Thursday, May 24, 2012

Arizona Head Birther, Ken Bennett, Backs Down

HuffPo reports

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett backed off his birther demands on Wednesday, going so far as to say that he considered the matter of President Barack Obama's ballot eligibility "closed."

On Tuesday night, Bennett, also an Arizona co-chair for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, apologized for creating controversy and feeding a birther frenzy by requesting that Hawaiian officials verify the president's birth documents.

"If I embarrassed the state, I apologize, but that certainly wasn't my intent," Bennett, who had earlier threatened to keep Obama off the ballot if his inquiry wasn't met, said during an interview with radio station KTAR.
Did he embarrass Arizona? Well, as hard as that might be to do, he certainly did.

What could have caused the public turnaround?  Was he less than sincere all along, or did something happen to change his mind?

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

25 comments:

  1. Hmm. Let's think about this for a moment. Let's say that the birther accusations are true and Ken Bennett was about to expose it. At stake is a power-elite structure with quite literally billions of discretionary money at its disposal. Wouldn't it be simple for a well paid professional team to make Mr. Bennett's life miserable? Wouldn't it be simple for a well paid proffesional team to radically shorten the life span of every living relative of Mr. Bennett? And wouldn't it be easy for a well paid professional team to pull off such a task without leaving any evidence?

    This sort of thing concerns me more than just about anything else. An entity with truckloads of cash can provide "incentives" that are nearly impossible to resist ... I don't care who you are. Would you go forward as a "whistle blower" when your adversary promised and has the means to torture and then carry out a slow, painful death for every member of your family? I wouldn't. I doubt Mr. Bennett is any different.

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    1. CC, Please tell me you're not one of them. The birthers and the extreme tea party guys are lunatics. Are you really inventing an elaborate conspiracy theory in order to give credence to that nonsense?

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    2. I have no idea. What I am asserting is that it's very hard to challenge the power/elite that have billions of discretionary money at their disposal.

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    3. Let me clarify when I said, "I have no idea." I have no idea if our chief executive is a natural born U.S. citizen or otherwise. I have not been able to review any evidence one way or the other. The only certainty is that some people are not certain. There has never been any reason for uncertainty in the past. This time there is at least some basis for questions.

      What concerns me is that a cabal with billions of dollars available could pull off just about anything. Need to forge a document? No problem. Want someone to expire "from natural causes"? No problem. Neither you nor I could pull off any of those tasks. There are people that can for a price.

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    4. CC, I'm afraid you're losing your mind talking about cabals like that. He's the first black president. That's why the racist maniacs came up with this. That's my guess anyway. It makes a helluva lot more sense than your cabal.

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  2. I put the birthers in the same category as 9/11 conspiracy theorists and people who believe that aliens crashed at Roswell. They're true believers who cannot be swayed by the facts and never stop believing. Mercifully, they're few in number.

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    1. Greg says,"They're true believers who cannot be swayed by the facts..."

      But Greg, the government, Obama, the military, the Federal Reserve, etc., don't give us the facts; they conceal, hide, classify, seal, obfuscate, mask, disguise, secrete the truth and the facts. Anyone actually wanting to know the facts is called a kook. They are small in numbers, because everyone else is swallowing, hook, line, and sinker the baloney they are fed by these powers-that-be.
      Everyone says bin Laden is dead. How do we know? Can you prove it? Do you believe known liars?
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    2. I think the9/11 conspiracy folks are on to something. The Rosswell guys too. The Birthers are racist fanatics, that's all.

      I agree with Orlin on this. Maximum cynicism and doubt is what's appropriate.

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    3. Mikeb said, "The Birthers are racist fanatics, that's all."

      Am I a Birther? I do not believe Obama was eligible to become president because he was not a natural born citizen whether he was born in Hawaii, Frostbite Minnesota, or Timbuktu. His seed was a British subject.
      Was Michelle Bachmann eligible since she also had Swiss citizenship? Can a person with dual citizenship even pass a "Yankee White"?

      I believe Obama is a US citizen, but not a 'natural born citizen.'
      So, am I a Birther? If so, it has nothing, whatsoever, to do with race.
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    4. I agree with Orlin Sellers that all of the entities he listed go to great lengths to hide almost everything that goes on.

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    5. "His seed was a British subject." What in the world are you talking about, Orlin? "whether he was born in Hawaii, Frostbite Minnesota, or Timbuktu" you figure he's not eligible.

      That's some whacky shit, man.

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    6. Obama's father was a British subject. He was not a US citizen and was here on a student visa. If you can show a case where a person born with dual citizenship is eligible to become a US president, bring it on.
      orlin sellers

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  3. Ken Bennett should either put up or shut-up (or is he Alfalfa from the Little Rascals).

    Lets be clear none of these Birther dullards have taken there "Birther Documents of facts" and won a case in the “U.S. Courts”, maybe in their simple minds (if they have any) but not in our “U.S. Courts”, so unless Birthers/ teabaggers, whatever you want to be called, win a court case, we will continue to see as dullards, liars or racist or maybe all three. Deal with that baby!

    And enjoy voting for the Mitt, the first "Republican Anchor Baby"! Too Funny

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    1. I like your style, Montana. Do come back now, y'hear?

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  4. How can Mitt be an anchor baby, both of his parents were US citizens?
    orlin sellers

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    1. Born in that foreign Mexico!

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    2. Mitt was born in Detroit, MI, not Durango, Mexico.
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  5. Mikeb, it's cute watching you swallow other conspiracy theories, but then deny the birther claims. I'm not saying that any of them are impossible. It's just that the burden of proof is on the person making the extraordinary claim, and I find the evidence that's offered to be lacking. That's the case for all such ideas.

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    1. The JFK killing, the 9/11 and even the Rosswell thing have plenty of evidence. The Birther movement does not.

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    2. O.K., now I know that you have no ability to evaluate evidence and draw rational conclusions. Why do you even bother quoting statistics? That just befuddles your case. Stick to fairies and tinglings in your pinkie finger.

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    3. Greg, do I have this wrong? You believe in the 'magic bullet' that killed JFK? Anyone that thinks otherwise is a conspiracy kook? Governments and those that operate within it never conspire.
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    4. Orlin, you know what it is with Greg, he lets his contentious nature get ahead of him. He loses sight of what he's actually arguing.

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    5. There's no need for a "magic bullet." If you look at how the seats in the car were oriented, there's a straight line from the window through Kennedy and Connelly.

      I'm not saying that conspiracies never happen. It's just that anyone asserting that one did happen must have evidence that goes beyond vague rumors and suspicions.

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    6. Greg, I assert that common sense plays a big part in these theories. As we've seen time after time, evidence disappears, is hidden, classified, and not presented to the public. If there are questions that are not answered, that leaves doubt and skepticism.
      It is no secret, at least not anymore, that there was no attack in the Gulf of Tonkin or that nobody knew of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor that was not a 'sneak attack'.
      Where is the front door from Waco. How did evidence and proof disappear?

      But, back to JFK, I give you Bill Hicks to explain it to you.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awpmdRxLLCo
      Enjoy!
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    7. Greg, I think you're being stubborn and contentious again with that "straight line" bullshit.

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