{"id":6808,"date":"2009-12-04T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/12\/sarah-palin-panders-to-birther.html"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T11:30:02","slug":"sarah-palin-panders-to-birther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/12\/sarah-palin-panders-to-birther.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin panders to birthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1209\/Palin_Obama_birth_certificate_a_fair_question.html?showall\">Oh boy<\/a>! Not a smart move, it really moves her further to the fringes if she&#8217;s willing to pander to those who won&#8217;t get off that hobby horse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that. I don&#8217;t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers,&#8221; she replied.&#8221;Do you think it&#8217;s a fair question to be looking at?&#8221; Humphries persisted.&#8221;I think it&#8217;s a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records &#8212; all of that is fair game,&#8221; Palin said. &#8220;The McCain-Palin campaign didn&#8217;t do a good enough job in that area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Palin&#8217;s interview begins at 9 minutes into the video:<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" id=\"utv419635\" name=\"utv_n_779906\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoplay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/flash\/video\/2703332\" \/><embed flashvars=\"autoplay=false\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" id=\"utv419635\" name=\"utv_n_779906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/flash\/video\/2703332\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy! Not a smart move, it really moves her further to the fringes if she&#8217;s willing to pander to those who won&#8217;t get off that hobby horse: I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that. I don&#8217;t know if I would have to bother&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sarah Palin panders to birthers - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/12\/sarah-palin-panders-to-birther.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sarah Palin panders to birthers - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh boy! 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