Rush Limbaugh leads charge on Obama birth certificate again
By: Patrick Roberts | Published Thursday, January 27, 2011, 10:55 AM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 10:03 PM

Just when you thought American politics was getting back to some real bipartisanship and progress...
Rush Limbaugh among others is calling again for Obama to produce the long form of his birth certificate to prove he was born an American.
The right wing web was aflame yesterday with stories that Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie had not found the version of Obama's birth certificate , though Abercrombie himself had said nothing on the topic.
It is the kind of issue that will doom Republicans in 2012, a relentless drumbeat of lies, speculation and pure fantasy.
Back in the Clinton era it was who killed Vince Foster, a tragic figure who committed suicide.
Clinton used those crazy tactics to forge two successful runs at the presidency.
Obama should do the same now, corral these conspiracy theorists especially Rush Limbaugh, as the intolerant face of the Republican Party as he heads into election 21012.
The drum roll of verbal diarrhea from Limbaugh is nothing new of course, the four times married, prescription pain killer drug addled paragon of perfection presumes to lecture all Americans on morality and proper behavior.
It is a sad reflection that after the Gabbie Giffords shooting that he and his fellow pundits are back beating this dead horse one more time.
Shouldn't we all just move on?
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.americanfighter | Mar 30, 2011, 01:09 AM EDT
I like Rush. He tells it like it is. I am not affiliated with any party at this time. I'm for ridding this country of all of them. Barry Soetoro Hussein, as we are finding out, is a LIAR like a certain congressman stated. He is way worse then that. The person was ramradded into power. Yes, he is a good speaker. But, he is also a faker, taker, racist, non American and not a good person. Of course, this is my opinion. For now I can have an opinion. If Barry stays much longer we won't have that right. He and his band of idiots. Yes, that's what they are, should be run out of the country on a rail. Liars, cheaters, thieves and just horrible people. Your president is a woosy. Concerned AMERICAN, LV
Prevailer | Feb 20, 2011, 01:35 PM EST
Again class! Rush-limb-ball propagates slurs to keep higher ratings. YOY? Answer: Entertainment is Big money for Big lies in any economy...it makes millions for the theater of faux facts. It works.
Advocate | Feb 15, 2011, 11:05 AM EST
IF YOU had graduateing certificates from Colimbia & Harvard, they be proudly hung on your office wall, just like your Doctor or Lawyer. If someone brought up your birch certificate, it'd be simple to show the dumb thing. So why is is Insaine Hussein allows the issue be be dragged into several lawsuits? Why has NO-ONE seen his school records, Ever? Something is terribly amiss here Folks! His Zionist, Socialist Handlers and Puppet-Masters need to maintain solid control of our demise to ensure success for their One-World Odrer, coming very soom!
ripley838 | Feb 06, 2011, 11:23 AM EST
No one questioned whether John McCain was born in the United States during the 2008 election ( He wasn't, he was born in the Panama Canal Zone), and I haven't seen Rush Limbaugh"s Birth certificate yet.
simplesandy | Feb 02, 2011, 12:19 PM EST
oh sorry one more thing ...if you are not from America and make your comments don't forget your gov. is not that great either ...I have lived on both sides of the world and every country is having problems with their gov.be careful throwing stones when you live in glass houses..
simplesandy | Feb 02, 2011, 12:16 PM EST
joanneellen...scary stuff... also vince foster was hilerys lover and she had him kiled...made it look like he killed himself.. as for the birth cert.....1. why doesnt obama just get one of his cia workers to produce a fake one or better still keep telling the people who pay you to run the country that it is none of their buisness...that should get em wondering ..I don't trust anyone ..
CitizenWhy | Feb 01, 2011, 04:48 AM EST
Part of the sad pathology of US politics is the attempt to claim that constitutionally elected Presidents are not constitutionally legitimate. The right did this with Clinton, the left with Bush II, and the most extreme kooks are doing this with Obama.
CitizenWhy | Feb 01, 2011, 04:46 AM EST
Ha, under the new Republican governor in Hawaii the state plans to raise revenue by charging $100 to all the right wingers demanding a copy of Obama's birth certificate. Ireland should follow this example and claim he was born in Ireland, charging 200 Euros to get a copy of his birth certificate. ... By the way, the Republican governor of Hawaii DID find Obama's birth certificate in the state archives, not at the hospital where he was born, since Hawaii hospitals transfer birth records to the state archives and do not keep any records of their own. Finding Obama' birth certificate is OLD news, and any claim that the Republican governor could not find the document is either carelessness or a deliberate lie.
PhlutiePhan | Jan 30, 2011, 12:20 PM EST
I forgot all about "Vinnie". He may have committed suicide. However, there is no doubt that the body was moved to a jurisdiction (Park Service) where it could be "swept under the run". I personally don't see the relevance of Obama being born in Kenya. McCain was born in Panama. However, it is the coverup aspects that are highly irrelevant just as the coverup of the true circumstances of the death of Vince Foster who happened to be very religious, by the way.
MarthaEllen | Jan 29, 2011, 11:44 AM EST
This is just so silly. Produce the long form birth certificate and it becomes a dead issue. The Republicans are falling for a Democrat ruse, and don't the Dems just love this.
jamieLM | Jan 29, 2011, 09:56 AM EST
Anyone would be able to get a copy of Obama's birth cert. for a $100.00 fee under a bill introduced in the Hawaii state legislature that backers hope will dispel claims he was born elsewhere. The fee would help to raise money for the govt. which has a budget deficit. Evidently, Hawaiian officials have something to sell - Obama's birth record.
maloney | Jan 28, 2011, 09:49 PM EST
seagreen..whether obama is legal or not you way overestimate the CIA & other of our beloved intelligence agencies for their abilities & motives.
frankleybarney | Jan 28, 2011, 09:25 PM EST
Rush mush, show me the money, get this thing over with, produce the long form and show Pres Obama is citizen of USA, and not Kenya!
seagreen | Jan 28, 2011, 07:45 PM EST
Rush, has the cyst on your ### that kept you out of the draft cleared up yet. So many draft dodgers, so little memory..... The CIA and NSA know more about Obama than he does, If he was not born in the US, He would never have gotten past candidate status. Presidents cannot bother answering every yahoo wearing a pair of doubleknit pants and driving 1997 parlor car. He was president of the Hrvard Law Revue, but nobody knows him. Why don't you guys finish your checkout counter literature, and get out of the house once in a while
Scrivner | Jan 28, 2011, 05:44 PM EST
The American peole are so used to seeing their jobs outsourced that they are no longer shocked if the job of President is too.
seanomelbourne | Jan 28, 2011, 04:51 PM EST
The middle of road fascist Limbaugh is rummaging around the dirt in the pig pen(where he belongs).
joanneellen | Jan 28, 2011, 04:26 PM EST
When Obama was answering a reporter's comment about his train trip across some states during his campaign for President, he responded with a reference to the beautiful "55 -- no 57 states" we have (the U.S. has 50 states). No one in his graduating law year remembers him as a student. And we're worried about his birth certificate? DUH!
Getlin2 | Jan 28, 2011, 12:51 PM EST
It is not just the birth certificate. He has never release his college records. Who paid for Columbia and Harvard. He graduated without any student loans. Who paid for his trip to Pakistan in 1981 and why go there. We know les about him than any oher President in history. WHAT HAS HE GOT TO HIDE?
LinLinisme | Jan 28, 2011, 12:46 PM EST
Go for it, Rush,, We want to see the truth,,,the truth should knock him out of office...please don't kill me for saying this
John G. Hogan | Jan 28, 2011, 12:42 PM EST
Patrick, who better than Rush.........that nice oldermann???
John G. Hogan | Jan 28, 2011, 12:25 PM EST
I have to show my BC when requested......why won't he??? What is he afraid of??? That he was born in Kenya.......that he became a citizen of Indonesia in order to travel to Pakistan.........that he changed his name to Barry Soetoro.........that he applied and attended colleges and law school differently than as an American citizen.
Parents | Jan 28, 2011, 10:19 AM EST
Well Rush obviously has too much time and too little brain matter to operate with....looking like a sad figure.
eiriamach | Jan 28, 2011, 09:55 AM EST
Obama's birth cert IS public. You can find it on FactCheck.org in several.JPG files. You can also find briefs from the various law cases filed by the birthers, investigations of their claims, and reasons for dismissals of their cases. You can find on-line copies of the forged Kenyan cert, along with a list of the forger's obvious mistakes. It's a done deal; he's a natural-born citizen! Refusing to move on in the face of incontrovertible evidence is fanaticism.
bogsidebunny | Jan 28, 2011, 02:11 AM EST
Obama's hiding the fact he was born in Malaysia, and he's a Muslim!
aguyinarizona | Jan 28, 2011, 01:19 AM EST
It is rather hard to "move on" regarding this topic when such poorly written pieces such as this continue to appear spreading more misinformation. The new governor of Hawaii is the person who really renewed this lastest round of a battle that could be won easily by Mr. Obama. He simply has to produce his actual birth certificate and poooof.. Away goes the battle and the right wingers go home with egg on their faces. Civiity? It seems to me that there is real hate behind that sentence you've spent hours hammering out attacking Mr. Libaugh on a personal basis. Let's loook at this story as journalists. Whomever breaks the story one way or other will have broken the story of the century. I think we can agree on that. So, if a journalist has "seen" the official birth certificate we can expect that he/she would have broken the story. And, we do have such a person. Bill O'Reilly has said on the air that he has "seen" the birth certificate. Perhaps rather than jumping all over Mr. Limbaugh, you should demand that Bill O'Reill looks out for us by telling us when and where he saw the birth certificate. And since he has an interview coming up with Mr. Obama, perhaps you should urge him to ask the question so many have been asking for so long. "Where's the birth certificate?" Thanks for asking for my opinion.
maloney | Jan 27, 2011, 09:46 PM EST
I didn't run or get elected for Potus. It is the law that you MUST be a American citizen born in America To become Potus. There has been millions spent keeping documents hidden from the American people. It doesn't matter if you are Dem. or Repub. or the man in the moon the law is the law. olovely, if you can't understand that your dumber than you look, nitwit. If things were reversed & we had a conservative President who refused to produce any & every document from the day of his birth on, you & your ilk would be rioting in the streets. The double standard of liberal do as I say not as I do will eventually come back to haunt you. You need to stop beating your wife & drink alot more.
olovely | Jan 27, 2011, 09:04 PM EST
maloney you need to stop beating your wife and getting drunk before you post. all you have to do is just produce your birth certificate to prove you are who you say you are. why don't you? what are you afraid of? i'm just saying. some have said you're not irish. i have never seen proof to contradict that claim.
johninlongmont | Jan 27, 2011, 08:57 PM EST
you need to check your facts...Abercrombie has said quite a bit...he said it was to be his "top priority" to "torpedo the birthers" by finding and releasing proof obama was born in Hawaii...then after his investigation he said he actually found "something written down" but not a birth certificate...then he told his best friend Mike Evans that he had searched, but there is no birth certificate
McNamara31 | Jan 27, 2011, 06:57 PM EST
Rush makes a living selling smear, hate and division. That's why three women couldn't bear to stay and we will see how long number four will last. Obama is self made man, married to his one and only wife, and a great father. You may disagree from a political perspective, but when it comes to character, Rush is not worthy to shine Obama's shoes.
SeamusI | Jan 27, 2011, 06:31 PM EST
It seems The President would produce the correct document and put this all to rest. The fact that he has not makes one assume he does not have the document. That being the case he is a a farce, a liar and not the president of the USA.
eiriamach | Jan 27, 2011, 04:07 PM EST
Obama should not produce his birth certificate because this temper tantrum is not about a piece of paper. It's about the fact that Hush Bimbaugh and the Birthers have a desperate need for a great American "leader" and, at the same time, they cannot identify with an African American in a leadership position. Hence this silly obsession with birth certificates.
McNamara31 | Jan 27, 2011, 03:52 PM EST
Patrick, Some of the prior posts mention the Mr. Lucas Daniel Smith, the man who "provided" the so called Obama birth certificate. Smith, who when googled has a"rap" sheet including: Attempting to sell Organs, for profit.Also many reports by The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City)including, 1997 charged for assault for allegedly throwing hot cooking grease on four people including two young children. Also, Smith, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft and was accused of passing several checks totaling more than $1,000 between 1999, and Jan.2000, after opening a checking account with "False Identification." Also, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - 2000, Action has been taken on the felony cases of: Lucas D. Smith , 20, of Cedar Rapids, who was cited for violation of terms of a deferred judgment received in May 1998 on a charge of "Forgery". Smith was judged guilty. Would love for IC to do a full story and get to the bottom of the story on Smith.
maloney | Jan 27, 2011, 02:38 PM EST
All obama would have to do to put Rush in his place is produce the birth certificate. Why doesn't he? Just saying.
mamaginnty | Jan 27, 2011, 02:34 PM EST
Well said McSpartacus, does it really matter where he was born, it's so Black and White.
CitizenWhy | Jan 27, 2011, 12:40 PM EST
Obama's Hawii birth certificate has been publicly scrutinized many times. To claim he was born outside the US is is either deliberate lying or aggressive ignorance, the active pursuit of not knowing.
McNabb1966 | Jan 27, 2011, 12:29 PM EST
"Shouldn't we all must move on?" LMAO! You first, Patsy.
olovely | Jan 27, 2011, 12:28 PM EST
When a bunch of elderly white male conservatives inspire a lynch mob of fringe extremists to promote this tale of racism and lies they rob America of its dignity.
NOBAMA2012 | Jan 27, 2011, 10:26 AM EST
No, Mr. Roberts, we "shouldn't just all move on"... We have a Constitution in this country and Mr. Obama needs to abide by the laws of this country just like all the rest of us...now either he has an American Birth Certificate or he doesn't. But either way, he needs to "man up!" No one spends MILLIONS fighting numerous lawsuits in numerous states when a simple $12.50 ORIGINAL LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE would suffice... You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Mr. Obama is hiding something... In the meantime, Mr. Roberts, with all the problems you have in your country, I suggest you MYOB! Slainte!
jamieLM | Jan 27, 2011, 09:48 AM EST
Even if a legal birth certificate from Hawaii for Obama was shown to the whole world, Limbaugh would claim it was a fake. If these so-called "investigators" have legitimate, solid evidence (a non-U.S. legal birth cetif. for Obama), they should produce it or shut up. Obama has been POTUS for 2 yrs. of his 4 yr. term. Americans, "consider the source" and, yes, let's move on.
Chico2001 | Jan 27, 2011, 09:45 AM EST
"The right wing web was aflame yesterday with stories that Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie had not found the version of Obama's birth certificate ,though Abercrombie himself had said nothing on the topic." What are you talking about in this misspelled screed? Abercrombe is the one who raised the birth certificate issue. Since, they said it can't be released -- meaning it hasn't been -- until Obama consents. Then they said they couldn't find it. All Rush has said is beware, because something is fishy. As for mocking both Obama and the so-called birthers, that's no less than any other political commentator would do with a president who refuses to release such information and the rabble it's rousing. But hey, you get more people to read your column by putting Rush Limbaugh in the headline. Oh, by the way, it's "Gabby" Giffords, not "Gabbie,' and you have a ton of other spelling errors and typoes. How about you move on from all the mocking and sniveling nastiness. You could at least, if you're going to mention Rush's addiction to prescription medicine, mention Obama's use of crack cocaine. It's in his book. Oops. You don't read, clearly.
bsteadman | Jan 27, 2011, 09:27 AM EST
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961 at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya and not in Hawaii as he claims. This may explain why he refuses to allow Hawaii to release of a long-form copy of his birth certificate. A high resolution copy of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate is available for free download at WasObamaBornInKenya.com The fascinating story of how Lucas Daniel Smith obtained a certified copy of Obama's birth certificate directly from the birth hospital on February 19, 2009 is included as part of his 'July 4, 2010 Letter to Congress', which is also available for free download at the same website.
Peterson2012 | Jan 27, 2011, 08:05 AM EST
No, Mr. Roberts, we shouldn't. I've seen too much evidence from a number of investigators which all report he was not born in Hawaii. It's not political. It's the law. If it wasn't an issue, people wouldn't continue making it an issue.
McSpartacus | Jan 27, 2011, 07:25 AM EST
I'm fed up with this nonsense. We all know he was born in Offaly.