Outgoing White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today suggested that those who have questions about Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president are not completely rational, and then he turned the daily briefing into a standup comedy routine when questioned about several key issues by Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House.
Regarding the issue of Obama’s eligibility, he said, “I think rational people have come to the conclusion, many of them years ago, that the president is – was born in Hawaii and is a citizen of the United States of America.”
The issue, however, is not a question of citizenship, but of the Constitution’s requirement that the president be a “natural born citizen” to occupy the office.
But when Kinsolving asked about the attendance of the members of the Supreme Court at Tuesday’s State of the Union address, and when he asked about a sudden idea that Republicans and Democrats in the House should sit together for the speech, Gibbs responded with one-liners.
“How many Supreme Court justices are going to attend, Robert?” asked Kinsolving, raising the issue that became news last year when Obama publicly blasted the justices for one of their decisions while they were sitting in the audience at the State of the Union.
“You know, I have not answered my RSVP line on that today, Les, so I don’t know the answer,” Gibbs responded.
Later, Kinsolving asked, “Why did the Democrat proposal to break up partisan seating at the State of the Union come only this year after the Democrats became such a distinct minority in the House?”
“Read the first part again,” said Gibbs.
“Why did the Democrat proposal to break up partisan seating at the State of the Union come only…” Kinsolving started.
“Lester, did you identify a Democratic conspiracy with which to co-mingle the seating? Ah! Can I just mention…” Gibbs said.
“It didn’t happen when the Republicans were a minority. I’m just wondering if you could explain why,” Kinsolving asked.
“Well, I can’t speak for the Republicans. But I will say that 52 minutes into this briefing, news has been made and Lester has uncovered the grand conspiracy of losing Congress in order to comingle seats,” Gibbs said, drawing laughter from other old-line media reporters in the room.
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