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Doc, it’s impossible for you to draw the same conclusions that I have, because I’ve drawn no conclusions.

Which is precisely the point I’ve been trying to make.

Does it strike you as preposterous that what “evidence” we have as to the background of the current “leader of the free world” would not stand up in a court of law? His origins should be cut and dried fact, not something a jury needs to figure out.

The purpose of reading the African Colonel thread, as well as the two long threads (do you need links?), is to bring you up to snuff, so to speak. There’s a lot of questioning and posturing and arguing, all of it good for us, that you may have missed. The Dunhams, Papa Dunham and his associates in Hawaii, had ties with those discussed in the Colonel thread.

We’ve been digging and sifting through evidence, as you suggest, for years. We speculate out loud to each other, but please don’t mistake hypotheses for conclusions. I, for one, welcome your input. But most of us have, by this point, moved past your “I want to believe” mentality.

“Does it strike you as preposterous that what “evidence” we have as to the background of the current “leader of the free world” would not stand up in a court of law?”

Yep.

“I’ve drawn no conclusions.”

Seriously? You’ve drawn no tentative conclusions based on the evidence at hand? Most of us aren’t privy to “all the facts” or even all the information presented to a jury, yet my impression is that most of us nevertheless don’t hesitate to have an opinion on matters such as a) whether OJ was guilty or innocent; b) whether Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick; or even c) who killed JFK?

Most will concede they don’t have ALL the evidence they might like to make such judgments and ideally all would be prepared to change their opinion in light of further evidence that calls into question whatever tentative judgment they have made. But that doesn’t inhibit them from drawing a “based on what I know” gut feeling about what the truth is.

So if someone asks you if you think Obama was born in the USA, you literally have no opinion on this matter? Perhaps I’m the odd man out here, but that genuinely surprises me.