Is Donald Trump's Birther Embrace a Publicity Stunt?

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The following people are all in the same family of loud, closed-minded, low-class, inbred, "typical" people who use whatever platform they can to stir up, energize, and feed the educationally-challenged, politically-ignorant, and illogical fringes of our country:
1. Sarah Palin
2. Donald Trump
3. Mitt Romney
4. Anyone who has a show on FOX News - especially the inept group on "Fox & Friends" in the mornings. How did they get any job let alone get on TV?
5. Joe "The Plumber" and all similar people of limited education and ability to challenge the "establishment" that robs the poor and protects the rich.
6. Anyone who believes in "American Exceptionalism." (WTF is that? And why is it necessary? The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence define what America is...I don't need another frivolous term or phrase to say what my country is or should be.)
Why do they cater to this vulnerable-yet-willing group? They know there's a certain element out there who live and die by what they hear rather than what they research and learn for themselves. They know there is a certain element out there who embrace silly unproven "ideals" over verifiable quantifiable facts. They know there is a certain element of our society who have a superiority complex and are automatically suspicious of people who are not "one of them."

Joe of IN 1:07AM April 28, 2011

Trump is a two-faced schemer who praised President Obama in a book he wrote quite recently. But now he wants to appeal to the racists and extremists of the republican party that watch Fox around the clock and is now just making himself look more and more foolish. Being a billionaire does not make a person honest, decent or worthy to be President.

Vicki of LA 11:21PM April 21, 2011

You can't even get a passport without a birth certificate, he's the President of the United States for God's sake does anybody seriously think they didn't go over every detail of his entire life with a fine tooth comb 100 times over?
Why are we still wasting our time on this completely irrelevent subject that was settled years ago? Drop it. He hasn't replaced the entire White House staff with African Americans, he hasn't replaced the government with a Communist Dictatorship and a Mosque hasn't been installed in every public school (last i checked). Maybe he is holding back on all these till his second term.
PS Ann Keenan its people like you that remind me why im not a Christian (and i use that term very loosely when describing you).

Dave Fisher of PA 3:43PM April 19, 2011

I think the only reason he doesn't release his "long form" certificate is because it makes all his detractors look like idiots. Keeps people from bouncing to the opposition because they seem to be bigger fools than his gawd-awful performances (domestically and in foreign policy)...

Robert of WA 1:54PM April 19, 2011

Trump's stance on this issue is worse than a stunt. It's a deliberate promotion of an outlandish lie, knowing that if you repeat something often enough, damage will be done whether there's any evidence or not.
Obama's birth certificate has scanned & put on the Internet, and confirmed by local authorities. Further, two Honolulu newspapers at the time of birth ran birth notices announcing his birth there; again, copies are available. People still alive have supported this, and no witness from that time has presented another birthplace.
Trump is either knowingly spreading a lie to further his own candidacy, or he's demonstrating extreme lack of judgment and intelligence. Either of those options should rule him out immediately as a candidate.

Rick of MA 1:48PM April 19, 2011

Founder Church of DC:
If I belonged to your church, and I SAID I was quoting from the Bible, and proceeded to say that quote aloud, I am sure you would know the Chapter and Verse of my quote, or would ASK for the Chapter and Verse. It is then that you would know for sure whether I was telling the truth or not telling the truth, and whether the quote was EXACTLY the same as stated by me, and it perfectly matched the Bible chapter and verse right from the actual BIble.
In your above comment on President Obama, you state information that, I assume, is the truth. After all, a member of the Church would not lie, because God is watching you and listening to you, even at this very moment, and acceptance of Christ as our Savior may remove our past sins, but it does not save us from the future sins we commit. John the Baptist said, "If we say we have not sinned, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." I am sure, as a Christian Church, you abide by the precepts found in Matthew 5:33-37 and 23:16-22, about telling the truth.
So, eeping all of this in mind, please direct me to the following PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS, proving the statements you have made about President Obama:
It is then that I will know for sure whether you are telling the truth or not telling the truth, and that Our Savior, Jesus Christ, will bless you for providing this information to me.
President Obama:
1. is a con artist
2. his Mother was a hippie communist
3. his Mother's Parents were radicals and did just about anything (what does this
mean?)
4. his Father was a Muslim, radical, extremist, who came out of the bloody,
anti-white Communist-inspired Mau Mau Revolt in Kenya, etc., etc, etc....
5. Obama was groomed by Leftist Radicals from birth
6. Harvard is a bastion of Communism
7. Obama's college tuition was paid by Saudi Arabia
8. All of his school and life records have been hidden from all us
9. He has paid 2-3 million dollars to hide information about his birth from the
courts
10. Obama happily went to a church...etc.
11. to be ACCURATE, President Obama is a Communist and a Black Racist
12. President Obama's whole life has been dirty and criminal
So that you can properly inform me of these truths about the President, and you can state as a Church member, a believer in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, you are telling me the FACTS. I have written you a Web link that tells you the exact Primary Source Documents needed and anxiously await your reply.
http://custompapers.com/writing-tutorial/primary-secondary-sources/

ann keenan of MI 12:12AM April 19, 2011

Gennie:
Obama has released his birth certificate so many times, I am disgusted whenever I discover it, yet again, on the Internet! People who think like you WANT to believe a particular thing, and, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, continue to believe what they want to believe. I'll bet you have pondered this whole birth certificate thing since 2006, when Obama first said he was considering a run for the Presidency.
Don't you think that every single Congressman and Senator from the Republican Party would have investigated this very topic, and were the first ones to rid the U.S.A. of Barack Obama as a candidate, if he was born in another country? In addition, would the Democrats nominate a man who just might be "found out" as a citizen of another country, therefore, ruling out a Democratic win for the Presidency? For the sake of your fellow man, do us a favor and obsess on a new topic.

ann keenan of MI 10:19PM April 18, 2011

FounderChurch.Blogspot.Com writes: "The American people are the most naive suckers ever known on planet earth."
This writer then goes on the report that
"Harvard University is a bastion of Communism and hate America, "
"His mother was a Hippie Communist"
"Obama was groomed by Leftist radicals from birth"
and a few other bizarre claims. None of his claims are document with any references and none of these claims have appeared in any reputable news reporting from either side of the political spectrum. These claims are from the extreme right-wing fringe, the same crowd that is dominated by fundamentalists who believe in the literal bible, that the earth is only 6000 years old and that evolution did not happen. Now that, my friends, is being truly naive.

RCharles of PA 6:42AM April 16, 2011

If the Obama story was in a novel, or in a Hollywood script, it would be rejected as too fantastic to be credible, but it is true. This Con-Artist Mr. O, has conned his way through the strangest life imaginable, not to speak of his birth certificate caper.
The American people are the most naive suckers ever known on planet earth. They will swallow anything. No wonder P. T. Barnum was created here. How could this phony ever be elected to anything in this country is beyond imagining.
His mother was a Hippie Communist, and her mother and father were also radicals who would do just about anything. His father was a Muslim radical extremist who came out of the bloody anti-White Communist inspired Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. He was a shadowy figure that drifted here and there and had several children by different women all of whom he abandoned.
Obama was groomed by Leftist radicals from birth, and was finally sent to that bastion of Communism and hate America, Harvard University, and his tuition was paid for by Saudi Arabia, go figure.
His school record, and in fact, all the records in his life have been sealed from the view of the American people. He has spent 2-3 million dollars on lawyers so far to keep cases questioning his birth out of court. So much for everyone having his day in court. I guess that only applies to Communists and Black Racists which describes Obama accurately.
Then he happily goes to church to a church run by a White hating preacher who loved to say things from the pulpit like "Not God Bless America, but God Damn America."
Obama's whole life is dirty and criminal, we'll see how many more suckers will buy his lies. FounderChurch.Blogspot.Com

Founder Church of DC 10:55PM April 15, 2011

Seems to me it would cut off the speculation if Obama
would just release an official birth certificate. Perhaps
he likes being in the spotlight again concerning this.
It does give him a lot of publicity, as if he needs more
with the Liberal Press having their main man in the
spotlight at all times.

Gennie Hayes of FL 9:06AM April 15, 2011