Snopes is nothing more than an opinion site, so I always take what they say with a grain of salt. Obama put himself in the position of having to defend where he was born. All he had to do was release it 2 years ago and this would have all gone away. I want to know why he won't release his school transcripts like every other president in the past has. Obamas biggest problem is his inability to make his mind up about anything. He wants to ride the fence on every issue. I guess we should expected as much from someone who during his time in the Senate voted "present" on almost every issue.I didn't realize this was a right wing political forum to bash the president. While I am not a big Obama fan I also don't think he needs to be erroneously condemned as being against America. Given the crap he was handed from the Bush administration (completely inept) he is trying to make a go of it. I am registered independent and like to vote based on the person not the politics. This birth certificate thing needs to go away. It's a complete witch hunt.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
Just my two cents.
Palin seems to get nuttier by the day/QUOTE]
I actually said this kind of tongue-in-cheek, but geez she is really trying to help back me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w
This woman should never open her mouth in public.
Ok, now I am going back into my "Staying the hell out of the political discussions" mode.
It looks like Sarah knows her history better than some think.Palin seems to get nuttier by the day/QUOTE]
I actually said this kind of tongue-in-cheek, but geez she is really trying to help back me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w
This woman should never open her mouth in public.
Ok, now I am going back into my "Staying the hell out of the political discussions" mode.
Experts back Sarah Palin’s historical account
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere “warned the British” during his famed 1775 ride — remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed — is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
Palin prompted howls of partisan derision when she said on Boston’s Freedom Trail that Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”
Palin insisted yesterday on Fox News Sunday she was right: “Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms.”
In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.”
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”