On the Today Show with Matt Liar, Obama says the tea party movement is based on those who doubt his eligibility to be President.

Via YahooNews; Obama: Tea Party features ‘core group’ against him

pResident Barack Obama says he believes the Tea Party is built around a “core group” of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist.

But beyond that, Obama tells NBC he recognizes the movement involves “folks who have legitimate concerns” about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously.

In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show, Obama said he feels “there’s still going to be a group at their core that question my legitimacy.” But he said he didn’t want to paint Tea Party activists “in broad brushes” and he hopes to win over members who have “mainstream, legitimate concerns.” Source.

Via Politico; Obama dissects demonstrations

Obama describes tea party movement as “loose amalgam of forces,” some of whom are “legitimately concerned about the deficit” … President Obama describes the tea party movement as a “loose amalgam of forces,” some of whom are “legitimately concerned about the deficit” and some of whom doubt his “legitimacy” as president.

“There’s a part of the tea party movement that actually did exist before I was elected,” he said in an interview aired Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show. “There’s some folks who just weren’t sure whether I was born in the United States, whether I was a socialist. So there’s that segment of it, which I think is just dug in ideologically.”

“Then,” he continued, “I think that there’s a broader circle around that core group of people, who are legitimately concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much.”

Obama suggested he might be able to sway that faction of tea party sympathizers by tackling federal spending, but conceded: “There’s still going to be a group at their core that question my legitimacy or question the Democratic Party generally or question people they consider to be against them in some way, and that group we’re probably not going to convince.” Source.

Via WND; Obama: Tea party based on eligibility issue
‘There are some folks who just weren’t sure whether I was born in the U.S.’

President Obama says the tea party movement is based on those who doubt his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.

Asked in an interview on the Today Show about the tea party opposition to his plans in Washington, Obama said, “I think that it is still a loose amalgam of forces. There is a part of the tea party movement that actually did exist before I was elected. We saw some of it leading up to my election.

“There are some folks who just aren’t sure I was born in the United States, whether I was a socialist,” he said.

“That’s segment of it which I think is just dug in ideologically. That strain has existed in American politics for a long time,” he said.

He said around that “core” in the tea party is a circle of people “who are concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much.”

He said the “emergency measures” he took over the last year to give taxpayer money to banking institutions and automobile companies “fed that sense that things are out of control.”

“These are folks who have legitimate concerns,” he said.

Earlier in the interview broadcast today, he said opposition to his plans – such as the recent nationalization of health care – is natural because the party out of power, “their base ends up being very agitated.”

“It may take the next election or the next presidential election before things settle down,” he warned.

Obama’s actual response to those who question his eligibility to be president under the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president be a “natural born citizen” has been to dispatch both private and tax-funded attorneys to prevent anyone from gaining access to his documentation.

Besides Obama’s actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

WND has reported on a multitude of cases that have been brought over the issue of Obama’s eligibility. Some are by critics who have doubts about whether he was born in Hawaii in 1961 as he has written, and others are from those who question whether the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama’s father was a subject of the British crown at Obama’s birth – from being eligible for the office.

The issue has prompted a number of state legislatures to work on proposals that would require presidential candidates to submit proof of their eligibility. And a similar proposal has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.

The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

However, none of the cases filed to date has been successful in reaching the plateau of legal discovery, so that information about Obama’s birth could be obtained.

The White House has not replied to numerous requests for comment. Source