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Bill Maher Slams Republicans For Their Racist Obama Birth Certificate Hypocrisy
Bill Maher took to his blog to slam Republicans for their racist hypocrisy concerning Ted Cruz and President Obama’s birth certificates.
Bill Maher wrote on his blog that,
The Constitution says, “No Person except a natural born Citizen… shall be eligible to the Office of President.” Cruz says he’s eligible to run because his mom was a U.S. citizen, and therefore he’s a U.S. citizen who didn’t need to be naturalized. Great, but then what the hell was that whole Obama “birther” thing about?
Over half of Republican primary voters thought President Obama was illegitimate because they claimed he wasn’t born here. They didn’t give a damn that his mother was. If they don’t have a problem with Cruz running, it’s just an admission that they only care when it involves one of the black countries.
Can you imagine if it’d turned out President Obama wasn’t born in America and had lived the first four years of his life in Kenya? They’d be drawing up the articles of impeachment. Donald Trump would take a victory lap. Then again, he took a victory lap when it turned out he was wrong, which everyone already knew, so maybe he’s just a douche.
But here’s the thing: Ted Cruz is perfectly American enough to be president. His mom was an American citizen. His father became an American citizen. And every memory Ted probably has is from the years he spent in America. Except for when he was at Harvard, which he considers the Soviet Union.
Maher also pointed out that Republicans favor Ted Cruz over Marco Rubio, because Cruz is a openly hostile to other Latinos. The Republican base is in favor of Latino leaders, as long as they embrace the party’s hostility towards their own people.
You won’t hear many Republicans questioning Cruz’s eligibility to run, because he is a Republican from Texas who has embraced his party’s anti-minority rhetoric. It’s almost like the GOP has made Sen. Cruz an honorary white guy.
For years Republicans have continued to deny that that their birth certificate conspiracy was about race, when in reality, it has always only been about race. While Obama was closing out the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, the Republican Party decided that they were going to use racism as a political strategy. The questioning of Obama’s birth certificate was supposed to be a reminder to white voters that Barack Obama wasn’t like them. They were supposed to treat him with distrust and suspicion.
Maher was right. If the situations were reversed and Obama had been born, and spent the first four years of his life in Kenya, Republicans would be impeaching him as we speak. But the rules are different for Republican candidates, who aren’t black Democrats. Republicans can keep trying to fool themselves with claims that their lingering belief in the great Obama birth certificate conspiracy isn’t race based, but the truth can be found in the fact that they have no issues with Ted Cruz’s eligibility to run for president.
Race based politics are always an ugly thing, but racial politics laced with such obvious hypocrisy are a humiliating insult to us all.
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KEVIN HURST
May. 25th, 2013 at 11:45 am
it is about time the media started back fire on there bull shit to say anything opposite to the republicans is honest and truthful news reports .
Sandra
May. 25th, 2013 at 6:28 pm
I remember when the R’thugs wanted to change the Constitution so Ahnuld Schwarznegger(sp) could run for POTUS b4 they realised he wasn’t a rabid neo Con and dropped it. The blatant hypocrisy and racism of these people is a disgrace to humanity and decency.
Elizabeth
May. 25th, 2013 at 11:51 am
The problem is-it is only people like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart and a couple others that speak out. Most mainstream media slam people who speak truth to power. Where oh where is a Walter Cronkite when you need one?
Vivian
May. 25th, 2013 at 1:02 pm
When and how did America learn to hate so much, and become so blood thirsty. It seems people can’t wait to shoot someone – and the hate poored on Presient Obama is embarrassing to me for the rest of the world to see.
djchefron
May. 25th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
When? 1585 www.apstudynotes.org/us-h...
phooeyrat
May. 25th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Nice bits of information you have presented here djchefron, thanks. Everyone should view them. History is “knowledge” (only if it is factual and not a lie). Keep up the good work.
Paws
May. 25th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
The link has some good information but…
“Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, came to the throne after her father’s death…”
Mary Tudor did not attain the throne after the death of King Henry; his son by Jane Seymour, Edward, reigned first.
I’m a bit of a Tudor-phile. :)
Shiva
May. 25th, 2013 at 9:09 pm
And I share DNA with Richard the 3rd!
jess
May. 25th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Doesn’t matter. Teddy boy will go the way of Allen West and Joe Walsh. One and done.
Barry Roope
May. 25th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Ted Cruz is the Uncle Tom of Latinos, they let him work in the big house, while the rest work in the fields of the Plantation, Ted thinks one day he will be equal to the White land owners, except, the whole of Congress can’t stand him, Republicans thought they could use him to shore up Latino support, except Ted Cruz is a self loathing Latino, who hates his heritage, that’s why he will vote only for things that hurt other Latinos, because he dosen’t want to be what he is, a Latino. He knows that Mitch McConnell will always own him, that every time, he leaves the room, his fellow Republicans can return to calling him a wetback, a beaner or what ever other racial term they can use to make sure everybody knows their place, the only one too stupid to see reality is Ted Cruz. I hope Cruz attempts to run for President in 2016, because that will ensure a panel of Rightwing nuts, all trying to be more hateful than the others, this will ensure a easy victory for Hillary Clinton.
Olga Galarza
May. 25th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Republicans went on a witch hunt against the President for his Birth certificate,Senator Cruz wasn’t born in United States but was born in Canada How Come The Republican’s are not asking Ted Cruz where is your birth certificate. If Senator Cruz mother was born in the united states so was president obama mother so you tell me what’s the difference?
djchefron
May. 25th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K...
EvilFerret
May. 25th, 2013 at 10:47 pm
Canada’s Canada. It’s practically a state, right, now that TransCanada (Keystone) helps make our laws. Whereas Hawai’i's kid of dodgy and only sort of American, even if it is a state. And Latinos are sort of American if they’re legal, whereas Kenyan descendants are not, especially if they’re half-white and therefore suspect. Kenyan descendants are only American if the Kenyan ancestor was a slave, and then only if they Kenyan doesn’t ascend to the Presidency. Also, he must not have an ethnic name. Therefore, Condoleza Rice or Colin Powell are acceptable, whereas Barack Obama is not. How is this not obvious to you?
/Sarcasm off.
Shiva
May. 26th, 2013 at 12:00 am
And whats truely funny is, every single one of us came from the area around Kenya originally. That being 200,000 years or so ago
Charlie F
May. 25th, 2013 at 3:58 pm
I wrote what the strategy would be to make Cruz be eligible to be President a couple of months ago and it will show the TP hypocrisy, regarding Obama.
thepoliticalcarnival.net/...
PJ
May. 25th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Well said. The Ted Cruz story really does reveal GOp hypocrisy. But the Republicans have relied on The Southern (racist) Strategy since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. Wikipedia describes how Nixon designed it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sou....
TYBANDIT
May. 25th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
No great secret to those who had chosen to see the Obama birth certificate bullshit for what it was(and is),racism, pure and simple.
Mark Halfmoon
May. 25th, 2013 at 5:02 pm
I’m against Cruz, and the GOP are hypocrites, but no one questioned Senator Obama’s birthplace until he ran for national office. If Cruz is nominated to run for president, then I would certainly hope the Republicans treat him like they treated Obama. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Shiva
May. 25th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
And even worse, Crux probably has a better chance of wining then Rubio because very few Latinos want Rubio to run. Will Latinos vote for an honorary white guy that wants them under his Latino thumb?
You better bet the birther thing is going to start if Crux runs. He will proudly present his short form and get laughed at for it. for a year Crux will face the laughter and accusations.
And then lose.