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By Roy Edroso, Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:00AM
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As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as to whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth and the confirmation of Hawaii's State Department of Health are either bogus or insufficient. When lawyer Philip J. Berg demanded better proof of Obama's citizenship before the November election, he had little evident support, but in these early months of the Obama Presidency some Republican politicians, talk show hosts, and of course rightbloggers have taken up his cause, and for that have been granted the derisory cognomen "birthers."

To be sure, some prominent conservatives have dismissed the birthers' claims, and even those GOP officials who have entertained them seem disinclined to to go to the wall for them. Despite a poll showing an ominous level of support among Republicans for the notion that the President is an undocumented alien, there's little hope at present for a serious groundswell of birther agitation, aside from some "citizen grand juries" summoned by the more creative sort to defenestrate the usurper.

But while the birther movement has its diehards, many rightbloggers enjoy roiling their concerns just to cloud Obama's reputation. They present themselves as birther agnostics -- observers who don't necessarily believe the charges, and sometimes take pains to distinguish themselves from the birthers, but find in the very existence of the controversy proof Obama has something to hide.

National Review's Mark Krikorian, for example, stated "the whole birther thing is lunacy" -- then quoted an email asserting that "we do know that there are things Obama tried to hide, such as his association with Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger as well as William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Do his records reveal other questionable associations or statements?... Why is Obama getting a pass when other presidents do not?" While we are unaware that other presidents have had their birth records so tirelessly questioned, context suggests the lesson the correspondent draws from the birther investigation is that Obama is untrustworthy.

An author at Right Wing News rose to "point out one more time, I believe Obama was born in Hawaii, is considered to be a natural born citizen, and has every right to be president." However! "I suspect there is something embarrassing on the certificate of birth (versus the short Certification of Live Birth) that he doesn't want people to see, hence the lawsuits."

Independenteyesonamerica's Blog said, "It's good practice to take a person at his word until someone shows you proof he is lying. Barack Obama says he was born in Hawaii, and since no one has shown any proof he was born in Kenya or elsewhere, it's OK to conclude he was born in Hawaii." But Questions Remain! "You have to admit though, even if you are a devout Obama-bot, Obama's refusal to release any original documents makes for a newsworthy story by itself." Therefore, "the Birther movement is Obama's fault for not releasing the records."

The liberal media are also to blame, said Nebraska Redneck. He finds the "'birther' saga... old news, frankly." But "What's fascinates me is the timing of the MSM's interest in the story... Is the MSM genuinely interested in answering the questions about Obama's birthplace, or do they sense another opportunity to ridicule and marginalize the Right?" Besides, "Obama's little, inconsequential lies add up to one big lie. How can anyone believe anything this guy says? " Finally, he repeated some of Andrew McCarthy's birtheristic charges, showing a revived interest in the "old news" of birtherism.

Tom Maguire of Just One Minute has kept busy showing that opponents of birtherism are not making their case. When Josh Marshall said he'd never seen a "never seen any serious argument that the child of an American citizen, even if born abroad, isn't him or herself a natural born American citizen," Maguire pounced: "How hard did he look?" When Marshall admitted in an update there were "lacunae the birthers hang their hat on," which he nonetheless found far-fetched, Maguire presented this as evidence of the press' incuriosity about liberal malfeasance: "The media did no job at all prying into the John Edwards love-child debacle, and they didn't even love him."

Elsewhere Maguire split hairs with David Weigel on the question of motive for faking Obama's Americanism, and with a National Review editorial that offered a qualified denunciation of birtherism on the available evidence ("It is known as a 'Certification of live birth,' aka the short form. A 'certificate of live birth,' aka the long form, has more information... National Review ought to care because getting this detail wrong will leave folks wondering whether they have been following the debate and doing their homework"). Eventually Maguire said that people who did not credit the conspiracy to place an illegal in the White House were "True Believers" who, unlike the inquisitive birthers, simply took on faith that Obama is an American citizen, and stubbornly remained willfully ignorant of all the innuendo suggesting otherwise.

Throughout his posts, Maguire emphasized that he is not one one of those people -- "My point - as to what actually transpired, how would I know?" "Do I think that is the percentage bet? No," "I have no idea what actually happened in 1961," etc. -- and proclaimed that "I am in the 'Show Us The Certificate' camp - what's the mystery?" Of course, Obama could produce Long Form, Longer Form, and Still Longer Form certificates and eyewitness testimony from an obstetrician, and it would do no good -- not with such dispositive evidence as Obama's Kenyan birth certificate floating around the internet, and rightbloggers treating it more seriously than officially-released documents, despite its problems.

Lame Cherry was sold: "Paper color is correct, as is age of coloration, wear on the ribbon ink of the font. This document matches exactly what it should look like having been generated in 1964 and held in files for this long for 'safekeeping.'"

"The provenance is not known because the anonymous source is afraid for their life," Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias informed us. The anti-birther true believers will kill to keep this wisdom down -- just like enemies of truth in the past! Rumblings had many reasons to believe, including this: "Second, notice also that Obama carefully avoided Kenya on his recent trip to Africa. Again, why? Why go out of your way to avoid stepping foot on the soil of your father's -- and maybe your own -- birth?"

But some rightbloggers saw problems -- not with the alleged Kenyan proof, but with a world that is not sufficiently in tune with their vision.

Macsmind certainly finds the alleged Kenyan document interesting, but despairs that "it may not matter as no court will remove or invalidate Obama's presidency out of fear of an constitutional crisis." "Will everyone who looks at this paper be branded a 'racist?'" asked Mcnorman's Weblog.

Still, some held out hope. "I'm not going to pretend that I have the skills to authenticate this document -- even if it was right in front of me," said Marathon Pundit, "but the birth certificate controversy is getting curiouser and curiouser."

"Speaking only for myself, I have NO IDEA if this is valid or not. It may just be a complete fabrication," said Evil Conservative Radio. "But as Obama plaintiff Charles Kerchner said, 'it's at least as valid as Obama's online COLB' being waved around on MSNBC and held by Factcheck.org."

Alan Peters' News Views quickly found a related conspiracy -- "OBAMAISTS TRY TO DISCREDIT KENYA BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH A SIMILAR BUT FALSE KENYAN ONE- FOR ANOTHER HOAX." We're not sure what he means, except that Questions Remain and this latest edition of the birther story will live on until the next one. It almost makes us grateful for the unrelated, free-associative Obama investigations of Atlas Shrugs ("Why not tell the truth about Obama and his reported strange sexual predilections... Why isn't CNN pursuing the nude pornographic photos of Obama's mom..."). Alas, unlike Nebraska Redneck, we have not the liberty to ignore "old news" while the rightbloggers keep finding fresh ways to serve it up.

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Comments (137)

Bob Miller says:

If this is TRUE.

It is a sad day in America.

We have been sold a bill of goods by a group of Rich Elite, that only wanted a BLACK HARVARD as POTUS.

They could care less about the truth.

If we find this to be THE TRUTH..

We should try Obama for Treason and ensure that Michele Obama is imprisoned for at least 20 years in the worst women's prison in the country.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:27AM
Shrewsbury says:

I think I've figured out why Obama won't release the actual birth certificate, thus stoking the fires of the "birther" movement. It's so that pathetic lefties, to whom the most important thing in the world is to believe that they're smarter and cooler than middle and working-class white people, will have something they can sneer at, day after day, in endless blog posts thousands of words long, using the same dehumanizing sneer-words over and over again, showing every day how very much smarter and cooler they are than middle and working-class white people. Obama loves you!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:48AM
JimH says:

The reason berry wont release the info is because he was born in Kenya. He is not the President of the United States of America.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:02AM
yukondave says:

I can understand why some people do not believe factcheck.org over say a federal judge. My nephew just got his first passport and he had to walk in with a certified birth certificate to prove his citizenship. Can someone explain why Obama has not given his birth certificate to a judge and end this case? That sounds alot easier than sending the attorney General to have the case dismissed. And cheaper.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:05AM
Substance McGravitas says:

I suspect there is something embarrassing on the certificate of birth

Gold, myrrh, and FRANKENSTEIN.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:06AM
Anonymous says:

If this is TRUE.

but it's not.

I didn't read the rest of your post cause you have issues to sort out.
it takes a special kind of moron to hang an entire conspiracy on the on the most stringent parsing of the word 'certification'

the truth is

well that depends on the meaning of the word 'is' doesn't it?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:17AM
JimH says:

well that depends on the meaning of the word 'is' doesn't it?


No it doesn't. The law is very clear here. And berry doesn't make the grade. Pun intended.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:29AM
Anonymous says:

At the moment, there is more proof for the
existence of UFO's, remote viewing and psychic phenomena than there is for an *original* document for Obama's birth certificate. 'I saw it! It really, really exists!" or "John Doe has a certified document saying that it really, really exists, so it must be true!" is not an original document.

The burden of proof does not rest upon those
who doubt the claimant. The burden of proof
rests solely upon the claimant. Mr. Obama has said, "I am qualified to be president." Over the last year, approximately forty million American citizens have said, "Prove
it." Mr. Obama and his supporters have said
in reply, "Prove that I'm not!"

Mr. Obama has offered a simple burden of proof fallacy in support of his claims and then followed it by Appeals to Ridicule, to Popularity and to Authority and to False Dilemma/False Choice. ("Believe me or else you're a nutjob!") In view of the lack of
evidence of an original document, there can
only be one rational conclusion: An original
document does not exist, or if it does exist, it contains information that disproves the assertions made by Mr. Obama, the claimant.

Remember: He 'applied' for the job of POTUS. The primary qualification is that he be a *natural born* citizen.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:40AM
JimH says:

Ok here we go,

See this URL. http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/presrequire.htm

Ok, who isn't stupid enough to see it.

Berry is adopted. His father is not from the U.S. This is automatic disqualification from the post of President of the United States.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:51AM
philos says:

This sedition should be prosecuted.

Who is paying you people?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:52AM
dave says:

We the people of the United States of America are tired of being ripped off and lied to. Here we have a clear case of cover up at the highest level, by the entire establishment: the executive, legislative, judicial, and the media to deceive the world and usurp the power of the presidency.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:24AM
Ursus Horribilis says:

The more the left goes after the "BIRTHERS," in the media, the more it only roils the pot and all the more people become aware of the thing. This question about Obama is not going away, but will only intensify, as it now has Academia credence.

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2009/07/30/why-obamas-birth-certificate-issue-wont-go-away-vanderbilt-expert.85536

Now if I understand this right, the constitution does state one must be a natural born citizen to be eligible for the presidency.

So if those demanding the proof as the constitution requires, are labeled as, "BIRTHERS." Then those who say the constitution doesn't matter, then they must be labeled as, "AFTER BIRTHERS."

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:26AM
AriG says:

OBAMA IS A FRAUD. Many know this sad fact.

Supresses his BC and many other vital docs;
20 years with Wright - and Ob has recall;
Rezko loot to sellout southside Chicago;
Ayers-just the guy nx door;
Acorn, Inc.
Stonewalling re all doc requests bec they CONFLICT with his stories.

Very serious problems. Many ultra liberals are acting very Un-Democratic. WHY?

WHO is Obama? Do you know him? Do believe him? if so WHY? Please explain his "credibility" to you personally?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:29AM
obama scam says:

Birth Certificate may have been found!!

And guess where it is from?

You got it, Kenya!!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105764

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:49AM
GoodGrief says:

I find it funny that all the left wing sites seem to try to say that the "birthers" are all republicans. The truth is people that the origional "birthers" were democrats. This all started with the Hillary campaign and a Democrat running for President. The Dems always lie and spin things.
I voted for Obama and used to be a democrat but now am Independent and truly am sorry that I ever voted Obama. At least I can admit that I made a huge mistake.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:56AM
daphnechyprious says:

What I find more depressing than these desperate souls is that no poster thus far has pointed out that this story isn't about Obama's birth or his certificate. Hint: think meta.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:04AM
INDEPENDENT Eyes on AMERICA says:

Roy Edroso, I am so flattered you took the time to take a snippet from my blog and decide I'm a right winger. I thought you might like to check out another page. http://independenteyesonamerica.wordpress.com/about/
Just incase the name of my blog doesn't tell you anything I am and always have been a INDEPENDENT. I think for myself. I do not follow the "YES WE CAN" cult.I do not Think President Obama was vetted properly. What were his grades? how did he pay for college? Where did he live while going to college? Other than smoking pot we know nothing about his college years. When did he get his U.S. passport?
I'm guessing you could tell me what color bathing suite Gov. Palin had on in the beauty contest she was in.....right??

But yet with President Obama.....nothing not even his long birth certificate. I know he has to have one to get a passport in the U.S....so just show everyone and end it all. I ask you how hard is that??

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:36AM
Dancer says:

well, if folks want to believe it they need to loose up their tin foil hat, first all, Mombasa was not in kenya at that time but zimbabwe, under british rule and goverment,
the date on that brith certificate for registering it 1964? How is that done? and making all the folks that were born in that hospital who are british citizens suddenly making them citizens of Kenya? also the name of the hospital is incorrect, and who is E.F. Lavender? Do you think that a new country just made a republic would run around collect information on all the folks born in another country and change it all while they were in the midst of getting officials and all in office?
and for the person that said Obama was adopted, under US law, a parent can not change the citizenship of a minor child,
I doubt that this will hold in court ,, there has to be prove this did come from offical files at that time,, And here we go again with those unmaned sources, remember that forneics expert , was unnamed for fear of his life, I think that heat has got to some of the campers from Camp crazies, and have more time on their hands ,
LOL

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:57AM
Consumer Unit 5012 says:

Wow, this filled up fast.

Whole lotta people who desperately want to use "The N-Word", but have a vague understanding that that won't win them any friends these days.

President Barack Hussein Obama.
Get used to it, you've got three and a half years to go, minimum, and all your wailing and ranting won't change that. :D

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:23AM
AnonymousWoman says:

That so-called Kenyan birth certificate if FAKE! Why? There is NO SUCH city in Kenya call Monbusa. Obama was born in 1961, NOT 1964! Plus, that birth certificate was issed in 1964. His father was 24 years old when his osn was born, NOT 26. Some of you ignorant nuts on here need to shut up. President Obama IS a US citizen. He is our prez, so, GET USE TO IT!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:16AM
Ursus Horribilis says:

AnonymousWoman says

That so-called Kenyan birth certificate if FAKE! Why? There is NO SUCH city in Kenya call Monbusa. Obama was born in 1961, NOT 1964! Plus, that birth certificate was issed in 1964]

Uh, you might want to read that little tingy where it says it is a certified copy of the orginal 1961 document.

Here is a Site where one can click on the BC document raising the fuss, then use mouse to move around inside the document and peruse for yourselves.

Zoom in at the + sign at the bottom

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18018714/03118509265


Who is John Galt?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:33AM
atheist says:
It's so that pathetic lefties, to whom the most important thing in the world is to believe that they're smarter and cooler than middle and working-class white people, will have something they can sneer at

Many of us are "middle and working-class white people", idiot.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:48AM
AnonymousWoman says:

@Ursus Holi...whatever
You need to get your stuff straight. First of all, in 1961, there was no such thing as the Repulic of Kenya. When Obama was born, Kenya was a COLONY. The country OFFICIALLY became INDEPENDENT in 1964. Get it right!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:02AM
Realist says:

the most important thing in the world is to believe that they're smarter and cooler than middle and working-class white people

Not at all. We're just smarter and cooler than you.

Which, quite frankly, doesn't take much effort on our parts.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 7:49AM
Just Saying... says:

This so-called "birther" movement is proof that there are some people in this country who are in need of mental help. To black people, this is just proof that as soon as a black guy wins, white guys want to change the rules.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:00AM
Realist says:

Other than smoking pot we know nothing about his college years

Really? How do you know he wasn't lying about the pot smoking? According to you clowns, he's lying about everything else. Funny how you believe him wholeheartedly when he's telling you something you want to hear, isn't it?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:08AM
atheist says:

I've heard that Obama was born on the planet EVOList, the seventh moon around the seventh planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani. I've heard that he was raised on an anti-gravity commune floating above the polar sea of liquid, elemental marxism. I've heard that he flew to Earth in a giant self-levitating ankh powered by the blood of slaves. I've heard that he's waited upon by the deadly mystikal Muslim Zombies of Negritude, and that they follow him because he's the Kwisatz Haderach of Communism. I've even heard that he's a peace candidate but that shit is ridiculous.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:05AM
par4 says:

Roy you really know how to bring out the loons.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:27AM
Another Luke says:

Crazy Ursus Horribilis says: "Who is John Galt?"

Um, a fictional character from one of the worst books ever written?

Who do you think he is? A role model? HA!

Keep being crazy, buddy. It's a good look.


Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:14AM
cthulu's mom says:

I love the Birthers. Because they expose America to their particular brand of lunacy, and America concludes that their Republican fellow travelers must be a little nutty too to think so highly of them.

Roy, are you sure that Birtherism isn't a *liberal* conspiracy, run out of some office in the basement of the White House? For if that were a case, Obama would have to be a certified genius. Even the nutcases are working for Obama!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:30AM
BobD says:

Lunacy circumnavigates the country while truth is still getting its shitkicking boots on.

These people would have been able to prove W Bush went AWOL from the National Guard ... if he were black.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:35AM
Ben says:

Man, the gibbering lunatics swooped in here fast.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:36AM
Leeds man says:

OBAMAISTS TRY TO DISCREDIT KENYA BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH A SIMILAR BUT FALSE KENYAN ONE- FOR ANOTHER HOAX

The same tactic used by Bushies in Rathergate? Don't see the point - why do all that work when you can just sit back and watch wingnut heads implode spontaneously?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:52AM
ignobility says:

It's so that pathetic lefties, to whom the most important thing in the world is to believe that they're smarter and cooler than middle and working-class white people, will have something they can sneer at

Wow, wingnuts are capable of self-reflection!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:01PM
zuzu says:

I'm always curious about what they think they'll find on the "long form" birth certificate that they won't find on the standard Certificate of Live Birth form. Because as far as I can tell, the information needed to determine citizenship -- place of birth -- is already on there.

As I understand it, the state of Hawai'i considers its "short form" certificate good enough for every purpose under the sun except for showing Native Hawaiian status. And considering that I got my passport by showing an even briefer form from the state of New Jersey, I can't imagine that the federal government would have any issue with accepting Hawai'i's certification.

Then there's the whole issue of why an 18-year-old woman would fly, in the pre-jet era, from Hawaii to Kenya to give birth to her first child in third-world conditions among her husband's family (which included his other wife, whom he'd neglected to inform his second wife about) and then fly back with a baby in time to meet friends three months later, when she lived near her own family and modern hospital facilities already.

And, really, who paid for that little jaunt. Because that's a hell of an expensive trip nowadays; it was out of the reach of a middle-class college student in 1961.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:17PM
Anonymous says:

... We should try Obama for Treason and ensure that Michele Obama is imprisoned for at least 20 years in the worst women's prison in the country. ...

Assuming your ridiculous birther fantasies were proved true, exactly what crime would you charge Michele with? ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:27PM
Anonymous says:

Oops. According to *her* phony birth certificate, Mrs. Obama spells her name "Michelle". My bad ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:32PM
shabadoo says:

And, really, who paid for that little jaunt. Because that's a hell of an expensive trip nowadays; it was out of the reach of a middle-class college student in 1961.

George Soros paid for it, obviously.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:41PM
Keifus says:

We the people of the United States of America are tired of being ripped off and lied to.

Ain't that the truth. But the birth certificate thing is such a retarded case of emotional transferance, one can only speculate at the zany Freudian apologies that must be involved.

(And I've heard of bathrooms, but a bathing suite! Now that sounds classy!)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:42PM
PARSEC says:

The "Kenyan Birth Certificate" has now been revealed as a hilarious hoax. But even if it had all been true, unless the Birthers can come up with a different woman who gave birth to him, he's an American citizen.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:54PM
tb says:

George Soros paid for it, obviously.

The people posting here- average birthers- are not going to recognize that name- for better results spell it Jewrge Satan-os, and pronounce it "Sar-OOOOeee-YI-YI-YI-YI-YIII-gobble-gobble! [sound of someone smearing their poop on the walls]." They'll recognize that instantly.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:25PM
Rick A Hyatt says:

Are the Humiliating Comment-makers Netizens CHICOM or just ACORN?
Thank God for Attny. Taitz and her actions to save the US Constitution and the US, itself.
Ever notice: On ALL the search engine searches (Read they've been suppressing pro-birther results) the criticisms of all us "Birthers" is the same as they do in Red China?
There, the government employs a horde of "Netizens" to go to sites to humiliate & denigrate & suppress anti-government talk. They're paid about $.25 each, I've read.
Just like these apparent ACORN operatives do, they ALWAYS humiliate, denigrate, and use varying terms of "Mental Illness" in volume! Buzzwords like "Wingnut," "Birther," "Insane,"Unhinged, "Delusional,"
That's what happens to the average Chinese when they type out loud, and the Chinese have even more "Mental Health" Prisons as do the Russians.
The apparent wave of the future for us here in Obamaland?
But the CHICOMS have been waging economic and PSYOPS warfare on us a long time. They've apparently continued their terroristic use of Biblical prophesies (Remember what they did on 6/6/6?) by creating as part of The Big 0's Economic Manchurian Candidate grooming and Legend, that he's actually the Anti-Christ (Imagine the desired reactions.) That his name, "Barrack Obama," means "Antichrist," in ancient Hebrew in the Book of Luke, according to a religious researcher can be seen at this YouTube video on World Net News.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105527
This creation of a well-groomed "Legend," part of an overall economic warfare agenda, taking over at the top, is as old espionage craft as is planting ads in prominent Hawaii newspapers, making myth become "The Truth."

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:27PM
Ben says:

Rick, you really don't need our help to humiliate yourself. You're doing a fine job of it even without the help of Chinese Communist Satanist Hawaiian ACORN terrorist Netizens.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:42PM
24AheadDotCom says:

I've been covering this story for over a year in dozens of posts and, while Edroso (IIRC) linked to me once over another issue, he hasn't linked to me over this. Odd. Perhaps it's because, unlike some of that from the "Birthers" and most of that from the MSM, my coverage is completely fact-based. In fact, I've challenged the readers of Edroso's personal site to see if they could find even one thing that was false, misleading, or illogical in all my coverage, and all they did was engage in childish name-calling (peekURL.com/zhosxk4).

Maybe if Edroso wants a challenge he can see if he can find anything I've gotten wrong. I'm sure I won't have to wait long for him to take up the challenge.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:51PM
Anonymous says:

From reading the initial comments one can infer that our new supermax mental hospitals will have to be supplied with huge quantities of Jello, mashed potatoes, and other foods that don't require teeth to consume.
I think it's a damn shame we'll be unable to use the inmates as unpaid labor for building our transcontinental solar AmerEcuadorian highway, but even swinging a pick requires some goddamned competence.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 1:54PM
Matt T. says:

Aww. Roy, you hurt the 24Ahead guy's feelings. Hell hath no fury like a birther not being watched jump off the high dive, ya know.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:13PM
synykyl says:

... Thank God for Attny. Taitz and her actions to save the US Constitution and the US, itself. ...

If god's responsible for that joke, he's funnier than George Carlin and Richard Pryor put together.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:15PM
cthulhu's mom says:

Rick A. Wyatt is what 24AheadDotCom will be in five years if he keeps this up.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:24PM
Substance McGravitas says:

I've been covering this story for over a year in dozens of posts and, while Edroso (IIRC) linked to me once over another issue, he hasn't linked to me over this.

BOO HOO!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:27PM
Consumer Unit 5012 says:

God must love stupid people--He created SO MANY of them.

Man, the wingnuts are really coming out of the woodwork for this one. Do that many have this site bookmarked, or are they getting organized?

Rick A Hyatt: "There, the government employs a horde of "Netizens" to go to sites to humiliate & denigrate & suppress anti-government talk. They're paid about $.25 each, I've read."

How much do you guys get?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:27PM
Anonymous says:

... my coverage is completely fact-based ...

Man, the laughs just keep coming ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:27PM
Matt T. says:

... Thank God for Attny. Taitz and her actions to save the US Constitution and the US, itself. ...

She's a dentist, too. I'd think refering to someone as "Dr. Taitz" would have more heft than "Attny. Taitz", especially from a group of people with such vocal loathing for anyone who might be a "trial lawyer" or "activist judge". "Real Estate Agent Taitz" probably wouldn't help and I bet "Comrade Taitz" wouldbe a definate loser.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:28PM
tb says:

Chinese Communist Satanist Hawaiian ACORN terrorist Netizens.

Commonly abbreviated in "the community" as CHICOMSATHAWACTERNETs.

I assure you, but for the blog comments of these CHICOMetcs (as the abbreviation is commonly abbreviated in "the community", or "the com"- not to be confused with the com in CHICOM, however!), the views (commonly referred to as "rantings" by certain ASSHOLE PROVOCATEURS) expressed by Rick A. Hyatt would seem totally normal and well-reasoned to you. Your judgement is clearly clouded by their undue influence. Mr. Hyatt is in fact as sane as I am. Now, when I snurft glarble hahaha-EEEK- [scrabbling around in paper sound] ARF! ARF! ARF!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:31PM
oudemia says:

ZOMG. Too bad the Book of Luke is in Greek.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:38PM
terraformer says:

dave says:

We the people of the United States of America are tired of being ripped off and lied to. Here we have a clear case of cover up at the highest level, by the entire establishment: the executive, legislative, judicial, and the media to deceive the world and usurp the power of the presidency.
Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:24AM


Great, so you're finally on board with going after Bush and Cheney?

Oh, wait...

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:43PM
Moi says:

@Dave: "We the people of the United States of America are tired of being ripped off and lied to."

Well duh. Why do you think the Democrats swept the last election?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:47PM
Leeds man says:

That his name, "Barrack Obama," means "Antichrist," in ancient Hebrew in the Book of Luke

Right. From this passage of Luke;

Luke 10:18
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

And since the Hebrew for lightning is Baraq, and the Hebrew for heaven is Bamah, the conclusion is inescapable.

However, a bit later in Luke;

Luke 17:24
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

So, apparently Obama is Jesus as well. As always, lunatics see whatever they want to. It really is staggeringly pathetic.

This only took a couple of minutes to find, but one could spend a lifetime unravelling their gibberish. And that is what they count on.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:48PM
Consumer Unit 5012 says:

The dingbats who think Obama's the Antichrist should be _happy_ about it. After all, their weird doomsday mythology says the Antichrist has to rise to ultimate power before Jesus can return, right?

If they _really_ believed what they claim to believe, they'd be supporting Obama 100%.

Do You Believe That?

Fortunately for their cognitive dissonance, it's a load of bad linguistics anyway. Not that facts mean much to True Believers of any stripe.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:22PM
R. Porrofatto says:

what they think they'll find on the "long form" birth certificate that they won't find on the standard Certificate

THE long FORM birth certificate shows THAT Obama actually died IN childbirth. IN other WORDS, unlike THE truly ridiculous notion above BY atheist THAT Obama is merely waited UPON by zombies, he IS IN fact a deadly mystikal Muslim Zombie of Negritude. To be precise, he's the Grand Kleagle of THE MZN. This isn't TO SAY they don't wait ON him, though, AS they ARE known for their HOSPITALITY.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:34PM
Anonymous says:

I've been covering this story for over a year in dozens of posts and, while Edroso (IIRC) linked to me once over another issue, he hasn't linked to me over this.

No, you're not being linked because you're a self-promoting five-year-old shouting "Look at me!" over and over again.

Ta-Nehisi Coates banned your ass over at the Atlantic for doing what you're doing now. Don't you learn?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:35PM
muffler says:

I love the Internet. Finally we will have the things documented. Once Obama's term(s) are over we will have proven that you can't have 2 anit-christs (since he isn't it), the US wasn't thrown into Marxist socialism or any form of socialism and so many other claims by the right wing to raise fear of anything not from their town.

Information for right wingers: The East and west coast are not elitists, but they tend to be better educated and they make up over half the countries population. - The MSM is controlled by not the liberal left, but by the Corporate Giants who would rather have you fight amongst yourselves then be informed. Staten Island has almost as many people as Alaska. It's a borough of NYC - and the small one of 5. Bloomberg is just a mayor and his city has a greater income than Alaska plus several red states. Sarah Palin couldn't manage NYC if we trained her for 50 years.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:45PM
Anonymous says:

i has a sad.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:47PM
Anonymous says:

The burden of proof does not rest upon those
who doubt the claimant. The burden of proof
rests solely upon the claimant. Mr. Obama has said, "I am qualified to be president." Over the last year, approximately forty million American citizens have said, "Prove
it." Mr. Obama and his supporters have said
in reply, "Prove that I'm not!"


barack obama is not making the claim. he has provided evidence supporting the fact that he was born in hawaii. your dispute of the certification of live birth holds no water. simply because the document itself serves This copy serves as "prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding"

in other words. burden of proof is on you. good luck with the kenyan forgery though. its kinda cute... you all believing some document that just popped up out of nowhere last night and not a certified copy from the state of hawaii.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:55PM
dagwood says:

The damn liberals expect us to believe that Hawaii is really a state--which some of us suspect is not the case--and they still refuse to show us any convincing proof of that, all the while that Evil Colored Man is ruining our country! God gives us back George Bush to set everything right again...

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:56PM
24AheadDotCom says:

Regarding Ta-Nehisi Coates, I haven't yet added him to this list, but I'll get around to it. In the meantime, you can see the comment that he banned me over here: peekURL.com/zwpfbvj

My comment was definitely a bit adversarial, but what's important is that it showed how he was wrong. And, as with others who've deleted my comments or banned me, that's what it's all about. They can't stand it when someone shows how they're wrong.

And, once again, instead of even finding one single solitary thing I've gotten wrong, all Edroso's fans can do is throw out the childish ad homs. They aren't capable of any sort of grown-up debate.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:08PM
Another Luke says:

I, for one, have already spent my big OBAMA government check for being a "humiliating Comment-maker Netizen." Fortunately, when you are employed by both CHICOM and ACORN as well, you can get THREE checks! Four checks, if you count the George Soros money, and I think we all do, of course. Then again, there's welfare, which means five checks, as long as you keep those first four jobs SECRET. But perhaps I've said too much. Next time, I will be sure to better hide our fiendish plan of humiliating and disparaging TRUE PATRIOTS by calling them "crazy" (just like the communists do!) through clever use of a hidden biblical prophesy that only the clinicly insane and REAL AMERICANS can understand.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:11PM
synykyl says:

I'm not claiming dagwood is right, but why won't Hawaii produce it's certificate of statehood? What have they got to hide? ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:16PM
synykyl says:

Why won't Edroso and his readers address my completely fact based argument showing that Hawaii is actually a province of Kenya?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:25PM
Jay B. says:

I still think that whiny asshole who's all pissed at you Roy for not linking to him more is a robot. Since he hasn't proven otherwise, it seems obvious. What's the robot trying to hide anyway? Oil tears? Badly written code? A lack of nuts?


Also, just because you use all caps to emphasize that you are an INDEPENDENT it doesn't mean you aren't a loser worthy of a sneer.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:36PM
Floridan says:

I am somewhat hesitant to bring this up, but what the hell . . .

Mombasa, Kenya and Honolulu, Hawaii are "Sister Cities!" (http://www.honolulu.gov/menu/ecodev/sistercities/mombasa.htm)

They became Sister Cities in 2000 -- enough time after Obama's birth to not be obvious, but still far enough in front of his run for President so as not arouse undue suspicions.

Now if we can just get the original document and see who signed it . . .

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 4:46PM
Mrs Tilton says:

Better wackjobs, please.

Some readers might think that Rick Hyatt and 24aheaddotcom are impressive. If so, that only shows they're complete n00bs. Time Cube Guy has forgotten more batshittery than Rick or 24 will ever know. Pastor Grant Swank is an infinitely better writer than they are, albeit not in English (or any other other known language).

No, I'm with CU5012 here. President B. Hussein Obama X, bitchez!!!!111!! Normal people will be savoring the taste of your sweet, sweet tears for at least the next 3.5 years and, insha'llah, for the next 7.5.*

* I fully expect that one of you Limbaugh-listening bible-thumping Galt-going sheet-draped birther headcases will try to shorten that term using the time-honored fascist technique, but I'm betting the Secret Service's aim will be better.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:00PM
A.Lane says:

This is unbelievable. Many conservatives and extreme ones at that would like to change the rules to allow Arnold Schwarenegger to run for president, but a man who was born in America, of mixed racial heritage, is doubted ad naseum.

Get a grip people! Our economy, our health care, our sons and daughters at war in two nations all need our attention, intelligence and hard work to make things work in this country again.

Your obsession with this borders on insanity.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:00PM
Anonymous says:

"Your obsession with this borders on insanity."


borders? no honey, its set up a puppet government and is currently exporting insanity to bible belt.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:04PM
FreebieTheBean says:

Yukon Dave says
"Can someone explain why Obama has not given his birth certificate to a judge and end this case? That sounds alot easier than sending the attorney General to have the case dismissed. And cheaper."

Exactly. But Edroso and other liberal writers and bloggers can't or won't follow this logic.

Why, libs, won't Barry just go ahead and release this document and end the controversy? Maybe because it's more fun to pooh-pooh it all and make fun of conservatives while you're at it?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:05PM
Floridan says:

"Why, libs, won't Barry just go ahead and release this document and end the controversy?"

Because that wouldn't end it.

"Maybe because it's more fun to pooh-pooh it all and make fun of conservatives while you're at it?"

Well, that is true, but it's just a side benefit.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:12PM
Flux says:

I only made it through the first 15 or 20 comments, but I saw enough. BEST THERAD EVAR!!11!

The best part is that all of the ranting comments from the birthers, responding with a speed and monomania last seen during the Ron Paul "campaign," only help to convince the vast, sane, majority of the madness of their allegations.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:13PM
Anonymous says:

... Maybe because it's more fun to pooh-pooh it all and make fun of conservatives while you're at it? ...

I admit that it is fun to mock you morons. The fact that Obama's official birth certificate has been produced only makes it more fun.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:18PM
Ursus Horribilis says:

AnonymousWoman says:
[@Ursus Holi...whatever
You need to get your stuff straight. First of all, in 1961, there was no such thing as the Repulic of Kenya. When Obama was born, Kenya was a COLONY. The country OFFICIALLY became INDEPENDENT in 1964. Get it right!]


Uh, it is apparent that facts and history for you "After Birthers" are not your strong points.

Yes, Obama was born on Aug. 4th, 1961, and no, they were not part of Zanzibar, they were a British colony. Yes, Kenya did not become an officially recognized Republic by the world until December 12, 1964.

The British granted Kenya's independence on December 12th 1963, at which time they already had had adequate time to write their constitution and formulate their plans as what direction they would take. On that same date,( December 12th 1963) the Republic of Kenya Constitution was ratified and enacted. (the Kenyans moved fast so as to prevent Zanzibar from making any territorial claims upon the the Coast Province, within which is located the city of Mombasa.

. http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:A-HeGXPpmMUJ:www.kenya-information-guide.com/kenya-constitution.html+when+was+kenyan+costitution+ratified&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

From that December 12th 1963 date forward, there are contemporaneous official Kenyan documents printed, (to include identical certified copies of 1961 birth certificates) so stating "Republic of Kenya." That explains the certified birth certificate copy dated Feb 17th, 1964 of Obama's BC.

Look, if you take your young son down to register him to play Little League Baseball, you "MUST" have a "long form" birth certficate to do so. In Obama's book, "Dreams of My Father" he relates looking at his birth certificate and being amazed at all the details in it.

So lets just apply the little league criteria, if he has the long form document, just produce the damned thing and bring all this speculation to a halt. In short, WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Who is John Galt?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:22PM
Ben says:

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL IS IN ON THE CONSPIRACY

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:31PM
Ben says:

Seriously, though: Is there a single person in the world who actually believes that if an additional birth certificate were released (beyond the entirely legitimate one we already have), all the morons drooling over this hilarious forgery would say "Oh gosh, looks like we were wrong, time to move on." Believing that is probably even dumber than believing that Obama was born in Kenya.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:40PM
Jay B. says:

Look, if you take your young son down to register him to play Little League Baseball, you "MUST" have a "long form" birth certficate to do so.

Wrong. Many states don't even use "long form" birth certificates. Mine, from Massachusetts (so elitist, my dad was a cop and my mother used to teach Sunday School), takes up half a small page.

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

I don't know. You're the obsessive idiot, you tell us.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:42PM
BobD says:

Who is John Galt?

As someone told you before, he's the protagonist of one of the earlier novels by that lady who did the novels about a vampire. You know, they did a movie with Tom Cruise.

Re the certificate, you don't find it odd that the number's exactly his age when elected, followed by a 0 (or O for Obama), then the exact number of his presidency?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:48PM
General JOseph Kianga says:

Dear Friend,

My name is General Joseph Kianga, and I have
documentation proving that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Unfortunately I am unable to pay the holder of these documents because I am in exile and am unable to retrieve any funds from my Kenyan accounts. I would like to arrange a transfer of 3 million US dollars to your bank account. Once you receive the funds, you will transfer them to my account in the US. You will be rewarded with a 10 percent fee for your assistance. If you are prepared to help us, please reply this mail and let us agree on how it will be done.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:00PM
Ursus Horribilis says:

[... using the time-honored fascist technique, but I'm betting the Secret Service's aim will be better.]


Uh, you do know that it is alway the time honored left wingnuts that do the assasinations of leaders.

Also, that term Fascist, are you aware as to what Fascism really is?

Here is an interesting video:

Now for liberals, you might want to take notice where Gerald Celente explains what Fascism actually is. Does it ring a bell as to what Obama and the democrats are doing?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18t2_XvZRA

Who is John Galt?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:05PM
Anonymous says:

... Who is John Galt? ...

Who is Gene Ray? ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:17PM
Leeds man says:

Uh, you do know that it is alway the time honored left wingnuts that do the assasinations of leaders.

Uh, John Wilkes Booth was a liberal?

Silly me. When someone assassinates a leader, one just defines them as leftist. Works every time.

John Galt was a wanker.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:20PM
Anonymous says:

Who is John Galt?

Ok. Here's your answer.

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Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:22PM
Anonymous says:

John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question, "Who is John Galt?", and the quest to discover the answer.

As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator and inventor who embodies the power of the individual capitalist. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces the "stifling mediocrity" and egalitarianism of socialistic idealism. In this popular mass ideology, he is[citation needed] a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the world.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:27PM
Anonymous says:

As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator and inventor who embodies the power of the individual capitalist.

You can't get much more fictional than that. ;-)

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:36PM
Jay B. says:

Of course Booth was a liberal, Leedsy -- he was an actor, remember. And even he wasn't as lefty as ol' James Earl Ray who killed MLK over King's soft stand on adopting the Internationale as the new song for the Civil Rights Movement. And we lefties hated RFK because he wanted to stop killing the commie Vietnamese. Also.

Naturally, noted left winger Augusto Pinochet (celebrated by our ideological brethren at the National Review) barely even killed that awful guy Chile had before him -- thankfully, the CIA managed to help him out. And Arbenz who was killed because Chiquita just loved him too much.

And fascism is conveniently defined by crackpots as "whatever it is that I decide it means". Which is good.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:44PM
David Ehrenstein says:

Who is Alice Rosenbaum?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:44PM
Ryan says:

Who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 6:53PM
Travis says:

Holy shit! This is pure madness, straight from the firehose!

I do have one question for the birthers. Why is a birth certificate dated three years after a child's birth of any particular significance? Do you ever question why you quickly accept evidence that proves what you already believe?

Sigh. It doesn't matter. We're going to have deal with you lunatics for the rest of our political lives. Hopefully, none of you will try to actually kill the president. Given your endless claims of tyranny, anti-christhood, etc., it seems likely that one of you mentally ill people will indeed try.

It's very sad. You can't accept a president with a foreign name, a president with black skin. You lost the election 2008 by historic margins. Those of you who can read charts understand that it wasn't a fluke, that a combination of demographics and increasingly conservative policies have transformed the GOP into a narrow Southern party.

You'll win your GOP primaries, and you'll cheer for your hard-right candidates, and they'll never, ever win a national election --- not with the current right-wing shibboleths.

Suck on it, losers.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 7:49PM
Lloyd P. Horowitz says:

Rick A. Hyatt, you're just fuckin' with us, aren't ya? You read Mother Night on an acid trip and concocted this progeny-of-Communist superspy identity 'cause you thought it might be funny. Well, it is.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 7:52PM
Chris Vosburg says:

Rick A Hyatt says:

Dude! Wow, how cool to run into you here. Your writing style is unmistakeable, even though its now, um, forty years later.

Folks, Rich (as he called himself back in the day when he was dating my older sister, and according to her, striking out every night), is an old friend.

Somewhere I have a picture of him pretending to be William F Buckley with a pipe in his mouth, an elbow on the mantlepiece, and a law volume open in his hand.

So Rick, dude, what are you up to now? Are you still a moron? Oh wait, I guess your comment kind of answers that. Well, cheers anyway,ya dope.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 7:52PM
ignobility says:

24AheadDotCom sounds an awful lot like ObamaTestDotCom, don't you think?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:04PM
Twisted_Colour says:

Who is John Galt?

I dunno, does he have a birth certificate?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:24PM
Anonymous says:

It's so that pathetic lefties, to whom the most important thing in the world is to believe that they're smarter and cooler than middle and working-class white people, will have something they can sneer at, day after day..."

Whadaya wanme to do, learn howda drag my knuckles?


Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:27PM
Chris Vosburg says:

Who is John Galt?

ticktickticktickticktick....

Emcee: would you like to call your friend who can help you make up your mind?

Contestant: Yes--No--maybe. No!

Emcee: What is your answer?

Contestant: Sorry, what was the question again?

Emcee: Who is John Galt?

Contestant: Okay, I can answer this.

Emcee: Is this your final answer?

Contestant: Yes. Yes it is.

Emcee: Who is John Galt?

Contestant: Who cares?

Emcee: CORRECT!

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:46PM
DocAmazing says:

It got mentioned upthread, but it was so much fun reading all of the DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! ALL-ONE-GOD ALL-CAPS Dr. Bronnerisms it got lost: Li'l George Bush din not just go AWOL from the Air National Guard, he deserted. A long enough period AWOL is a desertion, and a desertion in wartime (that was what we were doing in Viet Nam, right?) carries a death sentence.

Of course, he's white, so our kerning komrades are not too upset by this fact...

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 8:51PM
Ben says:

This would appear to resolve the issue of the current forgery making the rounds (look at the registrar names, book number, page number, etc.):

http://politijab.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2099

Now observe as almost none of the people taken in by the fake express embarrassment or regret, and bear that in mind the next time a wingnut tells you that the controversy will go away if Obama just gives in to his demands.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:23PM
Mr. Wonderful says:

I'm so torn. On the one hand, this birther idiocy is a tumor on the public mind, a whoopie cushion interrupting many important discussions of public issues--e.g., the entire way this country regulates its financial system is open to question, and these cretins have to play Let's Make Believe We're Patriots, and find things "interesting," and proclaim in tones stentorian their earnest, indignant denunciations.

On the other hand, it's so much fun to mock them. I get yuks aplenty every day from familiar names here and on other sites. Who in their right mind would ever want that to end?

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:28PM
Anonymous says:

The thing about the little fuckers is they never stop tearing their hair out. Even when they get power they keep shrieking about imagined plots against the purity of the blood and encroaching negritude or Jewishness, or insufficient moral resolve to kill the enemies of all but the pure, until there are just fucking heaps of dead everywhere. They would ultimately slaughter each other like cattle, given half the chance. It's a direct result of being deeply ineducable, perhaps by being hardened by early exposure to physical abuse, or sexual malfeasance on the part of their religious or familial cohort.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 10:28PM
Consumer Unit 5012 says:

I wonder....what's the overlap between these guys and the ones who were telling us a few years ago that "due to the Ongoing State of WAR between the USA and Terrorism ANY criticism or disobedience of the President is giving AID and COMFORT TO THE ENEMY AND IS TREASON!!!@!!1one!"?

Because I'd like to remind them that the War(s) in question aren't over yet.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 10:37PM
waldo says:

Who is John Galt?

He's a fictional character in a dreary work of fiction by an eccentric woman with a cynical view of the world who wishes to destabilize a political system by promoting anti-egalitarianism.

This melds perfectly with the eccentric theories of cynical wingnuts who pursue fictional controversies in order to advance their destabilisation of a legitimate government which is pursuing a more egalitarian society.

Oh, and congratulations Roy. The increased volume of rightard trolls flinging feces in your comments reaffirms your effectiveness.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 11:36PM
Surreal American says:

Twisted_Colour says:

Who is John Galt?

I dunno, does he have a birth certificate?

FTW

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 12:30AM
Birthers = 9/11 Truthers says:

Why can't the birthers just cut the crap and admit they hate the idea of a black man being president? It would be more intellectually honest.

I swear I hear the theme from Looney Tunes strike up whenever I read one of the birther conspiracy theories or kooky rants like the comments upthread.

I mean, just look at Orly Taitz's mug. It oozes credibility. And botox.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 2:36AM
jim says:

Welcome to "Teh WHITEY Tapes, Part 2: Moronageddon" - because after all, the original was such a rousing success, amirite?

The Birthers' incoherent version of Joan Of Arc, Orly Taitz, is on record as stating point-blank that no quantity of evidence whatsoever, no matter how irrefutable or conclusive, would make her change her mind - & I use the word "mind" loosely.

Her blithering minions show every indication of following in her goosesteps.

Keep it up, kids - every time you cc another retarded "OBAMA=KENYAN" e-mail to another several hundred unwilling victims or flame another comment-thread with your already-discredited swill, the GOP loses a few more votes. You're the best secret-weapon the Democrats ever had.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 4:53AM
atheist says:

@ Mr. Wonderful

I'm so torn. On the one hand, this birther idiocy is a tumor on the public mind ... ... On the other hand, it's so much fun to mock them.

Yeah, I know that I should be working to give Obama's healthcare a chance. But it's so fun to dis these crazy loons. Maybe part of the issue is that when you feel fairly hopeless about making actual change, you tend to focus on things with immediate gratification. Sad to say it but I think its true.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 5:14AM
Mrs Tilton says:

Ursus Horribilis,

Also, that term Fascist, are you aware as to what Fascism really is?

Ursus, my friend: fat, stupid and Jonah is no way to go through life.

Also. That nym Ursus, are you aware what it means in Latin? I suppose you are, actually, as it is almost certain that you are also a Teabagger. Hey, maybe that's your beef with Obama: not that he is a Black Socialist Muslim Terrorist Black Kenyan Black Man, but that he is unconscionably slow in getting rid of DADT and DOMA. (That would in fact be a valid, substantive criticism; but not one I expect many birthers to make.)

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 6:17AM
atheist says:

ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI! BUT SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME! JUST A PEPSI!!!!!!!!

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 8:05AM
Nabakov says:

Can we get back to the real issue now emerging thanks to Ben's link - that Obama was actually born in Hindmarsh, South Australia on 11 April 1959.

Speaking from personal experience, I can assure you that an Aussie rampaging around the White House at all hours ("Send up another dozen bottles of plonk and a carton of VB. Also is this as loud as the sound system gets?" "Right away Mr President.") will do far more damage to the dignity of the Office of The President than any Islamic sleeper agent from Kenya.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 8:22AM
Nabakov says:

Can we get back to the real issue now emerging thanks to Ben's link - that Obama was actually born in Hindmarsh, South Australia on 11 April 1959.

Speaking from personal experience, I can assure you that an Aussie rampaging around the White House at all hours ("Send up another dozen bottles of plonk and a carton of VB. Also is this as loud as the sound system gets?" "Right away Mr President.") will do far more damage to the dignity of the Office of The President than any Islamic sleeper agent from Kenya.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 8:23AM
Mrs Tilton says:

Nabokov,

Obama's from Oz?

That's going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call him "Bruce" to keep it clear?

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:25AM
Brett says:

I love the "you can't even register for little league with a certificate for live birth" argument. If only they could include apple pie in the argument somewhere, the subtext would be complete.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:30AM
Nabakov says:

"Mind if we call him "Bruce" to keep it clear?"

What's wrong with Barry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Barry_McKenzie

A perfectly acceptable name for an antipodean mole in the White House.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:44AM
Nabakov says:

"Mind if we call him "Bruce" to keep it clear?"

What's wrong with Barry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Barry_McKenzie

A perfectly acceptable name for an antipodean mole in the White House.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:45AM
Nabakov says:

"Mind if we call him "Bruce" to keep it clear?"

What's wrong with Barry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Barry_McKenzie

A perfectly acceptable name for an antipodean mole in the White House.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:46AM
atheist says:

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sApYx27yfnw) proves that Obama cannot be President, because there is no way that extraterrestrial brothas who come to Earth in gigantic flying bones with laser headlights can legitimately lead this nation.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 9:58AM
Leeds man says:

What's wrong with Barry?

Perfect. I think "Bazza" is Hebrew for "fair dinkum".

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 1:05PM
Mrs Tilton says:

Nabokov, L.m.,

nothing is wrong with "Barry" or "Bazza", except that neither is Canonical.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 6:46PM
Douglas Watts says:

Next year, when Obama gives the southwest back to the Mexicans, half of the south to descendants of slaves, Alaska to the Russkies and everything else back to the Indians, and makes Bill Ayers head of NASA and the One World Government Orbiting Space Station and Moon Base, it will be legal for Obama to have been born in all 45 nations he was born in and all 45 of his birth certificates locked up in Fort Knox will be valid.

Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 4 2009 @ 7:15PM
Greg says:

"There, the government employs a horde of "Netizens" to go to sites to humiliate & denigrate & suppress anti-government talk. They're paid about $.25 each, I've read."

DUDE! Why wasn't I approached for this? And how can I get in on it? Though it'd have to be at least $2/post to make it worth my while. Mmmm… two dollars a post.

Ya know, on second thought, I think we're all going about this the wrong way. We should, perhaps, be coming up with our own birth certificates that ZOMG PROVE Obama wasn't born in the U.S.… and then charging the birthers for them. $5,000 a pop should do it.

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 12:50AM
mary b says:

These people are such a joke of epic proportions. I hope they keep it up, only to expose them for what they are, IDIOTS.
Let's hope that once the health care public option finally gets done, that it has a whole lot of money mandated for mental health care. Because these birthers are gonna need it.
Damn, what jobs they'll bring! Building new insane asylums, jobs for phycology student interns, EST machines, Thorazine, the list goes on and on.
Just another negative turned into a positive thanks to our PRESIDENT Obama!

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 11:41AM
mary b says:

"JimH says:
The reason berry wont release the info is because he was born in Kenya. He is not the President of the United States of America."

You ever notice how people of the reich-wing cult don't know how to spell? Or even use spell check?

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 11:44AM
Frank says:

I like how these retards trust an anonymous document, found on the internet, over a document that's been verified by the STATE OF HAWAII, and its REPUBLICAN governor.

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 12:47PM
ifthethunderdontgetya says:

dave says:

We the people of the United States of America are tired of being ripped off and lied to. Here we have a clear case of cover up at the highest level, by the entire establishment: the executive, legislative, judicial, and the media to deceive the world and usurp the power of the presidency.
Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 2:24AM

That was back in 2000.

How about joining the reality-based community and helping fix the damage your guys have done?
~

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 1:15PM
g says:

did you say Barry White? Barry White is the President of the United States?

Posted On: Wednesday, Aug. 5 2009 @ 3:12PM
Cruel Jest says:

What the wingnuts don't understand (and I hope they never do) is that every one of their comments here is like a little mint on Roy's pillow.

Posted On: Sunday, Aug. 9 2009 @ 1:11PM
wow gold says:

You ever notice how people of the reich-wing cult don't know how to spell? Or even use spell check?x0928

Posted On: Monday, Sep. 28 2009 @ 2:41AM
handbags says:

I love the "you can't even register for little league with a certificate for live birth" argument. If only they could include apple pie in the argument somewhere, the subtext would be complete.

Posted On: Monday, Sep. 28 2009 @ 2:43AM
Atinius says:

From Wikipedia: A birth notice for Barack Obama was published in both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on August 13 and August 14, 1961 respectively...the Advertiser posted on its Web site a screenshot of the announcement taken from its microfilmed archives...,"Were the state Department of Health and Obama's parents really in cahoots to give false information to the newspapers, perhaps intending to clear the way for the baby to someday be elected president of the United States?" the newspaper asked sarcastically.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 11:32PM
gaetano says:

We all know that if someone wants to hide something about him or her self,It will not be the lies that they would try to hide ,but the truths that they would try to hide. Obama is hideing the truths about himself,that would do him great harm. If it would not be something that would be very bad ,he would not have spent millions to cover it up. SO,why would,or should any one have trust or faith in this character? Only idiots with no commen sense or black believers,follow this man.By hideing these truths ,he has prooven to be guilty without a doubt. THE TRUTH WILL TRULY SET HIM FREE.You can damn sure take that to the bank.

Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 10:16AM
gaetano says:

We all know that if someone wants to hide something about him or her self,It will not be the lies that they would try to hide ,but the truths that they would try to hide. Obama is hideing the truths about himself,that would do him great harm. If it would not be something that would be very bad ,he would not have spent millions to cover it up. SO,why would,or should any one have trust or faith in this character? Only idiots with no commen sense or black believers,follow this man.By hideing these truths ,he has prooven to be guilty without a doubt. THE TRUTH WILL TRULY SET HIM FREE.You can damn sure take that to the bank.

Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 10:16AM
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Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 11 2009 @ 6:31PM
bobblehead says:

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Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 11 2009 @ 6:34PM
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