Mike Coffman Quotes
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.
Lee, Kurtis. "Rep. Mike Coffman on Obama: 'In his heart, he's not an American'." The Denver Post, 16 May 2012.
Despite the fact that she had been born in Russia and had been deported from the United States, she was one of the first left wing radicals to realize that America was more liberal than Russia after the revolution.
This was a particularly heinous insult. In this campaign, some Republicans began claiming that President Obama was not a legitimate President because he was not born in America as the Constitution requires. Despite the fact that the State of Hawaii validated his birth certificate and the local newspapers carried announcements of his birth, many continued to make the accusation along with the parallel accusation that he was a Muslim and not a Christian despite his Church Membership all of his adult life. For many the purpose was to delegitimize Obama and they added the claim that he was anti American. So when Sununu, a major party leader said this the implication was particularly egregious. Sununu, to his credit, did apologize for the language he used and the implication thereof, but the quote is an excellent example of what has happened when campaigns get hyper-partisan. Even senior, veteran politicians get carried away and say things they regret. The 2012 was a particularly hyper-partisan campaign.
Michael Harold Coffman is an American politician, businessman and retired veteran of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps serving as Mayor of Aurora, Colorado since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he has spent over 30 years in public office in Colorado. Coffman served as the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 6th congressional district for five terms, as well as in the posts of Secretary of State of Colorado and Colorado State Treasurer.
