Posted on 05/01/2011 5:57:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Oct. 22, 1844, thousands of followers of American evangelist William Miller woke up expecting Jesus Christ to make his triumphant return that day, as they had been told. That night, they went to bed, surprised and disappointed. But Miller's movement endured.
It was too much to expect that birthers, presented with President Barack Obama's birth certificate, would say: "What surprising and wonderful news! We'll have to reassess our entire opinion of him." When it comes to matters of blind faith, cherished beliefs have a way of overriding facts.
There has never been a shred of persuasive evidence that Obama was born anywhere but Hawaii. But thanks to rampant paranoia and widespread credulity, the myth of his foreign origins gained currency among many people who should know better.
A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 25 percent of Americans, including 45 percent of Republicans, do not believe Obama was born in America. A poll taken after the release of his birth certificate showed 18 percent of those who have seen it still aren't convinced.
Something about this president impels many people to accept anything that is said about him, as long as it's unfavorable. Twelve percent of Americans think he's a Muslim. Plenty of others believe things contradicted by his first two years in office -- that he's a radical leftist, an anti-gun fanatic, a disciple of world government and Darth Vader's delinquent nephew.
They even believe he's an inarticulate dunce who got into Ivy League schools only because of affirmative action and can't utter an intelligible sentence without a teleprompter. Never mind that he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and taught at another premier university, the University of Chicago.
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Grandma talkin...?
“the man is DISHONEST.”
Agreed. At this point I’d have to say he’s just dividing his enemies. I’m starting to get the feeling we’re getting played for suckers with the WH version of the COLB. It’s been screwed with just enough to suggest fraud, but not enough to be definitive.
So many lies, so little time.
I’ve argued long and hard with a lot of birthers, but this statement is totally true:
“...he’s a radical leftist, an anti-gun fanatic, a disciple of world government and Darth Vader’s delinquent nephew.”
Pity the author presents it as parody. And he should have added muslim...
This guy is eating a s*** sandwich and telling us we’re stupid and bad because we don’t want one too.
Just as the author of this piece remains a “tingler”.
Wrong. They hold equal weight.
do not believe Obama is qualified to be president.
do not believe Obama.
Wrong. They hold equal weight.
Mama Texan hasn't yet responded to my inquiry so perhaps you will please explain it to us.
Click on rxsid’s profile page for a good education on what is a NBC. Numerous very long research threads have been active on FR for almost or at least 3 years. I’ve done my homework and you could have too, rxsid’s page is excellent.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~rxsid/
It’s very obviously both: born on the US soil to parents who are themselves citizens.
“There is no way that the founders of this great nation intended for an illegitimate child of a foreign bigamist to attain the highest, most powerful position in the new land.”
Of course you are correct.
Hell, his creepy dad’s personal loyalties were so questionably divided that even Harvard (in whom the author seems to place credibility) did not trust him or want him to stay.
Critics, including some here at FR, of the ‘birthers’ are wrong to assert that the ‘movement’ is just some new ploy by political enemies or just some ‘manufactured’ story.
Utter nonsense.
People like a good mystery. And Obama has created one to entice them. He obviously craves attention. He wrote two books about himself at a strangely young and relatively unaccomplished age. Yet he has hidden as much of the official record of his life as he could.
The interest in his less-than-transparent background is NOT
unusual. HE IS.
At other times, in other venues, elitist scum wax eloquent about lying as a necessary activity of capital-L Leadership. And now they complain about the obdurate skepticism and stubborn disbelief of large numbers of people, and ascribe to the stubborn the career- and life-slaying Big Media negative label of "racist" in retaliation.
As Douglas MacArthur said when he was informed on a roadside on Luzon of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, another liberal godling-demiurge,
"Now there was a man who never told the truth, if a lie would suffice."
Gods of liberalism. What scum.
“I think, perhaps... this writer is suffering from the same delusions he describes.”
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Not at all, he suffers delusions but they are far different from the ones he describes.
“OK, I’ll bite. To whom WAS he born and what is your evidence?”
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I’ll take his word on who his parents are, assuming that his father was Barack Hussein Obama Sr. then he cannot possibly be a natural born citizen as the term was understood when the requirement was written into the constitution.
An American citizen and a British subject...and the 'evidence' is everywhere.
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