Former U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) is taking birtherism to a new extreme. Walberg, who's running for his old seat, said at a town hall event this week that President Obama could be impeached for not showing his birth certificate to a group of people including Rush Limbaugh.
Walberg: "Well, I'm going to take him at his word that he's an American citizen. I don't know why it's not resolved, other than the fact that the President hasn't resolved it yet... I mean, if I had to do it, I'd just simply -- of course, I had to show my birth certificate in order to be on the ballot. But if I were gonna do it, I'd call Rush Limbaugh, Alan Colmes, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and maybe one justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Call 'em all into a room and lay out my birth certificate on the table.
"And maybe it's for personal reasons. I don't want the numbers to be shown to the media or whatever else. But say, now all of you take a look at it. Tell me what you find. Now go and report it. Have it done with. . . . But the fact of the matter is that the Executive has an awful lot of power to keep from showing certain things unless the courts will stand up to him. Or unless Congress, in majority, will stand up -- up to and including impeachment. And the Republicans don't have the majority."
Walberg is in a close race in Michigan's 7th congressional district against U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek).
This was not Walberg's first brush with birtherism. In September, Walberg said on a Michigan radio call-in show that he "really didn't know" if Obama was a citizen. He later said he "took the president at his word" that he was.
Walberg's latest rant made MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olberman:
And The Ed Show:
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From my reading of this blog I would guess were there some question about Sarah Palin no matter how silly there would be an never ending quest to find out what she's hiding. As both Obama and Palin are politicians I don't think we should trust any of them at their word, why should we have to? Do they not work for us when they are in a political office? President Obama does not do himself any favors sealing his records since that will make any citizen wonder what are they hiding that needs to be sealed? Get it over and move on. Unseal those records while he's at it, there is no good reason we should not know everything about a man given so much power, in my opinion he's not using that power very well and judging by the elections a good portion of the country feels the same way.
And the state government of Hawaii stands behind it. And there are 2 old articles about his birth in the local newspapers. Did somebody maybe go back with a time machine and fix that as part of the great Obama hoax? Come on, people! Get real! If his birth certificate is not good enough, maybe yours isn't either. How can this utter crap keep coming up again and again?
The so called Obama Birth Certificate. Just a few “real” facts about the Obama Birth Certificate that so, so many of you believe to be the truth. It is not a Hawaiian Birth Certificate, the document shown by FactCheck.org is a Certification of Live Birth, which is a document with information either from the original Birth Certificate “or” given by a parent (or responsible person) to the Department of Health. This form can and has been issued to children who were not born in Hawaii, thus the name of the document “Certification of Live Birth”. I know that you “Believers” believe this is an official Birth Certificate, but sorry as it is not. An American could not even get a passport with this document, as that requirement you must have a “Birth Certificate” with the delivering hospital with its location, the doctor or midwife delivering the child with their signature, the parents signature or witness and of course the raised seal of the state health department where the birth was registered. Of these only the raised seal is on President’s Obama’s “Certification of Live Birth”.
I wonder what the true “Birth Certificate” really says. Is there some information that would be embarrassing to Mr. Obama. To all of those “Believers” this President said to the American people he would be transparent and open. Well??????
This has got to stop.
Are all Conservatives each other's "relatives" or something?....
1. Andrew Johnson (R) - for exceeding constitutional authority in the dismissing of Secretary of War Stanton
2. Richard Nixon (would have been) (R) - obstruction of justice and conspiracy
3. George W Bush (articles presented but never executed) (R) - abuse of power in the entering into and execution of the war on terror including illegal suspension of Habeus Corpus and torture.
and now the democrats
1. Bill Clinton (D) - lying about a hum hum
2. Barack Obama (D) - not presenting papers on demand
see any patterns here???
What's become obvious is that for teapods, no evidence can ever be provide that can change their programming. They believe only what their masters say.