Trump responds to Terror Threat in Florida Speech Today

AoSHQ: Trump says immigration security is national security

Hillary Clinton wants more Syrian and Muslim refugees in the United States.  Deposit the fact the federal government admitted today that over 800 refugees who should have been deported were instead granted citizenship.  

Is Trump wrong on this? Don't we want to reserve immigration and citizenship to those who want to be Americans and assimilate and support American values? We are importing potential terrorists to the United States. 

Hillary Clinton does not criticize Islamists who are violently anti gay and women. Yet Hillary Clinton describes her fellow Americans as "deplorable" and "irredeemable" for the temerity of disagreeing with her and supporting her opponent.

Hillary wants tens of thousand of more Syrian refugees here! 

She will vet them like her emails.

Instapundit: The Hill: How Hillary's birtherism will be her Waterloo (hint, she's not Wellington), Even Angela Merkle is admitting that she may back down from her disastrous immigration policy, the Syrian mess on Obama's watch, Hillary has harsher words for Americans than Islamist murderers, Good man with gun stops evil man.

The Hill (Birtherism will be Hillary's Waterloo):

Hillary’s motivations were clear. She flunked her first pseudo debate with Trump on NBC’s Commander in Chief forum earlier this month, placed herself in hot water when she declared half of Trump’s supporters were in a basket of deplorables, and further sowed seeds of mistrust when she lied about her health. She had to change the narrative[...] 

“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said in response. “Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
Trump’s response — short and simple — showed a candidate who was not only more disciplined but a candidate who understood he was in the lead. It showed a candidate that was willing to shrug of a desperate attack in order to stay on a script that has brought Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Colorado back in play. 

Moreover, Trump turned the issue back on Hillary. In laughing off the attack, Trump reminded America that the so called seeds of birtherism were planted by Team Clinton during her rough and tumble primary with Obama in 2008. He also reminded the American people that he was the one who settled the issue, thus removing the cloud hanging over Obama’s head. 

“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Trump said. “I finished it.”

EBL: Ahmad Kahn Rahami in custody after shootout, Media Bias, Five Suspects In Custody for Chelsea, Decades of Deplorables and Martha Raddatz: All In For Hillary, SID BLUMENTHAL: Hillary Clinton's Dirty Trickster and Originator of Obama Birther Rumors,Welcome To Manhattan and Attack in Minnesota, Pipe bomb at Seaside Heights, NJ

Too bad Hillary Campaign started birther rumors

Lem's Place: Why do terrorists always look like Trooper's Uber driver, more than 800 immigrants slated for deportation granted citizenship, they are not bombs till DeBlasio says so

Legal Insurrection: Annoying Democrat Meme of the Day: Hillary defining what 'our values' are

American Power Blog: Democrat "Our Values" talking point is beyond annoying, it's evil

Weasel Zippers: Clinton News Network lies and edits Trump statement

Regular Right Guy: Oh duh, he's from Afghanistan

Wombat: Michelle Malkin says it

TOM: Ahmad Captured

AoSHQ: Feds closed investigation on Rahami after father recanted

NYT: Feds warned two years ago, by Rahami's father that his son was a threat

Decades of Deplorables: Hillary Clinton and Sid Blumenthal Birther and Muslim Smears About Obama (but don't count on the Media to report it)

The Observer: Is Hillary's Hatchet Man Blumenthal Up For A Cabinet Position If She Wins?

Instapundit: Heat Street: Five Times Hillary Tried To "Other" Obama and AoSHQ: McClatchy News: Hillary's Sid "The Shiv" Blumenthal pushed the Obama birther story so hard they sent reporters to Africa to investigate

Heat Street:

Hillary Clinton is under fire for the role her 2008 primary campaign may have played in stoking rumors that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
The former Washington bureau chief for McClatchy, for example, has implicated known sketchball and Clinton sycophant Sidney Blumenthal, who served as a “senior adviser” for Hillary’s campaign in 2008, in trying to get reporters to investigate the so-called “birther” rumor.

Instapundit: Second Journalist confirms Sid Blumenthal pushed the Obama birther lie for Hillary Clinton 

PJ Media: David Brock and Sid Blumenthal pushed lies to the media about Obama being a Muslim and birther theories back in 2008

Daily Wire: Five Things You Need To Know About Sid Blumenthal: Reason (Sid Blumenthal is the human equivalent of Monica's semen stained dress): "Blumenthal's nastiness and willingness to fling shit like a howler monkey in heat earned him the sobriquet 'Sid Vicious'"

EBL: SID BLUMENTHAL: Hillary Clinton's Dirty Trickster and Originator of Obama Birther Rumors

The Atlantic: From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton Scandal Outline

The Federalist: Hillary's weird friendship with Sid Blumenthal (he was right in the mix on Benghazi)

Meanwhile here is Martha Raddatz interviewing Mike Pence. Raddatz is really obsessed with this Obama birther issue. Martha Raddatz just can't quit birther issues. Do you think Raddatz will give Trump a fair shake as a moderator at the Second Debate? Not a chance. Who needs Candy Crowley if you can have Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz tag team Trump at a Town Hall.

Given that Trump had the Clintons at his wedding, I guess Trump can't complain too much that Martha Raddatz had Barack Obama at her wedding (although Martha's husband was buddies with Barack in law school).  Mike Pence, while excellent in pushing back on Raddatz's partianship, is a tad too polite in responding.  Martha Raddatz is completely and utterly all in for Hilalry Clinton. As Newsbusters showed, Raddatz let Tim Kaine off the hook on Hillary's email lies.  

I will call Raddatz out as a completely dishonest biased partisan, just like her partner at ABC News George Stephanopoulos is.  

SID BLUMENTHAL: Hillary Clinton's Dirty Trickster and the Original Birther Source?

AoSHQ: Sid denies it but there are people who disagree with Sid

Clinton denies she had anything to do with starting Obama birther rumors back when she was competing for the nomination in 2007 and 2008. We know Hillary still hates Obama for beating her in 2008.

Hillary Clinton has "a lot of buffers" but there is testimony to support the rumors originated with and were spread by her campaign. While her media allies try to give her cover they have actually confirmed that she is probably the Mother of Birthers.  

Daily Caller: Sidney Blumenthal's Dirty History With The Clintons

The Observer: Just who is Sidney Blumenthal, the Clintons' Closest Advisor?

Daily Wire: Five Things You Need To Know About Sid Blumenthal: Reason (Sid Blumenthal is the human equivalent of Monica's semen stained dress): "Blumenthal's nastiness and willingness to fling shit like a howler monkey in heat earned him the sobriquet 'Sid Vicious'"

EBL: Hillary Clinton's Campaign Is Defrauding Its Own Small Donors, Hypocrite Hillary: Mother of Birthers, What We Can Expect In The Debates, Crooked Hillary Lied About Her Emails And Tried To Scapegoat Colin Powell

Instapundit: Washington Examiner: With the Clintons it is scams and ripoffs all the way down, Washington Examiner: Does Hillary have a Blumenthal Birther Problem?, Scott Adams: When Reality Turned Inside Out, and Washington Post: Donald Trump's Birther Event Was The Greatest Trick He Ever Pulled

Legal Insurrection: Clinton Ally David Brock Offering Cash for Dirt on Trump

Vanity Fair: Sidney Blumenthal: The Clinton Advisor You Can't Escape

Weekly Standard: Sidney Blumenthal: Dirty Trickster

AmPowBlog: Trump and Millennials moving on

Guardian: Sid Paid By Clinton

Hypocrite Hillary: Mother of the Obama Birther Movement

I missed this Manning Report video which came out during the primary fights between Hillary and Sanders. Dr. James Manning unloads on Hypocrite Hillary. Ouch. Watch the whole thing. 

NY Post: Powell emails reveals Hillary 'hates' Obama for 2008

Colin Powell's recently leaked emails show, Hillary Clinton still hates Obama.  She never got over losing in 2008.  And while Hillary denies it (what else is knew, Hillary lies about everything, including Colin Powell) Hillary's Campaign did start the Obama birther theories back in 2007 and 2008. Politico confirmed it was Hillary supporters who started to circulate emails questioning Obama's birth in the USA: 

That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.

Hillary Clinton lies about everything.  Rugs don't lie as much as Hillary does. Hillary is the Mother of the Birther Movement and Mother of Lies. Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar. 

Here’s Chris Matthews in 2007 blasting Hillary over Birther push. Ugly stuff. https://t.co/WKntsuT8WK

https://t.co/VlOIVDTW1y

— CNN Is Hitler (@NolteNC) September 16, 2016

EBL: Hillary tries to scapegoat Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton: We have to bring Black Superpredators "To Heel"

former McClatchy DC bureau chief @jimasher tweeting that Sid Blumenthal pushed birther lie to him in 2008. Asking for comment

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 16, 2016

Instapundit: Hillary campaign was source of crypto-muslim rumors about Obama

The Hill: Trump to address birther issues this morning 

Crooked Hillary: Overcharging her donors

RedState: Hillary runs her campaign like a porn website and Sociopath Reid

Legal Insurrection: ManBearPig to the rescue?

Birther row began with Hillary Clinton | via @Telegraph https://t.co/mbdI6ZuuL4

— CNN Is Hitler (@NolteNC) September 16, 2016

Daily Wire: Hillary was the original birther and Let's drag out birtherism and Al Gore

Twitchy: Hillary panders to Latinos

Lem's Place: Hillary fraud on her own poorest donors

DRUDGE REPORT: Trump Trolls Media (and reminds them that Clinton started birtherism) and Clinton Campaign offers cash for dirt (via Clinton birther David Brock)

TOM: Hillary funding her campaign by stealing from the poor (she is not Robin Hood, she is the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John rolled together)

Mark Steyn on The Great "Gatsby" Barry Obama

Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama
show how it is fun to re-invent yourself!  

Mark Steyn nails it with this great article at the Corner:  

When it comes to conspiracies, I’m an Occam’s Razor man. The more obvious explanation of the variable first line in the eternally shifting sands of Obama’s biography is that, rather than pretending to have been born in Hawaii, he’s spent much of his life pretending to have been born in Kenya. After all, if your first book is an exploration of racial identity and has the working title “Journeys in Black and White,” being born in Hawaii doesn’t really help. It’s entirely irrelevant to the twin pillars of contemporary black grievance — American slavery and European imperialism. To 99.99 percent of people, Hawaii is a luxury-vacation destination and nothing else. Whereas Kenya puts you at the heart of what, in an otherwise notably orderly decolonization process by the British, was a bitter and violent struggle against the white man’s rule. Cool! The composite chicks dig it, and the literary agents. 

And where’s the harm in it? Everybody does it — at least in the circles in which Obama hangs. At Harvard Law School, where young Barack was “the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review,” there’s no end of famous firsts: AsThe Fordham Law Review reported, “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.” There is no evidence that Mrs. Warren, now the Democrats’ Senate candidate, is anything other than 100 percent white. She walks like a white, quacks like a white, looks whiter than white. She’s the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out. But she “self-identified” as Cherokee, so that makes her a “woman of color.” Why, back in 1984 she submitted some of her favorite dishes to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook, a “compilation of recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families.”

Read the whole thing!

And there was no "fact checker error" about Obama's bio. That publisher asked the authors to submit their own bios! 
Obama used Wright and Farrakhan for "street cred" early in his career...
Rush:  Obama and Warren made their past more "exotic."
Professor Jacobson on being more careful with the facts than Liz Warren is about her bio.
Liz Warren plagiarizing recipes for Pow Wow Chow.
Breaking (More Mark Steyn):  The House of Windsor is one of the Five Tribes!
Daily Caller:  Why was Obama a birther before he decided to run for President?
Roger Kimball:  Who is Barack Obama?  The question that will not go away...
Faking fakers and the fakery they fake...

Prior EBL posts:
Elizabeth Warren becomes an Indian! (with plagiarized recipes to boot)
The real message of the Obama born in Kenya bio!  
Obama Kenya Birther Story:  From his own literary agent!

The real message of the Obama born in Kenya bio...

A lot of folks in the main stream media drank the Kool Aid...

I am not a birther (and Andrew Breitbart was not either).  It is funny to see the left falling all over themselves over this being a mistake of the literary agent. While possible, there is another explanation.

I assume Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.  The chances of him being born in Kenya are remote and unlikely.  I have also heard all the birther arguments about natural born citizens, but the modern interpretation of what natural born means includes Barack Obama.  It is a moot point anyway, he is elected. Once in office the only legal mechanism for removing a President is incapacity or impeachment.  Or in the case of Barack Obama, the easiest way to make a change would be in not re-electing him for a second term.

But what is amazing is this story remained hidden for five years.  I wonder who knew about it and did not report it intentionally before the 2008 election.  And while it is possible this was just an error by the agent (a rather embarrassing one), it is also possible that Mr. Obama has played fast and loose with his background.  Did he change his birth certificate to hide a designation of Muslim on it (to me not a big deal other than trying to cover it up)?

Did he lie on applications to Punahoe, Columbia, and Harvard?  It seems odd a kid who self admittedly did not apply himself in high school managed to go from Occidental to Columbia (mid stream) and then on to Harvard Law [ed].  Who was pulling the strings for young Obama?

And did he embellish his background in 1991 in an attempt to sell a book?

I completely agree with Roger Simon this is creepy, but with one caveat:  It was not easily found with a google search.  Because one of the birthers would have found it back in 2008.  It was intentionally hidden.  The question is by who?

That is the real creepy part.

Update:
Check this out:  They change the bio two months after Barack Obama announces he was running for president.  Who knew about it and how did the press not get wind of this?
Media still ignoring or running cover for Barack Obama on this story...
Main Stream Media refusing to investigate issue...
Mark Steyn:  The Great Gatsby Obama
Faking fakers and the fakery they fake...

An Obama Kenya Birther story: From Obama's own literary agent!

The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet [above].

Update:  The real message of the Obama born in Kenya bio... 

Breitbart has more.  Oh my.  This came from Obama's own agents.  I am sure they will claim it was a mistake, but it is a hell of a mistake.  Somewhere Andrew Breitbart is smiling.  Here is the statement from Joel Pollak at Breitbart:

Note from Senior Management:  

Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him. 

It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences. 

It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review. It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.

I denounce Barack Obama's literary agent for spreading this vile rumor about Barack Obama's birth!  But it is quite entertaining too!

JWF makes a good point here.  The sad part is he probably will do so.

Schadenfreude update (let's dance!) (LGF links removed):

Breitbart.com Publishes Ludicrous ‘Not-Birther’ Article (Wink)

Clowns

 Charles Johnson
WINGNUTS • Thu May 17, 2012 at 11:34 am PDT • Views: 2,904

In a way, it’s kind of sad to see what the right wing blogosphere has turned into. But also kind of hilarious.

Remember when Andrew Breitbart used to beg conservatives not to indulge the Birther conspiracy theory? (While, at the same time, appearing at speaking events with well-known Birthers?)

Well, with Andrew gone, the mini-Breitbarts who’ve turned his site from a propaganda machine into a laughingstock are no longer worried about that.

Possibly the dumbest right wing article you’ll read today, from Breitbart.com’s Joel Pollak: The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and Raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’.

New York Magazine races to defend!  
Literary agent says just a fact checking error, just ignore it, nothing to it...
Kenyan born Obama all set for 2004 Senate race!  

Some other posts:
Roger Kimball:  Who is Barack Obama?  That's the question...
Prof. Jacobson: Faking fakers and the fakery they fake...
Mark Steyn:  The Great Gatsby Obama
The Camp of the Saints
Gateway Pundit
Drudge Report
Jonah G
JWF