Politico is
reporting the following exchange between Sarah Palin and
conservative talker Rusty Humphries.
Humphries: "Would you
make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" (around 9 minutes
into this video).
Palin: "I think the public rightfully is still making it an
issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I
would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members
of the electorate still want answers," she replied.
Humphries:
"Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?"
Palin:
"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and
past voting records -- all of that is fair game," Palin said. "The
McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area."
Palin suggested that the questions were fair play because of "the weird
conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn't my
real son -- 'You need to produce his birth certificate, you need to
prove that he's your kid,' which we have done."
"Maybe we can
reverse that," she said, returning to Obama's birth certificate,
describing the type of thinking involved with a word that isn't clear in
the audio.
The Politico
article also contains an observation that McCain's campaign counsel has
said the campaign did look into the birth certificate question and, like
every other serious examination, dismissed it.
Well, of course
they did.
John Sidney McCain III was born at the Colon Hospital,
located at Avenida Melendez and 2nd Street, Manzanillo Island, City of
Colon, Republic of Panama. The time of birth on the birth
certificate issued by Panama Railroad Company (which owned the Colon
Hospital) was 5:25 PM and the day and date of birth was Saturday, August
29, 1936 -- John McCain was born outside the United States and fails to
meet the test of Jus Soli.
McCain was also ineligible,
and as such could not attack Obama's eligibility. McCain's political
enemies even provided
him with cover -- further compromising his ability to challenge
Obama's eligibility. He,
and his campaign, couldn't say a word.
Obama is a co-signer of
Leahy's
resolution, and in doing so admitted that one needs two American
citizen parents to be eligible for POTUS. Obama knows he is
ineligible to be CiC.
It was John McCain who set the stage
for what has become the biggest political cover-up in American history.
Update:
The eligibility question has gone mainstream -- CNN.com is running a
story entitled, "Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries."
Palin: "Obviously If There's Something There"
"You know, more power to him. He’s not
just throwing stones from the sidelines. He’s digging in
there. He’s paying for researchers to know why President Obama
would have spent two million dollars to NOT show his birth
certificate. So more power to him…
…well you know I
think he was born in Hawaii because there was the birth announcement
put in the newspaper. But, obviously if there’s something
there that the president doesn’t want people to see on that birth
certificate. Then he seems to go to great lengths to make sure
it isn't shown."
Palin has
been staying away from the eligibility issue, but she obviously has been
paying attention to it.
