Sarah Palin keeps nailin it!
Palin: Why No Probe of Barack 'Hussein' Obama?
Thursday, 23 Sep 2010 04:29 PM
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By: David A. Patten
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alleges that the media
has a blatant double standard, shining intense scrutiny on GOP Senate
nominee Christine O'Donnell while turning a blind eye to then-candidate
Barack Obama's personal history in the 2008 campaign.
During an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Wednesday
night, Palin said: "Funny . . . That we are learning more about
Christine O'Donnell and her college years, her teenage years, her
financial dealings than anybody ever even bothered to ask about Barack
Hussein Obama as a candidate and now as our president."
Palin also recently tweeted to O'Donnell, Republican nominee for the
U.S. Senate from Delaware, that she shouldn't waste time "appeasing
nat’l media seeking ur destruction.”
Obama has come under some criticism during his campaign and after for
failing to release documents and background material on his life that
has been de rigeur for most candidates.
Obama has yet to release college transcripts and files from his
undergraduate work at Occidental College and Columbia University, and
later at Harvard Law School. His college dissertation at Columbia has
disappeared. Many of his official papers during his time as an Illinois
state representative have also disappeared. He has never released his
full medical records.
Palin's reference on the Van Susteren program to the president's middle name, Hussein, drew national media attention.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama and his campaign never
referred to his middle name of Arabic origin, which means "good; small
handsome one."
And Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign studiously avoided using Barack Obama's complete name.
In fact, using Obama's full name was so taboo that when conservative
radio host Bill "Willie" Cunningham used it to fire up a McCain rally
in Cincinnati, the senator was forced to apologize.
"I take responsibility and I repudiate what he said," McCain said. "I
will not tolerate anything in this campaign that denigrates either Sen.
Obama or Sen. (Hillary) Clinton.''
As president, however, Obama has had no issue using his middle name.
Obama chose to use his full name "Barack Hussein Obama" when he was
sworn in and has referred to his complete name during other public
occasions.
Obama has claimed he was not making a statement by using his middle name at his inaugural.
But journalist Jonathan Alter, author of "The Promise," said took issue
with Obama on that point, writing: "Neither Jimmy Carter nor Ronald
Reagan used a middle name when taking the oath, and Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Gerald R. Ford used only a middle initial . . . Obama
was clearly trying to make a statement to the world while insisting
that it was no big deal — a perfect illustration of his determination
to have it both ways as often as possible."
One name Palin is keeping in the mix for a possible 2012 GOP presidential run: her own.
Palin told Van Susteren she would strongly consider running "if nobody
else were to step up with the solutions that are needed to get the
economy back on the right track, and to be so committed to our national
security that they are going to do all that they can, including
fighting those on the extreme left who seem to want to dismantle some
of our national security tools that we have in place."
If None of the other viable 2012 conservative "maybe I will" candidates begins to step into the fray, Sarah Palin will become the sole defacto conservative presidential candidate in 2012 and I WILL support her.
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