{"id":50067,"date":"2015-04-14T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/if-theres-one-thing-only-i-have-to-give-to-the-birthers.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:01:41","slug":"if-theres-one-thing-only-i-have-to-give-to-the-birthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/if-theres-one-thing-only-i-have-to-give-to-the-birthers.html","title":{"rendered":"If there&#039;s one thing (only) I have to give to the Birthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is at least they are consistent and non-partisan in their xenophobia. Now that Obama&#39;s no longer a worthwhile target, they&#39;re taking aim at Marco Rubio (with occasional snipes at Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/return-rubio-birthers'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ypfT0sHYrG3Iv0PUMKo8FrAeGzoCQvMPAey2uly51f7CGQUhfTuOI1tovxPGu88U-oq7UzKkFGRi7Ehzdy1c0KkiA-kk19sO-Xse_5ZLjVKqHGua9RvosrRIuCYAH8tfv-N0-muWmKTV=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/return-rubio-birthers'>Return Of The Rubio Birthers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFlorida Sen. Marco Rubio&rsquo;s announcement yesterday that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination has brought back a strain of far-right birtherism that contends that Rubio is not eligi\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3Hc8vfUZJbT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is at least they are consistent and non-partisan in their xenophobia. Now that Obama&#39;s no longer a worthwhile target, they&#39;re taking aim at Marco Rubio (with occasional snipes at Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal). Return Of The Rubio Birthers Florida Sen. Marco Rubio&rsquo;s announcement yesterday that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/if-theres-one-thing-only-i-have-to-give-to-the-birthers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If there&#039;s one thing (only) I have to give to the Birthers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,381,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33729,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/marco-rubio-shows-a-remarkable-grasp-of-todays-burning-issues.html","url_meta":{"origin":50067,"position":0},"title":"Marco Rubio shows a remarkable grasp of today&#39;s burning issues","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-13 9:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"By demanding that the Secretary of the Treasury fire (or ask for the resignation) of the IRS Commissioner. 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