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Good Morning! End of the birthers?

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Hey guys - just two stories for you this morning. After a House resolution passed yesterday affirming that Barack Obama was in fact born in the state of Hawaii, we want to know if you think this will be the end of the birther movement?

Also - the AP is reporting on a new program in Mexico to try drug offenders in a special judicial system geared toward rehabilitation instead of imprisonment. Good idea? Something we should consider in the US?
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  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • This guy always got something interesting to say. Here he is on Obama's birth certificate and why it's a huge distraction from the real issues.

    • 2 years ago
  • wayseeker
  • Nephwrack
  • wayseeker
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      wayseeker  

    • Birthers are crazy people who keep insisting that Obama is not qualified to be president because he was not really born in the US. They have been proven wrong but a few just keep going on and on about it because they are crazy.

    • 2 years ago
  • rainmosq
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • DougChristian
  • Mymicz1
  • DougChristian
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      DougChristian  
    • Mymicz1:

      Oh he wouldn't need one. Remember, a year ago the Republicans were talking about amending the constitution to make it possible for Arnold to become president. You see, he's white.

    • 2 years ago
  • afitzgerald
  • afitzgerald
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      afitzgerald  

    • Meanwhile, yesterday, people we're trying to figure out if any elected representatives would state flatly that they supported the birther premise - or potentially more dangerous for their reputations with their base - flatly state that Obama was born in the US.

      FireDogLake has a video of them haranguing different Congresspeople around the Hill. I don't think the harassment was necessarily going to produce good answers to the question - but a few of the answers are worth watching.

    • 2 years ago
  • afitzgerald
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      afitzgerald  
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    • The original story, clipped by maasanova.

      "This evening, the House passed a resolution sponsored by Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) that commemorates Hawaii’s 50th anniversary as a U.S. state by a vote of 378-0. The resolution also contains this provision: “Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii,” a measure that some GOP members may have had trouble supporting. However, many of the Republican representatives who at expressed at least subtle doubt that Obama was not born in the U.S. voted for the resolution. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who had earlier in the day prevented the resolution from coming to a voice vote on the House floor, and Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), who sponsored a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove natural-born citizenship, both voted for the resolution. Rep. John Campbell (R-CA), a co-sponsor of Posey’s bill who expressed doubt about Obama’s citizenship last week on MSNBC, did not vote."

    • 2 years ago
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