He expanded health access for millions with Obamacare and greenlighted the killing of Osama bin Laden, but former President Barack Obama and his team believe that his most consequential decision (and blunder) was not pushing back on “birther” charges.
According to his former spokesman, Jay Carney, ignoring charges pushed by former President Donald Trump and others played a big role in dividing America.
At a Bipartisan Policy Center event this week, Carney said that Obama and his communications team didn’t think the nation would take the charges that Obama was born overseas and was a Muslim seriously.
His surprising comments came during a panel discussion with several past White House top officials and after moderator Steve Scully, the former C-SPAN executive, asked each for what they thought was the most consequential decision for the presidents they served.
“We did not believe that people were listening to those folks who are out there claiming that President Obama had not been born in the United States and that he wasn’t Christian until it was too late. And I know President Obama feels this way because we talked about it,” he added.
The comments, broken out by C-SPAN, provided an awkward moment during the event. Two people away from Carney sat former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.
Carney said that many continue to believe the birther charges pushed by Trump as far back as 2011.
“The polls still show the majority, significant majority of self-identified Republicans don’t believe President Obama was born in the United States, and a significant percentage of them believe he was a Muslim,” said Carney.
“Think about how corrosive that is to our politics, and think about the kind of partisanship that that kind of corrosive politics has contributed to what we see today. And that was consequential. That was a mistake. We should have taken it seriously. We shouldn’t have joked about it. And you know, perhaps it would have ended differently,” he added.
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April 23rd, 2022 @ 8:15 am
This traitor is a Joke! Mr. Bedard, why is he using the SSN of a dead man? You can buy a birth certificate at Walmart! Even the Cabbage Patch Kids used to come with one. In Puerto Rico, a territory of the U.S., the whole population had to get new birth certificates because the criminals were able to steal and replicate millions of blank official birth certificates and sell them to the Dominicans. Mr. Beard, do you know the difference between Singular and Plural? Sir, you are as corrupt as Obola and still are publishing “misinformation”. Could it be you are all afraid of the mid-terms?
April 23rd, 2022 @ 8:39 am
A majority of Republicans believe that Jesus was the living son of God and that he awoke from dead and ascended bodily to heaven. So no accounting for stupidity.
April 24th, 2022 @ 12:08 am
Obama Trolls President Trump Over “Birther” Issue: ‘I Was Able to Get Away with’ Not Being Born in the US (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/obama-trolls-president-trump-birther-issue-able-get-away-not-born-us-vide
April 24th, 2022 @ 9:31 pm
Obama didn’t dare fight it; he knew he that he didn’t have a leg to stand on. But he wasn’t expecting Trump! Trump Won! God Bless America Amen
April 24th, 2022 @ 9:33 pm
Correction:
Obama didn’t dare fight it; he knew that he didn’t have a Leg to Stand on. But he wasn’t expecting Trump! Trump Won! God Bless America Amen
April 25th, 2022 @ 9:20 am
Yeah, that was your biggest mistake you made all along…
But you also made a bigger mistake, later:”by not fighting the obvious when people brought up the real info…!~~~
April 25th, 2022 @ 9:22 am
Yeah, that was your biggest mistake you made all along…
But you also made a bigger mistake, later:”by not fighting the obvious when people brought up the real info…!!~~~
April 25th, 2022 @ 2:59 pm
How was British/Indonesisian citizen residential usurper Obama aka Soetoro’s usurpation consequential to him? Soetoro got everything he wanted except Fascist Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court, but got the two other gov fascists on.
April 25th, 2022 @ 3:01 pm
In fact traitor Obama is still running things in DC today.