Robert Schlesinger

Dixie Birther Madness: Most Virginia Republicans Question Obama Birth Place

August 3, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Last week we learned that the South is the home of festering Birtherism. Now new poll numbers are providing greater granularity. Taegan Goddard got an advanced look at a new Public Policy Polling survey, to be released in full tomorrow, which shows that 41 percent of Virginia Republicans think President Obama was born abroad (32 percent say he was, 27 percent are not sure). To put it another way: 68 percent of Virginia Republicans--more than two-thirds--aren't sure whether Obama was born in the USA. Yikes. (h/t GOP12)

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As long as he does not un roll his rug to pray I'll just think for now

huffanpuff of NM 1:08PM August 04, 2009

Here's all the info you could want about President Obama's birth in the State of Hawaii -- which last I heard was a part of the United States. Give it a rest, people. If he wasn't born in the US, don't you think that at least the Clinton's, not to mention McCain, would have put up a protest and forwarded all the facts during the campaign.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Beth of OH 12:49PM August 04, 2009

I'm just curious if people really believe that the President could conceal his citizenship if he wasn't a US citizen. Seriously. You are talking about a Rep party that worked with the Tripp and Lewinsky woman who kept a soiled dress. And this is not just an attack on Republicans, if it were the other way around, don't you think the power hungry Clintons would've done everything in their power to bring him down?

If its true, then he's a lie and should be ousted. But I'm sorry having been unemployed for the last 7 months competing with fellow Americans for a job at a time and I'm still busting my chops to get work I find this topic ridiculous.

Could it be possible that he is a citizen? And if you take his focus off of trying to get us out of this mess, what about those of us who have always worked since the age of 13, including working my way through college and now struggling (not financially because I saved and God's grace) with the fact that I people won't let me work because I'm over qualified.

And shocker America, I'm a black woman. The president wasn't my first choice by any means. I am a moderate Dem. Do I agree with what he's been doing, not necessarily. I had to limit my media intake because it was depressing watching the unemployment numbers climb.

Hell I'm down the street, can I get a government job?

J in VA from the D of VA 11:42AM August 04, 2009

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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