No. He's saying that the argument didn't take off ANYWHERE until after the election. However, given how fast FR picks up virtually any popular meme within the conservative blogosphere, if you can't find it here, it likely doesn't exist.
Still, I have yet to see any evidence that ANY blogger was making the argument that Obama's is ineligible, even if born in the USA, because his father wasn't a US citizen.
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 10:23:32 AM by Amityschild
Don’t be distracted by the birth certificate and Indonesia issues. They are irrelevant to Senator Obama’s ineligibility to be President. Since Barack Obama’s father was a Citizen of Kenya and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of Senator Obama’s birth, then Senator Obama was a British Citizen “at birth”, just like the Framers of the Constitution, and therefore, even if he were to produce an original birth certificate proving he were born on US soil, he still wouldn’t be eligible to be President.
I am sorry, but you BOTH are making an assumption. That is, if it didn’t happen on the Internet, then it didn’t happen.
Well all you can prove is from what you can see on the net today, and thats problematic given the fact that HUGE volumes of information have been scrubbed from the net. We run into that all the time.
That’s a big problem, right there.
Second problem is that you do not have access to private conversations. I know for dead certain I was talking to my mother in law about it all in the summer of 08 because we got into quite a rif over it, and part of my argument was that we didn’t know who this guy was, and whats a man with a Kenyan father doing running for POTUS. Can I prove that, no. Can you DISprove that, no.
Even in that discussion, I didn’t put that much weight on that, because I had not done enough research on it at that point.
Now... What the HELL is the point of nitpicking this? It brings me to my third point. No matter what anyone said in the summer and fall of 08, NOTHING was stopping the Obama campaign, not even an ASTOUNDING move by the press to NOT report on the Rev. Wright scandal. A man sits in a pew listening to the guy who married him to his wife... for 20 years, spewing anti-American hate, death to America, reparation for slaves and all sorts of other simply racist ideological rants, and the press gave Obama a pass on it! It should have DESTROYED OholyO’s campaign! It should have destroyed ANY campaign! And rightly so!
No, if that didn’t stop Obama nothing would.
Be that as it may, fourth point, Obama did his best to OBFUSCATE the issue until it was far past too late. They posted his documented birth “was governed by the BRITISH Nationality Act of 1948” in order to make it appear that this was OK. After all, they published it willingly before anyone could ask about it. They knew that most people are sheep, and if someone publishes a fact like that, then it must be irrelevant, or OK, or something to that effect. Otherwise they would have hidden it. It’s called reverse psychology, or hiding the truth in the open. And it worked brilliantly. No where near enough people caught onto the fact that no, its NOT OK, or legal! that fact makes Obama ineligible for POTUS. He isn’t a Natural Born Citizen. he got away with it, and got elected anyway, with the truth out in the open. Disguised as “OK” the public sucked it up under the mistaken belief that it would not have been published if it wasn’t OK!
All he needed to do was to defer the question long enough to get elected, and the electoral college vote certified. After that, it would be impossible to stop, and he was right.
So what is your point here? Are you trying to illustrate how this act fooled so many people, by hiding the truth right out in the open?
There wasn’t enough time to make it a BIG enough issue to cause any hampering of the massive momentum propelling him into the Oval Office. Not even close. ONLY if the press had picked it up and broadcast it 24/7 would have made a difference, and they STILL had the race card to fall back on if that failed. They didn’t pick up Rev. Wright, they would not pick up on this either.
Beyond that, Obama had a lot of others also working to make sure that the eligibility issue didn’t bar him from POTUS. the biggest of which was Nancy Pelosi, who took care of the loose ends when Hawaii refused to certify him. Obama himself did everything he could to make certain that Hawaii didn’t let the cat out of the bag, including last minute trips to Hawaii - supposedly to see toots as she lay dying... I mean damn, who is gonna question that right?
Now WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
Nothing that was done, said discovered in the entire 2 year long campaign did a damn thing to stop Obama, Obviously. It’s water under the bridge at this point.
The question you and LorenC SHOULD be asking, is this: Now we know for CERTAIN he is not a Natural Born Citizen, he is Ineligible for the office he has usurped. Are we just gonna lie down and let that go on? We KNOW a crime is being committed at the highest level. Are we going to let it just go on? NO!
Thats the crux of the issue. We know he is ineligible. We MUST do what we can to push this issue to the forefront of American conscious and the media. The barrier now comes from those who think it is too big a massive headache to declare him officially an Usurper and remove him, and redo all the liberal crap that has been foisted on us during that illegal government, or do we take on that massive dirty job?
The RIGHT thing to do is to take on that massive dirty job and just GET IT DONE, because otherwise it will only happen again, and those in the circle of power will KNOW for certain that the constitution is broken and that the American People will NOT fight to defend it and keep it whole.
Now, which side of the damn fence are you on?
From what I can tell, you are with those who think we should just leave Obama alone to finish out his illegal Presidency. Because all you are doing is literally picking a nits - from the past! To NO POINT WHATSOEVER. The make wrong game is for children. This is no kiddie game, this is a massive issue, and it is happening right NOW, and you and lorenc are picking apart events from two years ago you cannot prove or disprove??? WTF?
As far as I am concerned, if THIS is what you and LorenC are all about, the make wrong game, then you are a part of the problem and no where near the solution. This might even make you an enemy of the constitution and an enemy of the state.
Now again, WHAT IS YOUR POINT? Why are you living in the past when our present contains the largest threat to the United States of America since the Civil War?