Daily Kos: Did Haley Barbour just dip his toes into birther waters?

[flpoljunkie]

Haley Barbour wonders, who is Barack Obama?

by Barbara Morrill
Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:18 AM PDT

Did Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour dip his toes into birther waters?

A reporter followed up to ask Barbour for his opinion as to why so many Americans (wrongly) think Obama is a Muslim.

"I don't know why people think what they think," Barbour said. He paused and then added, "This is a president that you know less about than any other president in history."

According to Barbour, we know "plenty" about Ronald Reagan, and we know that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree (really?), although there was no word on what Barbour knows about George Bush's missing Texas Air National Guard years ... about Obama, not so much. Apparently Barbour skipped reading Obama's two autobiographies and the massive record of his public life.

But Barbour wasn't really questioning the President's birthplace because when:

Reporters asked if Barbour believes Obama was born in the United States. "As far as I know," he said. He added that, "I don't have any such question."
Of course not.

On the bright side, Barbour accepts "totally at face value" that Obama is a Christian. Whew.

[AndyA]

1. Barbour is a hypocrite. We know less about Bush than anyone else.

All of G.W. Bush's records are missing, sealed, or otherwise MIA, just like he was.

His action of selling his Harken Energy stock right before it tanked is usually considered insider trading by most, but nothing ever came of that, either, and nothing ever will since everything has been classified at this point.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Barbour is a pig-eyed sack of shit, who speaks like he has a mouth full

of marbles.


I just wanted to say that.



Carry on.

[bluestateguy]

3. Did he actually say George Washington chopped down a cherry tree?

That would not surprise me, as he attended all-white Mississippi public schools 50 years ago. Who knows what type of crap they filled the kids' heads with.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Yes, he did, sort of, at least

After the breakfast was over, reporters sought out Barbour to clarify and expand on his remarks. Asked what more he would like to know about Obama's past and what the American should know, Barbour haltingly replied, "There's not much known about his, in college, growing up. We don't know any chopped down the cherry tree, we don't know any of the childhood things we know about Ronald Reagan. I don't say it as an insult, or as anything other than just an observation. Somebody says why would be people question things, we just don't know."

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/barbours_observ.php

[Jensen]

4. I Like to see his college year book since he also claims he went to

a intergrated school and intergration was no big deal in Ole Mississippi!

[Cha]

5. "Know less about than any other President in history"?! Why

bc fauxsn00ze keeps their viewers in the dark and feeds them shyte like a bunch of mushrooms and haley barbaour has his head up his ass? Because they aren't able to read?!