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Why we went dark (about Obama's birth certificate)
Tulsa Today ^ | Thursday, 27 November 2008 | David Arnett

Posted on 11/27/2008 12:43:11 PM PST by ckilmer

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To: ckilmer
we believe in the Constitution of the United States of America and the free speech promised to both the press and to the people.
No, with all due respect, you do not.

Because you call yourself "the press." If Rush Limbaugh, or any other person, were to call himself "speech," would that mean that no one else is allowed to talk? Of course not. But the Associated Press created journalism as we know it; prior to the Civil War there was no such organization as "journalism," only individual newspaper printers who would have ridiculed anyone who claimed to be "objective." "The press" is not the particular print organizations, nor the particular journalism organizations, which happen presently to exist. "The press" is the right of the people to spend money to buy (or rent) and operate a press or any other technology for publicizing opinion - whether political, religious, or other.

To call yourself, as distinct from the people, "the press" is to attempt to establish "the press" as a title of nobility entitling you to privileges not available to the people at large. And that is unconstitutional.


121 posted on 11/28/2008 10:16:37 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (We already HAVE a fairness doctrine. It's called, "the First Amendment." Accept no substitute.)
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To: freedom9; Non-Sequitur

Indeed, why if there is no “there” there.


122 posted on 11/28/2008 11:43:30 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross
Indeed, why if there is no “there” there.

Because he can?

123 posted on 11/28/2008 11:45:43 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: GBA

“Obama had his records sealed. Odd. I mean, why would any one do that unless they just love to stir things up for no good reason or unless they have something to hide?”

I understand that Linda Lingle, the GOP Governor of HI had it sealed. Why?


124 posted on 11/29/2008 6:44:32 AM PST by ync1994
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Good question. Under whose direction would she do that? What was the timing? Did she do that when Obama went out to visit his grandmother who rather suddenly, it seemed to me, was in the hospital and died a very short time later?

From what I've read, all of Obama's records are sealed, from his birth records to school records to medical records and everything else. Joe the Plumber gets publicly vetted, tarred and feathered for asking a reasonable question, yet Obama, with no more rights than any other citizen, is a complete mystery. Why?

125 posted on 11/29/2008 6:59:26 AM PST by GBA
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To: Non-Sequitur
Because he can?

Unusually unpersuasive.

I sure wouldn't spend $800,000 to just stonewall...just for the "fun" of it.

126 posted on 12/01/2008 8:52:40 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross
Unusually unpersuasive.

But true.

I sure wouldn't spend $800,000 to just stonewall...just for the "fun" of it.

Well, A) he isn't paying for it, the DNC or his campaign committe is. And B) politically he has no choice but to fight it. Obama, so far as he is concerned, has established his eligibility. He released his document, widely panned on the web as a fraud, I know. The state of Hawaii has said it has his original birth certificate on record. So he's done what he needs to do, from his point of view. He and his campaign consider all these lawsuits are frivilous, and will fight them on those grounds alone. And probably fight them successfully, on those grounds alone. The only way that any court will ever demand that Obama produce his birth certificate would be if someone presented hard, documented evidence that Obama was born overseas and placed the issue in real doubt. Until then it's not likely that any court will take the matter up.

127 posted on 12/01/2008 9:04:50 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: ckilmer

The Chicago Tribune has a great ad that addresses Obama’s probable fraud re being a viable candidate re his citizenship.

This is the search link in Yahoo. Easy to use and easy to “light up links”.

Please bump, ping and email this to your friends.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-hptb5&p=Chicago%20Tribune%20Ad%20demands%20Obama%20prove%20citizenship&type=


128 posted on 12/01/2008 10:33:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave (This is the link to Leo Donofrio's new website: http://thenaturalborncitizen.blogspot.com)
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To: Grampa Dave

NEW THREAD! PLEASE READ!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141298/posts


129 posted on 12/02/2008 7:13:40 AM PST by seekthetruth
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130 posted on 12/03/2008 9:50:18 AM PST by seekthetruth
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