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A Tool Of Intimidation |
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Obots assign American citizens who have questions
about Barack Obama and his goals to "The Fringe." This
intimidation technique is meant to diminish and discredit
anybody who doesn't tow the Obama line. It's another form
of the "race card" trick.
As
more and more people come to understand Obama's far-left agenda
and mysterious background, they question his eligibility. "The
Fringe" is now composed of a huge segment of the American
population -- and it is growing.
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More And More Americans Want To
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One of the favorite tactics of the political Left is to smear their
political opponents. They follow
Alinsky's guideline
-- "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." They ridicule, personalize
and attack those they disagree with, because they can not, and will not,
debate the issues.
The Left is unable to defend Obama's decision to
hide his bona fides from the
American People, so they
attack anybody that dares to ask Obama to release his
documentation. One of their favorite tactics is to tar the
questioner as a "Birther," or relegate the skeptic to the "fringe."
An AOL Poll that asks the question: "Do you think
it's fair to question President Obama's citizenship?"
At 6 AM, on
12/6/09, the results were: 67% "Yes" -- 33% "No" -- and this is AOL, hardly a conservative website.
That's some fringe -- AOL visitors, by a factor of two-to-one,
believe Obama should release his bona fides and end the
controversy.
YouPolls.com has taken down
their December 4th poll that asks the question, "Is Obama's
birth certificate a valid question." Obviously, they
didn't like the respondents' answers -- 83% "Yes" -- 17% "No."
YouPolls.com is still running the one
asking,
"Is Obama a one term President?" -- 94? "Yes -- 5.7% "No" --
expect that one to disappear soon.
"Arkansas is the first of four states
where we've polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and
Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents
confident that Obama is a natural born citizen. The numbers are
particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not
born here to just 23% who grant that he was."
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| Just 51% Of Americans Believe Obama Eligible |
Bob Unruh is reporting that nearly 1/2 of U.S.
citizens say Obama is not a "legitimate president."
A
new poll -- conducted by the public opinion research
and media consulting company
Wenzel Strategies
-- marking Barack Obama's one year as president reveals Americans are
questioning his legitimacy to hold the office, fear his plans and doubt
even his friends.
"Typically, a political figure in trouble from
pursuing a radical agenda generally tacks to the political center, but
there is no evidence that Obama is interested in following conventional
wisdom on this point. Democrats nationwide may face the fallout in
November," warned Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies.
The poll
revealed if the 2012 election were held today, Obama would come in
second to an unspecified opponent.
The Wenzel poll was
conducted by telephone from Jan. 14-17 using an automated telephone
technology calling a random sampling of listed telephone numbers
nationwide. The survey included 30 questions and carries a 95
percent confidence interval. It included 823 likely voters and has
a margin of error of 3.65 percentage points.
Wenzel said voters
have advanced in their opinions of the issue of Obama's legitimacy from
some six months ago when most Americans said they were aware of the
questions being raised.
When asked if they consider Obama a
"legitimate president," 32.6 percent said no, and another 15.8 percent
said they were not sure. Barely half of the voters, 51.5 percent
said they do consider Obama a legitimate president even though he has
yet to produce a long-form birth certificate that would prove he was
born in the U.S.
Continue reading
here . . . |
| Poll Stories Of The Year -- Number 10 -- Rise of the
Birthers |
Have you heard of the questions that have been raised by some that
Barack Obama should not be president because he has not provided a birth
certificate that proves he was born on American soil as the U.S.
Constitution requires? He claims to have been born in Hawaii,
while others cite records and statements that show he was born in Kenya.
The people demanding he prove his birth location have been tagged as
"Birthers," and those who consider these questions inconvenient have
tried to marginalize their opponents by ignoring them or ridiculing
them (see Rule 5,
here).
I hadn’t paid much attention to this issue myself, so I
was surprised when the results to a
WorldNetDaily/Wenzel
Strategies poll in June showed that 49% -- essentially half of all
American adults -- are not convinced that Obama meets the qualifications
for the presidency! Such a result wins this data point a spot at Number
10 on my Top Ten Countdown
List for 2009. It could easily be Number One
-- but Obama has so far been able to deflect calls for him to prove his
origins. Pending court action may change that in 2010.
The
polling data shows this is not just a Republican fetish. Even among
Democrats, almost one in every four -- 23% said they were either
troubled by these questions about Obama or that he should definitely
release all records about the circumstances of his birth, including his
long–form birth certificate -- if one exists -- to put this question to
rest once and for all. Even among independent voters, 52% said the same
thing.
Men were slightly more likely than women to say Obama
should produce his birth certificate, and people in Obama’s age cohort
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those in their 40s and 50s -- were much more likely than those younger
and older to say the same thing.
When this question was asked
back in June, Obama was riding high in public opinion polls and this
issue was not much of a threat to Obama. But now, Obama’s
job approval rating is lower than any president has ever been at this
early point in his term, and he is facing little or no improvement in
the economy and is pushing an agenda that has proven quite unpopular
with the American people. In this circumstance, the Birthers have an
issue that could prove very powerful, and the White House denials to
produce definitive documentation proving his American birth only feed
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| Nearly 60% Say Obama’s Decisions Are Bad For America |
CNSNews.com reports a majority of Americans believe an increased
government role in health care would lead to more government corruption,
while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting
man-made global warming is "mostly falsified." That is what a new
poll by Survey USA reveals.
The poll also shows that 58 percent
of Americans believe that decisions by the Obama administration have
been "bad for America," as opposed to 37 percent who think Obama’s
decisions have been "good for America."
These poll numbers come
at a time when Barack Obama is pushing for international agreement to
address apparent global warming and is also advocating for a major
overhaul of health care in America.
The poll of 1,450 adults by
Survey USA was conducted Dec. 11-14, and was commissioned by the
conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch. The poll
asked questions on several topics, including government corruption,
transparency, illegal immigration and the Association of Community
Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).
Continue reading
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| 20% Of Voters Favor Impeachment |
Public Policy Polling (PPP) has a whole slew of
poll results -- none are good for Obama and his agenda -- but they
slip this one in in the final paragraph:
20% of voters, including
35% of Republicans, support impeaching Obama for his actions so far.
PPP is not clear exactly what 'high crimes and misdemeanors' they are
using to justify that position but there may be a certain segment of
voters on both the right and the left these days that simply think Obama
doing things they don't agree with is grounds for removal from office. |
| Obama's Eligibility Spreading As An Issue Among The
States |
Early 2010 and Bob Unruh is reporting that lawmakers in several state have jumped
into fray, seeking answers to this constitutional question.
The
demand for documentation of Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the
Oval Office is surging, with lawmakers in several states now working on
legislation that could be used to require future presidential candidates
to reveal precisely how they are qualified under the U.S. Constitution's
demand for a "natural born citizen."
WorldNetDaily has reported
on a bill co-sponsored by some three dozen lawmakers in Arizona who want
to require candidates not only to submit the information, but state
officials to independently verify the accuracy, and bill sponsor Rep.
Judy Burges said she has started getting questions from other states who
want details about the proposal.
A separate proposal has been
created by a freedom of information action group in New York state, and
now the National Conference of State Legislatures, which monitors and
tabulates the work of legislative bodies, confirms through its database
that several other plans are in the works.
Some of the proposals
are very clear even without the full text. In New Hampshire, for
example, a pending plan would require "certified copies of birth
certificates for nominees for president and vice president."
Others are a little more oblique. In Georgia, for example,
lawmakers propose a bill "relating to procedures for qualification of
candidates generally, so as to require each candidate for public office
to be in compliance with certain disclosure requirements."
There
is no definitive word on what that would mean to presidential
candidates.
An Indiana proposal is equally unclear, because it
"authorizes a challenge to a candidate's eligibility to seek an office
to be filed by a registered voter of the jurisdiction conducting the
election." It could apply only to local elections.
In
Virginia, a summary says the proposal "provides that candidates shall
provide evidence of their qualifications for office to have their names
printed on the ballot. The State Board of Elections shall provide
a list of acceptable forms of evidence."
And in the New York
state plan proposed by a freedom of information organization to state
lawmakers would provide that "an individual seeking placement on the New
York State's election ballot(s) for the office of president or vice
president of the United States must present proof of eligibility, as per
requirements that are stated in Article 2, section 1, paragraph 5 of the
U.S. Constitution."
The proposals essentially are moving the same
direction as a federal measure proposed by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.
Continue reading
here . . . |
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A Tool Of Intimidation |
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Obots assign American citizens who have questions
about Barack Obama and his goals to "The Fringe." This
intimidation technique is meant to diminish and discredit
anybody who doesn't tow the Obama line. It's another form
of the "race card" trick.
As
more and more people come to understand Obama's far-left agenda
and mysterious background, they question his eligibility. "The
Fringe" is now composed of a huge segment of the American
population -- and it is growing.
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Three-in-ten Americans |
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An October 23rd item
reported
that three-in-ten Americans think their current head of state was not
born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus Reid
Strategies. 70 per cent of respondents believe Barack Obama was born in
the U.S., while 30 per cent do not.
While only 13 per cent of Democratic Party supporters believe Obama
was not born in the U.S., the proportion rises to 25 per cent among
Independents and 51 per cent among Republican Party backers.
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| 31% Are Unsure |
Goddard's Political Wire
points to
a new Public Policy Polling
survey in
Arkansas shows that only 45% of voters in the state say they believe
Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he was not and
24% are unsure.
"Arkansas is the first of four states where we've
polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado were
the others) and found less than half of respondents confident that Obama
is a natural born citizen. The numbers are particularly dramatic among
Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not born here to just 23% who
grant that he was." |
| Fox31 -- KDVR Denver Poll |
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Poll Question: Do you agree with the
Billboard's message?
A billboard in Wheat Ridge compares Barack Obama
to a terrorist and questions his U.S. citizenship (view
the billboard).
Do you agree with the message, disagree, or don't
care?
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Agree (8294 responses) -- 90.4%
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Disagree (596 responses) -- 6.5%
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Don't Care (285 responses) -- 3.1%
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9175 total responses
You may respond to the poll questions
here -- Posted results are "as of" 11/24/09
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| Obama Was Not Born In U.S., Republicans Say |
Three-in-ten Americans think their current head of state was not
born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies.
70 per cent of respondents believe Barack Obama was born in the U.S.,
while 30 per cent do not.
While only 13 per cent of Democratic
Party supporters believe Obama was not born in the U.S., the proportion
rises to 25 per cent among Independents and 51 per cent among Republican
Party backers.
In American elections, candidates require 270
votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November
2008, Democratic nominee Obama secured a majority of electoral votes,
defeating Republican candidate John McCain. In January, Obama
became the first African American president in U.S. history.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution establishes that only "natural born"
American citizens are eligible to become presidents.
Last year,
the Obama campaign team released a Certification of Live Birth, which
states that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961.
The State of Hawaii only allows for the release of an original birth
certificate under "extenuating circumstances."
Earlier this
month, former House majority leader Tom Delay discussed his views on
Obama’s birth, saying, "Why wouldn’t the president of the United States
show the American people his birth certificate? You have to show a
birth certificate to play Little League baseball. It’s a question
that should be answered. It’s in the Constitution that you have to
be a natural born citizen of the United States to be president."
Polling Data
As you may have heard over the last few months,
there have been groups demanding to see President Obama’s birth
certificate. Do you believe that Obama was born in the United
States of America or not?
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I believe he was
born in the U.S.
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70%
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87%
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49%
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75%
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I do not believe
he was born in the U.S.
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30%
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13%
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51%
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25%
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Source:
Angus Reid Strategies
Methodology: Online interviews
with 1,009 American adults, conducted from Oct. 15 to Oct. 17, 2009.
Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.
30% is a pretty big "fringe." |
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