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Obama Still Trying to Get Mileage Out of Birtherism

By Joseph Lawler on 6.2.11 @ 10:25AM

Add an excuse for his lack of leadership to mugs and t-shirts on the list of things Obama is peddling using the birther controversy. At yesterday's media-free meeting with House Republicans to discuss the debt, Obama dodged a challenge from Paul Ryan using a laundry list of complaints:

Rep. Paul D. Ryan, architect of a Medicare overhaul aimed at slashing the cost of the popular entitlement program by reducing the government's open-ended commitment to seniors, accused Obama of "mis-describing" his plan and implored the president to ease up on the "demagoguery."

In reply, Obama said he was no stranger to cartoonish depictions, reeling off a list of conservatives' favorite attack points: "I'm the death-panel-supporting, socialist, may-not-have-been-born-here president," Obama said, according to people familiar with his remarks.

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Rick V.| 6.2.11 @ 10:41AM

Although intended as satire, this is the first honest thing Obama's said since he was elected.

9th ID| 6.2.11 @ 10:58AM

For the first time in memory I have to agree with Obama...

Minuteman| 6.2.11 @ 12:34PM

He left out "Jug Eared Fool."

Wayne | 6.2.11 @ 11:02AM

The most childish president this country has ever had. He can't rise above any perceived insult from anywhere. He has no leadership capacity to draw any form of compromise solutions and the GOP should just quit trying. Just pass the bills in the House and either let the Senate reject it or Obama veto it and let them rant. They will anyway.

Robert| 6.2.11 @ 11:49AM

Finally, Obama tells the truth.

vitadMD| 6.2.11 @ 12:41PM

The document they call the birth certificate was put out with the specific intention of keeping the game going... Urge everyone to take a good look at it and note the signature of the local registrar: U.K.LaLee. this is a real name? This is a farce.

PattyMor| 6.2.11 @ 2:25PM

Obama is a mean, vindictive, evil, lying piece of Leftist dung. He has sold us to the highest bidder, whether its granting of largess to croney capitalists (really fascism), Islamists, or Communists and George Soros.

Controse| 6.2.11 @ 3:25PM

Ah power of language. Dismiss us by calling us birthers and bingo you don't have to think about the implications of the truth we bring. Come out you anti-birthers. You can't hide under the covers of cowardliness too much longer. The president is toast. He has committed his reputation for truthfulness to an obvious forgery.