{"id":9455,"date":"2009-07-22T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-22T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:11:40","slug":"john-campbell-barack-obama-was-born-in-the-usto-the-best-of-my-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/22\/john-campbell-barack-obama-was-born-in-the-usto-the-best-of-my-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"John Campbell: Barack Obama Was Born in the US&#8230;to the Best of My Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slight pause in your all-budget all the time Calitics. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/userDiary.do?personId=507\">User mbayrob<\/a> posted this in the open thread, but IMHO, it is worthy of its own thread. &nbsp;So, here it is, John Campbell hemming and hawing when asked about the &#8220;birther&#8221; claims that Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t really born in the United States. &nbsp;This is despite the fact that Obama has released his birth certificate which has been duly certified by the State of Hawaii. <\/p>\n<p>Yet Rep. John Campbell is once again using these weasel words to give foundation to, as Chris Matthews called them, the crazies in the Republican Party. &nbsp;You might notice that Campbell was not co-sponsoring such a bill when the president at issue was George W Bush, but alas, we need certainty! Like, um, a birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethkrom.com\/\">Irvine Mayor Beth Krom<\/a>, a Democrat, is running for the 48th Congressional District in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYGS7gUC\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"240\" height=\"195\" align=right allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed>A slight pause in your all-budget all the time Calitics. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/userDiary.do?personId=507\">User mbayrob<\/a> posted this in the open thread, but IMHO, it is worthy of its own thread. &nbsp;So, here it is, John Campbell hemming and hawing when asked about the &#8220;birther&#8221; claims that Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t really born in the United States. &nbsp;This is despite the fact that Obama has released his birth certificate which has been duly certified by the State of Hawaii. <\/p>\n<p>Yet Rep. John Campbell is once again using these weasel words to give foundation to, as Chris Matthews called them, the crazies in the Republican Party. &nbsp;You might notice that Campbell was not co-sponsoring such a bill when the president at issue was George W Bush, but alas, we need certainty! Like, um, a birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethkrom.com\/\">Irvine Mayor Beth Krom<\/a>, a Democrat, is running for the 48th Congressional District in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[6874,1667,963],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-6874","tag-1667","tag-963"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2sv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}