2011-01-29, 06:11 PM
Mira Wrote:That 58% seems misleading, when you read how it's broken up. It also does not say if cell phones were contacted or not (but they probably were not), so this survey isn't entirely representative, but mostly. One must remember that these statistics aren't as cut and dry as they seem. As for the issue, we have to trust our government and trust that Obama is indeed a citizen. And if they have misled us, well, I believe there is a much bigger issue at hand. Maybe we should be discussing that issue of misinformation from the government as well as where the president was born? In my opinion, I think he's a citizen. It would seem stupid to go through all the trouble and money of running for office just to be turned away by your status as a citizen. There are many more important issues that people should focus their attention on, though.
All polls have their flaws, but what I said was not misleading. If you want to be specific, this means that a considerable portion of people have doubts about Obama's legitimacy. Even if you believe that Obama is an American citizen, you can have your doubts or even just slightly lean towards yes (this is why you would vote "probably yes").
And I completely disagree with simply trusting the government. Trusting the government unquestioningly is what allowed us to go into Iraq on the lie of WMDs.
Then of course we have facts (which often are ignored when you simply "trust" people unquestioningly). According to the law, the only possible way Obama could have any claim to be a US citizen would be if he was born on US soil, but that has not even been proven. Only a questionable document, and a birth announcement (which hawaii gives birth announcements with as little evidence as a phone call) have been released. Then there are several people that claim Obama was born in Kenya including his Wife and a Kenyan Ambassador. And then finally Mike Evans, Respected reporter and friend of Ambercrombie, and Tim Adams, a former elections official that would have access to birth records, claim that the birth certificate does not exist. Then finally he surrendered any possible right to be a Natural Born citizen when he became an Indonesian citizen.
But screw the evidence, we TRUST the government. Just like, screw the fact that UN weapon inspectors found no evidence of WMDs, we TRUST the government and want to bomb Iraq.
And yes there are more important issue I suppose. Like Obama expanding activities in guantanimo, Obama signing an extention to the patriot act, etc.