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Rick Perry Flip-Flops On President Obama’s Birth Certificate, Now Has ‘No Doubt’ He’s A US Citizen

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After resurrecting the long-dormant “Birther” conspiracy about President Obama’s birth certificate in an interview with Parade Magazine, Texas Gov. Rick Perry doubled and tripled-down on the issue this week. Now, though, The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that Perry now says he has “no doubt” that President Obama was born in the United States, and that he was “kidding around” when he raised the issue several times this week. Has his flirtation with the Birthers, and Donald Trump, rendered his candidacy a joke?

According to the St. Pete Times, Perry made the remarks earlier today, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday:

Texas governor Rick Perry clarified Wednesday that he has no doubt that Barack Obama was born in the U.S., saying that he was only kidding around when he voiced doubts in a TV interview earlier this week.

Perry made the comments in an exclusive Political Connections interview to air Sunday on Bay News 9. He was at the Tradewinds Island Grand resort in St. Pete Beach for a $1,000-per person breakfast fundraiser that drew about 50 people.

Perry’s reversal follows the Parade interview in which he spoke about having dinner with Donald Trump, who apparently convinced him that the birth certificate that the President produced in April was a forgery. In several later appearances, Perry refused to put the issue to rest, saying it was “fun” to “poke” the President about his birth certificate. He also complained to a CNN reporter about the “distraction” the birther issue (that Perry resurrected) creates.

It seems Perry is done with this “distraction,” but is it done with him? He might lose the all-important Orly Taitz/Donald Trump vote (Perry still hopes to secure Trump’s endorsement), and he has awakened the sleeping Trump giant, who’s now, once again, spewing birther crazy to anyone who will listen. Perry might think he was being funny or cute, but having weathered the controversy over his family’s “N*ggerhead” hunting lodge, and with a touchy vote on Confederate flag license plates upcoming in Texas, Perry’s decision to joke about a conspiracy movement that many see as racially motivated is a curious choice. It might cost him a few primary voters, but it will almost certainly hurt him should he make it to a general election.

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  • Rufus Danegro

    And with that 25% of the GOP base gets their widdle hearts broken.

    LOL

  • Moosenuts99

    FLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

    FLOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPP

  • ceeza

    HAAAAA!!!!  RELEASE THE TROLLS!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    “Perry’s reversal follows the Parade interview in which he spoke about having dinner with Donald Trump, who apparently convinced him that the birth certificate that the President produced in April was a forgery.”

    Incorrect.  He never said or even alluded to that.

    “and that he was “kidding around” when he raised the issue several times this week.”

    Incorrect.  He never raised the issue.  He was asked about it.  

    “Perry might think he was being funny or cute, but having weathered the controversy over his family’s “N*ggerhead” hunting lodge, and with a touchy vote on Confederate flag license plates upcoming in Texas, Perry’s decision to joke about a conspiracy movement that many see as racially motivated is a curious choice.”

    You’ll use any excuse to use the word “N*ggerhead” huh, Tommy?  And, there isn’t a vote on “confederate flag license plates”.  

    To recap, you managed to spell Perry’s name correctly but the rest of your crazed writing is just nonsense.  Do you have any standards at all, Tommy?  Or, are you just another foaming-at-the-mouth, far-left attack dog?  Man up and be honest once in a while.  You’re just continuing to make yourself look bad.  And, desperate & well, just a little bit pitiful.  

  • Anonymous

    I believe Oblamer was born in Hawaii!!

    I just wonder why he “felt like a spy behind enemy lines” while working in downtown Manhattan?
    I also wonder why he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism?

    Then there is his friends that he chose to hang out with such as a self admitted terrorist that should be in prison and there is his racist Rev he spent 20 years listening to!!

    I also want to know how and why he visited Pakistan when no American was allowed in that Country?
    Would love to see his passport he used!!

  • Darladoon

    what a waste of space

  • Anonymous

    Agreed.  Tommy wrote a lot of words but didn’t get a single thing accurate.  Per usual.  

  • Anonymous

    Obama has used several Social Security numbers . The one he is using now was issued originally to someone else . They are never reused .
    Rather than look into it , or ask a question about it , the MSM will attack anyone who brings it up , conflating it with the BC issue .

    The shady past of Obama will all come out someday , when he’s out of office .

  • Rper

    Even Romney would admire that quick flip flop.

  • Rufus Danegro

    And there’s tiny eddie putz right on schedule with a lame attempt to try to change the subject. You can always tell when mediaite hits the bullseye cause the conservative pull this kind of obfuscating 24 hours a day!

     

  • Anonymous

    Some accurate reporting would be nice. Perry didn’t raise this issue. He was asked about it by the insecure media who were fishing for a smear. Second, it’s important to note that the state of Hawaii REFUSES to independently document and substantiate Obama’s alleged birth certificates, despite laws that allow them to disclose any and all records. Perry shouldn’t have flipped on this. He should keep poking until all the documents are finally disclosed.

  • Anonymous

    Why does Oblamer use a SS# from Connecticut if he was born in Hawaii?

  • Tim Tebow

    American exceptionalism?

    you mean arrogance?

  • Tim Tebow

    ‘nough said there, pardner!

  • Tim Tebow

    People from Texas should have Mexican citizenship.

  • Tim Tebow

    If it weren’t for Pappa Obama, your neighbor would be running down the street with your TV in one arm and your wife in the other. He has protected you from the biggest threat there is: YOU.

    Be thankful, son.

  • Anonymous

    The Governor of Hawaii sure did disappear fast after he swore he would find the BC and show it to everyone!! Then he told a close acquaintance it doesn’t exist….then he disappeared!

  • Anonymous

    “The Only People Who Do Not want To Disclose the Truth are the People with Something to Hide” –Barrack Hussein Obama

  • Anonymous

    Thanks, but it’s not enough. Enough = full disclosure, although it wouldn’t really matter. The Supreme Court defined the natural-born citizen requirement in the Constitution as persons born in the country to citizen parents. Obama does NOT meet this definition and is therefore Constitutionally deficient to hold the office he occupies. It’s time to rectify the mistake that was made in 2008.

  • Anonymous

    Oblamer clearly does not believe in American exceptionalism.

    “ANY WORLD ORDER THAT ELEVATES ONE NATION OVER ANOTHER WILL FAIL…” — Barrack Hussein Obama while making a speech in Cairo to the Muslim world!

  • Anonymous
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  • Anonymous

    Look!  A Birther!  Quick, get my camera!

  • Anonymous

    Ba-Cock!  A Birther!

  • Anonymous

    Ba-Cock!  Birther!

  • Anonymous

    What does kicking puppies have to do with the fact Oblamer has multiple SS#’s?

  • Anonymous

    What does kicking puppies have to do with the fact Oblamer has multiple SS#’s?

  • Anonymous

    Number of articles at Mediaite on the President’s birth certificate: hundreds and hundreds

    Number of articles at Mediaite on the President’s inability to create jobs:  zero

  • Anonymous

    Typical Liberal, when faced with facts they have to personal attack.

  • Anonymous

    Typical Liberal, when faced with facts they have to personal attack.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Number of comments by Felix whining and playing the victim; thousands

  • Anonymous

    Those who can, do.

    Those who can’t, at least have a birth certificate.

  • Rufus Danegro

     Typical conservative thinking lies are facts.

  • Anonymous

    …That’s so mean.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t imagine Rick Perry saw the error of his ways, but rather this particular Birther enthusing ploy has very quickly outstayed its usefulness…

    …Well played Mr Perry.

    Now just wait for your inevitable, larger than expected, fallout…

  • Anonymous
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  • Anonymous

    Really, if you’re so miserable here and you feel like your biases aren’t being properly pandered to, don’t stay. There are probably tens of thousands of blogs that will jam your head with conspiracies, anti-Obama screeds and conservative victimhood. Please feel free to spend your time there. Your off-topic rants will be more appreciated and you’ll get to high-five with your intellectually deficient peers. I think you’ll find it conservatard paradise. 

    And it will let the grown-ups comment here without having to trip over your time-wasting drivel. It’s a win-win for everyone!

  • Redleaf

    I agree.
    In fact, I will not rest until Obama has personally visited every single website propagating a crackpot conspiracy theory about him, emailed its webmaster and given proof that he’s innocent of their charge.

    This is the only way for us to be satisfied as a nation. I hope this process begins soon. He can start with my website: ObamaKicksDogs,WasBornInKeyna, HidesHisGrades,IsMuslim,HasPhonySSNumber,HatesAmerica,IsTerroristSleeper.com

  • Anonymous

    Your tin foil hat is very becoming.

  • Bob Uda

    Perry is a flip-flopping lying sack of horse manure.  He is also a phony and a religious bigot.

  • Anonymous

    If you hate Mediaite, why do you keep coming on here. Go over to Breitbart or Fox Nation, if you want to get off on Obama bashing articles.

  • Anonymous

    OMG big deal!! You call this a flip flop, nothing compared to al the flip flops obama has done, now Tommy write about those I mean you are despertately nit picking. You libs r trying to make a big deal of Obamas birth certificate. Go back it was reporters asking first about it and had gall to show Perrys birth certificate lol!! You must be out of stuff to write Tommy.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Go to a less arrogant country then…like China or Russia or Cuba.  They have all the social programs you desire already established…and everyone LOVES them there!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1019412022 Brett Cottrell

    Well, I don’t know if Perry’s cute, but he’s funny.  Hidden in his flat tax plan was his goal of selling Texas to China. http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/10/perrys-economic-plan-sell-texas-to.html

    I think it’s a good idea, and I support it.

  • One pissed off liberal

    OMG!  Some left winger please attack him quick before he continues to demonstrate factual aspects of this issue!

  • Anonymous

    Its simple. When you hate someone, you want to deny anything about them that can be linked to you. So you have to deny his citizenship cuz it makes him an american like you. You deny his religion because it makes him a christian, like you. You fail to mention his white parents and grandparents and call him a racist, because that would make him someone that would be okay to hate. Conservatives try to justify their hate by denying facts, and creating smears about him. If you want to talk about his policies and job record, thats understandable. But anything else they attack him on, is just nonsense.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Oh…thank God your here to comence personal attacks that don’t address any of the points raised. I’m so glad Im a liberal.  We can ignore points that are right in our face by resorting to personal attacks and ridicule…Just like Alinksy taught us to do! 

    Does anyone have any more Cool-Aid by the way?

  • Anonymous

    Racist you r racist and a sicko, imagine a conservative saying what you did about blacks, everyone is racist, but your just an idiot, Texas is one of the best places to live, you libs are just so jealous especially ones living in the states run by dems whose economies are so bad, California one of the worst and NY how r those states doing you libs????

  • One pissed off liberal

    Oh…thank God your here to comence personal attacks that don’t address any of the points raised. I’m so glad Im a liberal.  We can ignore points that are right in our face by resorting to personal attacks and ridicule…Just like Alinksy taught us to do! Does anyone have any more Cool-Aid by the way?

  • One pissed off liberal

    Yeah!

    And since we already have one in the current administration, we certainly dont need to elect another one as a replacement!

  • Anonymous

    Four words….   Time for your meds, 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Where do you get that “Americans” aren’t allowed to go to Pakistan? The only country that I’m aware of that US Citizens can’t go “directly” to is Cuba. They however can fly to Canada and then fly a Canadian Carrier/Airplane to go to Cuba. In fact the Cuban’s love Americans for the $$ that they can make off us.
    And strangely Americans can go to Iran IF they get a Visa which is handled by Switzerland, and has been since 1979. Just ask the Koch Brothers about that…Their company has had some business with them during some of the last 31 years. I believe that last time was in 2004.

    Before you bitch about the US not having business with Cuba, the Farmers of the US are allowed to sell as much stuff as they want to them. Thus raising the price for items that we “Americans” need to pay to these farmers. * I would like to point out that these ‘farmers’ are the same farmers that we have been supporting for many years. Price supports for many years, then out and out payments to guarantee that a couple running a farm makes $500,000 a year. That’s 10 times the average wage of an American, or over 16 times that of the average Southerners salary. The Democrat’s tried unsucessfully to have that amount cut down to $250,000 but the GOP wouldn’t go for it. I wonder if they will allow that “to be put on the chopping block” when it comes to reducing the Budget Deficit?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Where do you get that “Americans” aren’t allowed to go to Pakistan? The only country that I’m aware of that US Citizens can’t go “directly” to is Cuba. They however can fly to Canada and then fly a Canadian Carrier/Airplane to go to Cuba. In fact the Cuban’s love Americans for the $$ that they can make off us.
    And strangely Americans can go to Iran IF they get a Visa which is handled by Switzerland, and has been since 1979. Just ask the Koch Brothers about that…Their company has had some business with them during some of the last 31 years. I believe that last time was in 2004.

    Before you bitch about the US not having business with Cuba, the Farmers of the US are allowed to sell as much stuff as they want to them. Thus raising the price for items that we “Americans” need to pay to these farmers. * I would like to point out that these ‘farmers’ are the same farmers that we have been supporting for many years. Price supports for many years, then out and out payments to guarantee that a couple running a farm makes $500,000 a year. That’s 10 times the average wage of an American, or over 16 times that of the average Southerners salary. The Democrat’s tried unsucessfully to have that amount cut down to $250,000 but the GOP wouldn’t go for it. I wonder if they will allow that “to be put on the chopping block” when it comes to reducing the Budget Deficit?

  • One pissed off liberal

    Rev. Wright’s Church is Christian?  Your so silly!

  • Moosenuts99

    Please explain in DOCUMENTED DETAIL

  • Moosenuts99

    Please
    Explain in GREAT DETAIL EXACTLY what you think happened in order for Obama to become president

    This should be enlightening

  • Anonymous

    What lies? Care to share with the rest of class?

  • One pissed off liberal

    Oh…thank God your here to comence personal attacks that don’t address any of the points raised. I’m so glad Im a liberal.  We can ignore points that are right in our face by resorting to personal attacks and ridicule…Just like Alinksy taught us to do! Does anyone have any more Cool-Aid by the way?

  • Moosenuts99

    Please explain to us in GREAT DETAIL how you believe Obama illegally became president

    BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE PLEASE

  • bcsusmc75

    You can lead a conservative to facts but you can’t make them think.  It’s becoming laughable that it’s so easy to debunk these fools.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Why does Obama have a SS# from Connecticut? Well he went to school in New Haven, Connecticut at a school called Yale. Since his SS Card was “ISSUED” in Connecticut he has the “first three numbers” that are assigned to that state.

    If he was born in Hawaii today, since baby’s needed SS#;s for their parents to put on their 1040 that would be different with “today’s baby’s”.

  • Bware

    The teabaggers are too busy BBQing squirrels and out buying chewing tobacco to notice any flip-flops.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for keeping Obama’s birth certificate scandal alive. Liberals are funny animals. One would think that they would want to run from this subject but ‘no’ they revel in Obama’s embarrassment. Very interesting!

  • Moosenuts99

    STILL WAITING….

  • Moosenuts99

    I’m waiting on this. Please illuminate us

  • Moosenuts99

    Still waiting on the GRAND CONSPIRACY STORY

  • Bob Uda

    B.S.!  He never went to school in Connecticut.  He went to Occidental College in California, Columbia University in NY, and Harvard Law School in Massachusetts.  He never went to Yale in Connecticut.  Get your facts straight, liar.

  • Anonymous

    Try reading the Constition again. You are wrong, big time. Anyone born inside the United States (and that includes Hawaii, in case you did not know, because it is a state) is a citizen. Now go home and take your medications. 

  • wawoo

    Do waka do waka do do do.

  • Anonymous

    ahhh look, a pic of Ricky with Donald Trump Duck Schmuck walking hand in hand. Are they BFF’s now? …cuz we all know how important the Donald Duck Schmuck is.

  • Redleaf

    I agree.
    The liberal mainstream conspiracy to hide Obama’s BC, then provide a phony one and declare “case closed” is one of the great tragedies of our time.

  • Tony

    Even Romney is impressed.

  • Anonymous

    nut, some people have a life and don’t sit at the computer 24/7. It’s stupid to post several demands when one is sufficient. But since you asked so nicely, please read the following statement from the Supreme Court in 1898:

    “In Minor v. Happersett, Chief Justice Waite, when construing, in behalf of the court, the very provision of the Fourteenth Amendment now in question, said: “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that.” And he proceeded to resort to the common law as an aid in the construction of this provision.”The court says that the Constitution (which inlcudes the 14th amendment) does NOT say who shall be natural-born citizens. He mentions the use of common law as an aid, but the Supreme Court used natural law in the Minor v. Happersett decision to define NBC when rejecting a claim of citizenship per the 14th amendment. This definition was given to satisfy the meaning of the term as found in Art II Sec I on presidential eligibility:”At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”Before anyone misreads this, Justice Gray does NOT say common law is used to define NBC. He said common law was used as an “aid” in the construction of the citizenship provision of the 14th amendment. The NBC provision is a verbatim match of the Law of Nations definition, in which the parents must be citizens (not foreign nationals as was Obama’s father).

    Summarized: NBCs are not defined by the Constitution. NBCs are EXCLUDED from the birth clause in the 14th amendment. The birth clause of the 14th amendment is interpreted as a different type of citizenship from NBC, but is defined in the light of the common-law. The cited common law from U.S. v Wong Kim Ark relies on parents adhering to the United States in their allegiance. This means if they aren’t citizens, they must have an expressed intention to permanently reside in the U.S., which is established through permanent domicile. Under these definitions: a) Obama is NOT a natural-born citizen, and b) Obama is NOT even a 14th amendment citizen, and that’s IF he can legally prove he was born in Hawaii. His parents did not have permanent residence and domicil in the United States. At best, his citizenship was defined under a collective naturalization statute for Hawaii. Back to Obama’s parents, under the circuit court ruling of Diaz-Salazar vs. INS in 1983, Obama would have been deported along with his father in 1964, had Obama’s mama not divorced his father. Since she divorced him only a few months before he was kicked out of the country, it looks like she divorced him to avoid deportation. So not only is Obama Constitutionally deficient for office, but legally, he could have been deported. Such would never happen with real natural-born citizens.

  • Anonymous

    well, a jpg or a PDF of an alleged birth certificate.

  • Anonymous

    The Constitution (not Constition) does NOT define what it means to be a natural born citizen, except perhaps in the preamble where it talks about “We the people” and “ourselves and our posterity.” Notice it doesn’t say for “ourselves and the children of visiting foreign students who knock up local girls.”

    Second, the requirement of office is to be a “natural-born citizen,” not just a citizen. This means to be born without foreign entanglements … as in being born in the country to citizen parents. Even under a broad interpretation of common law, one must adhere to the United States. As a visiting scholar, Barack Sr. had no allegiance to the United States. His child has a natural claim to his native citizenship, not the country where he happens to be studying and knocking up local girls.

    Since Obama’s mama allegedly married his father, then the birth right goes through the father. If the marriage was annulled or was illegitmate, then the child is illegitimate and arguably has a claim to his mother’s citizenship and/or the place he was born under statutory law. In that case, he’s a natural-born bastard, but he’s not a natural-born citizen.

  • Anonymous

    You mean “Ba-Rack a doodle-doo” … the famous British-Kenyan-Indonesian Chicken.

  • Anonymous

    Well, as he is an Austrian speaking corpseman from the country of Europe and now running around the 57 states with his wife Michael, I don’t doubt, I know damn well he wasn’t born in the US.

  • Anonymous

    Someone has taken Pat Robertson’s advice to heart.

  • Anonymous

    Romney should release a statement noting that Mr Perry has flip flopped on his position.

  • Anonymous

    And the OWS Fleabagger’s  are too busy gand raping 14 year old girls, (Dallas) threatening police with assault weapons (Atlanta)  when not throwing bottles at them, (Oakland) selling and using drugs, (all OWS sites anywhere)  threatening to kill people, (Boston And NYC) defecating on police cars,(NYC) in the street and private property, (all OWS sites anywhere)  creating health hazards with their garbage and filth, (all OWS sites anywhere) etc, etc, ad nauseam, to notice any flip flops by their TOTUS man child Obama.

    And please dem  libs, deny any or all of above, but before you do, google each accusation.

  • Anonymous

    I would suggest that you read the Constitution again, but since you refuse to believe in facts, don’t bother. Since you have no real argument, you wouldn’t do it anyway. It would prove you wrong. So, go ahead, and keep pushing your silly lies.

  • Anonymous

    Sewer, what exactly do you THINK the Constitution says. I’ve cited two landmark Supreme Court cases that interpreted the Constitution and it defined the NBC requirement in a way that precludes Obama from being eligible. Dismissiveness and ignorance on your part does not change this inconvenent fact. If you THINK you have something, you need to be able to articulate that thought.

  • Anonymous

    What a funny guy.

  • Bob

    Redneck Perry was serious at first, then it was just a joke, then he wanted to talk about something else, and now, finally, he accepts reality.
    Good gawd, this guy’s a dumbass.

  • Bob

    Might want to adjust your tinfoil, lest the Roswell aliens tap into your brain and learn your location.

  • Bob

    The facts are he was born in America, you lost in 2008 and no magic document is going to appear to reverse that outcome and put your beloved Sarah in the White House. Deal with it.

  • Bob

    The facts are he was born in America, you lost in 2008 and no magic document is going to appear to reverse that outcome and put your beloved Sarah in the White House. Deal with it.

  • Bob

    says the party that had their entire presidential field losing in polls to to Birther King Trump.

  • Bob

     and you, sir, are a paranoid birther idiot who can’t handle that a black man beat your beloved Sarah and Grandpa McCain in 2008.

  • Pap

    Ksdb, you got your law degree where?  And, you passed the bar in what state?  I have been litigating these cases for 25 years and there has never been a court, either state or federal, which agrees with your interpretation and that of Donoforio or Apuzzo.  So again, where did you get your law degree?

  • Pap

    OPOL, you got your law degree where?  And, you passed the bar in what
    state?  I have been litigating these cases for 25 years and there has
    never been a court, either state or federal, which agrees with your
    interpretation and that of Donoforio or Apuzzo.  So again, where did you
    get your law degree?

  • Anonymous

    No problemo amigo, Cain is a conservative black man who will defeat yor liberal black man in 2012.

    Adios

  • Moosenuts99

    Please!

    Explain for all of us in GREAT DETAIL how Obama came to be president. Explain to all
    Of us your THEORY

  • Tim Tebow

    Smoke a bowl, for gawds sake!

    Alls I wuz sayin is dat the Texicans yousta be Mexicans–before we stole it!

    A’ight?

  • Ernesto

    Perry is showing that he changes with the winds and is not to be trusted. It is a fact Obama’s birth certificate is photo-shopped and he has at leat one social security number illegally from a man who lived in CT.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-Im2Ul3qI

  • Tim Tebow

    In your front yard:

    1. a three-legged dog
    2. an orange couch, partly covered with a blue tarp
    3. a brown ’77 buick Skylark on blocks
    4. a washing machine that neighbor kids play ‘spacehip’ in
    5. a Confederate flag tied to a broomstick

  • Tim Tebow

    So?

  • Tim Tebow

    Do you think the year is 1956?

  • Anonymous

    I’m hardly the victim.  But the millions of people who can’t get a job don’t want to read another article on the President’s glorious and immaculate birth certificate.  

  • Anonymous

    If you hate my comments, why do you respond to them?  Go over to the Daily Kos or HuffPuff, where you can bask in constant praise of the Great Leader.  

  • Anonymous

    50% as per PPP in 02/11. :)

  • Jeffy Birfher

    Well, you ignorant shts, I am talking about these

    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

    Are you ignorant shts going to CONDEMN  Parry? Or continue making arses out of yourselves?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    If a Republicon leader out there says SpongBob is a Muslim or wasn’t born under the sea, these Republicon idiots would believe it in a second!!

    The country knows that Republicons can’t think for themselves and constantly need to be told what they stand for… hence, their need for Fox News!!

  • Tim Tebow

    First, the government SHOULDN’T create jobs (‘government should stay out the economy’) and now you blame him for not creating jobs?

    Hello?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The great political mystery out there is why Republicons have turned on Perry?? He’s as stupid as they are and should garner everyone of their votes!!

  • Anonymous

    Again, you tea baggers had better pull the balls out of your mouths and your heads out of your asses.  Because in ’12 when Obama hands your puss filled domes to the dogs, who are you gonna blame then? Acorn, planned parenthood, Rev Wright? Wake up! Open the door of the outhouse,take a good look outdoors. The OWS has got something for you.

    (Your president is black! deal with it, buttplugs)

  • Anonymous

    With his half-assed airing to the world , that was pretty white of him. The fact that this is even an issue just shows what a bunch of bankrupt, no idea, rednecks the Repunk party has now allowed to infect their moribound club. The real name for these teabaggers should be “skinners”. Where he was or was not born has nothing to do with it. Four hundred years of white previledge is a tough drug to kick. This is the sorriest bunch of bastards the GnOP has crapped out yet, ever!

    Upthe OWS rebels!

  • American_Teetman

    If I want a pizza I’ll call Mr. Cai….Dominoes. ADIOS AMIGO.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    Blah blah…oh..sorry…”blah blah”.

    He is going to kick your butts again in 2012.  Just like 2008 and there is nothing you can do about it.  NOTHING. 

    Go Cain!  LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    And yet, Fox is not following up on your thoughts.  lolololol

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    Ask fox to look into it.  They are fair and balanced you know.  :)

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yeah, well leave aside whether that’s actually true, the point is you say it this way and I’d figure something like 80% of those who pay attention at this stage, not just Rs but Ds, would say, yeah, well that about nails it. 

    Which now becomes the more important problem, more than the issue of whether it’s true: that is, at this point just over two months from votes being cast, the country, or the part of it paying attention, has reached a broad bipartisan consensus that Rick Perry is, as you say, a dumbass. 

    Contrast this with Bush, who, yeah Ds mocked his acquired accent, his incuriosity, and his other related failings in the brain department, but even Ds were prepared to accept the first was an act, and the last group were convenient cover – that he wasn’t as dumb as he spoke and looked, which is kind of where the right attack on the left about Bush Derangement Syndrome really hit home: Ds were pissed because Bush not only didn’t a shit what Ds thought of him, they assumed that to some extent at least he was rubbing their faces in his fake dumbass ACT.

    Now the question is how does a candidate with so little time left to deal with that overcome that broad bipartisan consensus; how indeed do Rs feel comfortable voting for him when they KNOW Ds when all was said and done KNEW Bush was NOT as much as of a dumbass as he ‘pretended’ (the image of the elder Bush sure helped with this), yet know those same Ds MEANT it with Perry, and are prepared to even forego mocking their poor deluded R acquaintances and friends because to support Perry amounts to putting on a badge that says, I Am A Dumbass.

    For the record, I don’t think Perry IS a dumbass, but in fact a special kind of politician who is prepared to say and do anything, ANYTHING, to get elected (Lots of pols give the impression they’ll do or say anything, but really, they have limits; check out some of the shit Perry has pulled in Texas and got away with – it’s Faustian.), totally without principles so unable to even reflect on those his words and deeds imply, and THAT kind of politician is always going to be prone to some Peter Principle threshold, like Joseph McCarthy found out he was when Joseph Welch pointed it out so effectively in that Senate committee hearing into Unamerican Activities in the U.S. Army, a ceiling that may not be all that low but when it’s reached it turns out to be a shock to the politician that it’s so hard and absolute, when everything before had been so easy and yielding. 

    Which isn’t to say it can’t happen here, but when it does, WHEN not IF, it won’t come totin’ a .45 and wearin’ shit kickers, it’ll come in smooth and compelling and full of religious conviction, with no hint of real concerns about his intellect, no matter how justified. 

    Perry could still win this, because he’s the only Not Romney who can (I really think Cain is in the tank on this thing.), but if so then Rs will have proved that they’re so paralyzed by the TPers, they simply can’t nominate anyone for president who might actually win the general election.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It’s so nice to see how easily you’ve moved on.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    And why doesn’t the lame stream media do it’s job in looking into this?

    Everybody done yet? Or do we get to go round and round and round again.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Look, anyone here can go watch the interview, and the interviewer did indeed ask the question, but then gave Perry multiple chances to back down and he did not. Then he did a subsequent interview in which he ‘revealed’ (I actually believe him here.) that he did it to “poke” at Obama, which everyone in the GOP just loves to do anyway. The backing off AFTER that is where the ‘dumbass’ judgment arises, because even though Perry TOLD everyone what we was up to, what is dumb is to go ahead and show a party that believes in magic that you were pulling cheap card tricks all along. Penn & Teller get to do that, because their audience is mostly liberal. Conservatives want to actually believe that David Copperfield elevated the Statue of Liberty by ‘magic’, and showing them the trick is taken as an insult. Perry has ended up INSULTING loyal GOP voters who are not exactly tough to read, as well as insulting the Birthers, at a time when exchanging Birther greetings is like a Loyal Order of the Plains Bison ritual handshake.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Sorry, no, that’s simply not so. 

    In fact, during the 2008 election, liberal Democratic party  member Harvard constitutional expert lawyer Lawrence Tribe was hired by the McCain campaign to author an ‘open’ opinion that McCain was not disqualified from serving as President, and his brief, which is still out there and available, cites all the case law on this subject. There was an actually arguable case over McCain’s eligibility, but given he was only born in Panama because his U.S. Admiral dad was stationed there, it seemed like such a crass thing to raise, once the Tribe opinion went public both campaigns agreed to a cease-fire and not to contest the other guy’s eligibility. 

    This in fact is WHY McCain acted the way he did when that crazy lady approached him about Obama being “a A-rab” – to put an end to the sort of nonsense and ignorance and misinformation you are raising here.  

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Trenchant nonsense. This reads like that Shakespeare speech in Henry V where the Archbishop of Canterbury is asked to provide a legal argument for Henry to invade France because he wanted to kick the French Dauphin right in his tennis balls.

    The SHORTER and CORRECT version of the law on this is that the matter is left entirely to Congress, such that Congress shall consider and rule on any such objections in the context of accepting or rejecting the ‘candidate’ proffered to it to by the Electoral Collage to act as the President of the Union. It is, in very short, what is known in Constitutional law circles as a “political question”, much like impeachment. The Founders were frightened most of all of the possibility that some president, using his status as Commander In Chief of the nation’s only standing army (as opposed to militias) would employ that power to insert himself effectively as king.

    Indeed, by Congress having accepted Obama as President, and by even the Republican-controlled House not having impeached Obama, that means, contrary to what Rs like to say, that they agree there is no reasonable apprehension that he is using his powers to make himself a dictator.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Pure consteetooshunall fiction.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    … a Republican governor, you fail to add. Plus the rest of what you say is delusional claptrap.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This is correct. Once Congress accepted him as President in January 2009, that ended any and all such questions AS FAR AS THE CONSTITUTION is concerned.

    But look: the House can impeach for any reason, ANY reason – and it has not done so, even though the Republican party has controlled its agenda for almost 10 months now; nor does it have any plans to do so.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Actually, the bipartisan GAO assesses that he, or rather the bills sponsored and promoted by his administration and passed by Congress and signed into law since he came into office, have caused or contributed to the creation of 2.35 million jobs.

    But your theme is catchy:

    Number of articles at Mediaite on the House having taken even a single step to impeach the president: zero.

  • Anonymous

    Lets say he is really an American born person, lol, ok, I am dreaming, but lets say he is.  Lets look at his record and acomplishments instead, as a basis for voting for him.  Horrible Record Now, he had no record when elected, a totally unknown.  Acomplishments – uhhh, were there any?  How about before he BS’ed his way into the Oval Office?  None there either?  Wow, he is good at telling BS and Lies, isn’t he!  I know I will be voting ABO in 2012!  Anyone But Obama!  Hopefully, I will be Raising Cain in 2012!

    Herman Cain for President 2012!  A Cain/West ticket would be Heaven!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    That’s not right. Government legislation, policies and programs discourage, facilitate or encourage job creation in the private sector, and have done so since the outset of the country. ‘Create’, in this context, is a term created by consultants to the Republican party and conservative Republicans in order to allow for the making of an argument that, insofar at private sector employment is concerned, government action that affects it is somehow not ‘creative’, and to draw on all manner of meanings people wish to read into that, whether they mean to do that for political reasons or otherwise. Thus, it can be said rationally that a bill or group of bills that were specifically designed to facilitate, encourage and not discourage the creation of the Internet, the creation of which was reasonably anticipated to lead to employment for hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens, amounts to creating jobs, because those efforts materially contributed to employment that would otherwise not have existed.

  • Anonymous

    And if you want a faux OWS protest you will call the community organizer in the white hut, right?

  • Anonymous

    “A Cain/West ticket would be Heaven!”

    Yes, for the Dems. Obama would be looking at increasing his margin of victory from 2008.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Team Obama is only too happy to have this “scandal” stay alive, as it helps them with their argument that the Republican candidates are delusional. (Not that this isn’t already apparent.)

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the Koch Brothers spin. 

    If you want to focus on a handful of regrettable incidents around the country, go ahead. But ignore the larger OWS message at your peril. If you don’t think that the income inequality crisis in this country that is at the heart of their complaints doesn’t need to be addressed, you’re living in an ivory tower. Prepare for much worse. This is just the canary in the coal mine.

  • Kitwyk

    Perry’s speech difficulties and behavior resemble the early stage of Alzheime’s/dementia.  

  • guest

    Perry’s speech difficulties and behavior resemble the early stage of Alzheimer’s/dementia.  

  • caconservative

    Maybe……3%…….tops….

  • caconservative

    The facts on the supposed original birth certificate are highly suspect. Hope & Change will come in 2012 when this inept, talentless impostor is unceremoniously kicked out of office!

  • Anonymous

    And you ignore that the OWS occupiers are naught but trash unwilling to work for their keep.  Over 2,000 of them arrested so far.
     
    If you don’t like the income inequality, get off your sorry arse, go to work and earn some money.  Grifter leech Moochers are disgusting parasites.

  • Anonymous

    and your point is…what?

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