Comments on: Obama Video Knocks Romney for Ties to ‘Birther’ Donald Trump http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/ The latest Politics news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers including Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 22:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26362291 Bob Tue, 29 May 2012 20:38:59 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26362291 “This is yet another stupid right wing lie.” – Bob You know Bob I may be wrong about it being his Grandmother. Perhaps it was his Grandfather. Posted by: Noz | May 29, 2012, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm Perhaps when you actually figure it out, you can post something that isn't nonsense. “This is yet another stupid right wing lie.” – Bob

You know Bob I may be wrong about it being his Grandmother.
Perhaps it was his Grandfather.

Posted by: Noz | May 29, 2012, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Perhaps when you actually figure it out, you can post something that isn’t nonsense.

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By: djnfla http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26362281 djnfla Tue, 29 May 2012 20:38:51 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26362281 I think the Obama camp reeks of desperation. I think the Obama camp reeks of desperation.

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By: Noz http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26360571 Noz Tue, 29 May 2012 20:19:40 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26360571 "This is yet another stupid right wing lie." - Bob You know Bob I may be wrong about it being his Grandmother. Perhaps it was his Grandfather. “This is yet another stupid right wing lie.” – Bob

You know Bob I may be wrong about it being his Grandmother.
Perhaps it was his Grandfather.

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By: Bob http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26359921 Bob Tue, 29 May 2012 20:11:00 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26359921 Probably his Grandmother. She may have mistakenly thought Barry was born in Kenya. Posted by: Noz | May 29, 2012, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm This is yet another stupid right wing lie. Probably his Grandmother.
She may have mistakenly thought Barry was born in Kenya.

Posted by: Noz | May 29, 2012, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

This is yet another stupid right wing lie.

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By: Noz http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26359501 Noz Tue, 29 May 2012 20:04:28 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26359501 "Simple question. If Barack Obama didn’t furnish his literary agent with his biography,who did?" - A Hidell Probably his Grandmother. She may have mistakenly thought Barry was born in Kenya. “Simple question. If Barack Obama didn’t furnish his literary agent with his biography,who did?” – A Hidell

Probably his Grandmother.
She may have mistakenly thought Barry was born in Kenya.

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By: tork http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26356471 tork Tue, 29 May 2012 19:29:15 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26356471 "two big mucky-mucks" Do tell. I know dozens of people who have published books.... depending on the press.... their practices vary. In some cases, you are asked to furnish your own bio. But if there are high profile figures involved... and if the press (and/or publicist) is trying to get a book out of you... they are going to be more proactive about working up the surrounding materials. It's just a fact. “two big mucky-mucks”

Do tell.

I know dozens of people who have published books…. depending on the press…. their practices vary. In some cases, you are asked to furnish your own bio. But if there are high profile figures involved… and if the press (and/or publicist) is trying to get a book out of you… they are going to be more proactive about working up the surrounding materials. It’s just a fact.

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By: tork http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26356151 tork Tue, 29 May 2012 19:25:31 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26356151 "Why didn’t Obama correct the entry for many years? " Uh... I thought the book was never published. Why "correct" an error in something that isn't published? Obviously, the publisher had someone scrape together a bio in case the project went forward. What people don't know about the publishing industry is that they have people market their product.... the people who market the product are not the same people who wrote the book. Often, the marketing dept. puts together something that they think will look good.... but if the book never was published, then I don't know why the publisher would correct a press kit for a book they weren't selling.... Very strange that the birthers are fixated on this. Do you realize that it would require the state of Hawaii and the newspapers in Hawaii to have lied retroactively? This is a hard thing to accomplish. I know Obama's policies are always "unprecedented" and "outrageous".... but time travel is a stretch. “Why didn’t Obama correct the entry for many years? ”

Uh… I thought the book was never published. Why “correct” an error in something that isn’t published?

Obviously, the publisher had someone scrape together a bio in case the project went forward. What people don’t know about the publishing industry is that they have people market their product…. the people who market the product are not the same people who wrote the book. Often, the marketing dept. puts together something that they think will look good…. but if the book never was published, then I don’t know why the publisher would correct a press kit for a book they weren’t selling….

Very strange that the birthers are fixated on this. Do you realize that it would require the state of Hawaii and the newspapers in Hawaii to have lied retroactively? This is a hard thing to accomplish. I know Obama’s policies are always “unprecedented” and “outrageous”…. but time travel is a stretch.

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By: davem http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26356081 davem Tue, 29 May 2012 19:24:54 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26356081 If one looks objectively at history , a great many empires of the past were mortally weakened and eventually felled from within by ultra-conservatism / ultra-nationalism . Conservatism as practiced by US neo-conservatives from Reagan onwards has been and is currently a political exercise in stupidity , backwardness and repression all rolled up into a nasty disingenuous low-brow appealing package . FOX uses it's bullhorn to spout out "fair and balanced " news ( i.e. outrageous inflammatory bold -faced lies and sophist bred half-truths and red herrings ) to further dumb down / rile up the scapegoat hungry not-too-bright masses , who'd probably be better served watching Sesame St or Barney the Dinosaur . If one looks objectively at history , a great many empires of the past were mortally weakened and eventually felled from within by ultra-conservatism / ultra-nationalism . Conservatism as practiced by US neo-conservatives from Reagan onwards has been and is currently a political exercise in stupidity , backwardness and repression all rolled up into a nasty disingenuous low-brow appealing package . FOX uses it’s bullhorn to spout out “fair and balanced ” news ( i.e. outrageous inflammatory bold -faced lies and sophist bred half-truths and red herrings ) to further dumb down / rile up the scapegoat hungry not-too-bright masses , who’d probably be better served watching Sesame St or Barney the Dinosaur .

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By: Pete http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26355981 Pete Tue, 29 May 2012 19:24:16 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26355981 Obama published a bio about himself that said that he was born in Hawaii and his dad was not a Kenyan finance minister. Yet inexplicably for 20 years, the publisher carried a bio about Obama said the exact opposite his dad was a finance minister and he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. It was published in 1991 and only in 2007 did they take it down. It's just like Rev. Wright, despite profoundly disagreeing with Wright's philosophies and world view, Obama attended his church for 20 years until the election when he distanced himself from Rev. Wright. Obama is either a very slow learner or a very fast learner, I can't tell which, he's in a coma for twenty years and then snaps out of it instantly around election time. Obama published a bio about himself that said that he was born in Hawaii and his dad was not a Kenyan finance minister.

Yet inexplicably for 20 years, the publisher carried a bio about Obama said the exact opposite his dad was a finance minister and he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.

It was published in 1991 and only in 2007 did they take it down.

It’s just like Rev. Wright, despite profoundly disagreeing with Wright’s philosophies and world view, Obama attended his church for 20 years until the election when he distanced himself from Rev. Wright.

Obama is either a very slow learner or a very fast learner, I can’t tell which, he’s in a coma for twenty years and then snaps out of it instantly around election time.

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By: davem http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-video-knocks-romney-for-ties-to-birther-donald-trump/#comment-26353771 davem Tue, 29 May 2012 18:52:03 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=676011#comment-26353771 Being intellectually evolved requires a lot more than "advanced degrees" . The Germans of post ww1 were some of the most brilliant scientists and top intellectuals of the day , but a Nazi bred conservative mindset of ignorance and backwardness led to Germany's eventual downfall. They had the most brilliant physicists / scientist to be sure , but their ultra conservative / nationalistic ideologies ran too many of them away to America where some of the most brilliant ones started work on the Manhattan Project . The rest is old news. Being intellectually evolved requires a lot more than “advanced degrees” . The Germans of post ww1 were some of the most brilliant scientists and top intellectuals of the day , but a Nazi bred conservative mindset of ignorance and backwardness led to Germany’s eventual downfall. They had the most brilliant physicists / scientist to be sure , but their ultra conservative / nationalistic ideologies ran too many of them away to America where some of the most brilliant ones started work on the Manhattan Project . The rest is old news.

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