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You think it was the stupidest war we ever fought. but that's just my thinking. what do you think? where were you guys when bush was here? >> well we were there. i think what happened was, i mean it was october 2008. when t.a.r.p. was passed, that the entire, you know, kind of frustration about republicans rose to a real height. and i think that the automobile bailout, and then the takeover and then the stimulus package really drove us out onto the streets in protest. so i think that there was a rumbling during you know, during, i think it's a nonpartisan movement and there was a rumbling duri...

Documentation? >> okay, okay. you're one of the birthers, then? >> i'm absolutely not a birther, chris. but the point is that the supporters of president obama have failed to answer in clear, simple terms and it feeds -- it feeds it. >> okay. this is where we start and this is where it gets crazy with a lot of your people. i want to go to ryan on this. this is where it gets wacky. when you were born, was there an announcement in the newspaper that you were born? i don't think there was for me, we weren't that prominent. but apparently for barack obama, they've gotten a newspaper back in hawaii...

That particular constitutional problem. but you add all of these things up together, and you project them out into the future. and you're in a situation where you're not only going to have federal debt exceeding the annual gross domestic product of the country, but you're going to have a federal deficit that is unprecedented. you're going to have federal spending well north of 25% of the total gdp. and those things become simply a bridge too far. they become financially unsustainable, chris. >> that's a good argument, that's a good argument. like that argument. were you making that kind of arg...

The whole birther movement. i think if you look at the polls, over 48% of americans identify themselves as tea parties, while only 42% with barack obama. so i would question that there is a lack of trust there. in the american people generally for him. now, if a certain percentage -- >> three-fifths -- are you one of the birthers? because three-fifths of the tea party people are not willing to simply say, okay, he's another american like me. so why is that the case, ryan? >> i am not a birther. >> why are three-fifths of your numbers around you -- >> chris, you're trying to marginalize the gra...

Ago. where is the proper documentation? >> okay, okay. you're one of the birthers, then? >> i'm absolutely not a birther, chris. but the point is that the supporters of president obama have failed to answer in clear, simple terms and it feeds -- it feeds it. >> okay. this is where we start and this is where it gets crazy with a lots of your people. i want to go to ryan on this. this is where it gets wacky. when you were born, was there an announcement in the newspaper that you were born? i don't think there was for me, we weren't that prominent. but apparently, they got a newspaper back in haw...