About a month ago, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R), who oversees the state's elections, caused a giant mess, threatening to keep President Obama off the Arizona ballot due to imaginary questions about the president's citizenship. He eventually backed down and said, "If I embarrassed the state, I apologize."
As it turns out, Bennett's not quite done embarrassing Arizona.
If you forward this clip to the 6:24 mark, you'll notice that Bennett, who says he's not a "birther," has a new conspiracy theory. Nick Martin has the story of Bennett's comments last week at a Republican event.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett says he's convinced Obama was born in Hawaii, but he now believes the president fraudulently claimed to be born in Kenya so he could get into college. He also believes the president has spent millions of dollars since then to cover it up. [...]
"Now, I know there's a lot of people that are very skeptical as to whether he was born in Hawaii," Bennett told the crowd. "Personally I believe that he was. I actually believe he was fibbing about being born in Kenya when he was trying to get into college and doing things like writing a book and on and on and on."
In the same video, you'll notice Bennett telling the crowd that voters should "send him back home ... wherever home is." He added that Obama "has spent $1.5 or $2 million" to hide his college records.
It's worth noting that Bennett isn't just the top election official in Arizona, he's also the state co-chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in Arizona.
So, here's a question for the Republican presidential nominee: how comfortable is the candidate with his Arizona co-chairman's crackpot ideas about the president?
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Is it just too much desert air for these people, it's sucking whatever it is that they use for brain cells? I don't ever remember hearing this President say he was Kenyan, oh, that's right - his FATHER was Kenyan and came here as a student, my bad....Now I understand where the confusion comes in - cause he and his FATHER look just so much alike.
Actually, they're inhaling poison from the (woefully misnamed) Navajo Power Plant in the northern part of the state.
Seriously! The last time I drove from L.A. to New Mexico, I watched to my left and saw a Purple Haze of pollution all the way to Tucson! Poison is spilling out of the Basin, into the desert. In addition, the power plant adds tons of poison itself. Readings from the bottom of the Grand Canyon have identified poison from L.A. and the power plant at the cause of that foggy haze you see when you visit the Canyon these days.
These people are literally being poisoned!! No wonder they're so loony (not to insult Canadian money, eh?)
I've never heard the claim that Obama claimed to be Kenyan in order to get into college. But I have had heard it said that Obama lied about being Kenyan in order to further his adult career as a politician.
That claim comes out of a recent Breitbart.com-generated kerfuffle. In 1991, Obama's literary agency published a booklet that contained a little biographical blurb about their client, which included the false information that he was born in Kenya. Later on, this little blurb was uploaded to the agency's website, with the error about Kenya going uncorrected until about the time that Obama declared his candidacy for the Presidency.
In digesting this information, the right-wingers have reached this conclusion: Obama must have lied to his literary agency, and he must have found it useful to let the lie go uncorrected until a time when he would earn greater national attention. As Joel Pollak put it, in Breitbart.com: "The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona."
Insert evil laugh here: BWAHAHAHA. Obama obviously is an evil genius, maybe even the Antichrist. Who else would have been so clever as to manipulate his public persona by means of a 100-word blurb that was probably read by almost nobody prior to May 2012? Brilliant, I tell you. . .brilliant.
Romney will denounce this space cadet just after he denounces the one with the funny hair.
What a silly question:
"So, here's a question for the Republican presidential nominee: how comfortable is the candidate with his Arizona co-chairman's crackpot ideas about the president?"
For one thing, you are suggesting that Mitt Romney would give a straight answer to a question about his position on something.
And second, you are suggesting that he actually HAS a position on this.
Besides which, Romney seems OK hanging around Donald Trump, who is way more open about being a birther than almost anyone else. If Romney weren't comfortable around crackpots, he'd have to find another political party.
Dirty politics is simultaneously "fun and games" and "life or death" for Republicans. In other words, they want to take liberals and string them up and hang them for hating America, but they'd also like to make a party out of it because you know, life's too short to be mad ALL the time. They want to lie and cheat to get their base filled with venom and invective, and if you manage to catch them and call them out on it, they want to reserve the right to smile sheepishly and go "ahhh, whaddaya gonna do, hah?" And then go right back to it. The politicians and pundits like doing it, their base loves hearing it, and it's only an inconvenience when one of their more unhinged members goes off the reservation and tries a killing spree, in which case they regroup and figure out how to pin their rage on liberals, too.
I don't think liberals hate America they probably don't hate anything. I would guess that they loved America for what it stood for, and now they are fighting to bring all Americans together to save it from turning into another 3rd world Country. Everyone is born into this world with the same amount of worth everyone dies with the same amount of worth. While we are all stuck in the middle we should treat each other with kindness which will determine our destiny thereof.
Romney fears the crackpots and desperately needs their support - see Donald Trump.
Remember when Donald Trump was carrying on (and on and on) about President Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth" and how that was NOT THE SAME as a "Birth Certificate"?
Then when Gov. Romney published his before that fund raiser in Las Vegas and it says at the top "Certificate of Live Birth". And then nobody, especially Trump, seemed to care?
Makes me just shake my head and sigh!
Obama should agree to release his college transcripts when Romney releases at least 20 years of federal and state tax returns and HIS college transcripts.
We'll see a big difference in the intellectual achievements of these two candidates. And it won't be in Romney's favor.
President Obama has every right to call himself a Kenyan. He is of Kenyan descent. Otherwise, you'd have to get up in arms whenever some says, "I'm Irish," or "I'm German." Here in America, we have a tradition of referring to ourselves by our lineage, even if we have never been to, nor plan to visit the origin of our family.
Isn't is possible that he could have had dual citizenship? I have a friend with a son that is dual citizen because his mother is still a citizen of another country.
Is it possible you are a drooling moron? I think the answer to that is a resounding yes.
No need to be so nasty! People on here are usually so much more respectful.
TC must be having a bad day. Probably a lot of the frustration is being misdirected.
MittPuppet: Elect me in November and I'll gladly answer in February.
When are these wankers going to demand Willard Mittens Romney's original long form-birth certificate.
Everyone here in the Southwest knows he was born on the family estate in MEXICO!! That Michigan certificate is a total fake, as any good analyst will be able to see if they let us examine the original closely.
It will be easy to examine the real one, because it will have been handwritten in! Ink, paper, Spanish language, it'll all be there.
Willard Mittens Romney: El Candidato Manchuriano. El agente de la reconquista.
Maybe the Democrats are trying to stand firm in their belief that they are the grown-ups in the room. They oughta check all their birth certificates I believe you may find some of them were born on Mars, sorry Charlie, they may have followed you.
Let Bennett keep talking because his statements will make great ads for the Dems. If Obama and the Dems want to portray the Republicans as fringe radicals, these sort of statements by various Republicans make that job very easy. This drives a wedge between the Republicans and undecided voters.
And next in line to be governor if Jan Brewer drives off of US 60 at the Salt River Canyon.
Be careful podner, that there's Indian Country. Crazy whitebread woman bring big ransom!
Besides, it's not nice to make fun of people with Alzheimer's. On the other hand, for her it's a new road every day!
True, it's Apache country. However, there's the question of which Apaches.
The boundary between the White Mountain and San Carlos tribes runs right down the middle of the canyon.
Is this the point where Brewer ducks and the Apache wipe each other out? In her dreams, dude. In her dreams.
Or do they reconcile in a giant reconquista dance? And then advance on Tempe!
You're treading on very thin ice when you start mocking native Americans. The only reason our state is in trouble now is the Republican rule. Believe me the citizens here want the smog out too. Arizona to me is Gods' country the Indian culture is one of beauty and spirituality. Their deterioration was not their fault. We are all just trying to find our way home. So many of us are lost and our leaders are not leading us they are leading themselves and falling right into the money pit. We need to take care of this Earth and the life from which it depends.
I think the rule in comedy is that you're allowed to do humor aimed at your own ethnic group (see my previous posts). Otherwise, I'm with you! (Except that in the summer "The temp is too damn high!")
You idiot Bennett! What were you thinking trying to enforce federal law? Federal law is only applied when it forwards liberal thinking.
Comfortable enough, if it helps him get elected President, for Pete's sake!
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I think I may be speaking for many when I say "HUH?????" This is like the movie Victor/Victoria, where it was a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. Or it's like Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First" routine. You can't keep up with these things even if you have a scorecard. If these "conspiricies" keep evolving the righties heads will just explode.....Hmmmmmm...just saying...
Yes, I don't know he's on third. Why, because, he plays short stop.