Posted on 08/03/2009 6:27:13 PM PDT by kristinn
Yes, it is our duty to remember, and to keep up the fight!
I think its kinda cool that, whatever comes up, the folks at FR are the ones that finally get to the bottom of it. I’ve seen some pretty good analysis pro and con over this thing.
I’m not sure I’ve actually figured it out, but I know where to go to read the latest.
If in the end it turns out to be bogus, FR helped to prove it. And if it turns out to be true, again FR helped to prove it.
So, just who was the forensic document expert that declared this piece of paper a forgery? Has someone owned up to it or what?
Because he's playing rope-a-dope, and conservatives are playing the part of dopes.
Obama is a marxist thug, but we are playing right into his hands with this stuff. He is perfectly willing to sit back and allow us to be branded as "crazy lunatics" by the media.
Speculation:
If this thing continues to get pushed, whether by true believers or agents provocateurs, then Obama steps forward with a certified copy of his Hawaiian BC that has been witnessed to by Hawaiian State Officials...
Well, it would result in at least a modest loss in credibility by the Republicans if only through implied guilt by association.
Then if further, more legitimate, issues are brought up the administration has a good hill to fight from. It would then be much easier for them to dismiss claims or accusations as just another baseless fishing expedition like that whole BC thing.
I am beginning to think that Zero doesn't want this to go away.
I am also starting to feel like a dog that chases its own tail.
Round and round we go, never really getting anywhere.
Basically true, and seriously scary because there is zero evidence that this latest document from Taitz is authentic, nor any evidence that anybody who matters believes it is. The "memogate" memo, on the other hand, was obviously fake -- at first glance by anyone who'd been an adult in the 1970s, it was clear that it could not possibly have been produced when it was alleged to have been produced, by the office that was alleged to have produced it. And almost immediately, instructions emerged enabling anyone with a current or recent version of Microsoft Word to produce an absolutely *identical* document using the default settings. Yet it was being touted by CBS News as having been professionally verified as authentic, and much of the voting population of the US believed this because of the source.
I worry that Free Republic is not going to have much influence on the political direction of the country, if phony documents with no authentication backup whatsoever, can generate a 5000+ post thread, made up largely of posters who are terribly excited because they believe that 1) it's very likely real, and 2) that it stands a realistic chance of bringing about their fantasy of having President Obama removed from office. Seriously, a lot of posters on that thread sounded every bit as out of touch with reality as Dan Rather and his CBS pals did when they were insisting that the obviously fake memos were real, even long after it was clear to the whole country that they were amateurish fakes.
I agree. I cannot help but suspect that they are hoping this thing peaks a few months before 2010 elections so they can use it to deflect attention from other issues.
So what do you recommend we do?
It looks like this is the guy that found the Australian BC.
Did he create the fake?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:koyaan/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
This is why we need to be focusing on the release ALL records, the BC being first and foremost.
Major Cook is certainly not a "kook" and they know it. They rescinded his orders rather than face the court battle.
That is the way to fight this issue...and it is being fought out there as we speak.
No Sh!t Sherlock. That's the base of the problem.
Point taken. The crap he has shown is all worthless.
Methinks the forged document may well be the Aussie one.
They are trying to make a big deal about this, but If I wanted to, I could forge a Hawaii COLB, so this just shows how you cant trust a document unless you see it for yourself, and second where he was born has nothing to do with it his father was never a American. The Media loves to skim over blatant that fact.
Heck I registered joined the service a year later then got the same letter.
F-bombs will get your posts TOSsed, as will much of the ghetto attitude that makes heroes of the maggots over there.
You can still get the idea and quote across by using astericks & such, and believe me, I walk that line as much as most ;~)
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