The fact that the House of Representatives Majority Leader of the Republicans is unable to call out as illicit those that question President Obama’s birthplace is proof positive that the GOP fears saying anything that would upset that section of their party. This does not bode well for any type of substantive legislation coming out of this congress.
The Republicans better realize that inasmuch as the Tea Party cult is loud and obnoxious with a predisposition to violence, they do not have the majority of the voting constituency in a Presidential year. One can only hope that as the year goes on that the reality that the Tea Party sect has degenerated into a power seeking anti middle class party will be realized not only by Conservatives but Republicans at large.
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Eric Cantor Addresses Birther Issue
WASHINGTON — The new Republican House majority leader says he doesn’t think questions about President Barack Obama’s citizenship should play a role in the discussion of policy matters.
Two years into the Obama administration, so-called birthers continue to argue that Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and that he hasn’t proved he’s constitutionally qualified to be president. Birth records in Hawaii haven’t dissuaded them.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question.
"I don’t think it’s an issue that we need to address at all. . It is not an issue that even needs to be on the policy-making table right now whatsoever," he said.
Appearing Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Cantor refused to call people who question Obama’s citizenship "crazy."
"I don’t think it’s nice to call anyone crazy," Cantor said
Cantor says he believes that Obama wants what’s best for the country and that there are honest disagreements over how to achieve that.
Birthers say there’s no proof he was born in the United States; many of these skeptics question whether he was actually born in Kenya, his father’s home country.
Hawaii’s health director said in 2008 and 2009 that she had seen and verified Obama’s original vital records, and birth notices in two Honolulu newspapers were published within days of Obama’s birth at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.
