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Debra J. Saunders: All-American Kooks ("Birthers")
townhall.com ^ | July 28, 2009 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 07/28/2009 7:00:15 AM PDT by kellynla

The video features an angry woman in red, armed with a birth certificate and a small American flag, scolding Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., at a town meeting. She is angry, she said, because President Obama "is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya."

Castle, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, seemed to not know how to respond. He calmly replied that Obama is a citizen. Some audience members booed. "You can boo," Castle told them, "but he is a citizen of the United States."

There's no good way to address a "birther" -- that's the term for conspiracy theorists who believe that Obama has produced a fake Hawaiian birth certificate to cover up the fact that he really was born in Kenya.

Facts don't matter to these geniuses. They don't care that numerous major news organizations, the nonpartisan Factcheck.org and Hawaii's GOP Gov. Linda Lingle have vouched for the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Or that the Honolulu Advertiser ran a birth announcement in August 1961.

No, they go for the theory that Obama's white mother, Stanley Dunham Obama, chose to give birth, not in Oahu with her parents nearby, but in a hospital in a Third World country. Then she was so clever that she ran a birth announcement in the local paper in case someday her son with the politically catchy name of Barack Hussein Obama II ran for president.

Why didn't Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign make an issue of Obama's non-citizenship during the Democratic primary if his legitimacy was so assailable? Apparently the Clinton brainiacs aren't as smart as the "birthers."

News stories suggest that the "birther" movement is growing stronger. Maybe the "birthers" have just gotten louder. These days, all it takes is one nut on youtube.com to rate a week's worth of TV panel discussions.

On the other hand, Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., introduced a bill requiring future presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate. Posey's bill has at least nine co-sponsors, including Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif.

Campbell is a good lawmaker, who told the Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus that he opposed funding for the Boeing C-17 cargo plane because, "I don't think it's right to support something that's built in your district to the detriment of the national interest. It leads to overspending and deficits and, well, corruption."

Yet Campbell was reduced to arguing on MSNBC's "Hardball" that while he believed Obama is a citizen, Posey's measure would put to rest any questions about a future president's legal status. Nice try, but the "birthers" won't acknowledge documents that don't feed their paranoid theory.

As Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs noted Monday, the "birthers" don't care about facts; they heed the siren song of righteous victimhood. They feel the injustice of losing an election, so they concoct a plot that tells them they didn't lose fair and square -- the election was stolen. They are no different from Democrats who claimed that voter fraud in Ohio rigged the 2004 election for George W. Bush -- except that Democratic politicians feel little pressure to acknowledge or denounce the fringe elements of their party.

Every time the "birthers" open their mouths, they hurt themselves and add polish to the image of Barack Obama, our American president.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; constitution; eligibility; obama; potus
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"Facts don't matter to these geniuses."

"facts?"

" nonpartisan Factcheck.org?" ROFLMAO

Have at it. I've already emailed, Little Ms. "Know-it-all"

1 posted on 07/28/2009 7:00:15 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

You know there’s something there when they keep attacking. Keep it up, pressure, pressure, pressure is good and from many fronts like they do. We’re not “single issue” folks, we actually can talk and chew gum at the same time.


2 posted on 07/28/2009 7:03:27 AM PDT by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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To: kellynla
Obama's birth certificate

Obama's sister was born in Indonesia and also has a COLB from Hawaii.

Did you know? Obama’s half sister, born in Indonesia, has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth (COLB) just like Obama's?

Maya Soetoro was born to Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro and American cultural anthropologist Ann Dunham and is half-sister to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. While living in Indonesia, she was home schooled by her mother and then attended Jakarta International School, later returningto Hawaii where she attended the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating in 1988.

Besides being the First Sister Maya has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth - despite be born in Jakarta Indonesia. Supposedly this certificate was used by the Daily Kos to forge an Obama version. Does anyone find it odd that Maya; undisputedly born in Indonesia, would have the same type of document as Barack Obama to forge?

http://www.examiner.com/x-14143-Orange-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Did-you-know-Obamas-half-sister-born-in-Indonesia-has-a-Hawaiian-Certification-of-Live-Birth


3 posted on 07/28/2009 7:03:40 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: kellynla
This all goes away if Hussein releases a copy of the original BC. For some reason, they won't. So either there is something on the document they don't want known or they want to keep the Birther issue alive.
4 posted on 07/28/2009 7:04:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: kellynla

Beginning to look a lot like an effort to marginalize those who have questions.

Would it not be better to just be transparent?


6 posted on 07/28/2009 7:06:14 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: kellynla
Funny how both liberal and conservative columnists and pundits are hysterical over the "birthers" but never a peep out of them about the loony left and their 9/11 conspiracies and the government bombed the levees during Katrina and other nutty theories.
7 posted on 07/28/2009 7:06:56 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: brushcop

“You know there’s something there when they keep attacking”

Like any combat pilot will tell ya, “You know you’re over the target when you start getting flak.”


8 posted on 07/28/2009 7:08:04 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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Why didn't Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign make an issue of Obama's non-citizenship during the Democratic primary if his legitimacy was so assailable...

Well, to be fair, it was a Hillary Clinton supporter and Democrat, Philip Berg who started this and is still one of those on the forefront.

9 posted on 07/28/2009 7:10:02 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: kellynla

Debra, you ignorant slut.


10 posted on 07/28/2009 7:13:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Russ
Yea, well all the “smart guys” in the “media” thought we were all nuts backing the Swifties & Minutemen and trying to “recall” Gray Davis.

But when a certain U.S. District judge ( a Marine ) in Santa Ana, CA orders Hussein to produce a legitimate Birth Certificate then we'll just see who the real “kooks” are!

11 posted on 07/28/2009 7:21:19 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Nah...why would the little journalista want to connect (or acknowledge) that FactCheck.org is George Soros’ funded!!!

Unbelievable.


12 posted on 07/28/2009 7:29:43 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Watch it...I'm 'cranky' but still RIGHT! Show the Birth Certificate (even Little Leaguers have to!))
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To: fieldmarshaldj
No need for profanity.

Saunders is just dead wrong on this issue.

For one thing, I guess no one informed Saunders who owns factcheck.org. LOL

13 posted on 07/28/2009 7:33:06 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Just another RINO


14 posted on 07/28/2009 7:34:02 AM PDT by freedommom
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To: Bon mots
REPEAT!! Obama's sister was born in Indonesia and also has a COLB from Hawaii.
15 posted on 07/28/2009 7:35:06 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: kellynla
Some audience members booed. "You can boo," Castle told them, "but he is a citizen of the United States, because I said so!"

There, fixed it!

Regards,

16 posted on 07/28/2009 7:38:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: presently no screen name

Well, obviously, and a big ‘duh,’ that means Maya can be President too someday!!!

Now don’t you ‘feel’ better.


17 posted on 07/28/2009 7:39:03 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Watch it...I'm 'cranky' but still RIGHT! Show the Birth Certificate (even Little Leaguers have to!))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL!


18 posted on 07/28/2009 7:39:07 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: kellynla

Ah, the MSM pigs in a pen trying to turn the facts around.

Show us the birth certificate


19 posted on 07/28/2009 7:39:10 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Bon mots

Is there a photo of his sister’s COLB anywhere? Does it say she was born in Hawaii, or in Jakarta?


20 posted on 07/28/2009 7:39:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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