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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: PROLIFE who wrote (7456)2/23/2009 10:24:31 PM
From: pompsander  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
So, you and Alan Keyes going to bring the lawsuit? Think you have standing to do so?

Good Luck.



To: PROLIFE who wrote (7456)2/23/2009 10:27:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 103300
 
Keep it going!

(And... don't forget now! Send L-O-T-S of money to support the effort!)



To: PROLIFE who wrote (7456)2/23/2009 10:30:48 PM
From: pompsander1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
Shelby dabbles in citizenship rumor [UPDATED]

A dispatch from Cullman, Alabama:

Another local resident asked [Alabama Senator Richard] Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama’s U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.

“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”

I emailed Shelby's spokesman, Jonathan Graffeo, to ask if Shelby believes there's substance to this rumor, for which no supporting evidence has ever emerge, and which has been debunked repeatedly and in detail.

UPDATE: Graffeo calls to say that the Cullman Times report is a "distortion" and that Shelby mentioned that he hadn't seen the birth certificate only as a "throwaway line" while listing the qualifications for office and explaining that the issue had been examined at length and put to rest.

"He doesn't have any doubt" about Obama's citizenship and eligibility, Graffeo said.

UPDATE: I haven't been able to reach the Cullman Times to check for tape or transcript, but in the meantime, a fuller statement from Graffeo:

The Cullman Times article contains an incomplete account, and therefore a distortion, of Sen. Shelby's comments regarding President Obama's citizenship. At the town hall meeting in Cullman, Sen. Shelby laid out the Constitutional qualifications for the Presidency and said that, while he hasn't personally seen the President's birth certificate, he is confident that the matter has been thoroughly examined.

politico.com