Posted on 02/11/2011 1:59:20 AM PST by Scanian
In the course of my inquiries into many of history's more recent controversies -- JFK, Waco, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Ron Brown, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Obama's birth, the authorship of Obama's books -- I have come to see that when there are actual conspiracies afoot, they fall into two general categories, conspiracies of execution and conspiracies of concealment.
Conspiracies of execution, at least on any kind of scale, are rare in American history. The nature of our national character and the openness of our political culture war against them.
Conspiracies of concealment are another matter. When officials fail in their duties and let, say, a president get shot, a plane get blown out of the sky, or a hijacker fly into a building, their first impulse is to conceal their mistakes. Such is human nature.
To me, a "conspiracy theorist" is one who sees a conspiracy of execution where none could logically exist or who confuses a conspiracy of concealment with one of execution despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Given this understanding, it is the rare "birther" who qualifies as a conspiracy theorist. Few have conjured elaborate, impossible conspiracies on the scale Oliver Stone did in JFK or the French leftist Theirry Meyssan and others did with 9/11.
Most birthers simply want to know where and when their president was born, a not unreasonable aspiration. Few insist that they know the answer. Despite my ample research, I do not know.
All I do know is that the official story -- the one Barack Obama trotted out in his memoir and both his convention speeches -- is false. In my forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama, I show in detail why this is so and what the alternatives might be.
If there are conspiracy theorists involved...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So many focus on the MSM for not doing its job. While they certainly are one of the main culprits, the real question is why is our Government complicit in this outrageous cover-up? The only way to logically answer that question is that there is a soft coup underway. The organizers know that a frontal approach would never work with an armed populace. The two questions that remain for the American people is why and who is behind it?
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I don’t worry what others choose to use as epithets.
Their reduction to using the terms of name calling proves their
childishness.
They have no intellectual capacity for reason or logic and resort to name calling as a filler for inadequate argument.
Having been in the USMC, I have been called every name in the book at some time or another.
I don’t let it bother me.
I could call them the same and there would be more truth in me using it than they.................
That’s very big-hearted of you.
I suppose “tea bagger” doesn’t bother you either.
Some people are thicker skinned than others. I am still a hothead at 63. Just the way God made me.
Trouble is, be you thick or thin-skinned, the “epithets” often stick with the general public. They pay limited attention to politics-—but often just enough to pick up on the smears and carry them into the voting booth with them.
“Bush lied, people died” killed us in two elections, sadly.
“Tea bagger” or any such constructions are created more for their users self aggrandizement, and not their target’s defamation.........
It makes them look big (in their minds) to their friends and cohorts, like juvenile boys in a locker room, and does nothing to promote their argument...
If it get s a laff, they all use it, and it becomes a cliche at that instant...........
“Even if Obama does eventually produce a birth certificate that squares with his origins story, critics can credibly ask why did he not produce it years earlier.
That is, if he can produce a birth certificate that squares with his origins story.”
The American Thinker was among this group that ignored Obama’s eligibility. I am pleased though that they are finally giving it some coverage.
WHERE the usurper was born is wholly irrelevant, and it’s the elephant in the living room:
his father was NOT a US citizen, and his mother had not lived in the US for 5 consecutive years including the year of his birth!
hE IS NOT AN NBC!
I'm with you. "Birther" and "Pro-lifer" aren't that far apart when you look at them, I'll bet many so-called "birthers" are pro-life conservatives.
Both contrast harshly with the wild-eyed, blood-thirsty, baby-killing, partisan-hack Obama sycophants.
"Excuse me, the term is "Pro-birth"
where is only part of the issue, forcing the issue of his non-citizen parent is the main thrust. maybe a BC showing a non cit parent would help highlight it.
**** Proud Birther since 2008 ***
I can't demonstrate country of origin, but I really think that's irrelevant WRT Obama's putative natural born citizen status. As you note, the evident fact that he had a British-citizen father means that Obama is not a natural born citizen as that term has historically been understood in this country (e.g., as having two American citizen parents). There is also the likelihood (IMHO) that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia when his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, adopted him. So even if he were born on U.S. soil, as a "dual citizen," he would not be considered a natural born citizen, on grounds of potential for divided loyalties.
Obama has hid virtually all his public documents. You can't find out anything about his guy....
And that's not an accident.
Actually, soetoro adopting him would not disqualify him from eligibility itself. Being granted citizenship involuntarily does not affect a candidate, or else any country could disqualify our candidates by granting them citizenship. As a child, there is nothing you can do to prevent your parents granting you citizenships.
However, what would be very troubling is if he Renewed, voluntarily, after the age of 18, his Indonesian passport for his trip to Pakistan (he was 19 then), as many suspect. That is the act of an adult. Also, if he applied to occidental college as a foreign student, he would have had to list his Indonesian pass as his I.d. (to me the worst about that would be that we have an actual president that once said “no” when asked if he were an American citizen!)
Good point, Yaelle. Thanks!
Also re: his application at Occidental College, and what that might show. Of course, those records are sealed....
What is so frustrating is the seeming "impossibility" of getting them or any other Obama records unsealed.
This is ridiculous. We have a "mystery man" in the Oval Office who arguably has been taking a wrecking ball to our national institutions and has worked to undermine American interests around the world.
My suspicion is Obama will continue to conceal, for to reveal would very likely put him out of a job.
If found unqualified, all his acts in office, including ObamaKare and two Supreme Court appointments, would be null and void.
Thank you for your excellent insights!
She'll take a solid crack at bringing the white southern former Democrats back to the fold, keep the union vote, and the other usual suspects, and go for the win.
Of course, the MSM'd and OWNed could only worship her Heinous more if she had a deep suntan, but they'll get over that.
She is in solid with the GLBTetc set, the Code Pinkos, and all the fringe groups, but will shift to the center for the big show. And it will be a show.
Timing is everything, and she'll break whatever they are sitting on through third parties with full deniability in time to ride the surf into the nomination or 'Chicago' DuhWon out of the seat in time to gather her flock.
While she'll promise some 'change back', most of that will be inconsequential pandering to consolidate the herd.
Will it work?
That depends on whether Obama is unseated and on whether the 'Pubbies have sense enough to put aside the 'country club RINO as usual' approach and either lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way of those who can gather TEA party support and use that momentum to fight to Clinton onslaught. Being current/former Mayor of New York City or a Northeastern State does not meet muster.
Maybe I'm wrong, and if no one takes Obama out of the saddle through court action, media exposure, or solid political pressure, it could be really interesting.
There should be little doubt left to anyone (of any but die-hard Marxist, Global Socialist, or Islamist stripe) who is paying attention that Obama and his policies are the wrong choice, the wrong change, and the wrong direction for America.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr is clearly ineligible to have presented himself as a candidate for POTUS according to the accepted, traditional, or even customary American view of Article II of the Constitution.
But, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. did present himself as a candidate. He was placed on the ballot of all 50 states. He was elected by a 53% popular vote plurality. He was elected by The electoral college. He was sworn in by the CJ, twice. He is, ineligibility and all, the sitting POTUS.
The case has been brought before the courts innumerable times by now, and with the exception of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, has not yet been heard on its merits. BTW The Indiana Supremes ruled he WAS a Natural Born citizen.
Bottom line: We cannot get Obama out. We may be able to keep him from running again in 2012 if one state legislature is able to get one state AG to do his job by making documentation of eligibility mandatory by statute, prior to gaining access to the ballot. This power ALREADY resides at this level, but has not been exercised. Hence, the perceived need for laws to make exercising the power mandatory. In the meantime, an ineligible man is POTUS. That which should not be, is.
Cognitive dissonance: "an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously."
That means, IOW, we have nothing to go on.
I have take to calling anyone who doesn’t want Obama to release his Birth Certificate, “birthers”. They obviously suspect that Obama isn’t eligible.
That has really frustrated the few people I know who still cover for the Chicago/Hawaii/Kenyan/Indonesian dirt bag.
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