Monday, May 7, 2012

Seriously, North Carolina?

North Carolina has apparently decided that this would be a good time to go full-on birther:

Richard Hudson, considered a leading Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell in the 8th Congressional District, told a Tea Party group in Rowan County recently that “there’s no question President Obama is hiding something on his citizenship.”

Dr. John Whitley, one of Hudson’s opponents in Tuesday’s primary, declared Obama’s birth certificate a “poorly reproduced forgery” after comparing it to the Hawaiian birth certificate of one of his campaign workers.

“There is a tremendous amount of smoke here,” Whitley said. “In fact, it’s called a smoke screen.”

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Jim Pendergraph, one of 10 GOP candidates in Tuesday’s primary in the 9th Congressional District, said this week that he’s not convinced Obama was born in the United States.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/04/3219093/more-nc-gop-candidates-doubt-obamas.html#storylink=cpy

1 comment:

spiderkev said...

I don't care if he was born on Mars,I'd still vote for him before I'd vote for any damn Republican teabagger.