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Birther Issue Goes Mainstream
Business Insider ^ | March 31, 2011 | John Ellis

Posted on 03/31/2011 4:51:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Back in the days before the Internet, senior political reporters at the "serious" media outlets wouldn't write about personal scandals directly. They would "analyze" the "impact" of scandals on "perceptions."

That way, everybody could pretend that they weren't discussing Gary Hart's "liaison" with Donna Rice, they were just discussing its impact on Gary Hart's political future.

The challenge for journalists today is to somehow get the "birther" issue into their copy (because it generates a ton of hits) without alienating the good opinion of their colleagues, all of whom in New York-Washington media circles are resolute in their belief that "birthers" are insane.

Back to the old dodge! Don't talk about the issue. Talk about the politics of the issue.

So it is that David Weigel of Slate today publishes a longish piece about the "birther" issue going "mainstream." He credits Donald Trump for pushing the issue out of the chat rooms and into whatever passes for the "mainstream" today. He even identifies "two schools" of birther thought:

One reason Trump has been able to do this is that two schools of birtherism have developed since 2008, and one of them has become a surprisingly comfortable place for conservatives to lounge. There have always been Orthodox Birthers. They start with the belief that Obama cannot be eligible for the presidency. They trust evidence they find online—an erroneous report about "Obama's grandmother" saying he was born in Kenya, for example—which stays online forever, just like amateur diagnostic reports of how crashing planes couldn't possibly have brought down the Twin Towers. If that evidence is challenged, they look to theories about what the founders thought "natural born citizenship" meant.....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; naturalborncitizen; obama; trump
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To: laweeks
I’m so disappointed in these guys, including Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin for completely ignoring this fundamental Constitutional issue . . . W H Y ? THREE YEARS LATER
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I used to post that these so-called “conservative” talk show hosts were being very foolish. I would post that **NOW** is the time to cover Obama’s eligibility because:

** The fascists thugs will throw you off the air anyway
** The fascists thugs will take your money anyway.
** The fascist thugs will carry out their threats against you and your family anyway!

Well....Michele Malkin kept quiet about Obama’s eligibility and her cousin “disappeared” anyway!

Maybe, with the disappearance of Michele Malkin’s cousin the media moguls and the talk show weenies finally figured out that they better expose Obama’s ineligibility because the fascist thugs WILL CARRY OUT THEIR THREATS ANYWAY!

21 posted on 03/31/2011 6:04:40 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: laweeks

Hey, He is black...gives him a pass.


22 posted on 03/31/2011 6:04:51 PM PDT by DooDahhhh (hH)
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To: laweeks

Hey, He is black...gives him a pass.


23 posted on 03/31/2011 6:04:56 PM PDT by DooDahhhh (hH)
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To: Gena Bukin
And when Obama finally gets around to showing his long form BC, and there's a good chance it will be perfectly valid, the issue of his eligibility will evaporate and the people who challenged it will be made to look like fools.
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What? Obama would use this issue to make his opponents look foolish? Huh? Does he also pull wings off flies just to see them squirm?

An honorable and decorated officer sits in prison so that Obama can play a political joke on his opponents? Major Cook lost his job and security clearance because Obama wanted to pull a “funny”?

Obama WASTED thousands upon thousands of tax dollars sending government attorneys around the nation to pull political dirty trick? What? He MISUSED Department of Justice resources at a time when plots were being laid to blow up Times Square, explode a plane out of the sky over Detroit, and KILL our soldiers on their bases and recruitment centers?

Do you think Americans would find that FUNNY?

UNBELIEVABLE!

24 posted on 03/31/2011 6:11:47 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: wintertime

Maybe, with the disappearance of Michele Malkin’s cousin the media moguls and the talk show weenies finally figured out that they better expose Obama’s ineligibility because the fascist thugs WILL CARRY OUT THEIR THREATS ANYWAY!
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Well put . . . they’ve acted like they’ve been afraid of something . . . well, the ba$tards are starting to hit them anyway. I am so disappointed with our leading talk-show heads for caving into these punks. Just like Boehner caving into the congressional ba$tards on not stopping Obambicare.

The criminal dummycrats have no problem breaking the law, stealing, lying, and exhibiting traitorous behavior, but “we”, the DAMN STUPID PARTY, sit by and watch like little weenies.


25 posted on 03/31/2011 6:14:54 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

Say what you will about him,
but Savage was raising hell about it tonight!
It is about time.
Prove us wrong, but only after the college records are released.
Obama is an affirmative action dumb ass.
Again, just prove me wrong!
(that requires the actual release of his hidden records)


26 posted on 03/31/2011 6:20:03 PM PDT by 9422WMR (Illegal is not a race. Obamacare is a crime)
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To: 9422WMR

“Obama is an affirmative action dumb ass. Again, just prove me wrong! (that requires the actual release of his hidden records)”
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Wouldn’t you just love to see his academic records? Heck, Bush and that traitor Kerry released theirs . . . And see how many grades he was “given” because he’s a dumbass affirmative action “scholar.”

I’d also like to see some people come forward to say they even SAW him in any school . . . K-12, college, law school. Hell, no one remembers the illegal alien.


27 posted on 03/31/2011 6:24:52 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks

How’d he graduate non-honors (that much they admit) and still get into Harvard Law?

SHOW THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

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28 posted on 03/31/2011 6:38:52 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

SHOW THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
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Do you mean the one issued in Connecticut where Obambi never lived? Huh?


29 posted on 03/31/2011 6:42:30 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://thedailypen.blogspot.com/2011/01/o-con-had-legal-help-from-non-partisan.html

Great post about a secret hearing in Hawaii Obama attended days before the election as his eligibility was in question. Very well documented.


30 posted on 03/31/2011 6:49:47 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: BluH2o

perhaps frank marshall davis is barry’s pappy, or mebee malcolm x is barry’s pappy....well, doggies. there’s no resemblence, whatsoever, between der reader and barack hussein obama sr. whose your pappy, barry?


31 posted on 03/31/2011 6:52:56 PM PDT by stickywillie
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To: 9422WMR

What a tangled web he weaved...

It not so much the ‘gentlemen’s C’s’ that he was given, its how he paid for the education that (IMO) Chairman Obomba wants to keep hidden.

Foreign national? Citizen of Kenya (as Barrack Hussein Obama) or citizen of Indonesia (as Barry Soetaro?) Or a combination of the two.

The BC was used to start the chain at each link. Why seal the Maddras records? The honolulu elementary records? And the (in quick succession) the Occidental; Columbia (where Bill Ayers, channeling his inner Barky, admits ‘he’ was a less than stellor student) and then gets into Harvard Law School and edits its Law Review.

Throw in the multiple Social Security numbers...and...woa...are those black helicopters?

;) PM


32 posted on 03/31/2011 6:59:25 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Newt Gingrich, he would rather sit on a couch with Nancy Pelosi, than stand with Sarah Palin.)
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To: stickywillie

Look up Zero’s half brother that’s completely broke (stuck in Africa). There’s a resemblance.


33 posted on 03/31/2011 7:09:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: wintertime
What? Obama would use this issue to make his opponents look foolish? Huh? Does he also pull wings off flies just to see them squirm?

I don't know. Maybe he does.

But the only people demanding to see Obama's birth certificate are people who didn't vote for him in 2008 and have no intention of voting for him in 2012 regardless of what he discloses.

And this damn birth certificate has, in my opinion, completely stolen the thunder from the far more pressing issue of Natural Born Citizenship, what it means to be one and who is defined as one.

34 posted on 03/31/2011 8:03:58 PM PDT by Gena Bukin
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To: BluH2o

Davis might very well be Obama’s “Biological” Father (as Jack Cashill points to

this possibility in his book “Deconstructing Obama”)

For some reason /or because of a “deal” made with Obama Sr......... Obama Sr

was the ...........”LEGAL” ..........father of Obama II at time of his Birth. Thus

bestowing British Citizenship upon Obama II @ Birth

Obama is “Not Eligible” to be POTUS!!

So it is possible that Obama Sr brought Stanley Ann Dunham to Kenya to

meet his family before Obama II was born & she went into labor as Grandma

Obama states!!

Why do at least 6 African Newspapers call Obama Kenyan-Born as far back as 2004???

Something is very rotten here!!


35 posted on 03/31/2011 8:25:47 PM PDT by ebysan (ebysan)
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To: AlexW

http://www.angelsfortruth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Elitepickobama.gif

36 posted on 03/31/2011 8:29:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Geeeez. It gets worse and worse.

I agree with Trump because our rule of law stipulates the requirements for becoming a president. And every person who runs for president takes an oath of office to uphold our constitution.

How can you uphold our rule of law if your entire position as president is based on a falsehood?

Of course, he may be eligible-that he will not PROVE IT is insulting to every American. He should have done this years ago. Even if he did have the press in his pocket busy diminishing everyone who questioned his qualifications.

Like Trump-I also think that the word birther stinks. It is a label the liberals laid upon those curious to know about uhbama's background, as if merely requesting a mandated qualification be proven, is wrong.

I prefer the word 'constitutionalists'. That's more appropriate.

37 posted on 03/31/2011 8:46:56 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just incredible, stupid people voted for this fraud.


38 posted on 03/31/2011 10:33:48 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now Muammar Gaddafi is asking the western leaders to step down and resign ( namely : he is asking Obama to step down and resign )... ohh this is getting very interesting..


39 posted on 03/31/2011 10:47:24 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for posting this!!

I have posted this several times on Blogs;but, it was ignored... One blogger told me to stop posting this.

I feel this Tom Fife a Scientist with high security clearance working with the Government would not make up such a story.... My gut feeling is this is correct!!...... This needs to be out in the open & investigated!!

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This item may also have a connection to Fife’s story:

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I still think Obama does “not’ look like his “Legal Father” /Obama Sr

He looks like Malcom-X …….(Malcolm-X daughter Qubilah Shabazz & Obama

look a lot alike..Also Malia looks like Shabazz)……either Stanley Ann was

impregnated by Malcom-X or she adopted

Malcom-X child………..Obama Sr may have just been a patsy…. Remember

the Dunhams were active members of “CPUSA”….. Stanley Armour Dunham was photographed with Obama Sr arriving in Hawaii before Stanley Ann met him at College.

In 1960 at the Theresa Hotel completely unknown Kenyan student gain elbow-rubbing proximity to the then-notorious Malcolm X.

Also at the Theresa Hotel was the poet and playwright Langston Hughes, a close friend of “Frank Marshall Davis”, as well as “Charles Rangel” who was working his way through law school as a desk clerk.

It must also be mentioned that during the General Assembly meeting in September 1960, “Nikita Khruschev” traveled from midtown Manhattan up to Harlem to the “Theresa Hotel” to meet with “Fidel Castro”.

What were Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev talking to each other about? And where does “Barack Obama (Sr.)” fit in?

Was he being recruited and groomed to be the “father” – or father in name only – of Barack Obama II, in furtherance of a grand conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government?

1959, Khrushchev expanded on his previous statement: “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism”.

”Was this odd but powerful assemblage at the Theresa Hotel planning to bury the United States by orchestrating yet an even more spectacular coup d’état – this time of America itself?

Not by a bloody revolution of the Castro variety, but rather by stealth – an operation carried out by
“leftist moles” and sympathizers with the goal of “overthrowing
and taking the reins of the United States government?

Is there any connection between Malcolm X and Obama Sr.? In 1959 Malcolm X traveled to the Middle East and Africa , including Kenya, and is reported to have met with Jomo Kenyatta, future Prime Minister and later President of Kenya, as well as with a prominent Kenyan politician named Tom Mboya (who Obama Sr. called his “godfather”). Mboya was a close friend of Barack Obama Sr.’s family, so it’s no mystery that Barack Obama Sr. was selected to give his name to Malcolm X’s son.

We have no idea if Stanley Ann gave birth to Barack Obama or was just the woman chosen to raise him by the grand conspirators who plotted his rise to power from as far back as the 1950s, before his birth!

This may seem far fetched but; everything about Obama is far fetched because we know nothing about him.

Tommy Mboya was the person who paid for Obama Sr to attend Harvard I found that by googling: “Who paid for Obama Sr to attend Harvard”


40 posted on 04/01/2011 12:18:41 AM PDT by ebysan (ebysan)
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