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Tim Pawlenty On Morning Joe: The President Was Born In The U.S.A.

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Likely Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty won’t be joining mock candidate Donald Trump in his efforts to put birthers back on the political front burner: “I, for one, do not believe we should be raising that issue,” Pawlenty said Tuesday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I think President Obama was born in the United States.”

Asked whether he sees Trump as a serious candidate for the White House, the former Minnesota governor was diplomatic. “I think he’s talented. I think he’s funny. I think he’s interesting,” Pawlenty said. “He might be.”

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  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Just one word: RINO!

  • Barack Must Go

    In 3, 2, 1, the left wing bomb throwers will now pick up, with Trump, their less than brilliant strategy, whereby Limbaugh was supposedly the de facto leader of the Republican party the last go round.

    Tomorrow’s headlines will read: ” Pawlenty The First Republican Insider To Kiss Trumps Ring “. Good luck with that one libs. The Limbaugh thing worked out so well for you the last time, after all Trumps a birther for crying out loud.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Why does The Human Paperweight Donny Deutsch show up on this program ?

    To make Mika seem smart .

  • same2u

    Come on Pawlenty. Get on board. Show the country you are in bed with scum.

  • catfishjuggling

    Darn you RKK!!! You beat me to the RINO call out!!! 3,2,1…..

  • BatBoy

    It is safe for Pawlenty to say this…it will keep you lefties from trying to DESTROY him.

    The trouble is….BHO’s past is becoming clearer and clearer.

    I would think maybe you lefties should be lining up at every airport departure gate that has a plane headed toward Kenya. You might fine James O’Keefe and his camera crew headed over there.

    They somehow seem to uncover things you lefties like to deny.

  • Barack Must Go

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Why does The Human Paperweight Donny Deutsch show up on this program ? To make Mika seem smart .

    Even a piece of driftwood like Deutsch is not up to that Herculean task.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Barack Must Go said:
    Even a piece of driftwood like Deutsch is not up to that Herculean task.

    AND Barack Must Go BEAT me to that one :-)

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    There are still some republicans that are afraid of the left-wing media. All he has to do is say that Obama was born in Hawaii but he doesn’t know why he won’t show his birth certificate. He has NO legitimate reason to hide it. There is NO right to privacy for someone that wants to be president.

  • Steve_27

    same2u said:
    Come on Pawlenty. Get on board. Show the country you are in bed with scum.

    Amazing. Even when someone takes the side your on you bitch. STFU.

  • Thelonious Funk

    You don’t win votes with sanity. Next!

  • Steve_27

    Tim may feel that BO is beatable without going there, and thats obviously very likely. But I still think the unvetted community organizer should feel obligated to quell his citizens justified concerns. It’s on him and no one is wrong for asking.

  • catfishjuggling

    @Gordon: So you don’t think that the document the Obama provided that was certified by the state of Hawaii is his birth certificate. What do you think it is?

  • BFD

    Watching Pawlenty speak intelligently on Morning Joe really contrasts the gibberish that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth.

    He even managed to get all his points across without mentioning “common sense” or the “founding fathers”.

    You teabaggers certainly do settle for less when you really don’t have to..

  • huntingtonboy

    Finally a real candidate. Too bad he’s not a looney who the Teabaggers can support. Wheel in Bachman and let the stupid begin.

  • BFD

    It’s funny how we men never claimed calling George Bush a moron degrades all men.

    We just rightly took it for granted that it was only he who was the idiot.

    You woman still have one more glass ceiling to break. The “No-Whining-in-Politics Ceiling”.

  • BFD

    BFD said:
    It’s funny

    Wrong thread..

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    T-Paw / Rubio 2012…

  • Paul G

    BFD said:
    Watching Pawlenty speak intelligently on Morning Joe really contrasts the gibberish that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth.

    He even managed to get all his points across without mentioning “common sense” or the “founding fathers”.

    You teabaggers certainly do settle for less when you really don’t have to..

    Thanks BFD…now I KNOW i’m not a Pawlenty fan. Anyone else you like in the republican party?

  • writer

    Bruce Springsteen, jump in here.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    I’ve always rather liked Pawlenty myself. I have friends in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest who tell me to be careful, that Pawlenty is a real snake in the grass. I just haven’t seen that yet.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Finally someone from the GOP with some common sense.

  • felixw

    Does Mediaite now have a policy of running five birther stories every day?

    I didn’t see the interview, so can someone answer this question: Did MSNBC not allow Pawlenty to talk about our fiscal and foreign policy mess and other real issues, or is it just that Mediaite won’t cover those parts of the interview?

  • skyfet

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There are still some republicans that are afraid of the left-wing media. All he has to do is say that Obama was born in Hawaii but he doesn’t know why he won’t show his birth certificate. He has NO legitimate reason to hide it. There is NO right to privacy for someone that wants to be president.

    I’ve got news for ya, he is already President. Been there for the past 2.5 yrs.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    catfishjuggling said:
    @Gordon: So you don’t think that the document the Obama provided that was certified by the state of Hawaii is his birth certificate. What do you think it is?

    You’ll have to wait for the next episode of the Gordon Blower Show to find out.

  • Lou Sarah

    I think the only site that covers the birther “issue” more than Mediaite is WND! I love it though… Keep bringing the crazy to the crazies and Obama might win 57 states in 2012!!! Ooooh…. I just made a dragger-bagger funny!!!

  • skyfet

    Come on Tim, his Parents had to fly quickly to Kenya while his Mother was heavily pregnant to take advantage of the cheap health care the Africans had.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    felixw said:
    Does Mediaite now have a policy of running five birther stories every day?

    So, you’re sensible enough to know what an anathema these stories are for Republicans. Good for you!

  • mibwilso

    Wow. T-paw finally took a break from pandering to the far right long enough to let some sense come out of his mouth.

    Let’s face it, he was a Republican governor of Minnesota…there’s only so kooky he can really be. He’s just got to play the part to win the nom.

  • mibwilso

    skyfet said:
    Come on Tim, his Parents had to fly quickly to Kenya while his Mother was heavily pregnant to take advantage of the cheap health care the Africans had.

    Huh?? Unless you’re being sarcastic here, you’re the first person I’ve EVER heard argue that someone would fly to Kenya for their awesome healthcare.
    lol

  • Colorado_Conservative

    And just like that…Pawlenty becomes the poster child of the left as one of only a few inteligent conservatives because he is not going to question the chosen ones eligibility…haha

    Fact is Trump would not be bringing this up if he doesn’t know more about than he is leading on right now……just like he describes in his book “The Art Of The Deal”…..know everything there is to know before opening your mouth.

    One would have to be a fool to think he doesn’t have a posse of his people investigating every nook and cranny of Obamas past…..something the lame stream media and the GOP refused to do.

  • mibwilso

    Hey wingers, how’s that Donald Trump birth cert thing going ? LOL Found his real one yet?

  • skyfet

    mibwilso said:
    Huh?? Unless you’re being sarcastic here, you’re the first person I’ve EVER heard argue that someone would fly to Kenya for their awesome healthcare.
    lol

    Why else would his Parents travel thousands of miles from Hawai to East Africa? Must be the cheap health care. If not maybe they had to do an African marriage before he was born.

  • felixw

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    So, you’re sensible enough to know what an anathema these stories are for Republicans. Good for you!

    These stories are cover for fools on the Left who think proving the President was born in Hawaii will make people forget the realities of his disastrous administration.

    Of course, I can understand your enthusiasm for these stories….

  • Colorado_Conservative
  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    And just like that…Pawlenty becomes the poster child of the left as one of only a few inteligent conservatives because he is not going to question the chosen ones eligibility…haha

    Fact is Trump would not be bringing this up if he doesn’t know more about than he is leading on right now……just like he describes in his book “The Art Of The Deal”…..know everything there is to know before opening your mouth.

    One would have to be a fool to think he doesn’t have a posse of his people investigating every nook and cranny of Obamas past…..something the lame stream media and the GOP refused to do.

    Yes, how dare the left enjoy a voice of sanity in a pool of morons!!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    felixw said:
    These stories are cover for fools on the Left who think proving the President was born in Hawaii will make people forget the realities of his disastrous administration.

    Of course, I can understand your enthusiasm for these stories….

    No, I am more chagrined than enthusiastic about these stories. I find it troubling that we have so many fools living in our nation and in Italy.

  • notsofast

    But still, Barry can not prove it.

    He is until he can prove otherwise foreign born, doesn’t know who his father was and most likely was born with a disease he is hiding. Remember than when John McCain ran for president, he released over 1500 pages of medical records and Barry refused to release his medical records , releasing instead a one page summary of his health by his doctor.

  • notsofast

    mibwilso said:
    Hey wingers, how’s that Donald Trump birth cert thing going ? LOL Found his real one yet?

    Barry hasn’t!

    LOL

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Barry hasn’t!

    LOL

    You don’t have a high school record, so there’s no point asking you for one.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    What a socialist Pawlenty is.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    skyfet says:
    March 29, 2011 at 11:06 am skyfet(Quote)

    But you have a round mouth, son!

  • TampopoLoco

    Rino!!

  • kvon

    Disagree with most of what he says, but I wish to god you Conservatives would start running people like this. Relatively SANE!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    catfishjuggling said:
    @Gordon: So you don’t think that the document the Obama provided that was certified by the state of Hawaii is his birth certificate. What do you think it is?

    If it is his REAL birth certificate, why did the left-wing democrat governor of Hawaii try to find and release the REAL one? Why did loony lefty Chris Matthews ask him to just release the damn thing? It appears that a lot of people don’t think it is the real thing. Many people think he was born in Hawaii but is just trying to cover something up. Sounds right to me.

  • TampopoLoco

    kvon said:
    Disagree with most of what he says, but I wish to god you Conservatives would start running people like this. Relatively SANE!

    Sane? America no longer wants sane. Now even an election must play out like a reality TV show. Lot’s of drama, lot’s of crazy people. This is America now.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    BFD said:
    Watching Pawlenty speak intelligently on Morning Joe really contrasts the gibberish that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth. He even managed to get all his points across without mentioning “common sense” or the “founding fathers”. You teabaggers certainly do settle for less when you really don’t have to..

    LOL, did you hear what Palin said today about illegals in this country. She doesn’t want to deport them, she wants them to succeed. LOL Isn’t that the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. I bet Mediaite will do a story on that.

    Wait a minute, it wasn’t Palin that said that stupid statement, it was Obama. I guess we won’t get a story about that on Mediaite.

    President Barack Obama on Monday told a student who has received a deportation notice that he does not want to deport her — he wants people like her to succeed.

    The exchange happened during a town hall event sponsored by the Spanish-language television network Univision at a Washington, D.C., school.

    A student, who appeared via Skype, asked: “My question for the president is, why [is the government] saying that deportations have stopped — or the detention of many students like me, why is it that we are still receiving deportation letters like this one?”

    Obama answered, “We have redesigned our enforcement practices under the law to make sure that we’re focusing primarily on criminals, and so our deportation of criminals are up about 70 percent. Our deportation of non-criminals are down, and that’s because we want to focus our resources on those folks who are destructive to the community.

    “And for a young person like that young woman that we just spoke to who’s going to school, doing all the right things, we want them to succeed,” Obama said.

  • Ronald McReagan

    Can America really afford to trust a man whose last name sounds so much like “polenta,” an ITALIAN dish? That fact, combined with his comments in this video, raise some troubling questions about his true intentions.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    skyfet said:
    I’ve got news for ya, he is already President. Been there for the past 2.5 yrs.

    Wow, guess what his term is up in 2012 and he has to run again. MORON. You need to stop trying to be funny. You are a loser hiding behind a phony name that is funny enough for everyone here.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    skyfet said:
    Why else would his Parents travel thousands of miles from Hawai to East Africa? Must be the cheap health care. If not maybe they had to do an African marriage before he was born.

    NOW we know why you can’t see, you lost an i.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    I’ve got news for ya, he is already President. Been there for the past 2.5 yrs.

    Impossible! He has not been responsible for anything in the last 2.5 years. Just ask him or the Dims.

  • Steve_27

    BFD said:
    Watching Pawlenty speak intelligently on Morning Joe really contrasts the gibberish that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth. He even managed to get all his points across without mentioning “common sense” or the “founding fathers”. You teabaggers certainly do settle for less when you really don’t have to..

    Just because Fox decides to bring her on everytime a politician breaths doesn’t mean anyone has settled for her. As i’ve been saying, unless/untill she announces, she’s totally irrelevant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    Obimbo is a president? Don’t you have to be PRESENT, while president? About the only time you’ll find Obimbo at the White House is when there’s a concert going on.

  • Steve_27

    2 post; 8 thumbs down; ZERO response or explanation?

    Way to defend your case mediaite lefty’s, LOL!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Steve_27 said:
    BFD said:
    Watching Pawlenty speak intelligently on Morning Joe really contrasts the gibberish that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth. He even managed to get all his points across without mentioning “common sense” or the “founding fathers”. You teabaggers certainly do settle for less when you really don’t have to..

    Just because Fox decides to bring her on everytime a politician breaths doesn’t mean anyone has settled for her. As i’ve been saying, unless/untill she announces, she’s totally irrelevant.

    That’s actually a very good point. I consider Palin as more of an amusement myself.

  • RichS

    gordonbloyershow said:
    LOL, did you hear what Palin said today about illegals in this country. She doesn’t want to deport them, she wants them to succeed. LOL Isn’t that the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. I bet Mediaite will do a story on that. Wait a minute, it wasn’t Palin that said that stupid statement, it was Obama. I guess we won’t get a story about that on Mediaite. President Barack Obama on Monday told a student who has received a deportation notice that he does not want to deport her — he wants people like her to succeed. The exchange happened during a town hall event sponsored by the Spanish-language television network Univision at a Washington, D.C., school. A student, who appeared via Skype, asked: “My question for the president is, why [is the government] saying that deportations have stopped — or the detention of many students like me, why is it that we are still receiving deportation letters like this one?” Obama answered, “We have redesigned our enforcement practices under the law to make sure that we’re focusing primarily on criminals, and so our deportation of criminals are up about 70 percent. Our deportation of non-criminals are down, and that’s because we want to focus our resources on those folks who are destructive to the community. “And for a young person like that young woman that we just spoke to who’s going to school, doing all the right things, we want them to succeed,” Obama said.

    Isn’t a criminal someone who is breaking the law? Aren’t the Immigration Laws laws? Aren’t the illegal immigrants criminals because they broke the immigration laws? Why is this a difficult concept?

  • mibwilso

    The whole birth certificate stuff is nonsense.

    The birth certificate he has provided meets all of the requirements of the State Department to be sufficient proof of citizenship to obtain a passport.

    I don’t even have a copy of a “long form” of my birth certificate (and neither were my parents given one) and it’s never been a problem. I was born in Atlanta and the document is notarized….and I’ve never been asked for more. My birth cert. looks basically the same as Obama’s (except it’s from GA, so the format is slightly different).

  • ProObamaAgenda

    RichS said:
    Isn’t a criminal someone who is breaking the law? Aren’t the Immigration Laws laws? Aren’t the illegal immigrants criminals because they broke the immigration laws? Why is this a difficult concept?

    hey dumbass, you repukes blew your chance to participate in policy…unfortunately you have to live under Obama Rules now….if you don’t like it buy yourself a one way ticket out of here…i know Obama didn’t say “let me be perfectly clear” so you wingnuts missed the point……what he was doing was advocating for The Dream Act…hateful racist klansfolk like you need to be gone…its not 1860 anymore, at least not in the real world…you regressive ass feeble minded republicans need to take your seats at THE BACK OF THE DAMN BUS AND ENJOY THE RIDE

  • Nationman

    looks like somebody isn’t winning the primary.

  • CAINtheBULL

    Yawnlenty for Presid…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….ent…in….zzzzzzzzzzz…. 201…zzzzzzz

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    Him,Pawlenty stupid”, if he thinks we’re buying Obimbo’s crap!! I’ll bet he supports Obimbo’s flagrant lawless war in Libya too!

  • Garth

    caconservative said:
    Him,Pawlenty stupid”, if he thinks we’re buying Obimbo’s crap!! I’ll bet he supports Obimbo’s flagrant lawless war in Libya too!

    I take it he won’t get your vote.

  • captaingrumpy

    Pawlenty is NOT a Republican.
    He backs Obummer on many of his policies.
    He OK’d SHARIA LAW in his state.
    THAT tells me everything I need to know about this spineless creep.

  • Garth

    captaingrumpy said:
    Pawlenty is NOT a Republican.
    He backs Obummer on many of his policies.
    He OK’d SHARIA LAW in his state.
    THAT tells me everything I need to know about this spineless creep.

    Guess he won’t get your vote either.

  • captaingrumpy

    mibwilso said:
    The whole birth certificate stuff is nonsense.

    The birth certificate he has provided meets all of the requirements of the State Department to be sufficient proof of citizenship to obtain a passport.

    I don’t even have a copy of a “long form” of my birth certificate (and neither were my parents given one) and it’s never been a problem. I was born in Atlanta and the document is notarized….and I’ve never been asked for more. My birth cert. looks basically the same as Obama’s (except it’s from GA, so the format is slightly different).

    LIES < LIES< LIES<. and more LIES. Everyone gets a long birth cert.Having enough for a passport is not enough to rule the country. The passport one he gave was a photocopy of computer printout.
    DON"T BE SO GULLIBLE

  • Garth

    captaingrumpy said:
    LIES < LIES< LIES<. and more LIES. Everyone gets a long birth cert.Having enough for a passport is not enough to rule the country. The passport one he gave was a photocopy of computer printout.
    DON”T BE SO GULLIBLE

    Evidently it is.

  • Nationman

    captaingrumpy said:
    LIES < LIES< LIES<. and more LIES. Everyone gets a long birth cert.Having enough for a passport is not enough to rule the country. The passport one he gave was a photocopy of computer printout.DON”T BE SO GULLIBLE

    Ahh, so it was a fake printout of a birthcertificate. That makes sense, he risked getting a huge case of fraud thrown at him merely to get a passport. Good job CG you exposed teh truth.

  • Dem4Ever

    Seems the only evidence people are asking for is a birth certificate. If it’s not unreasonable to ask to see one’s birth certificate to obtain a passport, certainly it can’t be unreasonable to ask to see the birth certificate of someone who is trying to obtain the office of the President of the United States.

  • Nationman

    Dem4Ever said:
    Seems the only evidence people are asking for is a birth certificate. If it’s not unreasonable to ask to see one’s birth certificate to obtain a passport, certainly it can’t be unreasonable to ask to see the birth certificate of someone who is trying to obtain the office of the President of the United States.

    No one asked for bush’s certificate.

  • Dem4Ever

    Nationman said:
    No one asked for bush’s certificate.

    So ask for it…like you asked for and got McCain’s.

  • Nationman

    Dem4Ever said:
    So ask for it…like you asked for and got McCain’s.

    he showed his to some random newspaper, never did it for the general public.

  • X-3

    Has Pawlenty seen -0bama’s transcripts too?

  • eingriff

    Pawlenty says Barry was born in the U.S.A. How about verifying that by a subpoena of Barry’s vital records? His legislature has investigative jurisdiction. His state appoints presidential electors as its legislature determines. His state’s Attorney General has jurisdiction to investigate election fraud. He should obtain the vital records to see whether a man without a Negro birth parent claimed his adoptive father, a black Luo tribesman, was his birth parent, in order to make a blatantly racial appeal for votes and denigrate opponents as racists.

    Pursuing the investigation of eligibility further, Pawlenty should have Barry’s Indonesian citizenship investigated. Arguably his Indonesian citizenship terminated his U.S. citizenship and with it his eligibility to the Office of President. Can’t be a natural born U.S. citizen if you’re not a U.S. citizen at all, even if you he was a natural born U.S. citizen at birth. Even if he’s found to have retained his U.S. citizenship, what about massive pay-offs for concealing evidence his Indonesian citizenship? Is he, indeed, a Comintern mole implementing the Comintern strategy of allying with Islam to destroy the U.S., then turning to the brutal subversion and extermination of Islam?

    It is manifestly irresponsible to ignore these grave concerns by an idiotic sound bite that ignores the urgent need to disclose Barry’s original birth certificate in order to ascertain his true personal and racial identity. Further, status at birth does not begin to determine whether Barry later lost his U.S. citizenship. All of this, and the corruption and sedition used to cover up foreign citizenship and Barry’s probable true allegiance, to the Comintern, must not be allowed to fester, lest we lose our Republic. Pawlenty’s idiotic sound bite, to put off official inquiries, is the height of irresponsibility and recklessness.

  • Michael_T

    Just food for thought. I am not trying to pick a fight.

    The poll in the video clip of Republican/Conservatives shows Huckabee and Romney on top with Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels at the bottom.

    I predict that if it was a poll of just independents (the key voting block), this might be reversed with Pawlenty and Daniels at the top – or perhaps dueling with Mitt for the top.

    Therein lies the dilemma for the GOP. Do they go for electability or do they insist on conservative ideological purity and risk a landslide loss to Obama who has already moved toward the center?

  • Snidely

    How would he know? How would anyone know? There is no documentation of his life that has been released.

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