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Will Republicans kick President Obama off the ballot in several states?
Republicans have a new tactic to try to win back the White House in 2012 – and that’s to kick President Obama off the ballot in several states. 11 states in our nation are currently considering legislation that would require President Obama to prove he was born in the United States in order to have his name placed on the state’s presidential ballot. Of course – President Obama has already proven he was born in Hawaii – and that state has repeatedly confirmed it by releasing his birth certificate. But still – the birthers aren’t satisfied. Georgia is the latest state to introduce similar legislation – as Republican state lawmaker Mark Hatfield puts it: “It is, in a sense, a response to ... the sitting president and his inability or unwillingness to release his original birth certificate." What it’s actually in response to though is the Republican Party playing to the racism inherent in it’s voting base. Rather than correcting those who think the President was born in Kenya – the GOP wants to exploit them for political gain.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Wisconsin, labor update (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Wisconsin, labor update With James Hoffa, General President - International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Screwed: Fox News Airs Random Protest Video To Make Wisconsin Demonstrations Appear Violent With Dan Gainor, Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow-Business and Media Institute.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Birther Bills Pop Up In Numerous States Ahead Of 2012 With Philip J. Berg, birther/attorney.
Time to "drill, baby, drill?" With Amanda Carey, Reporter-Daily Caller.
Separation of Church & State Couple Lose Foster Care Right Over Homosexuality Stance. With Dr. Paul Cameron, Chairman, Family Research Institute.
Daily Take: American Co's are traitors to the middle class
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict." -- Simone Weil (1909-1943), The Need for Roots, 1949.
Hour One: Latest from the trenches...Wisconsin's war on Labor with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine; Associate Editor-Capital Times; author/co-author of several books, latest (with Robert McChesney) "The Death and Life of American Journalism".
Hour Two: Why don't conservatives care about the world children will inherit? Thom confronts Rory Cooper, Heritage Foundation.
Hour Three: How far will birthers go to keep a black person from being President? Thom challenges Andy Martin, Andy Martin 2012.
Is there a civil war coming in the GOP? find out as Ari Berman joins Thom from The Nation Magazine...
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Coming up Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: Why do conservatives think that bombs are the answer to everything? Thom confronts Michael Ledeen of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Thom's Poll
GA Rep. Hatfield joins 10th states with a bill requiring Obama's original birth certificate to run in 2012 - Do you have yours?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Mirror, mirror on the wall...Who's the most crony capitalist of all?
Darrell Issa's team includes industry insiders
Is this officially the best congressional committee money can buy?
I smell corruption on the high court
Watch yesterday's full show...
Full Show - 3/1/11. Wisconsin Protests, Koch Brothers Subsidies, Issa's Team
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