tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post5639193894092506440..comments2023-11-30T11:29:37.454-05:00Comments on Conscience of a Conservative: Want to know where Obama has created 2.5 million jobs? Here is a partial list of some.Oldironsideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09629998599890229482noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-2296544657992552602012-03-29T12:32:53.468-04:002012-03-29T12:32:53.468-04:00Wikipedia describes Fulbright Scholarships as: &qu...Wikipedia describes Fulbright Scholarships as: "The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the Fulbright Program, competitively selected U.S. citizens may become eligible for scholarships to study, conduct research, or exercise their talents abroad and citizens of other countries may qualify to do the same in the United States. The first participating university in the United States was George Washington University in Washington, DC." <br /><br />So you are wrong saying it is only for graduate students.<br /><br />Also, the FEC has records showing continuous quarterly payments to the law form Perkins Coie since 2007 which has been going to courts defending Obama's choice to keep hidden all of his personal records, not just his birth certificate. A lengthy article in Politifact contains this paragraph.<br /><br />http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-obama-has-spent-2-million-lega/<br /><br />So that leaves the funds paid to Perkins Coie. Trump's and Palin's claims assume that the vast majority of the money paid to Perkins Coie since the election was used to defend against lawsuits challenging Obama's citizenship. We agree that some amount of money was spent in legal fees related to those lawsuits -- the letter from Bauer to the plaintiff is an example of that. But, while we don't know exactly how much the Obama camp spent on their private lawyers, there were many, many non-birth-certificate duties that a law firm typically handles in the wake of a presidential campaign, which suggests that any birth certificate work was a small percentage of the overall fees paid to Perkins Coie.Oldironsideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09629998599890229482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-74551913801292856972012-03-29T05:22:03.805-04:002012-03-29T05:22:03.805-04:00Re: "Fact #1 is that for the last 3 or 4 year...Re: "Fact #1 is that for the last 3 or 4 years Obama has spent upwards of 2 million dollars in legal fees fighting attempts in courts to release his personal records which have included his application to Occidental College as a possible Fulbright Scholarship for foreign students and the records for Harvard and Columbia."<br /><br />That is not a fact. It is a repetition of birther lies. There were no lawsuits against Obama for documents, only lawsuits trying to get him thrown off of ballots or to stop elections. A Fulbright Scholarship goes only to graduate students. And Occidental has said that Obama used the name Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-22930373480880403942012-03-28T10:16:04.094-04:002012-03-28T10:16:04.094-04:00The original Forbes article begins with this parag...The original Forbes article begins with this paragraph: "There is something very wrong when the sitting president refuses to divulge huge pieces of information about his background. What is he hiding? Maybe the “birthers” were a little extreme, but is there something wrong with this “manufactured candidate,” whose history remains sealed from public view? What is he hiding?"<br /><br />Fact #1 is that for the last 3 or 4 years Obama has spent upwards of 2 million dollars in legal fees fighting attempts in courts to release his personal records which have included his application to Occidental College as a possible Fulbright Scholarship for foreign students and the records for Harvard and Columbia.<br /><br />Fact #2 is that the only mention of the "birther" issue is actually to call it "a little extreme" so how can Forbes justify that issue to remove the story?<br /><br />Fact #3 is that the rest of the article only questions Obama's lack of leadership which is an acceptable opinion.<br /><br />It doesn't matter who or what any conservatives may agree with you, the story offers a valid point of view. In my opinion and many others, the long-form birth certificate that Obama showed to the public last April is a forged document and experts have proved that. And that alone should be reason enough to investigate this.Oldironsideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09629998599890229482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-64835956263612814242012-03-27T16:04:09.046-04:002012-03-27T16:04:09.046-04:00No it is not censorship. It is Forbes, a privately...No it is not censorship. It is Forbes, a privately owned company, making the decisions as to what it will publish and what it will not publish. After the article was posted the editors at Forbes decided that they did not believe it, not at all. They did not consider that the things that you call "facts" are really facts. Sorry, that is the case, and that holds for the rest of the media. The bottom line is that the media will not post birther lies because the media does not believe birther lies.<br /><br />And neither does Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck or the National Review.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-90152038236347046852012-03-27T11:02:28.063-04:002012-03-27T11:02:28.063-04:00If they thought it was a false claim why did they ...If they thought it was a false claim why did they post it in the first place? Don't they have any content editors? Besides, that wasn't the point. The article contains some known facts and some opinions along with some criticism for the media. Taking down the story is an act of censorship.Oldironsideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09629998599890229482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404433125239624931.post-51398357863507512862012-03-26T17:11:33.994-04:002012-03-26T17:11:33.994-04:00The obvious reason that Forbes Magazine took down ...The obvious reason that Forbes Magazine took down the birther claim is that Forbes thinks that it is false.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com