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Bennett Backs Off Birther Threat, Apologizes To Arizona
Talking Points Memo ^ | May 22, 2012 | Nick R. Martin

Posted on 05/22/2012 4:29:57 PM PDT by Smokeyblue

After days of ridicule for launching a conspiracy theory-fueled investigation into Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett on Tuesday backed off his threat to keep the president off the ballot in November and apologized to his state.

“If I embarrassed the state, I apologize, but that certainly wasn’t my intent,” Bennett said in an interview with Phoenix radio station KTAR. “He’ll be on the ballot as long as he fills out the same paperwork and does the same things that everybody else has.”

Bennett said he still intends to keep asking Hawaii for verification that Obama’s birth certificate is authentic. But he said he only plans to use Hawaii’s answer as a way to satisfy demands from constituents who remain unconvinced Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States and so therefore eligible to be president.

He also said he talked to Hawaii’s attorney general on Monday night and clarified what he is looking to have verified. He said he “reworded” his request and expects to receive a response from Hawaii officials “in the next 24 to 48 hours.”

(Excerpt) Read more at tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; arizonabirthers; az; birthcertificate; birthers; bravenewworld; coercion; coward; embarrassing; hawaii; indonesia; insanity; intimidation; kenbennett; kenya; naturalborncitizen; obama; sheriffjoe; twilightzone
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To: Smokeyblue
Arpaio noted he’s said since the beginning of the investigation last fall, “Show me the microfilm.”

Microfilm holds as much truth as Hussein waving a forgery around for the cameras. Joe needs the original filing.

121 posted on 05/23/2012 6:44:23 AM PDT by bgill
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To: EyeGuy

Probobabobly


122 posted on 05/23/2012 6:44:55 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Art in Idaho
Yes, no info, no ballot. Why isn't this the issue for every Secretary of State in the nation? Am I missing something here? Obama ponys up, or he's not on the ballot.

It's not his job to track down the information and I doubt it's even his job to inform the candidate of an incomplete application. These SOS should just accept Hussein's incomplete application and be done with it. Incomplete application = no name on ballot. Simple as that. Hussein has a team of lawyers so it's not an excuse they didn't know how to complete the forms correctly.

123 posted on 05/23/2012 6:52:10 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Uncle Sham

Anyone else ready to kick Hawaii out of the union?


124 posted on 05/23/2012 6:56:35 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Fred Nerks

Either way, that’s not Madelyn’s signature unless she didn’t know how to spell her name.


125 posted on 05/23/2012 7:00:39 AM PDT by bgill
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To: old republic
I wonder why Bennett had to "reword" his request before Hawaii would respond to it. Sounds like the original request hit the mark a little too closely

For the same reason Nancy had to reword her DNC certification for him.

126 posted on 05/23/2012 7:05:06 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill
Bears repeating:

Incomplete application = no name on ballot. Simple as that.

127 posted on 05/23/2012 7:40:09 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Smokeyblue

I want some explanation.

Is he another pantswetting eunuch, then?


128 posted on 05/23/2012 11:55:32 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: Smokeyblue

I am surprised at Ken Bennett. I know him. i like him. He is running for Governor in two years. He just sabotaged himself.


129 posted on 05/23/2012 12:38:06 PM PDT by Hildy ("When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - SocratesHill not text while dri)
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To: Smokeyblue

On Sunday Bennett’s site had this:

Ken Bennett’s Statement Regarding President Obama’s Birth Certificate

“First, I have been on the record since 2009 that I believe the President was born in Hawaii. I am not a “birther”. At the request of a constituent, I asked the state of Hawaii for a for a verification in lieu of certified copy. We’re merely asking them to officially confirm they have the President’s birth certificate in their possession and are awaiting their response.” - Ken Bennett

Now when I go there it has been removed.

http://www.azsos.gov/releases/


130 posted on 05/23/2012 12:40:13 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Fred Nerks

Obama 1’s last address on this document is in much darker script. Why?


131 posted on 05/23/2012 3:47:15 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (Obama was a BRITISH SUBJECT at birth, passed to him via Pops, can't be NBC)
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To: bgill

here’s the thread link to the discussion:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2405994/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

Of course it wasn’t Madelyn, and it wasn’t someone who was a long term citizen of Honolulu either, they didn’t know how to spell the name of the street...and the addition at the bottom refers to something that was a rule applied by the HDOH in 1982, not in 1961.
If not a total fake, then perhaps it was a useful method of applying for a REGISTRATION.
The HDOH filed it?
What would you do? There’s no doctor, and the local registrar whose name is scribbled, probably didn’t exist.

As I wrote, I find it interesting because the date this was (maybe) lodged, is the same date that the birth/death announcement for Virginia Sunhara was printed in the newspaper.


132 posted on 05/23/2012 3:47:57 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dunkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Nothing coming out of Hawaii is worth the paper it’s printed on.


133 posted on 05/23/2012 3:56:52 PM PDT by bgill
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To: plenipotentiary

Scroll through the documents at the link I provided, and find me one that doesn’t have some problem, or isn’t so redacted that you have no idea who the docs are related to. Right now I can’t recall the name of the author who had the UNREDACTED FILE for two years...while she was writing a book, but Smathers, who made the file public after she received it, was sent the REDACTED docs.
You are looking at ONE address. There are some 55 pages iirc, which includes a couple of Memo’s that look suspiciously like they were added at a much later date.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54015762/Barack-Hussein-Obama-Sr-Immigration-File


134 posted on 05/23/2012 4:02:49 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Maybe someone could tag all the different anomalies and do some kind of computer based logical analysis to establish statistically what the purposes of the alterations and frauds were?


135 posted on 05/23/2012 5:32:40 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (Obama was a BRITISH SUBJECT at birth, passed to him via Pops, can't be NBC)
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To: Fred Nerks

Maybe someone could tag all the different anomalies and do some kind of computer based logical analysis to establish statistically what the purposes of the alterations and frauds were?


136 posted on 05/23/2012 5:32:40 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (Obama was a BRITISH SUBJECT at birth, passed to him via Pops, can't be NBC)
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To: plenipotentiary

I can’t understand why ‘someone’ hasn’t done exactly that. It’s totally beyond the scope of one person imo, it needs a TEAM.


137 posted on 05/23/2012 5:35:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
1. Former Hawaii address listed on Obama senior's 1962 immigration form:

1482 Alencastre St., Honolulu

2. Obama senior's address on Aug. 31, 1961 immigration form: 1482 Alencastre St., Honolulu

3. Aug. 4, 1961 --- Date Obama II supposedly was born at Kapiolani Hospital.

4. Obama's mother's address on Obama II's long form birth certificate: It is different from Obama senior's address on his 1961 immigration form.(I don't have Obama II's mother's address on the long form birth certificate in front of me, but we all know it is a long Hawaiian name that begins with "K" and ends in Hwy.)

5. My point is this: If Obama senior wrote on his 1962 immigration form that his previous address in Hawaii was Alencastre St., then it means that Obama senior never moved from Alencastre St. to the address that is on Obama's long form birth certificate.

6. That is, it looks like Obama senior and Obama II's mother never lived together at Obama senior's address or at Obama mother's address AFTER Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961.

7. Thinking out loud: Is it possible that Obama's mother moved in with Obama's father some time after she left Kapiolani Hospital after Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961?

8. It is possible but highly unlikely, because we have no evidence that Obama's mother ever put 1482 Alencastre st. as her home address on any document that I see on the internet that has Obama's mother's signature on it.

9. What does it all mean?

10. To me, it means that because Obama's mother probably NEVER lived with Obama senior at 1482 Alencastre St., we can start looking seriously at this question: Was Obama's mother ever at Kapiolani Hospital on Aug. 4, 1961, the day Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii?

138 posted on 05/23/2012 5:37:35 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: john mirse

There’s a memo conveniently slipped into the immigration docs (I refer to it as the ‘suspect’ memo) which gives the name of the child, his date of birth and the explanation that ‘his mother lives with her parents’.

http://htmlimg3.scribdassets.com/3lchyuuo1sxubz8/images/34-076b1ff565.jpg

You might also be interested in the immigration docs for Lolo Soetoro:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35192432/Allen-v-USCIS-DHS-FOIA-Release-Lolo-Soetoro-Obama-s-step-Father-U-S-Records-7-29-10


139 posted on 05/23/2012 5:50:37 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: john mirse
...To me, it means that because Obama's mother probably NEVER lived with Obama senior at 1482 Alencastre St., we can start looking seriously at this question: Was Obama's mother ever at Kapiolani Hospital on Aug. 4, 1961, the day Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii?

I'll answer your last...first of all, you have to study ALL of the documents. To choose an anomaly that relates to a few out of 55 or so, will find you possibly contradicted by another document. The material is not in chronological order.

"Was the mother at Kapiolani hospital" (at any time) is made redundant imo by the fact that the Local Registrar on the latest document offered by zero was not the local registrar for Kapiolani, she was the local registrar for the same hospital in which Virginia Sunahara was born. There were four regions, and FOUR LOCAL REGISTRARS.

There's been no evidence what-so-ever that Stanley Ann Dunham was in Hawaii before Spring 1963 when she enrolled at the U of HI.

The enrollment mentioned on the letter from the University for FALL 1960 probably belonged to the ANN S OBAMA who was shown as a resident at the 'birth announcement' address. She may have been the girl he brought with him on arrival in 1959, or the girl one sees him sitting next to at the Nachmannofs, identified as Anne-USA. Neither of which were Stanley Ann Dunham.

The introduction to 'Dreams' clearly states that some of the characters are COMPOSITES. Stanley Ann, Ann S and Anna (who shows up in Seattle) are composites created to provide a mother, whose name we do not know because it may have been she who brought the child into Hawaii in that first week of August for which the incoming from foreign countries have been destroyed.

140 posted on 05/23/2012 6:28:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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