So 27 y/o US Rep. Aaron Shock (R-IL) flew on Air Force One w/Pres. Obama yet is still a birther. . .

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Is Aaron Schock a birther? Sounds like it to me …
By Billy Dennis on July 27th, 2009

Birther: Individuals promoting eligibility claims have been dubbed birthers, drawing a parallel with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, who have been nicknamed “truthers”. The movement has been widely criticized by mainstream conservatives. A few members of congress have proposed legislation to prevent future occurrences of such issues. — Wikipedia.

According to this video, Schock seems to be playing both sides of the street.

GOP Rep. Aaron Schock makes a cameo and seems to fall in the first camp. He initially tells Stark, “That’s a question he needs to answer, not me.” Schock goes on to say, “Well, he was my U.S. Senator. He said he was , so I believe he was.”

In one breath, Schock says there are unanswered questions about whether the current president of the United States is eligible for the office. In the very next, he “assumes” the president is eligible, which is hardly a denunciation of the birthers.

Schock is a smart man. Just ask his legions of supporters. If he thinks there is something iffy going on, I have to take it seriously.
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http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/07/27/is-aaron-schock-a-birther-sounds-like-it-to-me/comment-page-1/

Schock In The Birther Brigade?

by Josh Kalven on July 27, 2009 - 4:03pm

FireDogLake's Mike Stark posted a great video today featuring clips of himself chasing down Republican members of Congress and asking whether they think Barack Obama is eligible to hold the presidency. It comes in response to the ongoing "birther" conspiracy theory in right-wing ciricles, which rests on the premise that Obama was born in Africa -- rather than Hawaii -- and therefore is not a "natural born citizen." (Josh Marshall effectively skewered the whole "controversy" over the weekend.)

When confronted by Stark in the video, many Republican congressmen simply refuse to take a clear position on the issue and, in some cases, they seem to share the birthers' concerns. GOP Rep. Aaron Schock makes a cameo and seems to fall in the first camp. He initially tells Stark, "That's a question he needs to answer, not me." Schock goes on to say, "Well, he was my U.S. Senator. He said he was , so I believe he was."
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http://progressillinois.com/2009/7/27/schock-birther-brigade

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1. But was Air Force One actually built in the U.S.?

Sure, Boeing claims so. And it likely has documentation supporting that claim. But how do we really know?