GOP Boss Says Birther Claims a Distraction

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only crazies and kooks and com=nspiracy nuts truly think Obama is a true communist.

James of MD 3:03PM April 14, 2011

This man's agenda for our country points straight to communism. He is trying his best to take away our property and our rights. That's communism. He's trying to "Spread the wealth around" which is communism. He is bringing healthcare, banks, and insurance into the government which is communism. Wake up America while we still have an America.
By the way. As for the "Phony birther claim." The Certificate of live birth can be gotten by anyone with 2 signatures. I could forge two and get one showing I was born in Hawai when I was born in Texas. It wouldn't make any difference considering you can't even get a driver's license with one.

Ray of TX 2:31PM April 14, 2011

. . . on Yahoo Answers(part of Yahoo.com), particularly those in Britain, Canada, Australia, and Singapore if they thought President Obama a communist, and they ridiculed such a notion. A guy from Singapore said only a "stupid American" would believe Obama was a real communist.

James of MD 2:08PM April 14, 2011

The use of certain terms by American "conservatives" such as "socialist Democrat", "socialist liberal", "Marxist Democrat", "Marxist liberal", or even "communist Democrat" or "communist liberal" are severely misleading because most Americans "liberals" would be considered moderate, perhaps slightly conservative in countires like Canada, Australia, Great Britain, etc.
Again, Americans should use political labels from a more international standard rather than a "strictly American" view.

James of MD 1:59PM April 14, 2011

. . .how come the claim by some anti-Obamaites that he is a socialist or even a Marxist/communist have not been challenged? Perhaps if we view United States politics from a European or Third World or Canadian standard instead of a "strictly American" viewpont, we'll see that calling President Obama a true socialist, much less a communist, is pure ignorance. People in Canada or Great Britain or France or Germany or a Scandinavian country would view the two main parties in the United States (Democrats and Republicans). By international standards, the American Republicans would be classified as far right and American Democrats as also right-wing or at least middle-of-the-road moderates. The Conservative parties in Britain and Canada by international standards would be ideologically identical to American Democrats or even to the left of them, and the British Labor and Liberal Democratic parties and the Canadian Liberal and New Democratic parties well to the left of both major U.S. parties.
By international/European standards, the United States of America has never, ever had a major political party or a President who truly could be considered leftist or socialist.

James of MD 1:53PM April 14, 2011

By trying to avoid the issue of Obongo's eligibility for POTUS, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is showing the cowardice of many republicans in the face of the race card being played by Democrats and the liberal main stream media. In reality, the quickest way for conservatives to achieve their political goals and set this country on the road to recovery would be to reveal Barry the Usurper for the fraud he is. Unfortunately this would require much more back bone than the Republicans currently seem to have. It seems like Donald Trump is the only hope for blowing this scandal wide open.

badley of CA 1:27PM April 14, 2011

We want him to shut up, too.

Jsmith of VA 1:24PM April 14, 2011

To Paul from CA-
Obama has spent and is spending more than any President in the history of this country. EVER. Much of it is unrelated to anything inherited from the previous administration. His liberal entitlement programs are killing the country, much like your bankrupt state. The first bill he signed into law (I remember it well) was to pay for abortions in other countries, namely Mexico. Your state is bankrupt because of entitlement programs and union pensions, most of which far exceed the pensions of private workers. And if you want to talk about war, Obama just got us into a third, and he didn't bother to consult with congress.
And perhaps the people who work with Obama have no respect for him because he refuses to prove his citizenship (among other things- the fact that he toured the world apologizing for America didn't help). But please don't act like he's such a saint- on one hand asking for civility and doing and saying whatever he wants to undermine republicans at the next turn. And don't get me started on his political cronies like Jeffrey Emelt at GE. THEY DON'T EVEN PAY THEIR TAXES AND HE IS A POLITICAL APPOINTEE!
By the way my state is not bankrupt (nor is Palin's), and we have no state income tax. Thankfully, my democrat governor (for whom I voted) refused to take Obama's "bail out" money. He was a responsible, good governor who did not agree with Obama's liberalism.
Paul, stop your liberal, baseless whining.

Carla McCombs of TN 12:08PM April 14, 2011

No one would expect an article from your liberal magazine to be anything other than attacking the thing that makes Obama and his supporters more worried. I don't know where he was born, but I would like to see the official papers that would prove it, along with all his other hid records, that he pays millions of dollars to keep SECRET. Obama himself said once, why would anyone hide things if they don't have anything to hide? (or something to that effect). Let's see it. Until then, I'm supporting Trump, and won't support anyone in the Republican field, that doesn't question this. Nuff said.

Roy of TN 11:46AM April 14, 2011

This is getting off the real issues but.........
No one in our elected offices has seen his long form BC.
Why?
His Mothers pre-1963 passport information was destroyed in a fire.
Hmmmmm

Wdyafo of AZ 10:40AM April 14, 2011