Palin Praises Trump’s Birther Probe
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 11th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
Palin Praises Trump’s Birther Probe
Sarah Palin lauded Donald Trump’s efforts to raise doubts about President Obama’s citizenship in a Fox News interview.
Said Palin: “More power to him. He’s not just throwing stones, you know — from the sidelines. He’s digging in there. He’s paying for researchers to know why President Obama would have spent $2 million to not show his birth certificate. So more power to him.”
She added: “I think he was born in Hawaii because there was the birth announcement put in the newspaper. But obviously, if there’s something there that the president doesn’t want people to see on that birth certificate, then he seems to go to great lengths to make sure it isn’t shown, and that’s kind of perplexing for a lot of people.”
Obama Takes Back Chicago
President Obama’s “relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other,” notes the AP, but “That looks like it’s about to change.”
“Obama is returning to his roots as he embarks on his re-election race for 2012… The president is putting Chicago in the spotlight again as he tries to recreate the grass-roots, start-up flavor of his first campaign and do what no incumbent president has done in decades: try to win re-election from a location outside Washington… Obama’s advisers hope a Chicago location could insulate his campaign from some of the Washington chatter and news leaks that often plague campaigns.”
What Boehner Gains from the Budget Deal
Roll Call takes a look at what House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has gained from the 2012 budget compromise. In a word: credibility.
“By engaging in a protracted, often ugly partisan fight with Democrats, Boehner not only demonstrated to his Conference his commitment to spending cuts and showed his zeal for imposing conservative policies on the Obama administration, he illustrated with textbook clarity just how difficult it will be to implement a conservative agenda. When Boehner presented his Conference with a compromise spending bill late Friday night, Republicans largely hailed it as a success and lauded Boehner’s ability to force Democrats and the Obama administration into a historic discussion of how to cut spending.”
“But the agreement’s significance for Boehner has less to do with the immediate fight over cutting this year’s spending and more to do with how he manages his Conference over the next few months. Just ahead are momentous debates and votes on raising the debt ceiling and passing a budget for fiscal 2012. Boehner’s handling of the continuing resolution negotiation is now the platform he’ll use to lead his party on those issues.”
Obama Faces Tough Race in Florida
A new Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll finds President Obama is in trouble in Florida as he begins his re-election campaign.
Key finding: Only 34% of independent voters in Florida approve of Obama’s job performance, and that either Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee would beat the president in Florida if the election were held today.
