Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared on the Rusty Humphries Show yesterday and the topic turned to President Obama’s birth certificate. No really, it did.
From DailyKosTV:
HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.
HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?
PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went “Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid,” which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.
I just don’t get the strategy of attacking Obama’s nationality. It’s been established that he was indeed born in Hawaii, which I guess technically makes him as American as Ronald Reagan or Thomas Jefferson. I just don’t understand the idea of attacking Obama for something he has no control over. Like every other human on this planet, he didn’t choose where he was born.
I think Sarah Palin needs to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Does she want to be taken seriously as a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or does she want to be the leader of a fringe movement that questions Obama’s nationality? I don’t think she can be both.
