Who started the anti-Obama birther movement??? Like perky Katie Couric YOU may be surprised!!!

[healthmyths]

The left-wing anchor, who is now perched at a place called Yahoo!, introduced Cruz as a historic candidate — potentially the first American president to be born in Canada.

The look on Couric’s smug face when he correctly reminded her that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 that birthed the anti-Obama Birther movement, is priceless.

Katie Couric interviews Ted Cruz

 

[healthmyths]

The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. …

The original smear against Obama was that he was a crypto-Muslim, floated in 2004 by perennial Illinois political candidate and serial litigant Andy Martin. Other related versions of this theory alleged that Obama was educated in an Indonesian “madrassa” or steeped in Islamist ideology from a young age, and the theories began to spread virally after Obama appeared on the national stage – to the casual observer, from nowhere – with his early 2007 presidential campaign. …

Then, as Obama marched toward the presidency, a new suggestion emerged: That he was not eligible to serve.

That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.

 

[TheOldSchool]

 

[konradv]

The left-wing anchor, who is now perched at a place called Yahoo!, introduced Cruz as a historic candidate — potentially the first American president to be born in Canada. The look on Couric’s smug face when he correctly reminded her that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 that birthed the anti-Obama Birther movement, is priceless.

Old news that may have been floated by some Dems, but then dropped when proven to be false. The real story is that some wingnuts are still grasping at straws to keep it in the news.

 

[pwjohn]

I wouldn't mind nailing Couric.

 

[rdean]

Democrats were too smart to fall for that. You have to be really, really stupid to believe such nonsense.

Oh,

Oops,

Sorry.

 

[Porker]

And the only damn thing she was correct about.

 

[pwjohn]

Forgotten Truth Hillary Clinton Mother of Birther Movement

Barack Obama's eligibilty was first brought to the fore by lawyers acting on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008
Forgotten Truth: Hillary Clinton Mother of ‘Birther’ Movement!

Barack Obama's eligibilty was first brought to the fore by lawyers acting on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008
Forgotten Truth: Hillary Clinton Mother of ‘Birther’ Movement!

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By John Lillpop -- Bio and Archives April 23, 2010
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Nearly all liberals, as well as a few misguided conservatives, have sought to dismiss the “birther” movement as the product of right-wing retards barking up the wrong tree.

However, the entire issue of Barack Obama’s eligibility was first brought to the fore by lawyers acting on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008.

Specifically, Phil J. Berg, hardly a member of any vast right wing conspiracy, was an ardent supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and her candidacy for the presidency.

Notwithstanding his liberal pedigree, Phil J. Berg was hot on the trail of one Barack Obama, because Berg wished to protect the American people from electing a non-citizen to the most powerful office in the world.

In August 2008, before Obama was officially nominated by the Democrat party, Mr. Berg filed a legal challenge to Obama’s constitutional eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.

On October 23, Mr. Berg filed a Motion to Expedite Resolution of Berg V. Obama, summarized directly below:
” This motion argues that the facts have been established that Barack Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be elected or serve as President of the United States, and that the Court should issue a summary judgment as follows:

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  • That Barack Hussein Obama a/k/a Barry Hussein Obama a/k/a Barack Dunham a/k/a Barry Dunham a/k/a Barack Soetoro a/k/a Barry Soetoro is not a “natural born” or “naturalized” United States citizen.
  • That he is ineligible to run for and/or serve as President of the United States.
  • That the Democratic National Committee be enjoined from naming Barack Hussein Obama, et al as the Democratic Presidential Candidate on the ballot.
  • That the Democratic National Committee and Barack Hussein Obama, et al are enjoined from any further campaigning on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama, et al for Office of the Presidency.
  • That Barack Hussein Obama’s, et al name be removed from any and all ballots for the Office of the President of the United States.”

There you go! The inconvenient truth is as follows: Hillary Clinton is the mother of all birthers!

True enough

 

[pwjohn]

And that's it?

 

[BULLDOG]

It took the crazy right wing to turn one dumb question into an entire industry. Imagine what they could do if they concentrated on something rational. Blaming Hillary for the extremes they have taken this to is like blaming the present DNC for behavior of those who started the KKK.

 

[gtopa1]

Hillary played the race card...and it bit her on her fat ass!!......or so one who was a little less charitable than myself might say.

Greg

 

[healthmyths]

Democrats were too smart to fall for that. You have to be really, really stupid to believe such nonsense.

Oh,

Oops,

Sorry.

And obviously Couric being a Democrat was too smart to fall for Obama birther BUT was really ready to catch Cruz!

 

[Obiwan]

Democrats were too smart to fall for that. You have to be really, really stupid to believe such nonsense.

Oh,

Oops,

Sorry.

Thanks for admitting somebody has to be really stupid to believe Hillary...


But it happens...

 

[edthecynic]

The left-wing anchor, who is now perched at a place called Yahoo!, introduced Cruz as a historic candidate — potentially the first American president to be born in Canada.

The look on Couric’s smug face when he correctly reminded her that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 that birthed the anti-Obama Birther movement, is priceless.

Katie Couric interviews Ted Cruz

How many times are you liars going to parrot this lie?
Everybody knows the Freepers at freerepublic started the rumor.

 

[HenryBHough]

If Hillary indeed was the mother of the birther movement who are you going to blame for fathering it? Was Wade Hubble THAT busy a little beaver too?

 

[amrchaos]

Which matters more?

The person that started the lie?
Or the fools that insist it is truth?

 

[HenryBHough]

Which matters more?

The person that started the lie?
Or the fools that insist it is truth?

You do realize you just admitted to a belief that Hillary lied.

That could cost you your "Democrat People's Hero" star......

 

[Obiwan]

How many times are you liars going to parrot this lie?
Everybody knows the Freepers at freerepublic started the rumor.

The Democratic Roots of the Birther Movement - Businessweek

At its root, birtherism is the extreme manifestation of the belief that Obama is, by virtue of his race, name, and background, something other than fully American. The power of this idea, odious though it is, can be glimpsed in the wide swath of people who say they believe that Obama was not born in the U.S.—51 percent of likely Republican voters, according to a Public Policy Polling survey last year.

The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election—and to Democrats. Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it. In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,” he wrote. “Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”

The actual memo is here...

Penn Strategy Memo March 19 2007 - The Atlantic

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i originally thought it was that hamster stuart that started the birther debacle.

 

[edthecynic]

How many times are you liars going to parrot this lie?
Everybody knows the Freepers at freerepublic started the rumor.

The Democratic Roots of the Birther Movement - Businessweek

At its root, birtherism is the extreme manifestation of the belief that Obama is, by virtue of his race, name, and background, something other than fully American. The power of this idea, odious though it is, can be glimpsed in the wide swath of people who say they believe that Obama was not born in the U.S.—51 percent of likely Republican voters, according to a Public Policy Polling survey last year.

The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election—and to Democrats. Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it. In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,” he wrote. “Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”

The actual memo is here...

Penn Strategy Memo March 19 2007 - The Atlantic

So the memo says nothing about Obama not being born in America just his international upbringing, but even if it did the memo is dated March 19, 2007 and the freepers post is dated March 1, 2007.