Obama credits Selma march for his existence

[TheDotte]

A year ago, Barack Obama addressed a group in Selma, AL commemorating the 1965 voting rights march. He credited the event with giving his parents the idea that they could have a child. The result was him--Barack Obama, Child of Destiny. The only problem is he was born in 1961.

"What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation...This young man named Barack Obama...came over to this country. He met this woman...(who) had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided...it might...be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama... So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.

I'm here because somebody marched." http://www.barackobama.com/2007/03/04/selma_voting_rights_march_comm.php

[RC2]

? They all lie and don’t care if we find out. They know that their followers will make excuses for them and they’ll just go on. Maybe we should just go back to having a king and get it over with.

[wideawake]

Um, Barack, you don’t have a claim on Selma. And I ain’t in noways tahyerd of reminding you.

[samtheman]

His parents got it on in the back of the station wagon they drove down to the march in?

[rightinthemiddle]

It’s a Miracle Birth! He must be the Messiah!

[Moose4]

But when they did, where was four-year-old Barack?

}:-)4

[uncbob]

A year ago, Barack Obama addressed a group in Selma, AL commemorating the 1965 voting rights march. He credited the event with giving his parents the idea that they could have a child. The result was him--Barack Obama, Child of Destiny. The only problem is he was born in 1961.

Another Hillary

[Marathoner]

It’s a Miracle Birth! He must be the Messiah!

Indeed!. All that's missing is three wise men and a manger.

[WakeUpAndVote]

“So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an air lift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. “

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Looking for a fact check on this one.

[uncbob]

He credited the event with giving his parents the idea that they could have a child.

What gave his father the idea to abandon the child

[COUNTrecount]

He met this woman...(who) had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided...it might...be possible for us to get together and have a child.

He meant Salma.

[rightinthemiddle]

I did a Google News search on Obama and Selma.

There is practically nothing on this.

[gusopol3]

Romney got the nth degree scrutiny for saying his father marched with MLK

[Brad from Tennessee]

PBS recently aired a documentary about the critical role American Jews played in the civil rights movement. They gave their money, sweat, blood and freedom. Once LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act—which southern white Democrats fought tooth and nail—black civil rights leaders distanced themselves from Jews. Hate-mongers like Rev. Wright, and cheap politicians like Obama, forget if there weren't American Jews there would have been no Selma.

[rovenstinez]

No he just MISPOKE himself, like Hillary.

[JohnLongIsland]

Obama’s Sir Edmund Hillary moment

[malia]

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/03/04/selma_voting_rights_march_comm.php

[Old Teufel Hunden]

A year ago, Barack Obama addressed a group in Selma, AL commemorating the 1965 voting rights march.

So I think I can assume that he knew he was speaking at the commemoration of the 1965 voting rights march and I can also assume that he knows he was born in 1961. I guess that means he's an outright liar. I wonder if mom and dad took any sniper fire over that decision to have him?

[TheDotte]

That’s another one. He credits the Kennedys for the airlift. He strongly implies that JFK was in the White House at the time. But for him to have been conceived in time to be born August 8, 1961, his conception would have to have been in November, 1960 which is during the Eisenhower years. The August 1960 story in Time linked below is about the election year wrangling over the airlift. It hadn’t happened by that time.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939162-1,00.html

[Anti-Hillary]

Did anyone happen to catch Rove on Greta last night? He was awesome! He a had a litany of lies that Obama has told on the trail. They just rolled off of Karl's tongue. Me thinks he has these committed to memory for the fall!