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“I’m not going to drop this. You don’t think I did a press conference and let it die? I’ll make a decision real quick where to send the evidence we have. There are not many options. You do know this is complex. Many conflicts of interest from the White house to the Attorney General. I can go on and on.”
– Arpaio to E.J. Montini of The Arizona Republic
This man — and the rest of the birther crowd — are in serious need of time on the couch. Really – especially Arpaio, who holds a position of power. While on the AZ taxpayer’s dime, his power-mad, paranoid behavior surely needs to be addressed, but no, he’s going off half-cocked ad nauseum, egged on by WorldNetDaily. (Huff Po):
In an interview with the Arizona Republic‘s E.J. Montini, Arpaio said he believes the press is intentionally making the issue seem less important than it is. He also discussed the press conference he held earlier this month about his probe into President Obama’s birth certificate.
“The media all came to make fun of me,” he said of the March 1 press conference. “I’m a little concerned that all of their questions were zeroed in on credibility and that this has been rehashed. They didn’t even ask about the proof of the case. They didn’t ask about the facts that we had.”
…The theory that President Obama was not born in the United States has been widely debunked, and the state of Hawaii has verified the authenticity of his birth certificate. His birth was also listed in the local newspaper at the time.
In his interview with Montini, the Arizona sheriff stopped short of accusing Hawaiian officials of engaging in a conspiracy. However, he believes that they should still be investigated.
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I’m not surprised. When Obama released his long-form birth certificate, I told Mrs. Tiger that the birthers will come back with the “vast conspiracy (bigger than ever!)” argument that a cover-up is taking place.
Don’t they drug test police?
Right Sheriff Joe can find evidence that Right Wing Bloggers have not been able to find since before Obama was elected.
That federal investigation can’t nail Arpaio’s ass to the wall too quickly for my taste.
Oilbomber was created in a CIA laboratory test tube, then quickly test-marketed and sold to an unsuspecting public – a public that was desperate for progressiver policies to help undo 8 years of Bush/Cheney/Arpaio Hell.
Oh, well.
It’s been repeatedly “suggested” by the many that our Infamous Sheriff Joe “investigate” President Obama’s Selective Service Number, but this “old and angry white dude” can’t hear much anymore, especially when it violates the “confidence” of those over 60,000 votes residing in Sun City and which is the ‘base’ of his re-election effort and the backbone of his outdated Posse.
Jaango
Born in the USA or otherwise, anybody that could have vouched for Oilbomber is dead (except for Kissinger and Geithner).
The press didn’t show up to make fun of Crazy Joe, they showed up to cover him doing so on his own.
Oilbomber and me are the same age. I (too?) filled out a Selective Service Form (under threat of imprisonment for failure to do so).
If the sheriff had any sense of fairness and justice, he’d get in line and wait until we get to the bottom of the Lincoln assassination, the sinking of the Maine, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the JFK murder, the Watergate break in, the Watergate cover up, and the cover up cover up, the October Surprise, Iran-Contra, Florida 2000, Nine-Eleven, and everything in between and since.
“Bigger than Watergate”
No sheriff dipsticks. What’s bigger than “Watergate,” is the untold story of how a nation was raped by “corporatism’s” feeding frenzy, while we where all looking under our bed’s for the “next” terrorist attack?
Unfortunately sheriff dipsticks, good law enforcement had those responsible for 911 under the radar. Unfortunately sheriff dipsticks, bad law enforcement really ran amok, and “blew it” as Franklin and Jefferson feared.
Now instead of getting police which respect the rights of Americans to dissent and protect those rights, we get the policies of our bought government. We have sheriffs engaging in political matters where they lack jurisdiction (Joe A. does have his constitutional rights…) and police arresting Americans who exercise those rights and tired of being victims of corporate’s sodomy. If there is any media conspiracy here in America I think most would agree its to stifle debate and dissent at odds with “wealth extracting” business models which no longer provide value to the consumer, while stifling competition to protect “interests,” while using those to “serve and protect” the governed, to intimidate, the governed?
sheriff dipsticks, go away!
Arpaio is grandstanding like crazy because the DOJ is about to come down on him. He’s trying to scare Obama off by keeping this crazy stuff going.
…and he’s likely running for something.
There is much that I dislike about Pres Obama, but his birth certificate and/or veracity of USA citizenship isn’t even at the bottom of my list.
My assumption is that, beyond being a nutcase racist zealot, Sherrif Joe is perhaps also paid by the 1% to keep this “hope alive.” It’s a very reliable distraction for a certain wingnut percentage of our populace. Keeps ‘em all fired up over nothing… but not paying attention to who’s really ripping them off and messing up this once great nation of ours.
Thanks for the update.
Being a birther is almost as crazy as thinking Obama is a liberal.
White racist Republicans go down one of two roads RE: President Obama: they claim that he is a muslim or they claim that he was not “born in the USA.” They can’t just come out and say that they hate blacks… The GOP is trying its best to go extinct in November, 2012. Good luck on that plan, guys… Whigs disappeared in an earlier time.
This. He is feeling the heat for once so he is trying to rally the troops making it seem like he is some victim of the ebil forces of Obama.