Sheriff Joe on Obama and that "Birther" thing: "I was doing him a favor. We'll see what happens."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Joe Arpaio: Birther Investigation Is 'A Favor' To Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/joe-arpaio-birther-obama_n_1291772.html



Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was rebuked in December by the Justice Department for alleged civil rights violations, said on Tuesday that he will release his findings on President Barack Obama's birth certificate on March 1.

Arpaio further implied that the president should be thanking him for looking into whether his Hawaii birth certificate is a fake.

"When I took this mission on, I took it on to possibly be able to clear the president," Apraio said during a speech in Maricopa County, where he serves as sheriff. "I was doing him a favor. We'll see what happens."

He didn't give any hints as to what his birther "Cold Case posse" had found, but insisted his press conference was not driven by a desire to gain media attention. "I don't have press conferences just to get my name on television," he said. (Granted, he gets his name on TV plenty as it is, particularly for mishandling immigration enforcement authority until his office was banned from a federal partnership program.)

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1. Oh, please. n/t

[jberryhill]

2. "to possibly be able to clear the president

Because, as we all know, the Constitution requires the Maricopa County Sheriff to vet anyone elected to the office of President of the United States.