Rep. King Goes Birther: Suggests Obama’s Parents Telegrammed Hawaii Birth Announcement From Kenya [View all]

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Think Progress



Try as they may, Republicans just can’t seem to kick their birther habit.

The latest GOPer to dabble in the ridiculous fantasy that President Obama wasn’t actually born in the United States: Rep. Steve King (R-IA).

During a tele-townhall meeting late last week, King was asked about his views on whether President Obama is a natural-born American citizen. The Iowa Congressman noted that his staff had investigated the matter and found birth announcements in the two Hawaii newspapers the week after Obama’s birth. However, King went on to float the absurd notion that his parents “might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya.”

KING: We went down into the Library of Congress and we found a microfiche there of two newspapers in Hawaii each of which had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries and that microfiche they keep of all the newspapers published. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list goes on. But drilling into that now, even if we could get a definitive answer and even if it turned out that Barack Obama was conclusively not born in America, I don’t think we could get that case sold between now and November.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/01/619371/steve-king-birther/?mobile=nc

---

Once again, the fact that the GOP has become controlled by escaped mental patients is on full display.
Look for Mitt Romney and the GOP leadership to condemn these racist attacks a week from never.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6lfIBTeo0lU