Teabaggin' Tom Tancredo gives Obama marching orders: "Just show me your birth certificate!"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

During an appearance on the radio show of Fox News’ Alan Colmes, prominent tea party leader Tom Tancredo made it clear he believes President Obama may not be an American citizen, Think Progress reported.

The former GOP congressman responded to questions about a statement he gave to a group of tea partiers: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?”

Tancredo was referring to a speech by Michelle Obama in which she calls Kenya the president's "home country."

The following is a partial transcript from the interview:

COLMES: Do you really believe – you know he was born in Hawaii right?

TANCREDO: I have absolutely no idea where he was born.

COLMES: You’ve seen he was born in Hawaii; he was in two Hawaiian newspapers within two days of his birth.

TANCREDO: Anybody can put an article in a newspaper. Just show me your birth certificate!

Later in the interview, Tancredo suggested the Obama administration will not release the president's birth certificate as a ploy to cast tea partiers in a negative light.

TANCREDO: Now they very well not want to show it because they want to propagate this whole thing that’s going on about birthers. … They may be doing it for that reason; I don’t know why they don’t want anyone to see it. … They want it propagated because you know –

COLMES: It makes your party look nuts!

TANCREDO: Yeah well maybe that’s why they don’t produce document, I don’t know.

It doesn't look like the "birther" movement will dissipate any time soon. Americans who deny that the president is a natural-born citizen are preparing to march on the capital May 29 to voice their concerns.

A bill in Arizona, which would require the Arizona secretary of state to review and approve a presidential candidate's birth certificate before letting the candidate's name appear on the state ballot, still awaits approval from the state senate.

And U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth has been critical of the "birther bill" not because the president has already proved his citizenship, but because the bill doesn't go far enough. Hayworth said the bill should ensure that all politicians should be required to produce birth certificates, and not just presidential candidates.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0428/tea-party-leader-obama-hides-birth-cert-nuts/

[HopeHoops]

1. If Obama shows Tancredo anything, it should be his ASS!

Don't these fucking assholes have anything else to do?

[IndianaJoe]

2. Agreed. Tancredo's being obtusely and falsely skeptical.

His birth certificate is readily available to anyone for examination.

"In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake.

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said."

<http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html>

[monmouth]

8. Plus, and this is what really gets me, the birth announcement was

in two of HI's papers. I mean...really.

[rurallib]

9. 48 years ago a group hatched a plot to take over the United States

The first thing they had to do was to make sure the baby's ascendency to the most powerful position in the world 46 years hence would be legal. Therefore they dispatched a group to create the necessary documents that would prove the birth was in Hawaii, the state where such subterfuge could take place. A birth certificate was created and stories of the birth were planted by an insider at the local paper.

You don't think that could have happened?

[monmouth]

10. HA! I love it. My son was born the same day, same year..I'm miffed

that group didn't hatch this plan on the east coast...sigh. My kid is really nice, smart and cute too...LOL.

[CatWoman]

5. wish I could rec your post

:)

[TlalocW]

3. Quite the ego Tancredo has on him

As if he's the final authority and for some reason he's worthy of Obama taking time out of his busy schedule to prove something that's already been proven.

TlalocW

[Angry Dragon]

4. Perhaps it is time

for all politicians to take a test to prove they are not idiots

[VMI Dem]

6. What this guy is doing is dangerous. He is attempting to stir up the crazies.

The secret service needs to pay a visit to this jackass.

[601Liberal]

7. Maybe Tancredo should show his

After all, Tancredo doesn't sound American to me!