Sarah Palin says "More power to him," speaking to Fox News' Justice Jeanine, late Saturday evening, of Donald Trump, who says he, personally, has investigators in Hawaii actively searching for the long-form birth certificate of President Obama. "I appreciate that Donald wants to spend his resources getting to the bottom of something that so interests him and many Americans."
"He's not just throwing stones, from the sidelines," champions Palin. "He's digging in there, paying for researchers to find out why President Obama would have spent $2 million to not show his birth certificate."
According to a poll released by Fox News, April 7, 2011, four of ten of all American voters, not merely Republicans, do think there is ample "cause to question" whether Obama was born in the U.S and one in four American voters outright believe Obama was not born in the U.S. and has no right to be president.
Although the issue of Obama's birth is one that progressives try to posit as a loser for GOP chances to win independent voters, 21% of independents and 12% of Democrats answered "No" that they did not believe Obama was a legitimate American citizen by birth.
The popular Justice Jeanine pointed out that the elephant in Obama's reelection 2012 room, behind all of the controversy over Obama's legitimate right to serve as President of the United States, was that though President Obama had made a "certificate of birth" available, he was refusing to show his birth certificate. Justice Jeanine added that she too, had heard the $2 million amount bandied about as the astronomical cost Obama had expended in order to avoid simply ponying up with the actual birth certificate.
Both Palin and Justice Jeanine thought Donald Trump was hitting right to the heart of many populace interests as he relentlessly teased the press, and the Obama administration, flirting with his own run for the GOP presidential nomination.
"The more people we have in a contested primary, the better. That's more aggressive debate people can look forward to. That's more ideas that will surface. Competition makes everybody better," said Sarah speaking of Trumps' running in the 2012 GOP presidential primary.
Following is a transcript of relevant Palin comments from the "more power to Donald Trump" gist of the conversation as well as reasons why Palin questions Obama's energy policy and the lack of respect for the intelligence of Americans in the recent budget debate. The transcript, by Devonia Smith from the video available on the left sidebar, begins with Sarah's response to Trump's suggestion that the U.S. take Iraq oil until fully compensated for cost of U.S. military support in their country:
I do think that Iraq, and other countries that we assist in trying to stabilize them; I think they should be compensating the U.S. - especially when they do have resources they could be sharing.
I think that part of the Donald's drive there is to see that Americans start having some supplies of energy that we can count on. I would much rather be digging up here, in Alaska, for resources, drilling in Anwar, drilling off shore, drilling in any of the 97% of the coastal area that our president has shut off as he manipulates the U.S. oil supply - and harms our economy.
I would much rather be seeing some domestic supply being exploited responsibly for our own use ... It's very, very insulting what the administration and President Obama tried to shove down the American public's throat, in terms of rhetoric, and the scare tactics and the chaos that would ensue.
They tried to get people to believe if there was a partial shut-down or slow-down of government spending if they were to agree to some kind of compromise with the Republican House members with this latest budget deal. It was offensive because Americans are much more intelligent than I think they want to give us credit for.
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