"Not my job"

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So Boehner was on Meet the Press this weekend and was asked a series of question about Obama. He said that the facts show that he was born in the U.S. and he is a Christian. But, he says he will not rebuke GOP house members who perpetuate the claim otherwise, as recently occured with a new member. He also says he will not correct those who continue to argue or imply that Obama is not U.S. born or is a Muslim.

His explanation is that it his not his job to do that.

I find that rather cowardly. I think that if he knows its nonsense and that it is a pathetic attempt to de-legitimize Obama on false grounds, then it is exactly his job, as Speaker of the House and as the guy at the top of the GOP food chain, to decry it.
 
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It's not. It is the President's job to answer these type of questions. He brought it on his self.
 
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I thought the questioning was ridiculous - I watched it live and Gregory would not let it go.

Any number of nuts on either side perpetuate beliefs about opposition leaders yet this is the first time I can recall such questioning.
 
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Puts him between a rock and hard place. Side against the lunatic members of his party's base, or join their lunacy.
 
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It was a waste of 10-15% of a news segment with the Speaker of the House. Is this really a burning issue? Is this really what we want Boehner to spend his time on. It's a manufactured controversy.
 
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volinbham said:
It was a waste of 10-15% of a news segment with the Speaker of the House. Is this really a burning issue? Is this really what we want Boehner to spend his time on. It's a manufactured controversy.
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My thing is, would they have asked the same of the President, with whom the controversy actually concerns? Of course not, it'd be a waste of his time. So why isn't it the same with the speaker of the house? Political undertones to even asking that question, in that way. It's a toxic issue for anyone that touches it in Washington.
 
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lawgator1 said:
So Boehner was on Meet the Press this weekend and was asked a series of question about Obama. He said that the facts show that he was born in the U.S. and he is a Christian. But, he says he will not rebuke GOP house members who perpetuate the claim otherwise, as recently occured with a new member. He also says he will not correct those who continue to argue or imply that Obama is not U.S. born or is a Muslim.

His explanation is that it his not his job to do that.

I find that rather cowardly. I think that if he knows its nonsense and that it is a pathetic attempt to de-legitimize Obama on false grounds, then it is exactly his job, as Speaker of the House and as the guy at the top of the GOP food chain, to decry it.
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For once I agree with you on this one. If there is injustice or wrong doing going on, he needs to man up and defend what is right or attack those that are in the wrong. He can't sit on the fence. That is the problem now with the GOP leadership... not enough of them take stands on what is right. He should either s**t or get off the pot. Either he sees an injustice and chooses to ignore it or he quietly defends their actions. He can't wuss out and try to straddle the fence.

And by the way, the reason why Obama does not want his birth certificate to surface, imo, is for one of two reasons:

1. There is a question of paternity between Barack Obama Sr. and Frank Marshall Davis

2. His birth certificate says "white" as his race
 
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volinbham said:
It was a waste of 10-15% of a news segment with the Speaker of the House. Is this really a burning issue? Is this really what we want Boehner to spend his time on. It's a manufactured controversy.
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Disagree. We are talking about the president and the leader of what should be the loyal opposition. Win the debate on policy and ideas, or go home. But don't win by turning a blind eye to people saying really sinister things which, in your own estimation, are not true.

What Gregory is getting at is that the GOP leadership say they don't believe there is anything to it, but are willing to proft from it politically. This is an absolutely correct assessment and it relfects VERY poorly on the Speaker and his party's loyalty to the country.
 
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How many times did the last speaker make it her job?
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lawgator1 said:
Disagree. We are talking about the president and the leader of what should be the loyal opposition. Win the debate on policy and ideas, or go home. But don't win by turning a blind eye to people saying really sinister things which, in your own estimation, are not true.

What Gregory is getting at is that the GOP leadership say they don't believe there is anything to it, but are willing to proft from it politically. This is an absolutely correct assessment and it relfects VERY poorly on the Speaker and his party's loyalty to the country.
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It's like asking him to comment on whether 9/11 was an inside job. It gives validity to it just by addressing it. It's the reason why Obama himself doesn't acknowledge it.
 
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utvolpj said:
How many times did the last speaker make it her job?
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Can't recall any similar accusation being made against Bush. The only thing even in the same universe was the argument about the Florida recount and that was a valid debate that eventually faded.



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It's like asking him to comment on whether 9/11 was an inside job. It gives validity to it just by addressing it. It's the reason why Obama himself doesn't acknowledge it.
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No. I remember McCain stopping that old lady who claimed Obama was "a A-rab" and he shut that down. Gained a ton of credibility from many when he had the cajones to put the kibosh on the nonsense.

Boehner says he thinks it has no merit but he won't defend his position under the guise that its not his job when it absolutely should be his job to keep the record straight and advance the truth, as he sees it. And that is that Obama was born in the US and is Christian, not Muslim.
 
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Oh please. The old lady said it to McCain directly. This was a political trap brought by a reporter. He said it had no merit. Get off his case.
 
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President Obama said Sunday he will listen to
GOP ideas to improve health care reform. He
desperately wants consensus. Yesterday
President Obama said he's willing to meet the
Republicans halfway on the issue of his
birthplace and agree he was born in Casablanca.

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During his interview with Bill O'Reilly, President
Obama said there was "nothing socialist" about
his health care law. Ok, sure... trouble is, there's
nothing constitutional about it, either.

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President Obama is giving a speech in Michigan
on Thursday which is billed as being "open to
the public by invitation only." I guess that
makes sense, considering his idea of health
care reform was to create government-controlled
free markets.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Can't recall any similar accusation being made against Bush. The only thing even in the same universe was the argument about the Florida recount and that was a valid debate that eventually faded.
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not surprising

and who are the members saying he is a Muslim? Do these people answer to Boehner (making it his job) or to the people that elected them?
 
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"I am fortunate to be born American, and I have the birth certificate to prove it," Labrador said at a speech at the opening session of this weekend's conservative gathering in Washington.
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that's it? Seriously?

look at this part

who was born in Puerto Rico
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think there's a reason he may have said that? Nah

I suppose the innocent comments from people like Murtha and Kerry deserved no such reprimand? Oh wait, they didn't take a shot at the Savior

this is so very weak (even for you)
 
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I don't believe Raul Rafael Labrador was born in the United States.
 
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lawgator1 said:
So Boehner was on Meet the Press this weekend and was asked a series of question about Obama. He said that the facts show that he was born in the U.S. and he is a Christian. But, he says he will not rebuke GOP house members who perpetuate the claim otherwise, as recently occured with a new member. He also says he will not correct those who continue to argue or imply that Obama is not U.S. born or is a Muslim.

His explanation is that it his not his job to do that.

I find that rather cowardly. I think that if he knows its nonsense and that it is a pathetic attempt to de-legitimize Obama on false grounds, then it is exactly his job, as Speaker of the House and as the guy at the top of the GOP food chain, to decry it.
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Still waiting for this B.C. that supposedly exist that would make it false grounds. Last one that got produced was a fake. Show me this B.C. and I'll admit it's false grounds.
 
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