Posted on 08/05/2009 12:15:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From Diana West:
Barack Obama’s birthday is coming up on August 4, and I hereby urge the president to bestow a big daddy party favor on the nation that elected him: a verifying look at the original, “long-form” version of his birth certificate.
Before I explain why, it’s important to grasp the weird fact that this simple request, requiring nothing more than the merest nod of the close-clipped, presidential head, ranks as fightin’ words to, of all people, American journalists. Right-wing, Left-wing, these ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate seem to want nothing less than to gain access to the one piece of evidence that could lay the “natural born” issue to rest once and for all. Not quite kicking but definitely screaming, the media have made their aversion to proof perversely clear: Whatever President Obama does, their jarringly unified message is, he certainly should not direct the state of Hawaii to make public his original, long-form birth certificate.
And so it’s a good bet the president won’t, even though such a presidential directive would instantly dispense with a divisive, corrosive question -- whether President Obama’s still-secret long-form birth certificate contains compromising information. The entire controversy would disappear forever if there were nothing more sensational on that long-form document than, say, the name of the Hawaiian hospital where Baby Barack came into the world. Such admittedly mundane but confirming info is the kind of thing that’s missing from what We the People have been provided to date: brave-new-world-like Internet images of the short-form Certification of Live Birth (COLB) that the Obama campaign made available in 2008 online.
I emphasize the web-projected, liquid crystal display nature of the imagery that the mainstream media (MSM) have unquestioningly relied on even as they have imperiously dismissed all questions regarding its veracity and provenance as “Internet-fueled rumor.” In MSM eyes, in other words, what is essentially an “Internet-fueled” Obama campaign handout becomes the rock-solid truth, while questions about it only amount to “Internet-fueled rumor.” To be sure, there is COLB-corroborating evidence available –- contemporaneous announcements of Baby Barack’s arrival in local Hawaiian papers are usually cited as the clincher –- but none of it is definitive. For example, the president’s maternal grandparents could have been the ones who placed the birth announcement in the papers, regardless of whether their first grandchild was in state residence. Even the oracles of the Hawaiian health department, periodically trotted out to pronounce that all is as should be with the president’s top secret birth papers (is this crazy or what?), leave us with nothing concrete. Why won’t the president just give us a look at the thing and be done with it?
To get an idea how touchy The Left is check out this discussion we've been having over at J-Walk. http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/birthers_change_focus/#c
Maybe. Or just maybe he’s playing the birthers for suckers. Or maybe both.
I think he just likes ignoring conservatives on everything.
So he’s playing the Birthers for suckers by spending over a million dollars to hide his records. That makes a lot of sense.
He hasn’t released his Long Form BC, his school records, passport records, medical records, college records, college financial records, Harvard Law Review records, state senate minute, yada, yada, yada. He playing someone for suckers: the American People.
Movement was started by democrat Philip Berg.
Yea that’s the thing. If Hawaii won’t give it to anyone except basically him, then why spend all that money? Could just say no for free, or show it for about $10.
That’s the one thing that I can’t figure out and can’t get past on this BC issue.
He cannot.
Obama,
Prove me wrong.
I will admit to being a dumbass.
If 0 is ineligible, ObamaCare is dead. If 0 is ineligible, we have even worse problems to worry about.
I also think this controversy is hurting Obama's credibility.
“That makes a lot of sense.”
You bet it makes sense. It’s chump change for how it keeps the birthers of balance (I didn’t say unbalanced), and it’s not his money anyway. Why should he care how much it is? He has access to bazillions in the service of the Dem’s cause. Given how it draws the “guns” away from the real target (socialist agenda), it’s pretty smart. It really doesn’t matter if he’s “natural born” or not (from a tactical standpoint). It is a useful distraction tactic in any case, and it isn’t going to get solved soon anyway. Lots of Marxist mischief to occur in the meantime.
Oh, the spooks of the world already know where he was born. It’s just the rest of us that are scratching our heads and being lead away from the obvious damage. The problem is, that most all of the “evidence” has been scrubbed, and even if something remains, the country really doesn’t care or understand the significance of the question. You might, the regular folks don’t.
Obama has no credibility with anyone — even those on the left. They know he is lying, they have just decided they like what he is doing so much they don’t care.
“Obama’s Birth Certificate: Why Won’t The President Just Give Us A Look And Be Done With It?”
Beats me but it sure makes those of us NOT into the “birther” movement awfully curious about what the long form birth cert. my say on it.
Well, I wouldn't be presumptuous enough to tell anyone what to do. There's no reason that the opposition can't operate on parallel avenues of attack. The Dem's certainly do. There's a chance that the birther route may be productive. I personally think that O's going to have to get a good deal more unpopular before the courts start doing anything about it.
On the other hand, the stench surrounding the question, and O's inaction on the matter could very well be synergistic with all of the other shenanigans happening at the same time. To me, it appears that the court of public opinion may be far more effective in kneecapping “The One”, than what has been happening in the court of law. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be used, but the most effective results may come from a direction not originally contemplated. Could be bad PR will work the best, or it may be something that no one expects. Keep working that angle, but don't lose your situational awareness. Boresighting is useful, but many become unaware of occurrences on their flank.
It is fascinating how well information has been suppressed (lots of effort there for whatever reason). One would have thought someone would have blabbed already, but the Dems chokehold on political power is probably worth removing “inconveniences” to some of them, which makes people rather hesitant to stick their necks out. Yeah, there's lots of folks that know the truth, but most aren't going to risk their lives to clarify matters.
Would you consider fraudulent Federal foreign student loan payments as a High Crime, or just a Misdemeanor?
Then there's the overstayed visa thing, and his dual citizenship......
0b0z0 nowhere near qualifies as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
“Because he can’t?”
Maybe. But it doesn’t matter. His daddy was British and registered Barry as a British citizen, then three years later as a citizen of Kenya. No way is Obama II a natural born citizen.
He is ineligible to be President.
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