After dining last month with Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn’t sure that President Obama’s birth certificate is real.
The GOP presidential candidate was asked by Parade magazine whether he believed that Obama was born in the United States.
“I have no reason to think otherwise,” he said.
Pressed for a “definitive” answer, Perry continued: “Well, I don’t have a definitive answer, because he’s never seen my birth certificate.”
“But you’ve seen his,” the interviewer replied.
“I don’t know. Have I?” Perry said.
Obama released a certificate of live birth during his 2008 campaign, but that didn’t satisfy some people, who questioned whether it was real. The White House released the long-form version of his Hawaii birth certificate earlier this year, but some in the “birther” movement, including Trump, still aren’t convinced.
“I don’t know,” Perry said when asked if he believed the birth certificate was real. “I had dinner with Donald Trump the other night. … He doesn’t think it’s real. … I don’t have any idea. It doesn’t matter. [Obama is] the President of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue.”
(Source: LA Times)
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Much ado about absolutely nothing. Read between the lines & you see he was telling the reporter to go to g’henim.
That makes Perry look dumb. Part of his campaign is to argue that he’s a normal undereducated regular sort of guy (switched to an easy major, barely getting passing grades).
Romney and Perry are overeducated (multiple Ivy degrees), and Cain would be nerd (degrees in math and computer science) if he wasn’t such a nice guy.
I’m positive Obama was NOT born in the US. This has been the biggest scam ever, done to the American people.
Whether one believes Obama was born in the US or not, I do not think Perry is wise to bring this topic up. He is getting himself into hot water over nothing. I like Perry, but he shouldn’t put a black cloud over his campaign run, we know how much the media will insult him over this one particular point.