[Kevmo]

For the record:

Many freepers are just now coming to recognize the BC as a “real” issue. They’ll be looking for a synopsis thread or a place to start reading so they can get caught up.

Here’s two approaches. One is the keyword “Certifigate” which I started and have been maintaining (apparently, so have others been helping to maintain it).
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles

A second non-partisan approach is to follow the thread I started on Intrade. Note that Intraders are now coming around to wanting a contract to trade on this issue.
Will the controversy about Obama’s Birth Certificate affect the Intrade Price?
http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/255/2279.page

[bvw]

There are two posts I wanted to note to this thread from Deb Schlussel's "EXCLUSIVE: Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration? Never Actually Register? Obama's Draft Registration Raises Serious Questions"

1. I found this history of the Selective Service registration going on in the 1980's (http://www.history.army.mil/books/dahsum/1980/ch05.htm) and thought it was pretty coincidental the dates on Obama's alleged registration lined up with these two lines:

   "In accordance with a presidential proclamation signed on 2 July 1980, men born in 1960 were required to register during the week of 21 July 1980 and registration of males born in 1961 began on 28 July 1980."

   "On 4 September 1980, the Director of Selective Service announced that 87 percent of the eligible population had registered on time..."

   Isn't it strange that the dates of July 29, 1980 and September 4 1980 were also Obama's registration dates? Any third rate hack researcher could've also found this history, and pulled those dates out for convenience sake.

   Posted by: erkyl at November 18, 2008 01:14 AM

2. I appreciate all the legwork done by all the above posters, but my brain hurts right now. So, I'm gonna throw my conspiracy theory into the ring.

   We may be barking up the wrong tree. Early in the thread BobonStatenIsland proposes that the coverup may have involved more than merely a registration date. What if the coverup is a BIRTH DATE? His evidence was Barry's claim that he was 8 years old at the time of Ayers activities.

   Something went "ZING" when I read about 2/3 down the page: "Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration."

   Could we be looking at a forgery to "produce" a country of birth origin (Hawaii) when his mother might have been somewhere else in 1959...weighed with his grandmother's statement of being present at his birth in Kenya?

   I know it's a stretch to make 2 years "disappear" from a kid's life, but it would answer why no birth certificate can be produced. It would also answer why he never filled one out--if he was born in 1959,he never HAD to, according to law. But he DID have to prove citizenship, and this may have been the most "expeditious" manner to comply with requests for "location" when the looming issue centers (but not exclusively) on "when".

   Can someone validate conclusively where mom was in 1959?

   Posted by: millime at November 17, 2008 11:08 AM

Okay, what if ... Frank Davis was honest about the age of the girl?

Still, the hypothesis that Obama was born in 1959 seems too much of a stretch to fit to all the 1961 era stories.

The mind boggles.

Oh ... And that the coincidence in dates mentioned in the first extracted post would have occurred by random chance is something on the order of 1 in 200 times 200. One in 40,000 or so.