Arpaio: I'll Talk About Obama's Birth Certificate Again If I'm Elected Senator

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Nicole Lafond | March 27, 2018 1:59 pm

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate on a President Trump platform, campaigning on the President’s policies and conspiracy theories alike.

Arpaio, whom Trump pardoned for a contempt of court conviction last year, lamented last weekend that he would avoid talking about his “bitherism” theories, for now. But if he’s elected to the Senate, he vowed to raise the issue — of whether former President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen — again in full force.

“I don’t talk about it anymore, until I become a U.S. senator. … So I’m kind of dropping that right now,” he told a group gathered at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix last weekend, according to a video flagged by Right Wing Watch. “But I’m going to tell you something: 100 percent we proved that’s a fake document. One hundred.”

A Trump loyalist, Arpaio campaigned with the President in 2015 and 2016, and even helped propagate his and Trump’s conspiracy theory that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. He most recently told CNN in January that he has “no doubt” that Obama’s birth certificate isn’t real.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. But will anyone listen? NT

[mitch96]

20. I think with his advanced age......

He's getting fake news and old news mixed up... fucker..
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[Skittles]

2. I still hate the black man! Come hate with me!

racist piece of shit

[yurbud]

18. that about sums it up. Does hate feed your kids, give them good skills, or medical care?

Some people are so eaten up by racism they don't even notice that the wizard of their klan is picking their pocket.

[Skittles]

19. Lyndon Johnson

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[yurbud]

21. I didn't know that's where it originally came from!

[catrose]

3. Can't wait to see how many people vote for this toad

[Blue_Adept]

4. How can people not shout "STOP BEING A FUCKING MORON" when they're near him?

[PatSeg]

5. These people are certainly persistent

in their hate and racism. Arpaio will beat that dead horse right to his own grave.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. So clever of Obama to use a time machine

to print his birth announcement in a Hawaii paper.

[quartz007]

7. Arpaio, you are a racist criminal

You will be retired after your defeat in coming election.

[Vinca]

8. Hmmm . . . Arpaio . . . have we seen HIS birth certificate?

[christx30]

13. People that are ejected out of Hell

don't get birth certificates.

[Cha]

32. That's funny

[tanyev]

9. Yeah! Then they can finally impeach Obama and get this country back on track!

Yeehaw!

[7962]

24. Putting it that way, wouldn't heads just explode it turned out to be true??

Think about it; Pres Obama just comes out and says "Yep, I found out about my true birthplace years ago, but didnt see any reason to bring it up"
The RW talking heads may literally drop dead in their tracks from the shock. Because there'd be nothing they could do about it!

I'm of the opinion that even if he WERE born "in Kenya", he still would've been eligible as a US citizen child of a US citizen mother.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. DOESN'T THIS FOOL EVER SHUT UP? GUESS NOT. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Let's talk Joe,

you took a Pardon,well that is a Admission of Guilt. So you want us to believe you are above the US Constitution,you lying sack of Puss.

[rickford66]

12. Put Obama back in the WH so you can impeach him.

[Javaman]

14. that means we won't hear from this piece of shit ever again...

I don't think he will win.

[Mc Mike]

15. Even his savior, the dRumpfenfuhrer, had to drop this lie.

I guess the repugs never suffer a loss without going back to relitigate it again. Benghazi, Social Security, Slavery, Suffrage, Birtherism, etc.

[AZ Jim]

16. Hopefully he will be rejected

People here in Arizona love this crazy old bastard, I can only hope there are enough fellow Democrats to make sure he falls on his shriveled old dick in this effort.

[Blue_Tires]

17. Oh no! He might get Obama impeached!

[Sam McGee]

22. "When I'm elected Senator."

Never happen.

[Turbineguy]

23. It's a shame John Glenn is gone.

He could talk about how over a million of us faked the moon landings.

[Firestorm49]

25. Hmmmmm

Maybe nobody’s told this brainless idiot that Obama’s no longer the President, and the rest of the world has moved on. Classic dimentia by choice.

[benld74]

26. Youll talk about it at the home too

You’ll have no friends
NONE

[Civic Justice]

27. Just Wait

Just wait till his old decrepit ass gets to the Nursing Home, he will be thankful for every black person who works there....
Old Racist Bigots sometimes have to be broken down in life expanse to be forced to find grace. God and Time equalizes all !!!

[JDC]

28. These clowns have NOTHING! They just stir the pot of hate.

I gotta say, even the dumbest dumbass republicans are gonna' tire of this BS. It's all they have and it is pathetic and sad.

[samnsara]

29. because i wasnt crazy sounding enough the first time around...?

[yellowdogintexas]

30. guess I am going to have to send some $$ to Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat

Our only local Democratic Congressmen held a fundraiser for her here in Fort Worth.
Ironically I was in her district visiting my daughter at the time.

He thinks she is going to win.

I did not realize this until I started researching a potential move to the greater Phoenix area in the future, but I found out that of Arizona's 9 Congressional Districts, 4 are Democratic. I actually have a fair selection of areas to choose from in the Phoenix area and have a Democrat represent me in Congress. Phoenix has portions of 3 districts, and the 1st includes Flagstaff and a good portion of Tucson.

[dhill926]

31. Hmmm...must have missed that...

proved it's fake part.

[GeorgeHayduke]

33. Oh, gawd.

Next the contrails, then the 9/11 inside job and the Kennedy assassination and the faked moon landing and that damned "spherical Earth" crap and, while we're at it, that little fact that Copernicus established, that's B.S. too.

Seriously? I live part-time in Maricopa County and, frankly, the people I've known there really aren't that stoopid.

Edit to add: I thought that a presidential pardon only meant that you didn't suffer any physical consequences, but that he is, by virtue of his pardon, sitill a convicted felon and also by virtue of pardon, was considered to have pleaded or been found guilty?

And aren't convicted felons prohibited from holding office? Legal pros, debate the flaws in my understanding.

[Codeine]

34. There is no federal law that prevents

a felon from becoming a Senator. Some states have rules against felons holding public office, but I’m not sure those would apply to a federal position.

[malthaussen]

35. Seriously, why?

He can't make Mr Obama to have been Un-President for 8 years.

-- Mal