stupid you sound.
E. Joyce
December 4th, 2009
12:44 pm
“I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue,” Palin said. “I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers.” Palin said in a radio interview today. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Palin_Obama_birth_certificate_a_fair_question.html?showall
Sarah, no one made you say this, but I guess in your mind, someone put it in your mouth and made you spit it out so it’s their fault.
You All Are Fooling Yourselves
December 4th, 2009
12:44 pm
@ Will Jones
Straight men. Looking at Palin sure as heck beats looking at Hillary Clinton…..
Idiot Speaks Again
December 4th, 2009
12:46 pm
Palin is the biggest idiot that has walked above the “higher 48 states.” Who cares what she says, thinks, or does — ever!
Un-American “idiots” never count, and that she is.
jim
December 4th, 2009
12:46 pm
Hey Mike Smith – Quite a difference actually. When you leave to move up and continue to serve is one thing. Quitting to make money and get out of the heat that she helped generate is an entirely different matter. You can rationalize anything but your reasoning is faulty.
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
12:52 pm
@ Idiot speaks again, don’t you mean the higher 57 states? LMAO!! Who’s the idiot again?
HB
December 4th, 2009
12:52 pm
Seriously, Mike? There no difference between a sitting senator leaving before his term is up to serve as president of our nation and a governor leaving because…I’m sorry, why did she resign again? I was never really clear on that. Was it to do the book tour? Whatever it was, she didn’t leave to serve in a higher office. She just left.
Captain Koolade
December 4th, 2009
12:53 pm
Sara Palin is not only a successful politician, at one time she was actually gainfully employed. The Messiah has never been gainfully employed he has been supported by some Govt agency from day one. I’d be willing to bet he couldn’t tell us what the cost of a gallon of milk is.
You All Are Fooling Yourselves
December 4th, 2009
12:53 pm
I always find it humorous how much vitriol bleeding-heart liberals spew about conservatives, but yet they claim themselves to be peaceful, Earth-loving granola children who accept everybody. Evidence proves you all are anything but. Smell that? It’s your hypocrisy leaking from out of your sphincter.
jim
December 4th, 2009
12:54 pm
Gee whiz Captain Midnight – I guess you do not want to count the several years he served in the state house and senate. Palin was in over head and being the mayor of a town of 12,000 is not exactly V.P. experience. Lets see, half of a term of govenor in a state that has less people than Obama’s old state senate seat – yeah she is highly qualified – not.
She can’t even get her “bus tour” right for her book. Turns out that she flys to locations and gets on the bus just outside of town and proceeds to “ride the bus” into the site. Hopefully she will finally just go away.
What newspapers do you read, Sarah ?
December 4th, 2009
12:59 pm
I read ALL of them Katie.
…..
KC
December 4th, 2009
12:59 pm
Everyone keeps saying Obama didn’t finish his first Senate term, but he left the Senate to become President. Sarah Palin left the governorship of Alaska to do what, sell books?
Ben the Independent
December 4th, 2009
1:05 pm
Sara Palin must scare the libs to death. They continue to blast her by distorting and misstating comments she has made. Could it be that her unabashed Christianity and her forthright way of stating the facts is contributing to the scare??
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
1:06 pm
Oh I’m sorry, I stand corrected. A short stint in some statehouse and an incomplete freshman term in the Senate and throw in some Voter fraudin’ACORN community organizin’ and we’ve got us some proven leadership.
Sug
December 4th, 2009
1:08 pm
PALIN 2012!!!!
Candy Licker
December 4th, 2009
1:09 pm
Mike Smith, I see your point about finishing a term, but the difference is that Obama left the Senate for higher office, while Palin simply resigned. Clearly those are not the same thing.
jim
December 4th, 2009
1:10 pm
And the ” voter fraudin” was proven when exactly? And the state house is where most great american political leaders got there start for the national scene. Not some podunk town in Alaska. And the state house in Illinois is not chopped liver. Gave us Abraham Lincoln and a ton of other famous leaders. Ain’t history inconvienant sometimes?
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
1:12 pm
Hey Ben, nail on head. Look at the crowds that turnout to see her. They’re terrified.
Corporal Dusk
December 4th, 2009
1:13 pm
Captain Midnight, why do right wingers insist on calling Mr. Obama the Messiah? He certainly has not called himself that, and neither have his supporters. We have great hopes for him, but I think that you guys overestimate his abilities by making him messianic.
Happy
December 4th, 2009
1:13 pm
If you want to know who an idiot is look no further than your current VP – Biden!!!! Do you really want that wingnut as President??
Jack
December 4th, 2009
1:14 pm
One of these days Sarah Palin is going to turn into a current day Dan Quayle. Just another young gun who speaks his/her mind and is able to convince way too many that they are the next great leader of this country. If you allow yourself to think about it, it’s really scary that so many see her as anything more than a publicity loving, money hungry moron who is riding her 15 minutes as hard and long as she can.
Ira in East Lake
December 4th, 2009
1:18 pm
Please please please let there be a Huckabee/Palin or Palin/Huckabee ticket in 2012!
PLEASE??!!!!!!!!
tom
December 4th, 2009
1:19 pm
ira, hickabee’s chances died last week in seatle with the cops being murdered.
who cares
December 4th, 2009
1:20 pm
mitt romney is the only one that knows fiscal conservancey and fiscal responsability. Plus, he will bomb the Palestinians off the planet!
jim
December 4th, 2009
1:21 pm
Uh Captain, I am still waiting on the date that “voter fruadin” was proven. Surely they fined the President or began impeachment. Voter fraud is a serious matter. Just need that pesky little date so we can make sure he is punished.
jim
December 4th, 2009
1:24 pm
Hey Ira, Would love to see a Huckabee/Palin ticked in 2012. Huckabee’s slogan – ” Release killers early, so they can kill again” Palin’s slogan – “Darn it, I just did’nt understand the question”
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
1:24 pm
Uh’Jim, pick up a newspaper.Btw bud, the lil Illinois staehouse didn’t give us Barack Obama, Oprah did.Look back at the congressional or executive experience of any President since WW2 and tell me what qualifies this guy to hold the office of President. If he’d been a white guy with that all but non-existent resume, he been laughed out of town any everybody knows it. Oh but he’s “brilliant”, a “Nobel prize’ winner. What a doublestandardized joke.
Tim Brock
December 4th, 2009
1:26 pm
We should start a petition to have Obama impeached for incompetence. Will Jones (Atlanta) you sound like an Acorn employed Racist. Obama only became a Senator after having his competitor kicked off the ballot and he has never ran a business or a city Government. if the government would investigate thoroughly you would find with all the voter fraud, Obama is not really President. Obama should have had palin as a running mate, wouldn’t that be two peas in a pod
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
1:27 pm
Corporal Dusk, I think it was probably the 200+ Newsweek covers with him pictured with some sort of halo around his head. It think it’s called power of suggestion.
One Striking RATTLER
December 4th, 2009
1:27 pm
There is one thing Palin and Obama supporters agree on. We all want Palin at the top of the 2012 Republican Ticket! Go Sarah! Go Sarah!
Tim Brock
December 4th, 2009
1:29 pm
and if you didn’t understand my post then refer to Captain Midnights’ post for clarity
Tim Brock
December 4th, 2009
1:30 pm
If my post is confusing to anyone then read what Captain Midnight posted that should clarify my position
Kurt Mittendorf
December 4th, 2009
1:31 pm
Hey Troglodyke – If you believe what you said about Palin – “She has some seriously crazy ideas about what this country is about, and how it should be run”, then why don’t you provide some specifics? I really hate people who throw out blanket assertions without the integrity & character to back them up with solid facts.
tc
December 4th, 2009
1:31 pm
give me a break….this woman would fall apart like a cheap suit if she had to confront all the issues that now face the Prez. Smoke would billow from her ears…only dumb a$$es really think she could lead this country
One Striking RATTLER
December 4th, 2009
1:31 pm
@Captain Midnight. Are you saying that prior experience is the reason Bush’43, Carter, Nixon, Coolidge, Hoover and Wilson were able to govern as ineffectively as they did? Aren’t you kind of defeating your own argument?
thies
December 4th, 2009
1:32 pm
Why is there still news coverage about her? She’s irrelevant, give it a rest.
Captain Midnight
December 4th, 2009
1:33 pm
Hey Jim, Google ‘Acorn voter fraud’, but get out of the way quickly so you don’t get buried in the avalanch.
jim
December 4th, 2009
1:34 pm
your arguement is devolving. A ton and I mean a ton of white people who do not watch Oprah voted for Obama and alot of us are white guys who are also combat veterans. Have a friend who served on the Republican Governor of Illilnois Cabnet a few years ago. He is a Republican himself but he told me about this state senator who knew how to work with both sides of the aisle and get things done. And then he told me about the guy, Senator Obama. And I guess it just depends on the newspaper you want to read. Actually read 4-5 newspapers each week. Granted that includes the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. I can only guess your feeling on those.
I just wish we could have more of a dialogue about stuff and not all the entrenched, bitter stuff that passes for politics these days.
Not Going To Use My Usual Name
December 4th, 2009
1:35 pm
I’d take a president who has a Harvard law pedigree over Palin’s spotty educational history.
I read a great comment the other day at another site by a liberal who essentially said this:
The right says that we don’t like Sarah Palin because she’s a *Mom* and because she’s pretty and feisty and clever. Truth is, that’s all we DO like about her. What we *don’t* like are her actions and the content of her policies.
I agree with that comment wholeheartedly. She’s a fun politician and I wouldn’t mind hanging out with her for a while, but not only do I not like her politics, I don’t like how she misrepresents her record. What do I mean? I mean the bridge to nowhere that she was for before she was against it… and how she charged the state for her kids’ travel… and how she said she was responsible for legal bills from the McCain campaign’s vetting of her when that has proven false… and all the other ways she’s been caught in lies (or as Jerry Falwell used to call ‘em, “metaphors and analogies”).