Posted on 07/22/2009 11:36:59 AM PDT by pissant
Like Adam Serwer, I simply assumed the nuts who questioned President Obama's citizenship would pick some new cause after the inauguration. During the campaign, they had a stronger incentive -- characterize Obama as "the other" and somehow "less American." But after Obama won -- and well after the release of his birth certificate and local newspaper's birth announcement -- the silly little right-wing crusade lost its salience.
Or so I thought.
Limbaugh, of course, is obsessed, but so is CNN's Lou Dobbs, who's not only spouting this nonsense on a nearly daily basis, but started to call the president "undocumented" on the air yesterday, before pulling back slightly. The absurd Birther bill in Congress continues to pick up support from right-wing lawmakers, including Rep. John Campbell (R) of California, who appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" yesterday to defend the proposal. (Chris Matthews held up the birth certificate on screen before telling Campbell, "What you're doing is appeasing the nutcases.... [Y]ou're verifying the paranoia out there.")
But what really irked me was Liz Cheney who, believe it or not, was on CNN again this week. This time, she told Larry King that the Birthers' efforts are Obama's fault. Asked if she believes this nonsense, Cheney said:
"I think that the Democrats have got more crazies than the Republicans do. But setting that aside, I think that -- you know, one of the reasons I think you see people so concerned about this, I think that, you know, this issue is people are uncomfortable with having, for the first time ever, I think, a president who seems so reluctant to defend the nation overseas. [...]
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0bamas problem is he gave up his US citizenship when he immigrated to Indonesia.
If he ever regained his US citizenship, he would have been a naturalized citizen from that point on, not a natural born citizen.
“it’s not about me”
semantics vs truth, semantics vs truth.....uh....USA still wants truth you nimrod
Big difference between "less American" and "un-American". Obama is actively working to reduce any advantage our country has gained in the world over the last two centuries. The problem is, there are many people born and raised in this country who are only too willing to help.
Seriously, if the whole thing is stupid and getting old and just plain silly... then why doens’t he just release his long form birth cirtificate and be done with it!
I don't believe that his mother's actions (having him adopted by Soetero) could have lost his citizenship. At worst he would have had dual citizenship until he was 18 -- then he had to choose.
Has Limbaugh said anything about this?
I don’t know, I’ve been listening to Wilkow since I got Sirius.
I was under the impression not many of them were even going to TOUCH this subject.
Yes, Rush has been touching on it the last few weeks
Except that under Indonesian law, he could not have dual citizenship.
“Seriously, if the whole thing is stupid and getting old and just plain silly... then why doenst he just release his long form birth cirtificate and be done with it!”
My guess....someone else is listed as Barry’s daddy.
I want to hear more aobut Dr. Orly Taitz’ claim (in the Cook case) that Obama used as many as 39 different Social Security numbers. What’s with that? Fraud? Identity theft? What did he use them for?
Even assuming Obama ever became an Indonesian citizen, taking on dual citizenship doesn't cause you to lose your U.S. citizenship, unless you formally renounce your U.S. citizenship, according to the Supreme Court's decision in Afroyim v. Rusk.
If he ever regained his US citizenship, he would have been a naturalized citizen from that point on, not a natural born citizen.
If Obama were ever naturalized, that would leave a public record in a U.S. courthouse somewhere. Why hasn't anyone found it yet?
There’s something embarrassing on it.
If, however, it was introduced to the Supreme Court, and verified by experts who were vetted to be non-partisan,
and they didn’t release it yet said he is legit,
I’d shut up.
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